Robin Hood

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    Terrorism

    Farouk Abdulmutallab’s failed Christmas Day 2009 bombing attempt.59 However, according to publicly available sources, his exact connections to homegrown violent jihadists are largely unclear. Before his alleged November 5, 2009, gun rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan purportedly exchanged e-mails with Awlaki. It remains publicly unknown how the contact

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    Grants

    50 Hurt Plaza, S.E., Suite 595, Atlanta, GA 30303‐2915 • 404‐523‐6220    Georgia Humanities Grant Guidelines, Fall 2015   Application deadline:  September 30, 2015  Maximum Grant Amount:  $2,000  Projects can begin on or after January 30, 2016    Georgia Humanities invites 501(c)‐3 nonprofit organizations to apply for a program grant of up  to $2,000 to support local humanities programs. The National Endowment for the Humanities  defines the humanities as: The study of history, literature, language (modern and classical)

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    Wooden on Leadership

    TREY MINTER 502 Mosby Court ♦ Bonaire, GA 31005 (478) 919-6716 WORK Motivated self starter encompassing 4+ years of hands on experience in maintenance, plumbing, combined with practical work experience in public service. Demonstrates positive support and works well with employees, peers and superiors. Self starter with outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal. Demonstrates a record of high performance standards including attention to detail, schedules, deadlines and quality

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    Ethnographic Essay

    Little Red Riding Hood as Depicted in Matthew Bright’s Freeway (1996) Name: Course: Lecturer: Date: Little Red Riding Hood as depicted in Matthew Bright’s Freeway (1996) [pic]Mathew Bright’s film Freeway is literal work that presents the Little Red Riding Hood with a preface of the verbal and visual texts. The film draws ideas from different books starting from Charles Perrault’s little riding text of 1697 (Catherine, 2002). The film further contains the depiction

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    Little Red Riding Hood

    In the Woods with Red, the Wolf, and Perrault Over time, the story of Little Red Riding Hood has seen hundreds of different interpretations, versions, and changes. Charles Perrault, a 17th century author, wrote the first publication of this story to reflect that young children, particularly young girls, are wrong to listen to strangers, in this case wolves, and that in doing so, said strangers will undoubtedly get their delicious meal in the end. In Perrault’s version, the male and female are depicted

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    Patriarchy and the Subjugation of the Feminine in Fairy Tales

    Fairy Tales, a modern staple of the nursery, represent much about the culture which tells them, for in fairy tales we find not just the fantasies of childhood but the realities of society. So much more than just nursery stories, fairy tales provide the backdrop for the development of a child’s psyche by simultaneously stimulating his imagination and “at the same time suggesting solutions to the problems which perturb him.” (Bettleheim in Tatar 270). Just as Oedipal conflicts and narcissistic dilemmas

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    Little Red Riding Hood

    On May 27, 2014, at 9:59 PM, Wendy West wrote: Running Header: Little Red Riding Hood Once upon a time, there was a blonde, blue eyed boy named SJ, that was about three years old and was the center of his grandmother’s universe. Unfortunately his grandmother was old and feeble and was unable to work which meant she had no way of paying her mortgage and her home was about to be foreclosed upon. One beautiful, warm, spring morning the young boy’s mother wrapped several pieces of gold and silver

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    The Little Red Hen

    Running Head: THE LITTLE RED HEN The Little Red Hen The Little Red Hen The Myth The Russian folktale of The Little Red Hen is a story about a hard-working hen who wants to make bread. The hen and her farm animal friends decide that they would like to enjoy a delicious loaf of bread. The hen reaches out to her farm animal friends and asks them if they would like to help her in the process of harvesting, threshing, milling the wheat into flour, and finally baking the bread. She asks each of

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    Great Expectations

    of this book severely conflicts with the lesson this book is trying to teach. This ending is the equivalent of the witch in Hansel and Gretel giving them pots of gold and letting them go, or the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood throwing a surprise party for Little Red Riding Hood…..meaning that the ending doesn’t fit in the context of the story. And here are three reasons why the Disney ending of this story is completely wrong. The entire purpose of this story is to teach lessons to future generations

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    Angela Carter. There are several extraordinary stories which based on “wolves” combine in this book. The one that I love the most is the one which rewrite of the Little Red Hood. There are plenty of versions of the ending of this story, but this one was the most interesting and hilarious ending I have ever seen, which the little red hood “kind of” fell in love with the wolf which ate her granny. Although

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