...tale, Snow White, is a Phallocentric story about a young princess who is on the run from her mentally unstable step mother who is trying to kill her. Relationships between the characters are often gender specific as the roles between males and females are strongly defined. The Evil Queen, the Huntsman and the Dwarfs are all key characters which help with the demonstration of stereotypes, paternalism as well as gender roles. Stereotypes are very prominent throughout the tale. Snow White and the Evil Queen are quite different as far as stereotypes go. Right from the beginning, Snow White portrays typical female stereotypes such as being gentle, kind, sensitive, and dependent. It is also assumed by these qualities that she is not able to protect herself from...
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...There is a quote that says, “good triumphs over evil”, in the origin story “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, this is shown to be true throughout. In the German fairytale, titled “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Jacob and Willhelm Grimm who lived during the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, the protagonist, Snow White, luckily escapes from the Queen, the antagonist, merely getting killed by the huntsman, Snow White seeks shelter in the Dwarf’s House, however Snow White is soon discovered again and that enrages the Queen to attempt to kill her (Grimm). The idea, that good always triumphant over evil can be seen in the origin story, which is why Disney targeted it as an inspirational children’s movie during the 1930s....
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...In Snow White and the Huntsman there are many archetypes: Snow White being the hero, Queen Ravenna is the devil figure and then there is Eric who is also known as the huntsman is the shadow but many other things as well. You are able to see Eric’s shadow from the very beginning and we are shown just how bad his shadow has gotten to him. Even though he is in an extremely dark place throughout the journey with Snow White, Eric does many things that make it easy to see he wasn’t always as bitter as he lets off to be. He starts out the journey by hunting Snow White for the queen, but when he captures her he hesitates to hand her over because he doesn’t have what he was promised, his wife. With the Queen’s powers she said she was able to bring people back from the dead and Eric ended up believing her with how easy she made it seem. Even though he doesn’t hand her over for his own selfish reasons he starts to ask what the Queen wants with her making his shadow lighten for a...
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...Gatsby to return from the war and as a result Gatsby decides to dedicate the rest of his life to win Daisy over. He does this by becoming as rich as Daisy’s husband Tom, if not more. She is often associated with the color white which symbolizes much more than the color of her car or the color of her clothes. Fitzgerald uses the color white to convey a false sense of innocence to reveal Daisy Buchanan’s true selfish, and her heightened class conscious character to reveal the corrupt lives the rich live during this time period. It can be seen that Daisy never really cares for Gatsby and she just cares about herself and her future. One of the few accounts of the past that one gets to read without any biased opinions, is when Jordan Baker retells the story of the night before Daisy Fay becomes Daisy Buchanan. Daisy becomes extremely intoxicated and starts crying whilst holding a crumpled up letter in her hand: “She wouldn’t let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow” (76). This is one of the few times where Daisy’s vulnerable side is on display and one can see how selfish she is. When she let the letter “come to pieces like snow”, it can represent the relationship she has with Gatsby. She knows that Gatsby falls for her hard and it does not matter how she feels...
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...“One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.” ~ Gary Weiss. This quote means that, if there is a problem or something sounds suspicious, we will investigate it and come up with our own reasons for why it happened. Though sometimes the theory we come up with may sound stupid, we still believe it. The conspiracy theories are intellectual cancer because some theories actually sound more believable than others and it just spreads and becomes an epidemic. Some theories are just that interesting. Would you trust a memory that felt as real as all your other memories, and if other people confirmed that they remembered it too? Even if it was false?...
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..."I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse." This quote was said by the man who started everything, Walter Elias Disney. Walt Disney was born December 5, 1901 in Chicago. He was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. Today I’ll commensurate Walt Disney’s achievements throughout his life and how his memory still lives on with us today. (Transition: Walt Disney was an extraordinary man who has impacted everyone’s lives throughout the years.) Starting off Walt Disney’s career in the 1920s, he opened his own small company in the Kansas City area and called it, Laugh-O-Gram. His first major series was called Alice Comedies. These silent cartoons were produced from 1924-1927. The company eventually went bankrupt. (Transition: After his company went bankrupt, Walt then moved to Hollywood to start new) There he then created Mickey Mouse who is the best known creation of his. Mickey Mouse first appeared in “Steamboat Willie” on November 18, 1928 at the Colony Theater in NY. This was the world’s first synchronized sound cartoon. Walt Disney was originally going to name his masterpiece, Mortimer Mouse. His wife is the one who convinced him to use “Mickey”. According to his brother, Roy Disney, Mickey Mouse was Walt’s alter ego. Disney created many more well-known cartoons such as Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and Daisy Duck. (Transition: Now that Walt Disney has created these cartoons...
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...is no longer among us, his story continues to inspire hearts. News spread rapidly, when Mandela was known to have shockingly died, on December 5th, 2013. The world was saddened after hearing the tragic reports of the once peacemaker. Despite being told by many reports that Mandela had died in 2013, Fiona Broome, was positive that his death occurred years before. She was convinced that he left us in the 1980s, and many people also shared the same vision of the past. Broome had memories of reporters showcasing Mandela's funeral. Others recall learning about his death at school. And if that is not mind-boggling enough, there is also a book; English Alive, which backs up this insane memory, and was published on October 1st, 1991, containing a quote...
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...characters in Anderson’s work such as, The Match Girl and The Little Mermaid; the character of Karen evolves through the help of a physical transformation. Karen’s physical transformation helps change her from a vain and obsessive character to a person who is redemptive. I will display these characteristics by creating a Facebook page using modern culture and the current media to help analyze the evolution of Karen. In the beginning of the story although Karen is an orphan girl her one great possession is her vanity. In the story it is conveyed that many people thought that Karen was pretty “… but the looking glass said to her:” You are more than pretty, you are lovely” (241). This passage conjured up a similar image of the Evil Queen of Snow White and her vain attempts to seek validation from the mirror. On Karen’s Facebook page images of mirrors and many self portraits are displayed through out to represent her sense of vanity. On her playlist the song Your So Vain by Carly Simon is listed on her favorites. The song is a perfect representation of this character because the lyrics “You walked into the party. Like you were walking onto a yacht”( Simon ). In comparison Karen walks into her Confirmation with her red shoes her thoughts are filled with looks and stares that she gets from the congregation. Her favorite book is Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. She sees herself as the character of Rebecca in the novel. Rebecca shares attributes of being an orphan, beautiful...
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... The Disney Princess Effect on Young Girls and Their Gender Role Perception The Disney Corporation has been around since 1937 when it released the first Disney Princess movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, millions of young girls have fallen in love with these characters and often see them as role models. From the dresses to the tiaras, the beauty to the fairy tale, Disney Princesses have a direct effect on young girls and their behavior. The media has been a powerful resource through which many young girls develop their identity and come to understand gender roles in society. Research indicates that watching televised gender portrayals has an effect on individuals’ gender based attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors (Mastro & Morawitz 131). These are the attitudes and beliefs that young girls who watch Disney princess films would inherit. Girls enjoy watching these films and see the beautiful characters overcome difficult trials, as well as fall in love with a handsome prince in the end. The overall message is not a realistic one, leaving many girls feeling self conscious and unhappy. The idea that beauty equals good and ugly equals evil can negatively impact the way a girl looks at herself or others. Girls will ultimately learn that what is beautiful is good. Snow White and Cinderella were attractive and charismatic while the witch and two stepsisters were unattractive and vile. And in the end, the princesses lived happily ever after. The purpose of this...
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...the masculine and feminine ego’s.Mrs Beast is the ideal example of how dominance (male or female) is the main focus of many marriages.Mrs Beast believes that it is only by completely domineering her husband and taking the role traditionally seen as that of the man can she break the stereotype of “the dominant male” and be successful in her marriage. Duffy shows Mrs. Beasts dominance through her use of brutish vulgar and monosyllabic language, “tough as fuck” and the way she treats her husband almost as an enslaved gigolo, “better-didn’t try to conceal his erection,size of a mule’s-best.”Mrs. Beast feels the only way she can avenge all the innocent women,”Eve.Ashputtel.Marilyn Monroe.Rapunzel.Bessie Smith. Bluebeard’s wives, Henry VIII’s, Snow White” from history and literature, who...
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...Journal 1 2/21/13 Tough Living In the short story ‘’the necklace’’ was a very tough, sad, and stupid It was about jealousy and envy. Among the greatest sins and have been down fall of many. The story is about Mathilde Loisel that seeks money and desires of becoming into the upper class. All the ambition of becoming in the high class she brings herself into her downfall. She hated her living society. In the story she marries a rich man that his profession is a clerk. Loisel is beautiful and charming woman. The clerk who she married he works in the ministry of education. These man during the time of the story he can afford anything, provide her only with a modest though not uncomfortable lifestyle. Later in the story she got invited to a big society party all thanks to her husband. The party was hosted by the ministry of education the place where her husband works. He hope that Malthilde will be thrilled with the chance to attend an event this sort. Later she receive these news she started to cry all because she did not have a nice dress to wear for the party, he got mad and gave her money to buy a dress. Afterwards she wanted a necklace to go with the dress she got and went to a lady named Forestier to get a necklace from her she accepts and lends the jewelry to Malthilde. In the party she was excited because every man notice her cause she looked beautiful. The party ended late they walk down the streets to catch a cab, when they got home she noticed...
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...fortune, the ship is driven south off course by a storm and eventually reaches Antarctica. An albatross (symbolizing the Christian soul) appears and leads them out of the Antarctic but, even as the albatross is praised by the ship's crew, the Mariner shoots the bird ("with my cross-bow / I shot the albatross"). The crew is angry with the Mariner, believing the albatross brought the south wind that led them out of the Antarctic. However, the sailors change their minds when the weather becomes warmer and the mist disappears ("'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay / that bring the fog and mist"). However, they made a grave mistake in supporting this crime as it arouses the wrath of spirits who then pursue the ship "from the land of mist and snow"; the...
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...THE BOOK OF TEA by Kakuzo Okakura Originally published Dreamsmyth edition First printing Typography, book design and binding by William Adams Printed in the U.S.A. The Book of Tea . . . . . . . The Cup of Humanity The Schools of Tea Taoism and Zennism The Tea-Room Art Appreciation Flowers Tea-Masters Colophon The Book of Tea . The Cup of Humanity T and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of æstheticism—Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. The Philosophy of Tea is not mere æstheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe....
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...Cyros Lakdawala Botvinnik move by move 'Ill INW,tiHlfiJ rymafl( he-ss"co m EVERYMAN CHESS First published in 2013 by Gloucester Publishers Limited, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London ECIV OAT 2013 Cyrus Lakdawala Copyright © The right of Cyrus Lakdawala to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher . British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Kindle ISB N: Ebook ISBN: 978-1-78194-104-1 978-1-78194-103-4 480, Distributed in North America by The Globe Pequot Press, P. O Box 246 Goose Lane, Guilford, CT 06437-0480. All other sales enquiries should be directed to Everyman Chess, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London ECIV OAT tel: 020 7253 7887 fax: 020 7490 3708 email: info@everymanchess.com; website: www.everymanchess.com Everyman is the registered trade mark of Random House Inc. and is used in this work under licence from Random House Inc. Everyman Chess Series Chief advisor : Byron Jacobs Commissioning editor: John Emms Assistant editor : Richard Palliser Typeset and edited by First Rank Publishing...
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...The Lake Poets The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge hone his craft. Troubled by debt, though, he left Cambridge in 1793 and enlisted in the 15th Dragoons, a British army regiment, under the alias Silas Tomkyn Comberbache. After being rescued by his brothers, Coleridge returned to Cambridge, but he left again, in 1794, without having earned a degree. That year, Coleridge met the author Robert Southey, and together they dreamed about establishing a utopian community in the Pennsylvania wilderness of America. Southey, however, backed out of the project, and their dream was never realized. notable quote “No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.” fyi Did you know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge . . . • developed a fascination with the supernatural at age five? • was known as a brilliant and captivating conversationalist? • was the most influential literary critic of his day? • liked to write poetry while walking? Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge is famous for composing “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” considered two of the greatest English poems. As a critic and philosopher, he may have done more than any other writer to spread the ideas of the English romantic movement. Precocious Reader The youngest of ten For more on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, visit the Literature Center at ClassZone.com. children, Coleridge grew up feeling rejected by his...
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