...The Worst Trip to Disneyland It was a cloudy, rainy day that wasn’t starting out great for me. I sat up in the same bed I'd slept in for the past four days and the first thought that ran through my head was, June 29. Today I leave New York with my mom, stepdad, step brother, and I, had spent the last week in the state of New York the first three in Long Island for a golf tournament and the last four in the city. I hadn't done half the things I'd wanted to do nor had I seen half the things I wanted to see, but everything must come to an end and so this trip must to, as much as I didn't want it to or so I thought... We didn't even need to leave the city for the airport until noon, so we went to go see the massive library in the middle of Manhattan. Too early, it was time to head back to the hotel and grab our baggage before grabbing a taxi to the airport. At the airport, we got all checked in and passed security without any issues. At the gate, the four of us sat in the plush black chairs. About fifteen minutes before we were scheduled for departure, the flight attendants called our seat numbers and we filed onto the plane. In our seats, we carefully stowed our carry-ons and lightly fought over the window seat. The rest of the plane boarded, we were all buckled in, and were just waiting for the flight attendant to come and explain the safety features so we could be in the air. After about fifteen minutes of waiting about five minutes after our scheduled departure we weren't...
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...This is the very well-known story of a young woman with a wicked stepmother. The young woman was kind and sweet with a gentle nature. But her two stepsisters had their mother’s (wicked stepmother) mannerisms and bad temper. In-turn, the kind young woman (Cinderella) got her kind and gentle nature from her mother, the first wife of the worthy man. The second wife showed her true colors shortly after getting married to the worthy man. The stepmother’s bad temper and wicked ways came out into the open. Cinderella was given very hard tasks around the house to do. After the chores, Cinderella was to sit among the cinders around by the fireplace chimney, from this she was to be known as Cinder-clod. Cinderella also had to sleep on a wretched mattress in a garret on the top of the house. Even though Cinderella was a pretty girl, her wretched clothes still did not prevented her from being hundreds of times more beautiful than her stepsisters. Plus her stepsisters had resplendent garments. In this classic story, I had originally forgotten it to the point that all I reread in the packet was mostly new to me. But after being familiarized with it, this wonderful story stored in memory came back in full force. When the king’s son (the prince) gave a ball, he invited all the higher up people. The two mean stepsisters of Cinderella were invited, but not her. What I found mean and reprehensible was the fact that Cinderella had went over the two meanies linen and ironed out their ruffles so they...
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...The Death of a Butterfly “Las Mariposas”, The Butterflies, is the codename given to the Mirabal sisters upon their emergence into the Dominican Revolution. While the name grew from Minerva’s underground name, it also took on a symbol of hope, change, and transformation behind the suppression of the Dominican people. Throughout the novel each sister represents a different stage of the butterfly life cycle: Dede as an Egg, Patria as a caterpillar, Maria as a Pupa, and Minerva as an adult; each respective stage symbolizes the different levels of courage and sacrifice devoted to their country’s freedom from tyrant Rafael Trujillo. Alvarez uses symbolism in “The Time of the Butterflies” to suggest that the price of freedom paid by the Mirabal Sisters was not worth the cost when butterflies have such short lives. Butterflies have grown to symbolize a variety of different meanings throughout history and culture. Their metamorphosis is typically construed as a representation of change, purity, and rebirth, while some cultures view butterflies as a depiction of the soul or a transition between lives. Dede takes on the “Egg” stage of the butterfly life cycle as her character faces many obstacles despite being the least involved sister. Like the egg, Dede remains planted firmly where she was laid. “A chill goes through her, for she feels it in her bones, the future is now beginning. By the time it is over, it will be the past, and she doesn’t want to be the only one left to tell their...
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...Biography Sistah Souljah Lisa Williamson was the name of the baby girl born on March 29, 1964 to a single mother in the Bronx, New York. Growing up Lisa (Sistah Souljah) was always in touch with her creative side. At a young age her and her family relocated to Englewood, New Jersey. There she started buckling down on her studies and putting her brain to work. As she was going through high school she always wrote and strived to be an author. In her own words, she literally came up from the bottom and fought. Lisa attended Rutgers University, and earned a degree in American History and African Studies. She attended Cornell University Advanced Placement Studies, She also studied abroad in Europe at the University of Salamanca. While studying abroad Lisa got first hand experience with a lot of things. She built medical centers, worked with refugee children, and was a high active member of the international student anti-aparthied movement. She made a name for herself and was putting herself out there in the world to let her purpose in life be known. As her reputation was growing so was her lust to write and to tell her stories to the world . She started in the field of entertainment and has been on many platforms, such as radio, television, and political rights. Williamson is a very successful woman and has 3 national bestsellers back to back to back. She is the CEO of numerous companies, the chairman of a number of charitable orginizations, the director of many nationwide...
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...READING AND VIEWING GUIDE Title: Cinderella | I think it means: It’s the name of the main protagonist in the story, it means “of the ashes” in French. This is because after Cinderella would finish her work, she would sit at the corner of the chimney where there were cinders and ashes. | Key Words and Phrases: 1.)“Cinderwench”2.) “There came thither the finest princess, the most beautiful ever was seen with mortal eyes; she showed us a thousand civilities, and gave us oranges and citrons.” | I think these words are included because…1.) “Cinderwench” is what Cinderella’s elder stepsister called her to mock her, cinder because she was dirty and wench because it means servant or a prostitute. 2.) This phrase was said by Cinderella’s stepsister to her and what’s ironic is that the “finest princess” she’s talking about is Cinderella. This shows that her stepsisters find her to be really attractive but are just jealous. | Big Ideas and Quotations:“When she got home she ran to seek out her godmother, and, after having thanked her, she said she could not but heartily wish she might go next day to the ball, because the King's son had desired her.” | I remember this because…This quote shows that Cinderella was indeed very special, since she impressed the Prince and he choose her over the several other girls at the ball. | Resolution: The Prince falls in love with Cinderella and marries her. | I think the Big Idea is…That there is hope for everyone and that the good path...
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..."Every decision you make shapes your own destiny." In the time of the butterflies, Julia Alvarez has two characters by the name of Minerva and Patria Mirabal. This book is a great book to read.The Mirabals were farmers in the Dominican Republic . The sisters grew up in a middle class, cultured environment raised by Enrique Mirabal Fernandez and Mercedes Reyes Camilo. The four sisters married and raised families. Unlike her sisters, Dede never attended college, and instead worked as a homemaker and helped out run the family business in agriculture and Cattle. "Family is all you have sometimes." The Mirabal sisters are a very interesting group of people. I will be comparing Patria and and Minerva. Minerva and Patria are both pretty girls. They were both married, and we're both very sensitive and nice. Now in the book the sisters go through a lot of hard times. They almost get killed and some do get killed. It was almost as if they were slaves being held captive by a white man yet it was them being held captive by Trujillo. Back then the girls weren't treated as girls they were basically treated like a man if you would say so. But it seems as if as long as they have each other they'd be fine. Even though their dad died and all that other bad stuff they still had each other and they still survived until basically the end of the book. "When love is unconditional, life is good." There is so much love in this book. That's why people get married, that's why people join together...
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...The fantasy literature of Cinderella was introduced by many cultures and every culture seems to have its own version. Cinderella stories date back as early as 850 A. D. with the first written version of Chinese tale yeh-shen (Cinderella: A cross-cultural story by Patricia w. Kite) Even though Cinderella is a fantasy story it shows many meaning to the character that portrays Cinderella. In many cultures there are stories of Cinderella where every girl dreams of having a Prince charming. The story of Cinderella is a fairy tale that is told and read to children of very young ages (ALA American Library Association) Research shows that many versions have been found first in Europe and the story tale origins appear to date back to a Chinese story from the ninth century. (ALA American Library Association) The book Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is a story portrayed by a very young girl who mother died giving birth to her. Cinderella lived with her family who thought she was bad luck to them, therefore she was discriminated against and treated very bad. In the Chinese culture many Chinese people prefer sons then daughters. In many cultures children look for the love of their parents. The book emphasizes that quote “how you should do your best in the face of hopelessness; to have faith in the end your spirit will prevail; to transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.” (by Adeline Yeh Man) ...
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...Alex had an admirable relationship with his wife and his two children. Alex decided to be unfaithful to his wife with Danielle. He left his wife to go after what he wanted, which was Danielle. He was risking the love of his children and his commodity of his old life. Alex story relates to the quote, “To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else,” by Bernadette Devlin. The interpretation of this quote is in order for a person to get what they want; they have to be willing to lose everything. Like Alex the characters in In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez are willing to risk everything through the characters of Lina, Patria and Minerva. Those characters agree with the quote because they are willing to lose everything in order to get what they want. In the Time of the Butterflies, Lina, a student, meets Trujillo, the president of Dominican Republic, at Inmaculada Concepcion. Trujillo had been watching Lina over a balcony near the school and insisted on seeing her. When they met Trujillo gave her a medal. After the meeting, he would visit her and send her gifts. Sinita asked Lina if she had fallen in love with Trujillo and Lina answered, “With all my heart,” (22). The day of Lina’s birthday Trujillo throws her a party. Then goes on a week vacation with him or so the girls at Inmaculada Concepcion thought. The girls at the school loved and adored Lina and didn’t understand why she didn’t want to come back to them since they treated her...
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...It started with the fairy godmother, portrayed by the very talented and bubbly Sadie Vaughn, standing in a giant tree, singing the opening song and giving the opening monologue. The set behind her was hard to see from the dark, but I could see it was built like a village. It was for the next scene, where all the village people are shopping and mingling, the evil stepmother and sisters were shopping and arguing, and Cinderella and Christopher, AKA the prince, first meet. I felt as though this scene did a fantastic job of giving off that “normal day in the village” vibe. The characters were always busy doing something, so there was never a dull moment on stage. The next scene transitioned into Cinderella’s house, where the stepmother and stepsisters talked about their big plans for the ball and who they think the prince will choose as his bride. Meanwhile, Cinderella thinks she will be able to go, so she gets out her mother’s old dress and shows her stepmother. The stepmother, perfectly played by Savanna Day, then proceeds to tell her she is forbidden to go to the ball and rips her dress. Cinderella, played by the lovely...
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...her father asks what he should bring back from the town for the girls. The step sisters asked for dresses and pearls, while Cinderella asked for a branch from the tree that first hits him on his way home. Cinderella planted that branch and it grew into a beautiful tree. A bird lived in the tree and it listened to what she wanted and gave it to her. One day, the girls heard that the prince was looking for a bride and they were all invited to a party. Cinderella had to clean up the lentils before she could go to the party. After cleaning them up twice in a very short time her stepmother still refused to let her go. She didn’t follow the rules and ended up running to the ball, and back home. The next day, she did the same thing, but this time her shoe was stuck in the doorway and she had to leave with only one shoe. The next day the prince went to their house, and the two evil stepsisters both tried to get their foot in the shoe. The first one cut off her big toe and rode away with the prince, but doves help him realize that her foot was bleeding and that she was not the right girl. Then the younger sister tried on the shoe, and and ends up cutting off her heal to make it fit. Same thing happens again, the prince realizes she’s not the shoes owner and returns her back to her house. He finds Cinderella in the house, and she tries the shoe on. It’s a perfect fit. They go off and get married, and the sisters ended up getting their eyes pecked out at the...
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...The Sister Who Survived In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies, Dedé was greatly impacted by her sisters’ involvement in the revolution. Dedé's life has been full of worry due to the revolution. After her father tells the fortunes, Dedé realizes that her’s is the only fortune he really told. “A chill goes through her, for she feels it in her bones, the future is now beginning. By the time it is over, she doesn't want to be the only one left to tell their story.”(17). This quote describes the moment she began to worry about the effects of Trujillo. Dedé is only a child when she already starts to worry about the affects the revolution will have in her life even though it hasn't even started. Later in her life, Dedé and her sister, Minerva, start to hang around with Lío Morales. Lío was already involved with the revolution, which caused the girls to start getting involved as well. “But without a plan Dedé's courage unraveled like a row of stitches not finished with a good, sturdy knot.”(95) Dedé is going through so much she can't deal with it anymore. She can't even read the newspaper because it worries her to much. The stress and worry of the revolution is causing...
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...By:Eisha Shakeel Lina Lovatón is the younger girls' idol at school, and is beautiful. She catches Trujillo's eye. He starts impressing her, and then, on her seventeenth birthday, takes her away to a party at a new house. She never comes back. Lina had gotten pregnant, Trujillo's wife had gotten mad and tried to kill her, and so Trujillo had shipped her off to Miami. She serves as an example story for all the other girls who might succumb to El Jefe. When Lina became pregnant with trujillo I believe best defined her character because she was the oldest out of the girls and should have known better. She fell in love with a married man and had gotten pregnant with his child, lina should have been more careful and...
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...Encouraging children to believe in a fantasy that is unobtainable is what Disney has successfully done with the help of their fairytale movies. Altering the gruesomeness of blood soaked feet and empty eye sockets of Grimm, into a lighter hearted humorous version of Cinderella has changed the moral and what we are trying to teach our children. If Disney’s movies were made identical to Grimm’s versions would they still be as magical, would the movies still be geared for a younger audience? Has Disney taken away the true hardships and meaning of the classic fairytale by censoring the stories to fit their ideal mold? Children who have grown up with Disney have been given entertainment first and to believe in a fantasy world and where morals are no longer the focus. Children want to believe in characters and certain setting and events that occur and Tolkien makes a good claim at that by saying, “children are capable, of course, of literary belief, when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it.” The story of Cinderella is a tale of a girl that goes through abuse and is made to be a servant in her own home and given a new name in mockery of her suffering. Grimm made Cinderella’s mother present and an important factor in her personality by saying "Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect thee, and I will look down on thee from heaven and be near thee." That line in itself shows the way society thought at that time and the type of message...
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...In a lifetime one will meet all different kind of people some will be foolish, mean, trustworthy, deceitful, generous, etc….Different types of characters is something that is reinforced in children’s stories. In Tales of Wonder from Many Lands, there are several different characters some were foolish, generous, abused, etc…. How can one classify the different characters in Tales of Wonder from Many Lands. One can classify the different characters according to how good or bad they treat others. Three different types of characters are brave and are willing to sacrifice themselves, abusers who treat other as slaves and victims of violence. The first group of characters I would like to identify are the victims of abuse. Most of which were females whom were victimized as a result of jealousy from step mother and or foolish fathers. At times a step parent may feel the need to shut the child that doesn’t biologically belong to them out of their lives and often mistreat them or belittle them. No matter how ridiculous or difficult the task they were given they never complained and always had faith that life will eventually get better. For instance in Cinderella the stepmother was determined keep Cinderella as slave by forcing her to do all house chores, intentionally throwing peas in piles of ashes and ordering her to hand pick the peas and return the peas to the stepmother, not allowing her to eat with the family and keeping her away from all social events. Such as...
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...CHRONICLES OF LEEDS It’s a Maloney place in Prison A tale of tragedy and loss swept the city of Leeds today as a man aged 48 died due to gunshot wounds. Mr Maloney’s stepfather died after a single shot pierced his heart and was dead in an instant. Heartbreakingly, the person behind the gun was Mr Maloney’s step son. The pair had been drinking heavily and celebrating due to Steven’s (Step-son) promotion and things took a turn for the worse when a quarrel broke out about who is the better marksman with a gun. Under the heavy influence of alcohol, the pair then decided to have a ‘quick on the draw’ contest- a challenge only thought as being apparent in a western. Maloney’s stepfather, then fatally, told his step son to ‘Go ahead, if you’ve got the guts’. Much to the dismay of the insult plus the temptation that was offered before him, Mr Maloney then proceeded to shoot at his step father, however he only intended on shooting near him to prove to his Stepfather that indeed he does have ‘the guts’. The Stepfather Michael, died seconds later as the bullets from the shotgun fired by Maloney pierced through his heart and local doctors upon arriving at the scene called the step father as ‘being in a irrecoverable condition’. Maloney, after firing and thus killing his stepfather, proceeded to call the police and state that ‘he murdered his stepfather’ and that he ‘didn’t aim I just pulled the trigger and he was dead’. PC Powell later told our reporters that Maloney was in a ‘stressed...
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