Cinderella Cinderella, one of the best-known fairy tales, has over 340 variations and can be traced back as far 850-60 CE (Common Era), where a version was written down in China. The Chinese Cinderella was taken down from a family servant, but the text makes clear that the audience already knew the tale. ... From Animal Helper to Fairy Godmother The bones of the fish in the Chinese story work the magic which helps Cinderella. In "Rashin Coatie", the Scottish version of the tale, Cinderella's dead mother returns in the form of a calf, who helps Cinderella. ... The dead mother (a...

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(Long Play) Title of the play: Goldilocks and the Three Bears Author's name: Jan Brett Number of Acts: 4 Analysis of major characters: Main Character: Goldilocks Age: Young child Profession or Trade: None Desires And Goals: Goldilocks desires to go for a walk in the woods, she then desires to make herself at home in a cottage she stumbles upon that happens to belong to the three bears. Likes and Dislikes: I like the way that Goldilocks is very outgoing and curious about the three bears cottage in the woods. I also like that everything that Goldilocks doe...

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Stories serve as a cultural medium to transfer values, ideas, and expectations of a society to a younger generation, and the Grimm Brothers stories such The Frog Prince, The Ungrateful Son, and, Cinderella all perform this function. ... Among the most famous of Grimm's tales is Cinderella. ... By the end of the day she would be forced to sleep in the piles of cinders on the floor, thus she was called Cinderella by the rest of the household. ... He gave this twig to Cinderella and she took it and planted it at her mothers grave. ... Every day Cinderella would visit her mothers grave thr...

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In the fairytales of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel, the heroines show alliance to the structure of strong behavioural codes, allowing the reader to relate to the damsel, or model themselves in a similar fashion. ... Rapunzel relies completely on a prince, for her to escape her imprisonment; Cinderella has to use the mythic powers of her fairy godmother to achieve her goal and Sleeping Beauty is rendered helpless until her prince charming awakens her from her slumber. ... Cinderella is another good example of the negative gender expectations placed on women in fairytales. ... Cind...

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As time progressed a similar style of tales emerged in Hindu civilisation and by 850AD the first literary version of Cinderella had been written in China. ... They experienced immediate success with the inclusion of such classics as The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots and a Western version of Cinderella. ... They are persecuted by wicked stepmothers (Cinderella), eaten by wolves (Little Red Riding Hood), or fall asleep for a hundred years (Sleeping Beauty). ... His series of assaults included A Gander at Mother Goose, Red Hot Riding Hood, Blitz Wolf and Swing Shift Cin...

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STRICTLY BALLROOM The 7.30am traffic report is finished by Mike Winter. Announcer: What's up? This is Nicole smith and you"re listening to the hit station 47.8FM, nothing but new stuff. Where into the second hour of this morning program. As it is the 10th anniversary of Strictly ballroom, we have decided to bring in the great director and producer of Strictly ballroom, "Baz Luhrmann", to come and talk to us about his academy award wining film. ...

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Scenes 1+2 The Wingfield apartment faces an alley in a lower middle class St. Louis tenement. There is a fire escape with a landing that serves as a porch. "The scene is memory," indicate the stage directions, and, as such, the interior is "rather dim and poetic." There is a screen-like surface on which words or images periodically appear. ...

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The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim, emerged from a meat locker beneath a slaughterhouse into the moonscape of burned-out Dresden. His surviving captors put him to work finding, burying, and burning bodies. ...

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Bon Jovi also helped pave the way for a metal explosion in which seven other metal acts had top-10 hits "Whitesnake, Poison, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Europe, Cinderella, and Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads. ...

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When we got there my friends were standing right by the entrance, when John my best friend said " Hey look who brought Cinderella along" I ignored him and walked in, Jennifer knew he was talking about her but it didn"t seem to phase her , I asked her " you don"t care what other people think of you right" and she had a response I would never forget " Life is to short to care about what others think of you" and I just wanted to kiss her right in front everyone but I didn"t because it would look bad, the popular rich boy kissing a drama club president, as we walked through the carnival I asked he...

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The use of the repetition of the 's' sound, sibilance, of the words 'ice' and 'freezingly' gives a sinister air to the situation and also adds to the already cold tense atmosphere between the two women and reminds us of other evil fictional characters such as 'The White Witch' for example or Cinderella's evil stepmother. ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write about the bombing of Dresden. He was never able to write the book. When he thinks about Dresden's place in his memory, he always recalls two things: a dirty limerick about a man whose penis has let him down, and "My Name is Yon Yonson," a song which has no ending. ...

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