tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19561077489620078982024-03-13T01:06:36.571-07:00Layers of BeautyKristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169259100582339230noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956107748962007898.post-12830325016842829932012-12-11T12:10:00.001-08:002012-12-11T12:10:51.201-08:00BGC Reflection<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spending time at the Boys and Girls Club of Westminster this
semester was a very fun and culminating experience. I enjoyed spending time
with the kids and teaching them about different fairy tales. Although there
were some challenges, the Boys and Girls Club service learning project was
successful and fun experience for not only me, but the rest of my group members
as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Although I
did a service learning project instead of a final exam, I learned a lot.
Actually working with kids, teaching them, and learning how they function has
taught me a lot more than just sitting down and studying for a test would have.
I actually had to be a teacher for four weeks. I prepared lesson plans and
activities with my group, which actually was not a very easy task. My group
learned very early on that teaching the kids like they were in school was not
going to work. We went to the Boys and Girls Club on Friday afternoons. It was
clear that the kids were full of energy and eager go home for the weekend after
being in school for a week. The kids did not like the “traditional” lesson
plans, and actually complained at times that “this is just like school.” So
after our first time with the kids, we added more learning activities into our
lessons so that we could keep the kids entertained. More activities kept the
kids active, occupied, and attentive, which is exactly how we needed them to
be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> There were
also some other obstacles like the kids fighting with each other over different
things. For example, the first time we worked with the kids we did activities
based around the story Little Red Riding Hood. As a prop, we brought a red cape
with a hood so that the kids could use it to dress up when we asked them to act
out the story. As it turns out, that was not as good of as idea as we
originally thought. The kids ended up fighting over who was going to wear the
cape and when and for how long. It was very hard to get them to pay attention
to anything else but the cape. Another time we did a lesson about Hansel and
Gretel. We brought pictures that when put in order told the story and had them
arrange the pictures as an activity. It took forever to get them to do the
activity that we had planned because all the kids could focus on was who was
going to go first, and who was right and who was wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> If I were
giving advice to new first year students doing a project at the Boys and Girls
Club, I would definitely stress that they have good plans with good activities,
but also have backup lessons and activities just in case things don’t work out
as they originally planned. Sometimes if a lesson backfires you find yourself
wasting time trying to come up with random lessons or games on the spot. That
can be pretty hard especially when you have 5-7 kids bouncing around. Also, use
your time wisely. Try not to waste time on things that the kids won’t enjoy
very much. The experience becomes so much better when you can actually enjoy
the activities with the kids and see that they are enjoying them as well. Have
fun with the kids, let them color, and give them treats. (:njjju<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I would
definitely do this project again if I had the chance to. I had a lot of fun
taking a break from my campus responsibilities and working with kids. I think I
enjoyed the coloring activities just as much as they did. There are very few
things that I would change or improve. If doing something like this again I
would just make sure to always do things that the kids will enjoy. It is hard to
keep the kids engaged if you don’t teach in a way that will keep them
attentive. If the kids are bored, you are to. Other than that, the time I spent
at the Boys and Girls Club was very enjoyable and successful.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169259100582339230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956107748962007898.post-63857655476467162202012-12-03T22:27:00.003-08:002012-12-03T22:27:30.221-08:00The End is Near...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I have really enjoyed my time in this First Year Seminar
class this Semester. Who would have thought that a class with the name From
Grimm to Disney could actually teach me so much? I have looked at fairy tales
and stories that I grew up reading in a completely new light. There are things
that I notice when reading these stories now that I would never have guessed
would have had anything to do with the story before. Being in this class has
made me a better reader. My analytic skills have become better, and I now
read to learn. I can now actually take more than just a story away from a
story; I can point out symbols, and lessons. I also really enjoyed the project
with the Boys and Girls Club of Westminster. Working with the kids was really
fun. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169259100582339230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956107748962007898.post-37910661506757934702012-11-13T03:10:00.002-08:002012-11-13T03:10:44.326-08:00Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let me bungee jump from your hair....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I chose this cartoon because I
thought it was really funny. The idea of Rapunzel using her hair to do fun
things with the prince instead of just letting him climb up it to get inside of
the tower really amused me. I would definitely have to say that this cartoon is
very similar to the Disney version “Tangled.” In the movie, Rapunzel does a lot
of cool things with her hair. She does things like tie the Prince to a chair and
when they escape she swings from trees and things like that. The fact that the
prince is bungee jumping from Rapunzel’s hair reminds me of some of the things
Rapunzel did in the movie.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169259100582339230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956107748962007898.post-57416620594368324782012-11-13T00:43:00.000-08:002012-11-13T00:43:11.408-08:00Bluebeard, Bluebeard, Bluebeard<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The three versions of Bluebeard, although very
similar, were also very different as well. They all have a male character that
is looking for a wife. In all the tales he has to either bribe or steal the
girls in order to get them to marry him. He has a house that has many room all
filled with riches, and then a secret room that he forbids his wife from going
into. In each of the stories the wife disobeys him and when she enters the room
she finds dead bodies and blood. Once finding out that his wife disobeyed him,
he tells her that she must die. Each version of the story ends in a different
way, but in all of the stories the wife survives by outsmarting her husband or
finding a way to receive help. All of the Bluebeard stories show the excessive
desire for knowledge by women. My
favorite of all the versions would have to be “Fitcher’s Bird.” This version is
my favorite because of the way the wife outsmarts the sorcerer by putting her
sisters in the basket along with the gold</span></span>Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169259100582339230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956107748962007898.post-30522693069679312992012-10-21T17:52:00.001-07:002012-10-21T17:52:23.638-07:00The Frog King and Cupid and Psyche<br />
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<i>Cupid and Psyche</i> are similar in a few
ways. <i>The Frog King </i>is about a
princess who promises a frog that she will be his companion and playmate if he
retrieves her gold ball out of the well. The frog retrieves the ball for her,
but the princess runs off and leaves the frog at the well. The next day, the
frog appears at her house. Once the princesses’ father found out about the
promise that his daughter had made, he makes her keep it. Once in bed, the
princess becomes infuriated with the frog and she throws him up against a wall.
Upon hitting the ground the frog turns into a prince and they get married.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> In <i>Cupid and Psyche </i>Venus becomes jealous
of a beautiful mortal girl and she sends her son Cupid to punish her. But Cupid
falls in love with Psyche. At the end of the story, Psyche becomes immortal and
she can now be with Cupid forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> <i>The Frog King </i>and <i>Cupid and Psyche</i> are similar in that in both stories the main
character is the youngest daughter and also the most beautiful. In both stories
the girl marries someone that no one else wants because their true identity is
masked.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> The cartoon that I chose is a social one. It shows the
wolf from “Little Red Riding Hood” or “Little Red Cap” lying on a chair in a
psychiatrist’s office. The caption reads “I understand your motive for eating
the grandmother, but why did you feel you needed to dress up in her clothes?” I
chose this cartoon in particular, not only because it is funny, but also
because it made me think of one of the presentations from class. The
presentation talked about Perrault’s view of the wolf. In the presentation, I
learned that the wolf actually wants to explore the feminine mysteries of
fertility and that is why he eats Little Red and the grandmother. Because of
what I learned in the presentation, I also think that the reason that the wolf
dressed up in the grandmother’s clothes was because he wanted to explore the
feminine mysteries. Because of this prior knowledge, I was able to answer the
question of why the wolf dressed in the grandmother’s clothes in my head.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169259100582339230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956107748962007898.post-29758321029676032762012-10-07T17:34:00.001-07:002012-10-07T17:34:13.065-07:00Snow White (Grimm vs. Anne Sexton)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> The
Grimm version of Snow White and the Anne Sexton version are different in many
ways. For one, the Grimm version is a lot less sexual than Anne Sexton’s
version is. Sexton includes a lot of
sexual insinuations throughout her poem. When Snow White is wandering through
the woods she implies her “sexual awakening” when she writes “At each turn
there were twenty doorways and at each stood a hungry wolf, his tongue lolling
out like a worm” (Sexton 97). Another sexual insinuation is when she refers to
the dwarfs as “those little hot dogs” (Sexton 98). Another difference between
the two versions is the way that Anne Sexton infuses pop culture into her poem.
She mentions things like Ace bandages, daisies, and soda pop. Also, Anne gives
a time when the prince comes. She writes that the price comes in June, which is
not only a transitional month, but it also represents beauty. In the Grimm
fairy tales the stories are usually timeless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Although
different, there is one main similarity between the two versions that I would
like to point out. In both versions, Snow White did not learn from her mistakes.
Because of the Zeitgeist, Snow White has to be a passive character. She
repeatedly let the Queen fool her with ribbons, combs, and finally with the
apple that put her into a death like slumber.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> In my
opinion, the Anne Sexton version is better. I like how she includes things that
make you thing and how she refers to pop culture. I think the poem was a lot more
interesting than the Grimm version.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169259100582339230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956107748962007898.post-8049639347264627062012-10-07T17:19:00.001-07:002012-10-07T17:19:11.984-07:00Snow White (Disney vs. Grimm)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Brothers Grimm version of Snow White is very
different from the Disney version in many ways. The Grimm version was very graphic
and less romantic than the Disney version. For example, the evil Queen asks the
Huntsman to bring back Snow White’s lungs and liver when he kills her so she
can eat them. In Disney’s version she just asks the Huntsman to kill Snow
White. Another difference is the way that Snow White awakens. In the Grimm
version the prince sees her for the first time asleep and falls in love with
her and asks the dwarfs to give him the coffin as a gift because he “can’t go
on without seeing her face. On the way to his castle one of his men carrying
the coffin stumbles and the piece of poison apple in Snow White’s throat is
released and she wakes up. It is much more romantic in Disney’s version. In the
Disney version, the prince comes back and finds Snow White asleep. He awakens
her with true love’s first kiss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Even though the versions were very different,
they still had many similarities. In both versions the evil Queen relied on her
magic mirror to tell her who was the fairest of them all. Also, in both
versions the Queen gives Snow White a poison apple. The dwarfs then place her
in a coffin and stay by her side.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">There are a few reasons that Disney made the
changes he did. One was that since the movie is for younger audiences, so he
needed to take out the graphic parts. Also, Snow White came out during the
Great Depression, a time when people needed hope, not sadness in their lives. Disney
added the romantic and hopeful ending because it was exactly what the people of
the Great Depression needed. </span><span style="background-color: #141414;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Kristahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169259100582339230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1956107748962007898.post-72725143331407206942012-09-23T13:23:00.000-07:002012-09-23T13:23:57.386-07:00From Rags to Riches....<br />
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one that we see in the fairy tale Cinderella. Because of this motif, Cinderella
is considered to be a “rise tale.” In this fairy tale, Cinderella goes from
being a very poor servant girl under the control of her stepmother to marrying
a prince. Although we see this type of motif a lot in fairy tales, for it to
happen in real life is very unrealistic. It is not often that you see someone
as poor as Cinderella was marrying someone as wealthy as the prince was. The
only modern day example I can think of that could be considered a “rags to
riches” tale would be the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. In
England, Kate was considered to be a peasant. Although she may not have been very
wealthy, she ended up marrying a prince and having her own Fairy Tale wedding.
Even though things like this happen sometimes, we don’t hear about it very
often. In my opinion, the “rags to riches” motif gives girls false hopes. We
read these tails and we think about how someday we will find our Prince
Charming, marry him, and become wealthy. But because this rarely ever happens
in our society, most of the times girls get their hopes up for nothing. The
only way we will be able to have a life like the one that Cinderella married
into is by luck or magic. Magic does not exist, and luck is usually not on your
side; unless you are Kate Middleton of course!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Hansel and Gretel and the MGM version are very similar, they have a number of
differences as well. In the Grimm version, it is the children’s stepmother that
sends the children into the forest whereas in the movie it is the biological mother.
Another difference is the way the children end up in the woods in the first
place. In the story, the stepmother wants to send the children into the woods
so that there will be enough food for her to eat. In the movie, the children
accidently let the donkey into the house. The donkey eats the custard off of
the table and breaks the container of milk. When the mother returns and sees
what happens, she sends the children off to find berries. While trying to find
berries, the children wander into the woods. Also, in both versions, Hansel
leaves a trail to follows so that later they will be able to find their way
home. One other difference is the trail that Hansel leaves so that they can
follow it back home. In the story, Hansel uses this method on two occasions.
The first time he uses stones and the second time he uses pieces of bread. In
the movie, Hansel only uses the method one time. When he does, instead of bread
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some similarities between the Grimm version and the MGM version. In both
versions, the children stumble upon a gingerbread house. Inside the gingerbread
house there is a witch that cannot see very well, but has a very keen sense of
smell. In each story, the witch puts Hansel in a cage because she wants to
fatten him up to eat him. She also makes Gretel her slave. In the end, though,
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In my opinion, the movie was better that the story. I liked the movie better because although the mother was really mean to Hansel and Gretel, there were still moments when you saw that she really cared. When reading the story, I felt like the mother didn’t care about her children at all. I also liked how in the movie, the first nigh the children stay at the gingerbread house, the witch is reading them the story of Briar Rose. I thought it was really cool how they incorporated the Grimm tales into the movie.</span>
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a fairy tale is and should consist of. According to Zipes, fairy tales are “Narratives
of magic and fantasy, which are understood to be fictional.” According to Stith Thompson, a fairy tale is
a “tale of some length involving a succession of motifs or episodes” and that
they are “filled with the marvelous.” There are so many things that come into
play when defining fairy tales. One important aspect of fairy tales is “Zeitgeist,”
which is the spirit of the times. Most fairy tales contained things that may
have been acceptable back then, but seem kind of unacceptable now. Another
important thing is the style of fairy tales. They are usually told in few
well-chosen words that just describes the series of events. They also have a
preference for action instead of long descriptions. Fairy tales also have a
hero versus villain plot line. Like we saw in the story “Briar Rose” or “Sleeping
Beauty” the 13<sup>th</sup> witch and maleficent were portrayed as the villain.
Their main goal was to wreak havoc. The
prince was portrayed as the hero because in both Briar Rose and Sleeping Beauty
he saves the princess. Fairy tales also contain the aspect of magic. In these
stories we see witches, warlocks, fairies, goblins, dragons, and other magical
and mystical beings. Lastly, fairy tales almost always have a moral. Morals
teach lessons and also are very closely linked with the children that usually
read fairy tales. Morals teach children how to overcome obstacles and they also
present situations that are easy to relate to.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sure I had almost every movie on VHS, and I was always watching them. I loved
to pretend that I was one of the characters from the movies I would watch.
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Disney as my FYS not only because I love Disney movies, but also because I am
very interested in the Grimm fairy tales. Fairy tales fascinate me and I am
excited to learn about the stories that the movies I grew up watching
originated from. I love the nature of the stories, and the sense of wonder that
they bring. In this class I hope to better understand the fairy tales that I have
become so fascinated with. I also want to enhance my analytical skills so that I
will be able to recognize things that I may not have noticed before.</span></div>
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and the Beast. I have always been somewhat of a “hopeless romantic” and I am
always up for a good love story. I love how Beauty and the Beast is not just a
story, but a lesson as well. Things are not always what they seem. There is
more to someone than what is seen from the outside. It is what on the inside
that counts. I love that even though the Beast was aggressive and unattractive,
Belle was able to see past that and fall in love.</span></div>
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