Kiyomi: The Queen Of The Princess

Dannah Gresh starts off talking about a study that was held with 198 preschool and kindergarten kids. The study was conducted by Sarah Coyne. Both genders, boy and girls, she tells that the boys who were in the study reacted positively to the princess culture. Gresh mentions three points that were a concern that was discovered in the results of the study. One, girls who engaged in the princess culture where more behaved in stereotypical famine ways. Two, girls with lower body image, became more obsessed with princess culture a year later. Three, there was no evidence that the girls who were interested in the princess culture where influenced to behave for the better. In Coyne’s review of her study, she mentions that the stereotypes and obsessions

She feels Armin’s hand on her arm, tentative, and notices that the soldiers have disappeared. Just as she’s about to ask him, Armin beats her to it. “I told them to go up, said that it’d attract less attention.”

Authors James Poniewozik and Peggy Orenstein are both concerned with the increase of princess culture among young girls. Poniewozik’s article “The Princess Paradox” and Orenstein's article “Cinderella and Princess Culture” discuss similar aspects of princess culture that could be potentially harmful to it’s audience. Both Poniewozik and Orenstein take on a feminist perspective in their articles. Specifically, both authors discuss feminist themes in princess culture but Orenstein focuses on toddler to pre-teen aged girls while Poniewozik is more concerned with specifically teenagers.

Queen Liliuokalani confirmed with an interviewer that she had been diagnosed with cancer on the right side of her neck for over eighteen months in the year of 1898. She knew that the end of her life was coming closer and closer each day. From 1905-1907, the queen entered claims against the Us totalling for $450,000 for property and other losses. The territorial legislature of Hawaii finally voted her for her annual pension of $4,000 and permitted her to receive the income of the sugarcane plantation of six thousand acres. This was private property before her brother became king.

She finally leaves the park breathless and makes her way towards the direction of the board walk, finding the pathway to access the beach. Hoping to search for her once again at the beach. She called out her name as she moved towards the people who occupied the shore. Then abruptly her phone started to ring against her pants pocket. She reached out and flipped the phone open.

Zeami Motokiyo was a Japanese actor, playwright, and theorist of the Noh theatre. Today, he is widely acclaimed as one of the most innovative thinkers in the history of the stage. According to Shelley Fenno Quinn and her book Developing Zeami, Noh theatre is “an art form that depicts the life of the emotions in a synthesis of dramatic, musical, and choreographed elements” (1). While known for his acting and plays, Zeami is also known for his use of images in nature as a continuous metaphor. For example, the hana or flower is both an aesthetic principle and the soul of the actor of the character or play. It is also beyond that, a spiritual quest. This metaphor is used to evoke a sense of the spiritual and special qualities found in Noh theatre. According to Quinn’s book, “an actor who possesses the flower is one who has cultivated both the sensibility and the technical virility to read his audience to adjust his performance accordingly” (3). While the flower is used to symbolize the soul which every actor should take on, it also important to realize the physical and psychological cross-bordering. In Noh theatre, the physical and psychological cross-bordering is important and allows the audience’s emotional involvement. Although Zeami mainly focused on the actor and the flower, I believe the flower can also relate to the audience. Through this aesthetic movement, the audience can also be perceived as a flower.

If every threatening behavior could be prevented reducing criminal activity, there would be less suicide, high school shootings, burglary, identity theft, and other common crimes today. The internet is a technology created to make people’s lives better, allowing the public to express themselves, share their thoughts, and connect with old friends without effort. However society, as with all technology, has found negative ways to misuse the internet. In “Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire” Sabrina Rubin Erdely writes about a young girl named Kirsten "Kiki" Ostrenga. At fourteen Kristen faced countless dangers due to her fame as “Kiki Kannibal”, an “online brash and outrageous” persona she created as a way of

Julie Kagawa the author of Iron king is an American author, best known for writing

Cleopatra was one of the most famous female rulers in history. She was born in 69 BC and became the queen of Egypt at the age of eighteen. Her brother was ten at the time, and it is likely that the two siblings married, because it was customary at the time. The next few years Egypt faced an unhealthy economy, many floods, and severe famines. Complication quickly arose between the two, and Cleo fled to Syria to defeat her rival to declare the throne.

In the past, there have been countless princess movies or so-called “Cinderella” films. However, the general message that each one of these movies have given has changed as time has progressed. With this change, expectations placed on the princesses have been modified as well. This change in expectations has been thoroughly discussed by two authors, James Poniewozik and Peggy Orenstein. Poniewozik, a media and television critic for Time magazine, wrote an article entitled “The Princess Paradox” where he discusses this evolution of expectations. As well as him, Orenstein, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, wrote an article with the title of “Cinderella and Princess Culture” where she also discusses the development of the expectations on girls. Even though Poniewozik and Orenstein discuss the evolution of expectations portrayed on girls, Orenstein is able to illuminate the more complex ideas that Poniewozik is attempting to express based on the expectations of girls.

Cleopatra VII was born on 69 B.C. She was born into the final dynasty, known as the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Her father was Ptolemy XII, and he is one of the Pharaohs who nobody really bothered to write down in history. He had many children and was said to like Cleopatra the best. However, this statement was never proven to be true.

Princess culture is all round us, whether we realize it or not. Princess culture incorporates many downfalls to women. We have all grown up with the pressures of this culture. Women are viewed as lower than the man, having to struggle in a male-dominated society. Stereotypes, racial issues and marginality are just a few predicaments that women had been portrayed as, in the world of the princess culture. Many Cinderella stories have been told in many different cultures that come from all around the globe. Rob Baum correctly stated, “Folktales had their origins in oral accounts, stories told by people before the advent of writing, or before someone determined them worthy of literary transcription” Socrates). People only took up the

Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt (Cleopatra: The Woman Behind the Name.) Her parents were Ptolemy Auletes (Cleopatra: The Woman Behind the Name) and Cleopatra V ( Klimczak.) She had five siblings, two older sisters and a younger sister, also two brothers, Cleopatra VI,

the family and when she turned twelve the king decided she would rule in part it is believed that

Her dates of birth and death are thought to have been somewhere around (ca. 1370 BC – ca. 1330 BC)