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...?The brothers Grimm have been credited with introducing us to a number of fairytales. However, with the passage of time, the original fairytales got altered in many respects while retaining the essence of the stories. Fairytales were integral parts of our lives as kids. We got introduced to them both through the vocal medium and also through the print medium. Till the time we could not read by ourselves, our elders (including parents, grandparents, elder siblings, uncles and aunts) narrated the stories to us through their memory or by reading a book. Then as we learnt to read and write we began to go through the stores ourselves. Later the fairy tales were replaced by Enid Blyton and still later Nancy...
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...Golden Hand and Brothers Grimm Rumpelstiltskin
In the story Golden Hand, a male character is portrayed as a person who is aloof and barely shows any interest in his neighborhood, until a charming widowed lady arrives. The man develops a crush on the lady and the lady seemed to like him too. Both of them start talking to each other; in the door way, out on the street and pretty much everywhere they can find time and space.
The lady always wears dark gloves on her hand no matter what. One day as they both were talking, the lady brushed her hair so as to push them away from her forehead, the guy notices something shining under her gloves. Upon inquiring, the lady reveals that she had lost her real...
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...? LEHMAN BROTHER AND THE “REPO 105” SCANDAL By Lehman Brothers and the “Repo 105” Scandal The “Repo 105”is an accounting trick commonly used by banks and other financial institutions such as investment banks, whereby they report a short-term loan as a sale, which of course is not. The cash in from the said “sale” is used to offset debts, a move which allows the company to temporarily pay down its liabilities, thus significantly reducing its leverage. The temporal pay trick is usually long enough to reflect the said “sales” on the company’s published balance sheet, but after the company has declared its financial report, it later borrows money and repurchases its original assets. The trick works perfectly,...
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...challenges in their lives. Brothers Grimm continues the theme of sibling rivalry in the story of Ashputtel. Ashputtel is almost a replica Cinderella with regard to the misery she undergoes at the hands of her stepsisters. Her misery begins following the death of her mother and the coming of her stepmother and stepsisters. The sisters are described as beautiful but evil-hearted (Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm 139). Like Cinderella, Ashputtel’s story end in hope through a mysterious bird that visits her regularly by her mother’s grave to bring her all the good things she desires. According to Bettelheim (2), the story of Cinderella gives form...
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...? We are the Wright Brothers the first to sustain controlled flight, powered flight Introduction The 19th and 20 centuries witnessed sustained efforts to design and develop flight. Human beings were realizing the increasing need for flight to facilitate human transport in the air in a more convenient and faster way. While the efforts to design and develop flight can be traced to periods before the 19th century when humans were imitating birds in flight, it is 19th century and early periods of 20th century, which witnessed real and tangible efforts that culminated to controlled and powered flight (Helfand and Banerjee, 2011). Subsequent years have seen rapid advancement in the aviation industry with better and advanced...
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...Cinderella Order No. 297377 No. of pages: 3 6530 The story of the beautiful but motherless Cinderella is one of the most loved fairy-tales of all times. This story appears in more than 1500 versions, in almost all the languages of the world, and can be seen as an allegorical tale of the ultimate victory of good over evil. Among the versions seen in European nations, the most common ones are Cinderella by Charles Perrault in French and the Brothers Grimm version in German. The Russian version of the story is called Vasilissa prekrasnaya (1939) which was made into a film in 1939 by Aleksandr Rou.
In all the versions of Cinderella, we...
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...MEMORY AND FANTASY IN THREE BROTHERS 2005 In Three Brothers (1981), Francesco Rosi reveals how powerful can be memory. The main characters of the movie recall the unforgettable moments when they come back to his father's home and briefly reunite at their mother's death-bed. The visual effect of the importance of their gathering and their previous experiences is achieved with masterful performance of Philippe Noriet, Michele Placido, and Vittorio Mezzogiorno. The film is set in an Italian countryside, which in fact, is some sort of connection for all brothers. The brothers are not at all similar, but they have one thing in common. "Brought together by tragedy, the three...
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...Introduction The poem Cinderella by Anne Sexton is a parody of the ic Brothers Grimm fairy tail. It contains significant social commentary and symbolic imagery that causes the reader to perceive a measure of absurdity inherent in the original fairy tale. Sexton's poem makes substantial departures from the fairy tale in many key areas that are hallmarks of the classic story, such as the fairy godmother and the glass slipper. Ultimately, Sexton powerfully evokes feminist ideals in vividly portraying the undesirable realism of the general events that unfold in the Brothers Grimm story.
Social Commentary
Sexton's use of imagery to evoke a felling of absurdity...
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...15 November The Brothers Analysis One thing that I disliked about the stylewas the fact that the narrative was quite non-linear in structure. Its non-linearity occasionally became irritating. There were frequent moments in which I felt that the author had used the jumping around as a substitute for a sensible development of the character. Nevertheless, I must say that the non-linear structure of the story in part, bore the flavor of the disjointed familial relationships that the members of the family discussed had had. The story also had numerous depressing and possibly sick elements in it like the sister’s craze for her brothers. Beyond a certain limit, the purity of the love becomes suspicious. Another...
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...the distress of others being favored over them. Therefore, sibling rivalry arising.
Among the fairy tales best known, “Cinderella” puts a mark. The story has its origin related to the German and Chinese culture. Bettelheim applies reasoning that the bona fide meaning behind the fairy tale, “Cinderella” is sibling rivalry. However, he theorizes that the use of stepmother and stepsisters is intentional to condone the antagonism present among actual brothers and sisters. Granted, realistic situation do not tend to be as inordinate as that of Cinderella, in the child’s perspective, they feel just as degraded.
The phrase “Sibling rivalry” is used by Bettelheim to advert...
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