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    The Fairytale titled The Bremen Town-Musicians was published by the brothers Grimm in their collection of fairy tales, Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812). The tale itself has a long cultural legacy, with adaptations to stage, film, animation, and a series of sculptures depicting the main characters, the donkey, the dog, the cat, and the chicken stacked on top of each other. It being a fairytale, it is rife with imagery and metaphor, basic building blocks for meaning and lessons in allegory. So what is…

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    In “Practicing Medicine Can Be Grimm Work”, Valerie Gribben compares and contrasts the uses in which medical textbooks and fairytales have assisted her in the field. Gribben states that her technical, perplexing medical textbooks aided in treating her patients’ physical health, but lacked information to treat her patients’ metaphysical health. As an undergraduate English major who studied Victorian fairytales, Gribben revisited The Grimm fairy tales and found the answers she sought to help aid…

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    “Sleeping Bueaty” Basile v.s. Perrault There are many ways you can contrast short stories from their character, to the plot, theme’s, and setting. One of the easiest ways to contrast short stories is by focusing in on the plot of the story and the characters. For example, in the two versions of “Sleeping Beauty” written by Giambattista Basile and Charles Perrault. While Giambattista Basile version is more of an adult version of “Sleeping Beauty”, Charles Perrault does write a more child friendly…

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    character changes, the morals change drastically and possibly become unclear, but a lot of the conventions are left relatively the same. In this version of Sleeping Beauty, the main characters are not wholly good or bad from the beginning. In both the Brothers Grimm original…

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    The Revolutionary Wright Brothers Flight was dreamt by many and achieved by two people, Orville and Wilbur Wright. Orville and Wilbur Wright were born in 1871 and 1867 respectively. Their father introduced both of them to engineering at a young age and that sparked their interest in flying. In a biography, written by Tejvan Pettinger, he says, “When they were young, their father bought them a small ‘helicopter’ – built in France. They later commented that this helicopter sparked an…

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    However, what folklore they hear depends on the era and the child’s geological surroundings. For instance, in Japan many of the tales are based on the tradition of spirits in nature, both good and evil. I grew up on Disney’s versions of the Grimm Brothers Germanic fairytales, which have been changed quite a bit from the original. Another couple of classics are Lanval and Beowulf. Various legends share similarities with others; some differ completely. The folklore elements present in the…

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    “Tenniel’s illustrations form an inescapable complement and counterpart to Carroll’s dream text and to the reader’s sense of the squarely down-to-earth ‘dream child’ in her striped stockings and long brushed hair, as well as her other various fabulous and incongruous interlocutors in wonderland and beyond the mirror.” (Carroll Haughton lxxix) Carroll’s opening sentence of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland emphasizes how these (Tenniel’s) illustrations act as the nucleus of the book: Alice was…

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    and the ruling power vanquishes the social rights of civilians. The dystopian novel follows Winston, the thirty-six-year old protagonist of the story, and his journey to survive under the Party’s rule in London. The nominal leader of Oceania, “Big Brother”, serves as a symbolic figurehead of dominance and control under the Party’s repressive regime. The Party controls Oceania,…

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    Killing Wolves The idea of killing a wolf is a controversial issue among many Americans today. A writer and film producer, Sherry Simpson, wrote, “Killing Wolves,” published in 1996 in the Creative nonfiction website, she writes about her experience in Fairbanks, Alaska while in a two-day Wolf Trapping School and the meaning of a wolfs life being taken away. Simpson builds her credibility by giving her personal experience, other sources in her class, applying emotional appeals, and ultimately…

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    From Marriage to Murder Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” is the perfect example of what happens to a person when they are driven to the edge of their sanity. Just how much can one person take before they snap? In this short but intense play-turned-story, we read about an unhappy marriage, murder and the possible motive behind it. The play has five different main characters who are standing in the now abandoned Wrights farmhouse. George Henderson, the county attorney, Henry Peters, the sheriff, his…

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