...interpretations, a fairy tale can be defined as a story that has fictitious and folklore characters which displays the message for every action there is a reaction whether it be positive or negative. These fictitious characters influence children and help them to understand the messages so that children can be socially accepted (Hohr). The origins of fairy tales can not be narrowed to a specific time line but they were once old wives tales which were passed on from generation to generation which writers have modified to become or claimed as their own. Although fairy tales are useful to teach children morals fairy tales are inappropriate for children because of the psychological effects, presentation of the content and morals. This has given reasons for the modifications of fairy tales although these modifications are believed to be better both traditional and modern fairy tales are in somewhat way unsuitable for children. The early versions of fairy tales are not filled with the sanctified, altruistic images seen today but are filled with gory and sadistic images. In an attempt to understand these reasons for modifications of fairy tales we must understand the journey which the traditional writers took. Thomas O'Neil senior writer at the National Geographic and Maria Tartar the chair for program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University both go into details about the Grimm brothers lives and journey to becoming story tellers. The original writer's of the most popularized...
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...I like the moral of the Cinderella fairy tales. The story emphasizes the importance of inner beauty of women. In all versions of the story, Cinderella was not only beautiful but also had her inner charm. In the story written by Charles Perrault, he portrayed her as a women who had good sense of beauty to consult her stepsisters’ clothing. She was also so generous to share the oranges, and lemons with her stepsisters who insulted her, and to take them to live in the palace with her. Although the author illustrated Cinderella’s forgivingness and generosity as her charm, I think she was unrealistically nice. In the modern day, if she was too nice, the sisters might take advantage of her and she would not have a happy ending. The moral of the importance of inner beauty continues in other versions. In the ‘Cap o’ Rushes’ of Joseph Jacobs, Cinderella became smarter, and more confident. In this version, there was no element of fairy or fate. Cinderella stood up for herself by asking to serve in the mansion for shelter, going to the dance, and volunteered to cook the soup for the son’s master so he could find her again. Cinderella’s beauty is now in her intelligence...
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...What You Teach Your Kids Parents in modern day society love to scream about what people can and can't teach their children. After all, children are highly impressionable, and monitoring what one's kids see and hear is a crucial part of being a parent. It is this concern that causes numerous angry parents to show up at every school PTA meeting and yell at that the schools complain that they shouldn't be teaching their children subjects such as sexual education and evolution. While some may find these parents reactions ridiculous and bizarre, it is well with in their parental rights to protest. Although, what many of these parents fail to realize is they are teaching their children many of the the same things they are protesting using fairy tales. Nobody ever stops to think about the true meaning behind fairy tales, after all what harm can come from reading a bed time story, but the truth is that many of these stories have subliminal messages. Cinderella, for example, seems like it's just about a hard working girl who perseveres, though suffering, is payed off by her living happily ever after with a prince, right? One could not be more wrong, Cinderella contains messages which teach kids a sense of entitlement, vanity, and to not stand up for ones self. Children are constantly asking their parents for toys, junk food, and money. Parents should just be able tell their children yes or no when they make such requests, but sadly thats not the case. When a parent tells their kid...
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...type of situation is indeed fading. Instead, we find it common for little girls to run to isles that are glowing with neon pink boxes containing their favorite princess figures that they have seen in their favorite movies. Over the recent decades, society has innocently begun to adapt to the “princess” stereotype that is portrayed by corporations through constant advertising and marketing of these products. Through constant recreation of Cinderella, Major businesses’ profit off of the modern obsession and the ever growing “princess” cringe within adolescents by simply taking the perceived character in a film,...
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...think it should be from the fairy tale wedding, prince charming and the glass slipper. We never really look at the detail and the time that goes into the movies, which our children love until this day and age. This is paper is to go into detail about the ever so classic “Cinderella” (Jackson, 1950). This is to break down the basis about the genre and the technique components of the movie as well. | | Ilene Woods | (Voice of Cinderella) | | | | | | Helene Stanley | | (Model for Cinderella and Anastasia) | | | | | Eleanor Audley | | (Voice of Lady Tremaine) | | | | | Luis Van Rooten | | (Voices of the King and the Grand Duke) | | | | | Verna Felton | | (Voice of Fairy Godmother) | | | | | Don Barclay | | | | | | | Claire DuBrey | | (Model for Fairy Godmother) | | | | | Rhoda Williams | | (Voice of Drizella Tremaine) | | | | | James Macdonald | | (Voices of Jaq, Gus-Gus and Bruno) | | | | | Betty Lou Gerson | | (Narrator) | | | | | Lucille Bliss | | (Voice of Anastasia Tremaine) | | | | | William Phipps | | (Speaking voice of Prince Charming) | | | | | Mike Douglas | | (Singing voice of Prince Charming) | | The Title of the movie is “Cinderella”, directed by Wilfred Jackson, was released on March 4, 1950. There was no cinematographer or this movie since it did fall in the animation genre. However, several people were behind bringing the...
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...in more detail the process and influence of the Bardic Tradition on contemporary arts practices and how this is narrated and interpreted today. The examples of work that this essay will look at are The Brothers Grimm and Fairy tales, Pantomime and how stories are told through re-enactment and Paula Rego’s art exhibition of 30 Rhymes and Tales. With these examples we will explore how the Bardic Tradition has stood the change of time and progression of technology and aims to achieve to show if and where it still exists and is relevant in today’s society. The routes of the Bardic Tradition travel back to Stonehenge and the Bronze Age originating in middle England, Ireland and Wales. Bardic Tradition is a Celtic culture which incorporates Gaelic tradition and is an oral tradition of preserving and sharing culture and histories. Amy Wright P11248462 “The earliest historical records of it were made by the Romans who invaded Britain just over 2000 years ago, but the British Celtic culture which they describe, and within which the Bards assumed great importance, was at that time already ancient”. (Skea, 1994, P1). Bardic traditions embrace such things as Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Fantasy worlds. Great story tellers of...
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...I can practice telling a story with fluency and expression. (SL.2.4) Independent Student Practice ● Students should use the Gr2 CS7 Fluency and Expression Checklist to give their partner feedback while rehearsing their modernized Cinderella story. I can participate in collaborative conversations with my peers. (SL.2.1) Wrap Up: ● Allow 2-3 students to tell their story in front of the class in order to show their fluency and expression and get additional feedback from their peers. Lesson 2- Recording Our Oral Stories Learning Targets Focus of Instruction Lesson 2: Recording Oral Stories Introduction/Setting the Purpose: Today we are going to focus on using a recording device to record our modernized Cinderella story. Before we begin...
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...Ever After – Still the Same Old Cinderella Story In the movie, Ever After (1998), director and co-screenwriter Andy Tennant attempts to put a spin on the fairy tale we all knew growing up, Cinderella, by trying to empower the heroine and updating the film to appeal to a modern audience. Tennant explains, "I wanted to tell a very different version of Cinderella because I have two daughters, I did not want them growing up believing you have to marry a rich guy with a big house in order to live happily ever after" (Friedmeyer, p. 4). Did he accomplish? On the surface it would seem that Ever After is a modern feminist film, empowering women, but under the disguise, it still has the underlying traditional gender roles and stereotypes that Tennant tries to discourage and remove. In both Disney’s Cinderella and in Tennant’s Ever After, the male sex is ranked higher than females and has real power and social status. Kelley (2003) explains, “Males are seen as rescuers; females are more passive" (p. 651). The King and his son Prince Henry are the two highest ranking males in the film and they are shown to have ultimate power; the power over life and death. After Danielle hits Henry with apples, making him fall off the horse she thought he was stealing, she feared for her life because she assaulted royalty and the heir to the kingdom. In the same scene, in an attempt to quiet Danielle as to not cause a ruckus which may alert the royal guards, Prince Henry drops coins to the...
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...For centuries, the fairy tale Cinderella, that everyone has come to know and love has been told in many different countries and in a variety of ways. Although each story is different, they all have similar meaning and each one "demonstrates how universal the Cinderella story is, as well as how unique each version is to the particular culture out which it grew" (Tam and Cam, 2012 Pg 194). Little girls all over the world are told some type of Cinderella story and they grow up dreaming that one day they'll be a princess just like the characters in the stories. They will find their prince charming to sweep them off their feet. However, these manipulative stories tend to teach girls that they do not need to be dependent on a man to take care of them. Girls should not grow up with that idea in their head, they should be told from the beginning that through patience and determination anything they set their mind to can happen without the reliance of anyone but themselves. The Cinderella characters are presented as civil and obedient young women. In "The Twelve Months", Marouckla, who was the "Cinderella like character" lost her father and was stuck living with her stepmother and step sister. She had to do all of the chores and wait on them hand and foot. They both treated Marouckla as a nuisance and whatever her stepmother asked, she did. "The stepmother also added her threats to those of Helen, and with vigorous blows they pushed Marouckla outside and shut the door upon her. The...
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...Name: Professor: Course: Date: Cinderella Human culture is filled with fairy tales. These fairies start out as simple but entertaining stories but as they get handed down from one generation to the next, they gradually become more than simply fairy tales. They grow and become bedtime stories for growing children as such play an important role in the children’s perception of the world and society in which they live in. One such popular fairy tale is (Cinderella, Cary & Anita, 52). It demonstrates that modern day fairy tales play a role in our society as subtle instructions for behaviors and morals that Children are supposed to follow. On the surface, it may come across as a very simple story on a young woman whose wishes eventually come true. However, the fairy tale also reflects cultural expectations of the behaviors and goals of women. It also defines the expectations of a woman’s goodness. Cinderella shows its audience that women are expected to be passive. For example, the main character patiently suffers under all kinds of mistreatments by her stepsisters and stepmother without voicing any complaint. She is always busy with cleaning, sweeping, washing as well as dusting but does nothing else to respond to the abuse that she is being subjected to other than sing about her dreams of happiness that she wished would come to pass. She is relegated to merely wishing for things to change as opposed to taking action for herself and driving the change that she wishes (Orenstein...
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...Beauty and The Beast From ”A Fractured Fairy Tale” by A.J. Jacobs This is a modern interpretation of the classic fairy tale. Jacobs took all the clichés from the classic fairy-tale, and either commented on them or simply altered them slightly. A good example of Jacobs commenting on the classic fairy-tale writing would be the introduction to the fairy tale, in which he wrote: “Once upon a time there was a magnificent golden castle on a silver cloud high up in the sky, which has nothing to do with anything because our story is about an old woodchopper who lived in a shack, but that's a good way to start a fairy tale.” This is a somewhat fairy tale classic since it starts with the characteristic “Once upon a time…”, but Jacobs have merely altered it a bit and states that it’s simply a pleasing way to start a fairy tale. At the time the reader gets past this, he or she instantly realise that this is no regular fairy tale. Another rather significant difference between this interpretation and the original fairy tale is that in this story, the main protagonist is the “beast” and the prince she is pursuing is, at first glance, the beauty. Our main protagonist is described as somewhat ugly, hence her feeling very lonely. In order to cope with her loneliness, her father brought her a mule. And then something interesting happens: She tries to kiss the mule, in a desperate attempt to turn the mule into a magnificent prince. The interesting thing about this is that she somehow...
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...Marriage vs living together Family is the basic block of all human cultures, and marriage is the base of the family. The establishment of marriage is good for individuals and society. Families are created and held together by the lifelong commitment of a man and a woman who live cooperatively and raise and nurture their children. Not only is marriage vital to society, the benefits of marriage for both adults and children are well recognized. Married people live longer, spend less time in hospital, have great incomes and enjoy greater emotional support. Children raised by their father and mother are less likely to live in poverty, drop out of school and are more likely to finish college. They are also at a lower risk for becoming sexually active in their teen years. However, families now face some extraordinary challenges today, including divorce, extra marital affairs, birth of child before marriage etc. which contribute to lessened family, individual and community welfare. Americans living in the twenty-first century, face the problem of ever increasing marriage and divorce rates. Relationships like life are now something to be managed rather than lived. Living successfully is now about keeping up, staying ahead or staying on top of things. It is hard to believe that staying together in a fast paced life takes work and commitment. But it is not impossible. It is a matter of taking control of your lives together and being a little creative about how you live. Even though...
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...dance. This essay analyse four main conventions of the musical genre the spectacle, the narrative, the adaption of established stories and the power the combination of lyrics and music can achieve on screen. Examples from different periods in Hollywood will be used to explore these conventions and how they apply and have evolved to suite conventions of modern cinema. Kellner (2005) explains spectacles have been present in different cultures since pre-modern times. Examples of these spectacles include plays, the Olympics of Ancient Greece, in Ancient Rome public offerings of bread, circuses and gladiator games (Kellner, 2005). The human desire for the spectacle has not fallen into extinction but rather evolved with society and technology. Entertainment has always been a prime field of the spectacle and film has been one of the most productive industries to utilise the spectacle (Kellner, 2005). Hello Dolly (1969), My Fair Lady (1964) and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997) are three examples of film musical spectacles. All three of these movies contain elaborate costumes, bright colours and large dance casts. The large cast is designed to entertain and distract the audience with absurdity and fantasies (Kellner, 2005). It is unrealistic for people to join in a song and choreographed dance routine when at the markets however in Cinderella “The Prince is Giving a Ball” sequence portrays this scenario. Characters on the screen walk around casually until the announcement...
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...Engineer Patricia Galloway believes that serving as the first woman president of the 151-year-old American Society of Civil Engineers — a historically male bastion if there ever was one — makes her a role model to women in the industry. It's high times for women leading construction-related engineering groups, with three others currently in high office. The same goes for construction organizations. Nova Group's Carole L Bionda is chairelect of Associated Builders and Contractors. Meanwhile, the US House Education and Workforce Committee last month passed the Family Time Flexibility Act (H.R. 1119) which could undermine workers' most basic rights by altering the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which currently requires employers to pay overtime to certain employees when they are required to work beyond the normal 40 hour work week.( Peterson 98) At home, we're aware (perhaps painfully so) that men and women often have different communication styles. But it's easy to forget that such differences can show up at work, too. To do an effective job of communicating, keep in mind gender-related communication styles. Young boys are socialized to give an immediate answer or solution to a problem. Young girls want answers, too, but tend to talk things over to solve problems. So while a man might prefer to work things out for himself, a woman is more likely to want to discuss them. According to researcher Deborah Tanhen, author of Talking from 9 to 5, when a woman starts to discuss an...
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...often include many characters, one central plot, and numerous sub-plots. Pattern recognition allows us to see the relationships between character, actions, and ideas. A time when symbolism enhanced my understanding when reading a literary work, was when i was reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The symbol is the green light, which sits across the water from Gatsby's house. Gatsby stood at the end of his garden with arms outstretched, desperately trying to reach the green light. The green light symbolizes how desperately Gatsby want Daisy back in his life- however, his failure to reach the green light demonstrates how Daisy is ultimately gone from his life forever. 2.)Chapter 1: Every trip is a quest (Except when it's not) Story I have chosen is Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief A.) Our questor: A young boy with dyslexia and ADHD who finds out he is a demigod and that his father is poseidon. B.) A place to go: Percy and his friends must go and try to find the master lightning bolt that someone stole he also has to find and try to save his mom C.) A stated reason to go there: Zeus thinks percy stole the lightning bolt and wants him dead so to stay alive he must find out who stole it and give it back to Zeus. He also has to try and find his mom and...
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