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    The meaning of discrimination is unfair or damaging treatment of a difference in people or object does to the race, age or sex. As in the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes where he explains his path and knowledge of rivers. The speaker is a member of a slavery making him part of African community and faces racism in American, when “Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans,” traveling the Mississippi river. (Hughes) The speaker in the poem seems to be telling a story for example,…

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    the same. Overall, the major themes of Ashputtel are the same as when the Grimm Brothers first wrote the story. Ashputtel is about a young girl who lost her mother, was left with her father who got remarried. So now she has a step-mother and step-sisters who made her do all the work in the house and did not treat her well. One day, the prince held a feast, that would last three days, and Ashputtel wanted to go to the feast so she went and cried to her mothers grave, then some birds came and…

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    everything disappears. The Chinese has it to wear she loses her shoe on the road while riding her horse and that is when the prince finds it. In the Disney or the German version does Cinderella die at all, but in the Chinese version she does. Her sister pushes her down a well. In Disney, the pictures have more colors to make the story seem less evil like and make Cinderella…

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    Cinderella Research Paper

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    Period 2 Once upon there was a so called “princess” named Cinderella. She had two sisters, Lottie and Dottie, and yes of course I am Lottie. Cinderella is NOT who you think she is. She is a rotten liar, so don’t let her fool you by saying Dottie and I are the evil step sisters. In fact, she lies so much I am planning on catching her in one to get her in even more trouble since she’s soooo good at everything. My sister, mother and I don’t exactly hate Cinderella, we just don’t like the fact…

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    Cinder Versus Cinderella

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    moment he saw her he fell in love with her. Love at first sight,was what they called it. From then on he was convinced at seeing her at the ball were he would dance with all the maidens in the land and find his one true love. But, when Ella’s step-sisters & stepmother found out about the ball they forbid her to go. Ella was determined to go to the ball so her and her mice friends Jaq and Gus sew Ella’s mother’s dress for the ball. But when her stepsisters and stepmother saw Ella in her mother’s…

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    Ever After, directed by Andy Tennant, scrutinizes the expedition of Danielle de Barbarac, a young girl living in 16th-century Europe. Danielle’s lifetime is a fresh, natural retelling of the standard fairy tale of Cinderella. First, a devoted father's princess, she is now obligated to be a servant for her stepmother and stepsisters after the death of her beloved father. She is a lady who has sympathy and compassion for the people of France and desires a world that is consolidated and not divided…

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    Thrashing her commands like paper airplanes and snatching the wand from the fairy godmother to wish the worst for Cinderella, the evil stepmother has the attitude of your stereotypical teenager, but holds the power to control like a mother. Her selfish desires to want her real daughter to marry into the throne and make certain Cinderella’s dreams to find her true love are shattered, ruled over her to make her one of Disney’s most egotistical characters ever created. Likewise, the pig Squealer…

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    “Never let anyone define who you are or decide who you should become” (Mbiaka). This quote by Edmond Mbiaka implies that no one can change a person for the better. It is who that person chooses to be, makes them unique. In our daily life, people put titles on others by the way they walk, dress, and communicate. This can be taught in a positive and negative way. As children grow older, they learn judgment through their parents. Even though parents explain to their children the importance of…

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    Subsequently after Cinderella’s story begin the first thing the story mentions was the death of Cinderella 's mother. After Cinderella 's mother died, her dad gets married to an evil stepmother, that has two daughters that are very spoiled by their mother. To emphasize on how evil and wicked they were the stepmother and stepsisters prevented any possibilities for Cinderella to live a happy life. Under those circumstance Cinderella goes through a lot of mental abuse that have no justification.…

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    Home Narrative

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    My parents got divorced when I was 5 years old so the world of growing up with two Christmas’ and having to always let me friends know which house I was at when they were invited over, was normal to me. I had two blood sisters, three step sisters, a step brother, and a half-sister, and I was never ashamed to tell people that. My life felt normal to me. But what never felt “normal,” was my home. My two decently sized houses with lots of property. My two well decorated and well kept up homes. My…

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