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Shoes and Stereotypes: How Feminism Has Reorganized the Twelve Dancing Princesses “There was once upon a time a King who had twelve daughters, each one more beautiful than the other” (Grimm 596). Drugging those who endeavored to help them, lying to their king father and holding their own desires above the good of others, the princesses of the Grimm brothers’ “The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces” took the role of antagonists in the original story. However, in more recent retellings of the beloved narrative, the princesses are given virtues of bravery, compassion, and fierce integrity, along with noble motivations for their previously negative actions. The twelve princesses of the Grimms’ story have evolved from the villains of their tale into the heroines we know today due to the change over time in the expectations placed upon women in the real world. In the Grimm brothers’ original story “The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces,” the twelve princesses are selfish, cruel,...

            Preceding the publication of The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald debated a number of different titles for his novel. One of these was the tentative title “Gold-Hatted Gatsby.” This alludes to the epigraph from Thomas Park D’Invilliers which is printed on the title page of the book, which begins with “then wear the golden hat, if that will move her” (Fitzgerald 1). Though the title of the novel did not end up being “Gold-Hatted Gatsby,” it is still clear through the diction and the actions of the characters in The Great Gatsby that the epigraph plays a large role in describing the beliefs and motives of Jay Gatsby in relation to Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby wears a “golden hat” by building up ridiculous wealth, he “bounces high” for Daisy by going beyond the expectations of society with the intent to impress her, and he devotes his life to making Daisy desire to “have” him as much as he desires to “have” her. As his father says of Gatsby on the d...

At first, it’s just one piece She sticks across her bleeding heart. A fine and bendy bandage— Temporary, at the start. The picture of her arm But then a beetle cast becomes. She tries to mask the current Stronger, stronger as it hums. ’Tween her calm and hard reality Soon the casing’s all that stands. She’s shifting foot to foot as Friction’s sparking from her hands. Plastic darling, tape wrapped thrice, She cannot open up to say Beneath it she’s a livewire, Into darkness fades away.

*No part of this article is meant to be offensive or taken as truth.* Kelly Walsh Cures Obesity Epidemic                 Kelly Walsh High School has begun implementing multiple different ways to resolve the obesity epidemic which plagues America. Because healthier food would cost extra money, the school has created new, money-saving ways to keep kids healthy and in shape.                 Kelly Walsh provides the students daily exercise by letting them walk five to ten minutes from their cars to the school every day. This is an ingenious way to get the blood flowing early in the morning, and the below-zero air is great for stimulating the brain. Some claim that this parking distance is a pain, but the truth is that the KW faculty is implementing tough love purely for the benefit of their students. In fact, much of the faculty goes w...