...Once upon a time there was an old Sow with three little Pigs, and as she had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their fortune. All three pigs decided to build a house, and set off to the brickworks to buy some bricks. But soon the three little pigs came across a Man carrying a bundle of straw. The first little pig said to himself: “Now I won’t need to walk so far to the brickworks! I’d much rather do less work, and then spend the rest of my afternoon relaxing.” So the first little pig said to the Man carrying straw: “Please, Man, give me that straw to build me a house.” The Man did, and the little Pig quickly built a house with it right where he stood, and then settled down and prepared to have a sleep for the rest of the afternoon. Presently...
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...Imagine you were in the three little pigs. If you could choose from any of the three pigs in the story, which one would you choose to be? In the short story, “The Story of the Three Little Pigs” there are three pigs that all try to protect themselves from the big bad wolf. They all make houses, out of different materials, to stop the wolf from eating them. The first two pigs build a weak house and get eaten by the big bad wolf. However, the third pig outsmarts the wolf so he doesn't get eaten. Eventually, the pig leads the wolf into a trap and the pig eats the wolf. Some might say the first pig is the most admirable or the second pig or the third. Out of all the three little pigs, the third pig is the most admirable. He was the most admirable...
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...Source #3: Robert Shapiro, Papa’s Little Truck, Nice Little Stories Blog, Thursday, 29th October, 2015 Robert Shapiro’s nice story depicts reminisce of a Herman family which is based on a Little Truck. Birthday of the Janice’s grandfather is the occasion of reminding the old memories of that truck. That was their first vehicle. In the whole story Gerta shares the sweet memories of that little truck to her son and daughters. Moreover, the grand child’s are excited and amused to listen the nice stories about their grandfather’s little truck from their mom. Melinda reminds the sweet memories of her grandfather’s little truck and told her sister that she got nostalgic every year in this time. Janice, the sister of Melinda added that perhaps,...
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...Second Language Learning Material Design Project a) Subject Area: English Language Arts Grade level: Third grade Title for content learning objective: Descriptive Character Analysis Title for language learning objective: Comparing and contrasting the two stories using a Venn diagram b) Content learning objective lesson plan Title: Comparing and contrasting the two stories using a Venn diagram Subject(s): Language Arts/Literature Grade level: Third grade Standard: 3.RL.9 Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books form a series). Goals: Using a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two versions of a story. Objectives: The students will have prior knowledge of the story “The Three Little Pigs” and some of the students may know the sequel “The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs by A. Wolf”. Attitude(s): The students may be curious as to what the sequel to “The Three Little...
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...------------------------------------------------- The Littlest Hitler This is an essay of the story The Littles Hitler, and here it goes. Mocking is definitely the main theme in this story, as the girls keep going on at Davy, and then Lissette starts passing a paper around that people are signing under that they are on Anne Frank’s side. Guilt comes up as second theme for me, because as he steps into the bus everything, his comstume caused a lot of ruckus, even though there wasn’t a single jew in the bus, people were looking at him with grim expressions. Another third theme is love, as Dary feels sorry for the Freidlanders’ kid and wants to give them his candy, but in the end doesn’t. Davy is the kind of kid that probably doesn’t have an awful loads of friends and in the school is quite quiet. I think that he is a bit shy, because of as the teacher asks him who Hitler was, he answers fast and short, compared to Lisette which gives a long explaination of who she is dressed out as is. That often indicates of insecureness of person. After been mocked for wearing a Hitler outfit for Halloween, he immediately tells his dad, and the dad was shocked over the reaction of his classmates. They go out for buying a new costume, so he is very insecure with his old choice of outfit. Davy is anice kid that feels sorry for other, even though he dressed out as Hitler in the first place, he still feels sorry for the jews that were not allowed to go trick-or-treating, or maybe because he...
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...6 The little mermaid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid#cite_note-5 Upon reading the original story of Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, the love between the little mermaid and the prince can reflect the author’s love to someone who was going to get married at that time. In the story , little mermaid asked for the Sea Witch for exchanging her beautiful voice for her two legs to dance with the prince . From this scene, the author wants to highlight the love’s sacrifice and how love is so important to change one’s values and beliefs . The author utilizes little mermaid’s impossible yet touching love with the prince to represent human’s love ---love can be an ultimate power to make oneself to sacrifice. Yet , from the little mermaid ‘s love with the prince and how she still danced with the prince despite the suffering excruciating pain, we can interpret some messages from daily lives .Take shark fin soup as an example , while we enjoy drinking the shark fin soup during traditional Chinese weddings , we have sidestepped the painful feelings when the sharks’fins were torn off before being dumped back to the sea .Not only sharks , but elephants and tigers do love humans even we know or don’t know .Indeed , they are like the little mermaid , sacrificing their body parts to fulfill the happiness of human and this is one of my insights after reading this story. Although the love between the animals and humans isn’t as same as the love between the little mermaid...
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...Lit Theory In The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson is very different to the familiar Disney version, but something that they both have in common is the underlying idea of feminism. Both versions are mainly about women and the male characters have to depend on these women to save their lives. The main character is female and so is the villain and both, in their own way, have a lot more power than the men in the story. A main observation that supports feminism in The Little Mermaid is that there are almost no male characters in the story. There is a sea king who is the little mermaid’s father but he is only mentioned. The only male character that has even the slightest meaning to the story is the prince that the mermaid falls in love with and he’s not really developed as a character at all. He’s really just there for plot purpose, and it’s the little mermaid and the sea witch that actually have a personality. Another point of feminism is the fact that the women in the story have all the power. This is first observed in the fact that the king of the sea is mentioned but it is his mother that has an actual role and gives words of wisdom to the main character which sets off the entire plot. Then there is the little mermaid herself. First she demonstrates her power by rescuing the prince from drowning, usually it’s the prince that has to rescue the princess but here it was the other way around. Also she has all of these hopes and dreams of becoming...
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...The late 1980’s film, The Little Mermaid is relevance because it appears to oppose the feminist movement in history that advocated for female advancement and empowerment within society. It is imperative that Disney’s skewed recreation of the beloved tale, The Little Mermaid be analytically criticized because it was meticulously portrayed to perpetuate anti-feminism. It is also important to analyze the use of language, images and other affecting factors and how they too contribute to sexism depictions in this film. There are various examples within the film where the female characters’ bodies and minds are demeaned and undervalued because of the imposing dominance the characters imposed upon them. One of these includes the exchange of Ariel’s voice for legs and the declaration in “Kiss the Girl” that could win over Eric without saying a word because of her good looks....
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...Cathedral I did not care for the narrator of this story at all! The way he told the story was very irritating and made it hard for me to become interested. I had to read back over many paragraphs to comprehend what was going on. He could have put five of his short sentences that said the same thing over and over again, into one sentence. To me the narrator seemed simple minded. There was a couple moments only a sentence or two where he made me think the story was going to become easier to read, but it did not. In a way I do pity him, because his sentences consisting of only a few words and the way he would say the same sentence over, just switching the words a little made it seem to me that the narrator did not know how to speak correctly. The narrator seemed almost resentful about Robert coming to visit. He came across very rude and non-supporting of his wife, who was excited being able to see an important friend she had not seen in years. The narrator acted like being blind was a contagious and deadly disease. He did everything not to like Robert or to give him a fighting chance. Robert surprised me in the end, because after the way the narrator reacted throughout the story, in the end it was Robert who won over the narrator and gave the narrator an important life experience. Robert may be blind and could not see the narrator’s actions and facial comments, but he had to be able to feel the negative attitude the narrator had towards him. Robert just continued on,...
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...Theme Analysis Little Women is a coming of age story of four sisters in Civil War New England. Together they face hardships and poverty all the while trying to reach their Castles in the Air. More than that however, Little Women is a morality tale. Each chapter not only contains the lives and adventures of the four sisters, but lessons on how to be a good person, and how to achieve happiness in life. These values are centered upon God, family, and love. Though money, people, hair, and childhood dreams come and go, Marmee's wisdom about happiness never seems to falter. The dreams of the writer, artist, and pianist in the family all fall behind the happiness they find in their respective households. In some respects, Little Women is also a child-rearing guidebook. When Marmee's harvesting time came, she had three happy well-rounded children and a fourth with God. Each lesson she taught was not just told to them, but demonstrated, and enforced with kindness and with love. She inspired her girls to be the best they could be, and did not try to change them even if they were as awkward and tomboyish as Jo. Most importantly, she let them make the choices for their life and did not sway their decisions once the girls made them. Little Women today remains a classic because it shows that every young person goes through trials and decision points. Death's of loved ones, family crisis's, and the mending of broken hearts are something all young people go through and are acturatly...
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... Mermaids Well, the million dollar question here is: Why would you pick mermaids as your topic? To be perfectly honest, I picked it because...Why not? Mermaids are something that has always been a part of my life. (As strange as that may sound) But it’s true. Mermaids are just something I’ve always been around. They are these magical beings of the sea. They are beautiful. They are amazing and everyone wants to see one. I LOVE MERMAIDS. There. I said it…I love mermaids. I remember being a little girl and watching The Little Mermaid with my older sister and thinking, ‘Wow. This is beautiful.’ This movie really was where it started. I think for a lot of people, it began with this movie. This movie showed mermaids in this light of being beautiful and being able to love. As a child, this is a pretty cool thing. It feeds the wonder and innocence of a child. But that gets killed and shot down upon the arrival of Middle School. But that’s another story. Mermaids have always been something of wonder. Though I’m an eighteen year old college bound girl, I still keep that child-like sense of innocence alive. We really don’t know what there is in the sea. Most of it is unexplored because of the dangerous environments. The ocean is something of marvel, yet instills fear in me. I’m afraid of the ocean. I don’t like to look out onto the beach and see never ending water. I could never go on a cruise. It seems like an irrational fear, but I just can’t do it. I guess I’m...
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...well crafted and delivered speech, in his ways, move the listener. Audience pay all their attention to Obama. I learnt a lot as I was lack of symphony preformence. | Do either Part B OR Part C to complete your reflection record for this module. Submit only one part. Part B My Activity Language ActivityUnderline as appropriate | CILL activity Others pls specify | Title | Movie watching – The Ring | Part 1(~ 50 words) | It is a horror film that produce from America , adapt from a famous horror film from Japan-----Ringu. Its about a girl who become a ghost and the story behind it. All that history is discover by the Main character. | Part 2 & 3 (~ 100 words) | At first, I felt a little bit afraid of the film. Because I’ve been told that it is a really terrifying and that make me a little nervous. But when I finished watching the film, I found that there are some meaningful stories and things in that film. That told me to think how other people feel sometimes. To conclude, I really enjoy watching moving in Cill. Because it feels so warm and joyful together....
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...The Little Prince, by ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY. It teaches us what the meaning of love is, and how to love being pleasant. The Little Prince is so in love with his rose, but he did not know how to deal with LOVE. Hence, he decided to leave his planet and starts his journey for grown-up. The story was begun with the childhood dream of a Pilot, who is the author and dreamed to become an artist when he was seven years old, but the adults were persuaded him to choose another career path. He was frustrated since nobody would appreciate his drawing and mistake his illustrations; therefore he stopped and became a pilot. He believes that he will meet someone who can fully understand his drawings. While he was trying to repair his aeroplane, which was crashed in the middle of the Sahara desert, a little boy appears and asks him to draw a sheep. Pilot drew several times but rejected. The prince finally accepted before exhausted his patience, but he was really surprised with the prince acceptation because he only drew a box and claimed that the sheep was being inside. The little man used to ask Pilot question but never answered, who made Pilot so curious about where the little guy came from. Pilot got some hints through their talk, and believed that the plant of little man came is the asteroid known as B-612. On B-612, the flower on this planet had always been simple, they were only one rings of petals, and took up no room at all. One day, a new beauty flower, rose, had came...
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...The Little Mermaid is an example of how woman were seen in society. In the fairy tale, women are characterized by appearance rather than personality by both men and women. The little mermaid mentions “But if you take my voice, what shall I have left?”. In this quote, the little mermaid believes that she cannot just be herself to win the prince’s heart. The prince also looks at women the same way because of how he talks to the little mermaid. He asks her, “You’ve no fear of the sea, have you, my dumb child?”. He treats her as if she is still a small child just because she cannot speak. The tone helps shape the whole story into a feminist piece. Anderson relays the moral of the story for women in a cautionary tone to make them realize the message that is being said. The little mermaid gave up everything for the prince, and in the end, she paid a terrible price for it. Hans Christian Anderson’s writes her story The Little Mermaid in a cautionary tone with the usage of imagery and characterization to symbolize a feminist work of literature. The little mermaid’s grandmother demonstrates how appearance rules over personality. In the story, they characterized women in such a way that good looks are everything. When the little mermaid asked if the humans liked mermaids, the grandmother said, “They very thing that’s so beautiful here in the sea, your fish’s tail, seems ugly to people on the earth; they know so little about it that they have to have two clumsy supports called legs, in...
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...waiting for prince charming. I wanted to be witty, brave, and free-spirited - I wanted to be Megara from Disney’s heroic feature film, Hercules. This always led to my friends waving their hands in my face and insisting that she is “not a princess.” So what? Not all of us need to be damsels in distress; or, as Meg puts it, “I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day.” She is Disney’s token “strong, independent woman who don’t need no man.” It just seems as if Disney spent a little extra time on Megara. She has a developed past, one that isn’t all cupcakes and rainbows, and that in itself is a lot more than most of the leading ladies can say. Her attitude packs a punch...
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