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Siddiqui

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Just How Evil Was Mother Gothel?

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How many times have we heard about evil fam­ily mem­bers in fairy­tales? For there’s the Evil Queen, Malef­i­cent, Scar, Lady Tremaine, and many more. And the way they spit dis­taste among mem­bers of their fam­ily, their evil­ness is quite vis­i­ble to the au­di­ence. But... More »

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Who’s the Bet­ter Hero­ine: Cin­derella or Mu­lan?

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As a child grow­ing up, Cin­derella was my fa­vorite Dis­ney Princess. I thought she was so kind and beau­ti­ful. My ad­mi­ra­tion for her did­n’t dis­ap­pear as I col­lected Cin­derella dolls and slip­pers. It’s not un­til I reached third grade did I read a pic­ture book insu... More »

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An­a­lyz­ing Naruto & Sasuke’s “Friend­ship”

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Some­times in fic­tion, re­la­tion­ships be­tween char­ac­ters in some cases fall flat. Their chem­istry is blandly told in­stead of cre­atively shown, so we’re ex­pected to feel a cer­tain way, but we  per­son­ally can­not feel it. Or per­haps we are ex­pected to be­lieve that ... More »