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    The Disney Franchise produced their first African- American princess back in 2009 depicting the classic fairytale story of “Princess and The Frog”. During the animation, Tiana is an independent, multifaceted woman who is goal oriented causing her to be faced with problems throughout. However, because the film contained the first African-American princess which shed light on many cultural details surely there are going to be problems associated with various subjects throughout the movie. In the

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    Produced in 2009, Disney’s The Princess and The Frog tells the story of a young woman trying to make it in 1920s, New Orleans. Tiana’s intelligence, ambition, and brutally honest state of being kept her focused on her goal of owning a gourmet restaurant, and guided her towards her true love. This movie shows how these three main characteristics impacted her journey in finding her happily ever after. Tiana’s intelligence shines through with every obstacle thrown her way. Growing up in a working-class

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    The story of Tiana in the movie The Princess and the Frog is one of Disney’s more progressive princess movies in that it moved away from the typical, cookie cutter princess story in which the woman needs saving from the handsome and charming prince. The movie is the story of Tiana, a young, African-American woman of low socioeconomic status, who lives in New Orleans. The movie centers around Tiana’s dream of owning her own restaurant named Tiana’s Palace and how she gets to her happily ever after

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    Frog and Toad Together is a about a frog and toad. They are best friends and they do everything together. The book consists of five wonderful stories that feature cookies, flowers, dreams, bravery and friendship. In A List, Toad wakes up and decides to write a list of thing to do for the day. The list consisted of some casual things like wake up, eat breakfast, walk with Frog, eat lunch, and go to sleep. Afterwards, Toad went to Frog’s in order to invite him for a walk. As they walked, Frog crossed

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    books,The Frog Prince and The Frog Prince Continued.These books are about a frog who kissed a Princess,and turned back to a frog.The story started long ago in a castle...just kidding! there was a princess that got a golden ball from her father but something happened.The princess was playing with it near a pond.The princess would throw the ball up and catch it but when she threw it up the third time she missed.the ball goes THUD,BOING,SPLASH.she missed it.while she was crying a frog jumped up

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    animal characters do not focus primarily on the animals, they still serve a significant purpose. Through the depiction of the animal helpers in Disney films and several fairy tales, such as “Aschenputtel,” “Snow White,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Frog Prince,” they highlight the importance of nature and reinforce patriarchy and gender binaries. It does this by assigning animal helpers mainly to female protagonists and having them solve most of the complicated problems to guarantee the female character’s

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    sexism, which is psychologically damaging vulnerable minds. One of Disney’s most controversial films ‘The Princess and the Frog’ was released, with its first ever black princess: but all excitement and happiness was brought to an end when they realised that Disney had not taken the opportunity of having a fairy tale ending with a black prince and princess. The Princess and the Frog is set in 1920’s New Orleans which was a time of racial segregation which plays a very important part in this film. In today’s

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    Jumping Frog

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    Based on Mark Twain’s comparisons of a comic versus humorous story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, is Twain’s most famous humorous story. How to Tell a Story by Mark Twain is clearly shown in this jumping frog story and abides by the rules he has set forth according to the countless expert storytellers he has heard from by word of mouth. Today we will explore what makes the jumping frog story a humorous one rather an a witty one and explain how Twain accomplished what he did. From

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    James. In his essay “Art of Fiction” he described realism not as an attempt to picture someone’s life experiences but rather as a way to evoke a sense of reality in the mind (554) on the reader. Although Mark Twain’s short story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was written fifteen years before this approach of realism, it is an example of realism as defined by Henry James, for it succeeds to create an illusion of reality by using three capital tools: the plausibility of the event, the

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    The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County vs. The Outcasts of poker Flat Mark Twain's story, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," and Bret Harte's short story, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” is both works in the Western genre and portrays culture in the West. However, both stories being similar in setting, the two stories are still very different. Both of the stories the Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and the Outcast of poker Flat took place in early 1800s and in a gold

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