One student said, "If i could have a super power it would be the power of the fairy god mother on the cinderalla story; because i want to know what people thinking and i also want this because i can get everythings i want. i also want this super power because i want to fly like angels. with this power i can get my own car this thing that i'm dying for"
a cinderalla story....does she mean the movie with hillary duff or the classic cinderella story? Eric said, "she probably means the hillary duff version, which is really sad." But is it really so sad? We place so many values in our own society on "classics" even classic fairy tales, but does it really matter? She's still obviously got the same ideas going on in her mind. Does it matter whose version she is reading (or watching)? The main difference here is between watching a movie or reading a book, and obviously (for my English class) reading the book has more educational value. But putting value on reading the "classics" can be harmful when it's just an elitist way of making somebody feel underclass for not knowing things in the same way in which they know them. I wish there was more appreciation for a diverse way of doing things.
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