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Cinderella: Stories
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Today, with almost 60 stores and affiliate stores nationwide, Cinderella has played and continues to play a major role in the country’s fashion industry. It employs over 2,000 highly skilled workers who produce apparel for both domestic and foreign consumption. It has ... maintained its positioned as the country’s arbiter of style, continuously responding to and setting local fashion trends.
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Matthew Bourne in his 1997 Prokofieff's Cinderella for his company Adventures in Motion Pictures changes the plot considerably, while maintaining the basic storyline. The production is set in the London Blitz. Cinderella lives with her wheelchair-bound father, horrific stepmother and her five children. Into her life comes an injured and shell-shocked pilot, who is driven out of the house by the stepmother barely after he arrives. The lonely Cinderella pins all her romantic hopes on the pilot. As is tradition, the family is invited to a party, but Cinderella is excluded.
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The translation of the story into cultures with different standards of beauty has left the significance of Cinderella's shoe size unclear, and resulted in the implausibility of Cinderella's feet being of a unique size for no particular reason. Humorous retellings of the story sometimes use the twist of having the shoes turn out to ... fit somebody completely unsuitable, such as an amorous old crone. In Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad, the witches accuse another witch of manipulating the events because it was a common shoe size, and she could only ensure that the right woman put it on if she already knew where she was and went straight to her. In "When the Clock Strikes" (from
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Ella Enchanted is just one of more than 1,500 versions of the Cinderella story that have been written in countries and cultures all over the world; many of these variations have become popular in classrooms and homes of America today. As you get to know the people and places that set the backdrop for each Cinderella story, you will find that they all have several elements in common.
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Picture sequence the events in the story - each child draws a picture from a part of the Cinderella story. Class then sequences the pictures according to the events in the story.
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