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Briar Rose Jane Yolen Story
501 wordsJane Yolen produces a powerful and moving novel that deftly blends the legend of Sleeping Beauty with the historical tragedy of the Holocaust. To Rebecca, Sylvia and Shana, "Briar Rose" was simply a bed time story but in all reality the story they grew up with was an actual event in Gemma's life. Although Gemma always identified strongly with Briar Rose, the sleeping princess, no one had thought it anything but a bedtime story. But when a mysterious box of clippings and photos turns up after Gem...
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Analysis Of Briar Rose By Jane Yolen
751 wordsBriar Rose by Jane Yolen is a heart-wrenching story of Sleeping Beauty intertwined with the horrors of World War II. The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. Yolen compared a story that fictitiously occurred during World War II with Sleeping Beauty, which allowed one of the main characters, Gitl Mandelstein, to indirectly tell her horrifying experiences during the war. The story beings ...
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State Of Affairs Sons Death
1,464 wordsDavid Lindsay-Abaire "Rabbit Hole" Lindsay-Abaire tells of the grieving process of parents at the death of their son in Rabbit Hole and depicts how people cope with this terrible loss. Becca tries to deal with her los and we glean at the hurt that she experiences. Her awareness of the loss comes in waves and she is barely aware of what is going on around her. Awareness and exaggeration works when she is confused. She actually confuses herself at times and has a difficult time sorting out her con...
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Gene Therapy Brain Tumor
736 wordsGene therapy is one of the many new scientific frontiers that has been started up as a result of the continuing research of the human genome project. Gene therapy is a very new field of science, and so the full advantages and disadvantages are unknown. However, it is presumed that this will be the next frontier in medical science. Gene therapy works in three different ways. The basic idea is that new genes will some how Correct the mutant genes that are causing harm. It may involve one or severa...
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Rolling Stone Hard Core
1,022 wordsDid you know that the first commercially successful punk band was the Sex Pistols? Then came groups like Black Flag, Husker Du, and Bad Brains. Punk was invented in Britain in the mid Seventies. The first American punk started in a New York club called CBGBs. CBGBs would attract a crowd of about 500 with its Sunday-afternoon hard-core matinees. The concerts would be over by a reasonable time so kids could get home to eat dinner with their parents. In this paper we will take a look at some histor...
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Fairy Tale Sleeping Beauty
415 wordsIn a nutshell: Briar Rose is the story of the Holocaust intertwined with the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. The story begins with the death of the Gemma, the grandmother of Becca. Through out Becca? s life Gemma told the story of Sleeping Beauty many times to her. Now, however, after making a promise to her grandmother, to find her past, the once insignificant fairy tale might be a clue to her actual past. Before her grandmothers death Becca had vowed to fulfill her grandmothers promise, which w...
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