Angels and Fairies
The word, "angel," comes from the greek word "angelos," which means "messenger" (MSN Encarta, 2003). Angels are believed to be celestial beings that act as messengers from God; send divine messages; help mankind; and are composed of pure light and absolute love. It is also believed an angel is assigned to a human at birth and that they may stay with us throughout our lives to support us on our paths on the way to greater harmony with God.

The word 'fairy' is a Middle English word meaning 'enchanted being. Stories involving fairies are a lot more diverse than that of angels, but they are most commonly perceived of as small, supernatural beings or creatures involving themselves in human relationships via magic and are usually beneficial to human life (The Fairy Faith, 2001). They are, however, renowned for causing mischief and it is best to treat them with respect.

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Bibliography

Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia. (2003). Angels. MSN. Retrieved from the Internet at http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565749/Angel.html

Walker, John. The Fairy Faith. History of Fairies. 2001. Retrieved on the Internet at http://www.thefairyfaith.com/intro3.html

folklore perpetuates the customs and beliefs of the country people. Creating a vast universe of heroes and magical figures, folklore creates a sort of collective dreaming. Fairies are the most important magical figure in Celtic folklore. Known as the "good people," fairies possess intense power that is critically neutral. The demise of the "good people" can be traced to the institution of Christianity, which dismissed the folklore of the indigenous people and imposed and superimposed upon it a set of new myths and cosmologies. Yet it has been impossible to totally stamp out the meaning, significance, and symbolism of the ancient folklore and especially that which is related to the "good people." The Celtic countrymen devised ways, as many traditional cultures have, to syncretize deeper and older beliefs with the Christian ones.
The relationship between the countryperson and the domain of the fairies is a complex one. The fairies possess…...

Nature of the Universe
The term fantastic insinuates that it has to do with matters extra-terrestrial. It has to do with the world beyond the conventional one that we interact with at the physical level. Tolkien has an obviously clear view of what it is in relation to the value of creative thinking and imagination. Literature is created from the primary imagination which is also referred to as an echo from the primary imagination. This is also the force and living power behind all human perception. This is a repetition of the eternal act of creation as is encased in the creation by the infinite "I AM." The fairy story and triology are nothing but creation. It is the crafting of the secondary universe by imagination. Essentially, that aspect is the outstanding activity of the maker of the fairy story. This is what sets such a creator apart and makes them…...

CinderellaDisney\\\'s animated Cinderella is a classic fairy tale film that was first released in 1950. The story follows the life of Cinderella, a young girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters after the death of her father. Despite her difficult circumstances, Cinderella remains kind and hopeful, and ultimately wins the heart of the prince with the help of her fairy godmother.The Grimm version of Cinderella, also known as \\\"Aschenputtel,\\\" is similar in many ways to the Disney film, but also has some key differences. For example, in the Grimm version, the stepsisters mutilate their own feet in order to fit into the glass slipper, whereas in the Disney film, the slipper fits Cinderella perfectly. Additionally, in the Grimm version, Cinderella\\\'s fairy godmother is replaced by a helpful dovecote and a tree that Cinderella plants on her mother\\\'s grave.The Disney film exemplifies and challenges the conventions of the fairy…...

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ReferencesGrimm. “Cinderella.”  https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm021.html

product of a virtual exploration about art in Babylonian culture. I chose the Striding Lion of Babylon after carefully sampling the digital pieces of art at oyal Ontario Museum and the Oriental Institute Museum. The artifact I chose was crafted and sculpted on glazed brick-wall as a relief. The lion is a symbolic representation of the iron age of the Neo-Babylonian art. The piece dates back to around the 6th C. BC at the time when Nebuchadnezzar II ruled. The piece is made out of polychrome that is glazed on top of fire bricks. The dimensions feature a height of 4 feet by a width of 6 feet by a depth of 0.25 feet.
A lion is a symbolic representation of courage and strength today and in the past days; including Nebuchadnezzar's time. Similar artifacts were crafted in order to decorate the walls of the King's palace. This was prestigious.…...

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References

Oriental Institute Museum. (2016, August 9). Retrieved from Oriental Institute Museum:  http://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/tourfiles/index.html 

Robert H. Dyson Jr. (1963). A Babylonian Lion in Toronto. University of Pennsylvania - Museum of Arcaeology and Anthropology.

Robert William Rogers. (1900). A History of Babylonia and Assyria - Volume 1. Assyrian International News Agency.

Royal Ontario Museum. (2016, August 9). Retrieved from Royal Ontario Museum:  http://images.rom.on.ca/public/index.php?function=image&action=detail&sid=&ccid=

The Purpose of Fairy TalesGrimm\\\'s Snow White is a fairy tale that has stood the test of time and has been retold and adapted in many different forms throughout the years. The story centers around a young princess, Snow White, who is rejected by her stepmother, the queen, and must flee into the forest to escape her wrath. There, she is taken in by seven dwarfs and eventually triumphs over the queen with the help of a prince.The story is psychologically appealing in that it touches on universal themes of jealousy, rejection, and the need for acceptance and love. The story also speaks to the fear of abandonment and the unknown, as Snow White is forced to flee into the dark forest and fend for herself. The story also touches on the fear of not being accepted for who you are and the need to be loved and accepted. The…...

Boy, Snow, Birdhat does it mean to be in a fairy tale, to live in a fairy tale? It seems to be Oyeyemis aim to explore the real world as a fairy tale and to give her characters a foundation in fairy tale lore. This fact alone gives them a kind of mythological edge that makes them more interesting than they might otherwise have any right to be. But again as with the Sexton poetry here is another modern author contemporizing the fairy tales of Grimm and filling them with more commentary than is necessary or is compelling. Boy, Snow, Bird is not so much a modern fairy tale retold as a slice of modern life stitched to an old worn out patch of cloth that might have been a fairy talebut it is unclear.In her interview, Oyeyemi points out that The fairy tale explicitly [states] that Snow hites beauty…...

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Works CitedNew York Times. “The Read Around.” The Read Around: Helen Oyeyemi - The New York Times (nytimes.com)Quinn, Annalisa. “The Professionally Haunted Life Of Helen Oyeyemi.” Profile: Helen Oyeyemi, Author Of \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Boy, Snow, Bird\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' : NPR

Jane Eyre PassageThe passage I have chosen is from Chapter 4, when Jane pushes back against Mrs. Reed: How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is thetruth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me backroughly and violently thrust me backinto the red-room, and locked me up there, to my dying day; though I was in agony; though I cried out, while suffocating with distress, Have mercy! Have mercy, Aunt Reed! And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck meknocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions, this exact tale. People think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard-hearted.Youare deceitful!Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to…...

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Works CitedBronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.

Nights at the Circus" is a fairy tale in the modern times. It revolves around the circus star, Sophie Fevvers, who is half-human and half-swan, and who is the passionate object of professional and moral pursuit of Jack Walser, a devout journalist who must seriously investigate into the truth or falsity of this half-human, half-animal phenomenon. Fevvers is surrounded by equally phenomenal characters, such as the prophesying pig named "Sybil,," the clown offo, the circus owner Colonel Kearney, Mignon and Lizzie. Wasler's intense investigation leads him to join the circus team, disguised as a clown, in order to complete and satisfy his obsession of getting to the bottom of Fevver's mysterious person and reality. In the course of their togetherness -- which begins in London, proceeds to Petersburg and Siberia and returns to London --, it is Wasler who transforms from his selfish point of reference to a childlike…...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Burnett, John. The Annals of Labour: Autobiographies of British Working Class People. Indiana,

USA: Indiana University Press, 1974

Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus. Vikings Penguin, 1986

Cohen, William A. "Sex, Scandal and the Novel," Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian

Anne Sexton\\\'s-TransformationsTo the Gold Key, I reacted with a sense of obligation, as though I were being summoned to this woman, who thought she had a clever way to get us interested in her new take on old ideas. To Snow hite, I reacted with some dislike. For instance, when Sexton writes of Snow hite that she was as full of life as soda pop (7), it felt like a giant anachronismlike a metaphor that did not belongtoo forced and deferential to contemporaneous society. ith the Gold Key I was willing to relent and let the poetry happen, but with Snow hite I felt like I was reading something by someone who was trying to be cute or funnywith lines like, Snow hite, the dumb bunny (8).I suppose I had different reactions because with the first poem I was willing to go with it, unsure of where I would be…...

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Works CitedSexton, Anne. Transformations. Houghton Mifflin, 1971.

The first reading allows the individual to react to it on a personal level, to relate the story of the tragic lovers in terms of his or her own experiences with love (Walker, 1995, p. 13). But secondary and tertiary (and so on) readings allow the individual to connect to the story on deeper and increasingly abstract levels so that an analysis of this story might come to understand it as a story of the temporary death of the individual and its potential and even expected rebirth as part of a universal mother, a submission of the identity of daughter and son into the more primary identity of creation and life. An individual who follows an analysis along such a path can explore his or her own feelings about love and loss, about autonomy and dependence, about fear and acceptance.
However, within the clinical setting, the client must choose his…...

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Armenian poetry. Retrieved from http://www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au/armenians/poetry_p15x4.html

Aziz, R. (1990). C.G. Jung's Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity (10th ed.). New York: The State University of New York Press.

Jung, C.G. (1985). Synchronicity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Odajnyk, V.W. (2004). The Archetypal Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Bluebeard. Psychological perspectives 47(1): 10-29.

[1] However, in his greed he puts on his finger a ring that had belonged to the giant, and this ring forces the man to cry out, "Here I am! Here I am!" In order to save himself from being discovered, he bites off his own finger to make the magic stop. Then, lost in the wilderness, the ex-robber tells of frightening forest-entitities, including a woman who is going to commit infanticide and feed her own child to a group of men. The man makes her instead cook a hanged robber for dinner, and, having hung himself in a tree in the place of the robber, has a chunk of his flesh removed from his side to be eaten. In the last story, Giants are frightened away by thunder. The Queen is pleased by the stories and released the man's children. (Grimm)
In the Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance…...

Tales
Charles Perrault was responsible for collecting and adapting many of the fairy tales best known to contemporary audiences, and his collection of Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals, also known as Mother Goose Tales, offers a unique insight into both the evolution of fairy tales in general and the socio-political context of Perrault's own writing. In particular, Perrault's use of domesticated and wild animals in certain tales shed light on the gender and class conflicts that under-gird both the stories themselves and Perrault's own historical context. By performing a close reading of Perrault's "Little Red Riding Hood," "Puss in Boots," and "Donkeyskin," one can see how Perrault uses domestic and wild animals in order to reinforce notions of gender that idealized male autonomy and proactivity while condemning female exploration, in addition to simultaneously supporting the preexisting class structure that impoverished the majority while rewarding the nobility;…...

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Works Cited

Ashliman, D.L.. "Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales." University of Pittsburg. Web. 3 Dec

2012. .

Ahmed, K. Al. "Charles Perrault's "Le Petit Poucet" and its Possible Arabic Influences."

Bookbird 48.1 (2010): 31-41.

Brothers Grimm
One Linguistic Feature in the Brothers Grimm: Pronoun Usage

The Brothers Grimm is a collection of fairy tales. There are many linguistics features used in the tales, partially because the Grimm brothers were linguists during their lifetimes. It would be only natural that they would incorporate some of that into what they wrote for others. The linguistics feature focused on in this paper is the use of pronouns. Six fairy tales will be used to discuss and address the pronoun usage of the Brothers Grimm, so that comparisons can be drawn. The reason behind this is that some scholars and others are very interested in the way the Brothers Grimm addressed pronoun usage, since they originally wrote in German. The gender of the nouns and the way the pronouns were used were said to not always match up, at least in translation, leading one to wonder why they would…...

supportable logical textual evidence written component options. You analyze primary texts relevant question principles close reading -- noting items word choice, similes, metaphors, connotations, .
"Beauty and the Beast:" Fairy tale vs. cinema

The story "Beauty and the Beast" is one of the most popular juvenile fairy tales of all time. It has also been a potent source of metaphor for many authors and filmmakers. One of the most famous written versions of the fairy tale for children is one authored by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Beaumont uses the story in a didactic fashion, both to illustrate the values of Beauty and the superior values of the countryside. hen Beauty's family is located in the city, her sisters adopt the shallow and superficial values of the city and refuse to associate with people of their own merchant class. Only after being humbled in the countryside does the youngest daughter prove…...

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Works Cited

La Belle et la Bete. Directed by Jean Cocteau. 1946

Ebert, Roger. Beauty and the Beast. Review. Chicago Sun Times. 26 Dec 1999. [4 Jul 2012]

 http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991226/REVIEWS08/912260301/1023 

Le Prince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie. "Beauty and the Beast." From the Norton Anthology of Children's Literature. New York: Norton, 2005

Angela Bourke's book "The Burning of Bridget Cleary" sheds light on the dark history of Irish folklore and superstition by examining the tragic case of Bridget Cleary, a young woman who was murdered in Ireland in 1895 by her husband and relatives who believed she was a changeling. Bourke delves into the cultural beliefs and superstitions that led to Bridget's death, including the widespread fear of fairies and changelings in rural Ireland at the time.

Through meticulous research and analysis, Bourke reveals how these superstitions were deeply ingrained in Irish society and influenced the way people viewed and treated those who....

Taylor Swift has incorporated folklore and mythological elements into her music and storytelling in various ways, including through her lyrics, music videos, and album themes. In her 2020 album "Folklore," Swift draws inspiration from the rich tradition of folklore and mythology, using imagery and references to create an atmospheric and immersive listening experience.

Some examples of how Taylor Swift has incorporated folklore and mythological elements into her music and storytelling include:

1. Use of mythical creatures and themes: In songs like "The Last Great American Dynasty" and "Seven," Swift explores themes of magic and mystery, drawing inspiration from mythical creatures like mermaids....