... we can't live a nearly sustainable life ." (Swentzell, 11/22/14) Swentzell built her own house at the age of 23 out of adobe and other eco friendly materials. She borrowed much of the housing techniques from pueblo ancestors. Pueblo people built their homes with low profiles and thick walls ... by doing this the house protected the occupants and regulated indoor temperature in the harsh desert surroundings. The main material to build a pueblo house is adobe. Adobe is made out of clay and straw compacted into a brick form. The roof of the pueblo house is generally flat across. The flat ro...

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... . "So it is about a girl, who was once like you, lost. It was because she lost her brother due to an accident too. She was once an optimistic girl, full of wishes and dreams, long before her brother passed away. But after the tragic experience, she lost her way. She messed all up, made trouble with her sisters and even ... income raises more than what need. She was able to provide all her children's needs and raise them with fear in God. She sent Sophie and Zac in the Philippines premiere institution of higher learning, the University of the Philippines. Sophie graduated in Business Admi...

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... Perrault and " A Chinese "Cinderella"" by Tuan Ch"eng-shih are two of the stories that are very different. They are the most different in character and plot. I personally enjoyed Perraults version because it is most like the on I knew as a child. Characters of the stories were very different in many ways. The names of the main characters in the stories were ... the major difference. Perrault's version had Cinderella and Tuans version had Yeh-hsien. Perrault says that Cinderella is beautiful, but Tuan only says that Yeh-hsien is intelligent and good at making pottery. While Cinderella ha...

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... some compassion and she has human friends, not wild animals, who live in the home and assist her with duties. In Everafter, like the Brothers version the prince holds a ball in order to find a potential bride. The stepmother tells Cinderella she can attend, but changes her mind at the last ... in the castle. The younger of the two stepsisters is granted permission to live in the castle and is not punished. The Brothers Grim version portrays Cinderella as a young, defenceless woman who submits to her stepmothers every wish and comes up against hard punishments by her family. The ... moth...

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... reflects back to the "Cinderella Complex" and why people back then relied on their external selves to get them through life. In the Dowling's movie version, "Ever After" she presents the Cinderella story in the same manner however there are a few changes. For example, there is one nice stepsister that ... stepmother and stepdaughter get the treatment they deserve of being slaves themselves while the nice stepsister marries a kings men. The Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm version of Cinderella, "Ashputtle" begins in the same way as all the others the mother dies and leaves the beautiful girl wit...

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... she is doing their dirty laundry. Yet, she somehow manages to leave her family behind, and live happily ever after with her Prince. Another version of the story is the Native American tale called "The Algonquin Cinderella." In this one the girl's own family treats her awfully. Yet she ... different. It is not Cinderella in either story. In Grimm's Fairytale the girl's name is Aschenputtel, whereas she was named Oochigeaskw in the Native American version. This doesn't change anything in the actual plot, but something that is different is the family in each story. In Grimm's tale, Aschenput...

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... frame, and plot. More importantly, they changed the story to correspond to whom they are changing the story for. Due to their recommended audiences, Disney's version compared to the Grimm's, "Cinderella," are drastically different. Disney is focused on making movies for more kids, and the characters take a more friendly approach ... dead mother's, grave. The birds a supposed reincarnation of her mother, who died at the beginning of the story (Taylor). This differs from Disney's version, where the mother did not appear in the plot at all. These differences lie in the fact that Disney wan...

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... her with gifts for the chief's festival. The chief was in search for a wife and he chose Cinderella. In contrast to the Native American "Cinderella" version, the tale was told, originally, in the Algonquin language. The story is about an Invisible man, who is under the care of his sister. His ... girl becoming the wife of the Invisible man. Both tales resemble each other in some ways; while at the same time contrast each other. In the Nigerian version, the role of a festival is of great importance. Cinderella was a maidservant in the home of her stepmother. As a result, she made friends ...

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The fairytale I like is Mulan. This tale is most popularly known as a Disney story. The shortened Disney version tells about a girl who goes to war for her father and disguises herself as a man, because if she goes as a female, ... , "the story was expanded into a novel during the late Ming (AD 1368-1644) Dynasty" (Kuo). Another film version of Mulan "was the 1960 opera The Lady General Hua Mu Lan- (Kuo). In this version, she wants to fight in the war for two reasons: to save her father, and she's patriotic. Her father ... not a male. The fairytale I never particularly enjoyed was Sleeping ...

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... Albee offers as an allegory for the "American Scene". Grandma ultimately represents the original American Dream, a dream, which is trying to be replaced by a newer, materialistic, corrupted, and finally distorted version of the American Dream, embodied by the character of the Young man. Mommy and Daddy are clearly not contempt with the ideal of the morality driven American Dream that they ... assuming a critical position in relation to the spectacle before her. Grandma has to leave the play because she as the "old" American Dream had to give way to the "newer" version of herself, who is...

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... lexicon with more or less specific words. If the society is separated by natural borders the language will have dialects due to separation. A dialect is a version of a language that has been changed and is specific to a certain region and is often used to identify where someone is from. The Kurds have ... family. Women are responsible for all of the domestic duties around the household. They have to make the meals of the family while bringing full respect to their husband and the elders of the family. Kurds believe that the fathers or men of the household are the most superior. ... are ...

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... her. There are two experiences with Albert that Segal has one is where she and Gwenda, one of the Hopper's daughters, "see him standing in my doorway, growling and cracking a leather belt like a whip" (Segal, 101). He later states that this was a joke and is forgiven for the incident by the family. There was also a so-called accident when ... ...

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... my stomach and the taste of salt covered my lips. A knock on the door made me somewhat compose myself. My hoarse voice permeated my room. "Come in," I whispered, my voice cracking like a whip and my eyes filling with a pool of feelings once more. A brunette, tall, beautiful and skinny entered my room. She closed the door behind her and plopped herself next ... ...

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... mainly in traffic system, civil construction planning and family culture. Even though the corrupt traffic system in Ho Chi Minh City is worse than in Orange County, I still miss the cracking roads, crowded streets, motorcycles riding of the hustle bustle city very much. However, when I integrate into the life in Orange County, I become familiar with houses, buildings, roads and all the ... ...

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... stepped forward and kissed him, her hand trailing down his body. Startled, Kyle stepped back just as his father's fist rammed past his head. Then there was the sound of cracking bones that in Kyle's ear seemed to echo all over the room. It seemed like hours had passed when Kyle lifted his head and saw his father's expression change. Following ... ...

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... good over evil and how everyone has feelings. The two versions I will focus on are "Fair, Brown and Trembling," Ireland's version by Jeremiah Curtain and "The story of Tam and Cam," the Cinderella tale for Vietnam. Although both versions are written during different times, the authors ... reflect their version around the, culture, beliefs and society during that time. In the Irish version "Fair, Brown, And Trembling" Trembling is the youngest of three girls and the most beautiful. Fair is the ... daughter."(Curtain) "The story of "Tam and Cam" from Vietnam, is the second story I chose...

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... take off her pants but couldn't manage to take them off because of her big hips. And her son and husband instead of helping her, they were on the floor cracking up while she was screaming to them for help. After her husband tried to help by kicking her in the leg to try to smash the mouse, but then the ... ...

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... bossing Janie around. And to add to that fact, he had an abundant body odor. The first year of their marriage he peppered her with gifts, but then he started cracking down. Eventually, he wanted Janie to work in the fields for him. He wanted his own wife to do field work, as if she was a slave. What a great guy! This ... ...

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... of those families that have great gatherings and special events we really just get together whenever we can and always have a good time. When we are together someone constantly is cracking jokes or making one of us feel good about who we are. Wherever my family is there is loads of food to be found and plenty of drinks. I come from ... ...

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... would be needed and appreciated both at home and at work. One of her friends, a house keeper who has to run numerous domestic chores is described by Nancy as "a younger version of her mother, depressed, lacking in self-esteem, a cautionary tale whose moral was "if you want to be happy, develop a career and get your husband to share at home"" [Arlie ... work in line with their new responsibilities as mothers. Several women indicated that the pressures of the dual burdens of work and new motherhood were too difficult to sustain on a full time basis and they were therefore withdrawing relu...

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... 's death. The film takes places in a spectacular location in northern Scotland where we can actually see Shakespeare's imagination come to life. In Zeffirelli's version there are dialogues added and extra words are put in to create scenes that don't seem to exist in the original Hamlet. A scene that is ... and Claudius confront each other over the coffin. The women in the film add an element of true mothering characteristics despite the fact that in Zeffirelli's version there seems to be too much of an overwhelming love and sexual attraction between son (Hamlet) and mother. Zeffirelli did...

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... the sections beging and end as sentences (at the end of the first 3 lines there are commas, but at the end of the fourth line of the section there is a full stop.) This is method is present in the first three sections. The next method that is applied is that each new sentence begins a different topic, moving the audience gradually through ... but to go onto the stage and read out the prologue. The chorus wasn't an actual character in the play, just as the newsreader is not a character in the film version. The job of the chorus (and the prologue) is to inform the audience of the main sto...

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... such as Cinderella: all the secret meanings and misconceptions that have been misread by children and adults alike all over the world. And so, without further ado, I give you my version of the Disney classic, Cinderella. Happily Ever After Once upon a time, there lived a young girl named Cinderella, who loved her father very much. But after her mother died, her father ... her wish as was promised. And so Cinderella proceeded to the ball looking beautiful. As soon as she walked in, everyone began to whisper. The girls were full of envy, as the guys were full of hormones. The Prince laid ...

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... tell anyone about this family secret because they didn't want their family name to continue to be tarnished and humiliated. Kingston's story is almost defensive towards her aunt. Kingston's mother's version of the story is very strong, she bashes her sister in law for the actions she makes. Kingston then tells the story in her own ... version which is very different from the way her mother told it. Kingston's mother story was very offensive towards Kingston's aunt, Kingston's story is almost like defensive towards her aunt. She ... forced into having sex, that she was raped by the man...

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... is an important aspect of any story or film, because it sets what the entire film will be about, and how the audience will absorb it. In the short story version, the characters include Ashputtle which is Cinderella, the Stepmother, the stepdaughters, the prince, the father and the spirit of Ashputtle's mother. The character of Cinderella is portrayed as a good little ... her in the end. We can see how the roles of the character of Cinderella has changed with the times, she becomes more assertive and outspoken in the Ever After version this could very well be caused by the effects of the...

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