Word: orphans
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Disney has been making what amounts to the same animated feature for more than 60 years. In this "classic," an innocent creature, often an orphan (1942's Bambi, 1999's Tarzan), is abandoned in the wilderness, adopted by a sympathetic guardian (sometimes of another species), and acquires a wise and funny sidekick who guides him through adolescent trials to heroic manhood. Typically, these conclude in combat with an older male representing traditional ways...
Step 1: Find the facts. The heroine of Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre is an orphan with only enough cash for a one-way coach from fianc Edward Rochester's Thornfield estate. When hitching on Greyhound is your alternative to putting on the ring, get ready to live with a few little white lies. Dreamboat, unfortunately, doesn't deny a thing. He leads his governess-turned-love interest up the stairs to their attic, where Jane makes the acquaintance of Bertha, a homicidal maniac with a penchant for matches and a very valid marriage certificate to Rochester. This is what...
...triumphs of women (ordinary women, mostly; who needs celebrities when you have Oprah?) over poverty, traumas, racism, even sexual commodification. One article offers the inspiring story of a model who found happiness by going into business for herself designing china. Another is the memoir of a Korean War orphan whose mother was killed for refusing to sell her half-American daughter into slavery. And since Oprah has never been content with mere voyeurism, O is also a workbook wherein you can apply what you learn. Some pages have blank spaces for writing down the things you'd like to change...
...working-class orphan, Luke McNamara (Jackson) hopes to join the secret society known as the Skulls (based on the real life secret society, Skull and Bones, at Yale) as a way to make influential connections that might allow him to attend law school. Along the way, as he investigates the mysterious death of his roommate, he uncovers the corruption and amorality of an organization concerned solely with money and power...
Most immigrants to the United States come with dreams and families in tow. But Leslie Chang's mother arrived with dreams and little else as an 18 year-old orphan. She was forced to leave three younger siblings behind in Taiwan...