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(2011), authors from Sex Roles, examined gender roles portrayed in Disney Princess films and the gendered nature of the climatic rescues to test their three hypotheses. With the objectives of increasing the understanding of the gendered content in the Disney Princess movies and encouraging discussion regarding the possible benefit of this knowledge, a coded content…

  Remarkably, the animated film “Sita Sings the Blues” by Nina Paley accomplishes this. Paley uses five different animation methods, four different time periods, three different stories and two diverse cultures to create one film that is united and comprehensible. Paley accomplished this mix of concepts and ideas by having various stories interlace in and…

Everyone sins, including the person writing this sentence as well as the person who is reading it now. However, redemption can dictate one’s destiny and free them of their sense of guilt after committing a sin, just like some of the characters in the novel “The Kite Runner”. In the novel, Amir, the son of…

Both The Kite Runner and Atonement explore redemption in different ways; the aim of this personal investigation is to compare the ways in which Ian McEwan and Khaled Hosseini explore the concept in their novels. Redemption can be defined as ‘the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil’ and usually is…

Madiba (2015) literature on HIV-infected single mothers in the Ekurulen District Gauteng Province which investigares parental disclosure of HIV positive status to HIV-uninfected teenage children and their reactions to disclosure, determined the prevalence of parental disclosure of HIV status to uninfected children. The results showed that there were more females 235 (69%) than males 105…

No information was found on the author except for the conclusions that were drawn from the picture on the back of the novel. Jan Karon looks to be in her mid-sixties, and seems to be a strong Christian women from her writing style used in the novel. Jan Karon’s At Home in Mitford, is set…

Humor was used in the medieval time period to express one’s ideas and thoughts. Geoffrey Chaucer also used humor in The Canterbury Tales in different instances. In The Nun’s Priest Tale and The Miller’s Tale I will show you how he uses humor to describe characters, his use of language and the actual events that…

In Native Son, Richard Wright introduces Bigger Thomas, a liar and a thief. Wright evokes sympathy for this man despite the fact that he commits two murders. Through the reactions of others to his actions and through his own reactions to what he has done, the author creates compassion in the reader towards Bigger to…

Written by Edward Albee, is a play that takes us into one evening of the lives of one couple entertaining another. This play has very dramatic characters that are very diverse and dynamic. Albee explores the dangerous fun and games played by one married couple and how they use two seemingly innocent people as pawns…

“William Sydney Porter- later known as O.Henry was born in North Carolina.” O. Henry wrote many colorful and dramatic short stories. The inspiration for the many stories that he wrote came from his experiences through life. Some of these include working in a “drugstore, sheep ranching, bronco busting, living as a fugitive in Honduras” (Zwerger…