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Yasha Frank’s adaptation of Collodi’s Pinocchio extensively alters both the theme and the main character of the original story. While the character of Pinocchio in Collodi’s novel, The Story of a Puppet, is highly active and hard headed, in that he does not listen or follow the rules, the Pinocchio portrayed on Frank’s play, Pinocchio is very passive, docile, and does not present so much hard headedness as the original one. Seeing that these was in late 1930s, early 1940s, a period marre...

Pinocchio through the Fairy’s Looking Glass Fairy tales have been told for generations mostly as lessons in humanity as well as to inspire change in character. In ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio,’ the underlying moral lesson revolves around the need for honesty. In view of this moral, author Carlo Collodi imposes a strict punishment for lying by growing Pinocchio’s nose bigger every time he tells a lie. This analysis focuses on animism as seen in a psychoanalytic approach to the story. A...

QUESTION 1 Othering means classification of one or more groups of people as others, i.e. not one of us. Exercised mostly in the western world, otherness sort of assumes that the situations in those “other” places as unique to those places. “Otherness” is negative because even when it is used to refer to the positives of “others” it creates mental boundary that bars critical analysis of situations. QUESTION 2 International development often forgets urban areas and misunderst...

Chapter 1: There is No one Left The first ideology that presents itself is the ideology of the child. This ideology is lain out in the interactions between Mary Lenox and her parents. It is standard expectation that parents should take care of their children by spending lots of time with them. On the contrary, Mary’s mother is selfish and constantly ignores her while her father is constantly busy with government matters. Mary has all she requires regarding physical materials. However, does no...

As the old West African proverb goes “we have not inherited this land from our forbearers; we have borrowed it from our children.” This wise saying exemplifies the essence of people focusing more on making the world a better place, if nothing else, for the sake of generations to come. Incidentally, the world is now waking up to the scenario of heightened social interaction powered by breakthrough in technology that has seen the emergence of social media platforms. On these platforms are clas...

Gabriel Corvese brings the reader’s attention to the concept of slacktivism which refers to the individual support of a cause but doing literally nothing in promoting the cause in the real action, but engage in passive support of the cause which only shows awareness on the issue. Similarly, Schlumpf notes that the use of online platforms to demonstrate the individual support of a cause does nothing in changing the actual cause. In this article, Schlumpf illustrates how easy it is for a person ...

Thesis statement: Slacktivism has made activism save, more efficient, and easier to organize. As the new media continues to play an important role in how we communicate, slacktivism reaches and raises support for a cause beyond limitations that affect traditional activism. Body Paragraphs Body Paragraph 1: Topic sentence: Social media and other online mediums of communication are the most effective ways of communicating today. It makes sense, therefore, to use social media to agitate for cha...

Artificial Intelligence: Utopia or Dystopia When archeologists from another universe that harbors intelligent life visit earth a hundred years after our extinction the most interesting remains they excavate will be cyborgs and self-aware motor vehicles. Since the emergence of modern science in Europe, human life changed faster in five hundred years than it did for over one hundred thousand years. This trend has been accelerated recently by dramatic advancement of technology in the last few deca...

Brutal Imagery and Subtle Allegory in a Period of Crisis Butler Yeats wrote two of his poems Easter 1916 and The Second Coming during the era of Irish political instability and agitation for freedom from Britain (Yoon 467). In his poem he gives an allusion to the people who fought for the independence of the country from the British rule. Butler through his poems, states that the British used manipulation to ensure that they maintained their power over the Irish people (Chang 57). The British s...

With and Without Words The manner in which species communicate is usually structured based on some understanding but it often varies significantly. Language is what distinguishes man from other species who communicate mainly through sounds and pheromones. As rational beings, humans send and decipher messages more comprehensively through a combination of sounds, tonal variation, gestures, and body language. The congruence between these forms is what entails proper communication. Essentially, la...