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  The Ugly Duckling. Andersen, Hans Christian. 1909-14. Tales. The Harvard Classics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Then the Duckling noticed that one of the hinges of the door had given way, and the door hung so slanting that the Duckling could slip through the crack into the room; and that is what it did.
And the Duckling sat in a corner and was melancholy; then the fresh air and the sunshine streamed in; and it was seized with such a strange longing to swim on the water, that it could not help telling the Hen of it.
The Duckling was forced to swim about in the water, to prevent the surface from freezing entirely; but every night the hole in which it swam about became smaller and smaller.
www.bartleby.com /17/3/1.html   (3143 words)

  
 WishFaery ~ The Ugly Duckling
The duckling grew cold with terror, and tried to hide his head beneath his little wings; but the dog snuffed at him and passed on, and he was able to reach his place of shelter.
The duckling would have liked to say good- bye, and thank them for their kindness, as he was polite by nature; but they had both turned their backs on him, so he went out of the rickety door feeling rather sad.
The duckling was almost sorry when he drew near the pink cloud and found it was made up of apple blossoms growing beside a cottage whose garden ran down to the banks of the canal.
www.wishfaery.com /fables/uglyduckling.html   (3055 words)

  
 University Relations
Instead of the ugly duckling animals, Milne’s story is acted through real people, setting the fairy tale in a kingdom faraway and long ago.
The king and queen will be played by Daniel Haun, a junior theater and psychology major, and Shea Otley, a first-year graduate student pursuing a Master of Arts degree in theater, both from Oklahoma City.
Her servant, Dulcibella, will be played by Kim Egner, a sophomore theater and graphic design major from North Little Rock, Ark. Jonathan Hoops, a freshman theater performance major from Jenks, Okla., is the prince, and Michael Dean Moore, a freshman theater performance major from Tulsa, Okla., is his servant Carlo.
www.okcu.edu /news/news_details.asp?article_id=8036   (518 words)

  
 Ugly Duckling: Et Cetera
Ugly Duckling had the questionable fortune of forming in late 1993, at the height of the "G-Funk" era.
Ugly Duckling fans responded to the trio's positive and melodic old-school approach to hip-hop.
Darrius Barrington "The Make-Believe Man" (Ugly Duckling Family Member) told a girl that he was going to play for the Seattle Supersonics in order to win her favor.
www.uglyduckling.us /etc   (938 words)

  
 Atlantic News Telegraph: Serving Atlantic, Iowa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Ugly saves Penny, a swan who is tangled in fishing line, and wishes for Ugly to fly with her and her flock, but he continues to search for his way home.
After that, Ugly finds himself trapped and soon to be eaten by humans, until he makes a devil of a deal with the cat; he'll get Ugly home to see his mother if the cat can have him for dinner, literally.
Ugly agrees, but both are caught in a blizzard, until Ida, Penny and her flock find him.
www.atlanticnewstelegraph.com /articles/2005/03/16/news/newshonk.prt   (456 words)

  
 ESPNMAG.com - An ugly duckling?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The truth is, she is playing her best matches of the year right now, in the aftermath of that Wimbledon blow-up with the BBC.
At Stanford two weeks ago, she played a relatively close match with Venus Williams (losing 4 and 3), and she followed that up by reaching the semifinals last week in Carlsbad.
She is the most photographed, lusted-upon woman on the circuit, and probably in all of female pro sports, and, whether she likes it or not, she needs to win once, so she's no longer a freak show.
espn.go.com /magazine/friend_20020807.html   (676 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Ugly Duckling Car Sales at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Ugly Duckling is also known by its logo the yellow duck pointing to a credit application.
Ugly Duckling is a “buy here, pay here” used car dealership operating their own lucrative finance company.
Ugly Duckling also has a shoddy “buy here, pay here” policy which cuts out the middle man targeting those that either have bad credit, no credit, slow credit or those attempting to establish or re-establish credit.
www.epinions.com /content_31935532676   (1207 words)

  
 The Ugly Duckling - Inner Work With Paul Chirumbolo
The story of "The Ugly Duckling," as such, is perhaps a therapeutic metaphor, par excellence, charting a course through the difficulties faced by individuals from many diverse groups.
The trials and travails of "The Ugly Duckling” may be especially well suited to serve as a mirror for the experiences of gay identity formation in men.
That is, transformed into the swan, as the lucky duckling is, communicates many different levels of meaning, including in which is the fact that the symbol of the swan has come to be seen as an image of Hermaphrodite, the androgynous Greek deity in which masculine and feminine no longer stand apart.
www.guidancetochangeyourlife.com /theuglyduckling.html   (2501 words)

  
 The Ugly Duckling
But the ugly duckling had followed them down to the pond and, seeing them all swimming, he jumped in and swam too, at least as well as any of them.
A hunter had shot them, and the ugly duckling was frightened almost to death.
But now the "ugly duckling" knew why he had felt so much love for the beautiful swans, and he knew he was as beautiful himself as they were.
www.childrenstory.com /tales/1page/indexuglyduck.html   (1689 words)

  
 Kennedy School "Ugly Duckling" Play   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The students staged the story of the Ugly Duckling, whose downy white feathers and large feet don't resemble the soft yellow feathers and smooth webbed flippers of his eight brothers and sisters.
The Ugly Duckling is teased and ostracized throughout childhood.
After the Play guests were invited to a reception in the Courtyard consisting of juice and snacks and a great time was had by all.
www.brocktonpublicschools.com /schools/elem/kennedy/ugly_duckling04/play.html   (225 words)

  
 Children's Theatre Company - Honk! The Ugly Duckling Musical FAMILY GUIDE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
She's never seen a duckling like him, and loves him straight away, but her response is not shared by Drake or the ducklings.
Ugly is astonished to find out she knew he was a swan all along.
Ugly and Ida agree that he should migrate with the swans; he should be with his own kind.
www.childrenstheatre.org /2004/honk_fg.html   (1052 words)

  
 :: MVRemix Interviews - Ugly Duckling ::
Ugly Duckling is nothing like any popular hip-hop group that is out there today.
With a strong respect to funk and the old school, Ugly Duckling has made a hilarious album that also stands as a metaphor for popular music and culture.
Ugly Duckling has never conformed to what is popular.
urban.mvremix.com /interviews/ug.shtml   (4527 words)

  
 :: ugly duckling ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Meanwhile, blast from the past Ugly Duckling are playing at the University on Tuesday night, so I tentatively, albeit interestedly buy a ticket.
Part of their 2004 meat-shake tour, Ugly Duckling hold a fast food theme.
Overall, Ugly Duckling have kept it their momentum and strung out some clean, though dumbed-down hip-hop.
www.sphosting.com /thenewpollution/live/ugly.htm   (240 words)

  
 PopMatters | Music | Interviews | Ugly Duckling
During a time when the G funk, gangster era of hip-hop dominated California, Ugly Duckling found that they cold not relate to this type of music.
Shortly after this, Ugly Duckling met up with AndyCat and they spent the next four years trying to find a label to release their record.
Ugly Duckling is a group determined to reverse the hand of time and take a musical form back to the way that it was.
www.popmatters.com /music/interviews/uglyduckling.html   (1189 words)

  
 The Ugly Duckling, Grimms' Fairy Tales
Well, the grey duckling certainly wasn't pretty, and since he ate far more than his brothers, he was outgrowing them.
In this way, the ugly duckling was able to survive the bitterly cold winter.
When the duckling saw them, he realized he was one of their kind, and soon made friends.
www.walnet.org /stanley_woods/muteswanz/uglyduckling.html   (757 words)

  
 Hans Christian Andersen : The Ugly Duckling :: www.andersen.sdu.dk :: The Hans Christian Andersen Center
In this wilderness of leaves, which was as dense as the forests itself, a duck sat on her nest, hatching her ducklings.
But the poor duckling who had been the last one out of his egg, and who looked so ugly, was pecked and pushed about and made fun of by the ducks, and the chickens as well.
Luckily the door was open, and the duckling escaped through it into the bushes, where he lay down, in the newly fallen snow, as if in a daze.
www.andersen.sdu.dk /vaerk/hersholt/TheUglyDuckling_e.html   (3462 words)

  
 The Ugly Duckling
The poor duckling was driven about by every one; even his brothers and sisters were unkind to him, and would say, "Ah, you ugly creature, I wish the cat would get you," and his mother said she wished he had never been born.
The storm continued so violent, that the duckling could go no farther; he sat down by the cottage, and then he noticed that the door was not quite closed in consequence of one of the hinges having given way.
So the duckling left the cottage, and soon found water on which it could swim and dive, but was avoided by all other animals, because of its ugly appearance.
fairytales4u.com /story/ugly.htm   (3332 words)

  
 Welcome to the Coquitlam Now - On Line - Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mike Horntvedt, as Ugly, is about to be cooked up by The Cat, played by Laura Du Preez, while assorted fowl look on from the Kitty Kat Snack Shack.
Honk Jr.!, the musical modernization of The Ugly Duckling, is set to open this week with matin‚es today and Thursday and an evening performance on Friday.
To the perpetually hungry cat (Laura Du Preez), the duckling is the perfect meal in waiting - and she attempts to befriend Ugly, played by Michael Horntvedt, who can't see through the feline's cunning plan to devour him.
www.thenownews.com /issues05/012205/community.html   (629 words)

  
 The Ugly Duckling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
He was so ugly that none of the other ducklings wanted to play with him.
The other ducklings took great delight in teasing him constantly about his dismal appearance.
That same day, the swan saw a duckling who was even more ugly than he had been.
pages.ripco.net /~gsasner/duckling.html   (160 words)

  
 SUNY Potsdam: 'The Ugly Duckling'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A family theater production of "The Ugly Duckling" by A.A. Milne will be brought to the Dunn Hall Dance Theater by student director Tim Sinclair of Endwell, NY, on Saturday, May 8, at 11 a.m.
"The Ugly Duckling" is a timeless fairy tale that appeals to children and adults of all ages.
The play is a delightful and funny story of how a plain princess copes with doting and domineering parents and finds her own dreams in the end.
www.potsdam.edu /news/2004/ugly_duckling.html   (360 words)

  
 The Ugly Duckling (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ugly Duckling is a comedy play by A.
In the play, a King and a Queen have a hard time marrying their daughter, an ugly princess.
They devise a scheme to marry her to a prince from a far away land.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Ugly_Duckling_(play)   (157 words)

  
 The Michigan Daily -- 114 Years of Editorial Freedom - Aubrey Henretty: The ugly duckling stumbles into The Twilight ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The best (by which I mean “worst”) part is, the ladies won’t get to see themselves in the mirror at all during the entire three months of filming, meaning they will be completely at the mercy of the “specialists” and their whims.
The final and perhaps ugliest insult of “The Swan” is its smarmy reliance on the children’s story of the ugly “duckling.” Fox’s web site goes so far as to claim the show “mirrors” the “classic tale of the ugly duckling that transforms into a beautiful swan.” There are two glaring problems here.
First, the eponymous character in The Ugly Duckling was not an ugly duckling.
www.michigandaily.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/16/40569fb25f5f0   (776 words)

  
 Ugly duckling grows up - The Washington Times: Entertainment - April 30, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Of course, after a century of crude Freudian interpretation, the notion that fairy tales play with deep-rooted archetypes in the human psyche comes as no surprise.
Again, behind the fantastical imagery -- big fl grasshoppers playing mouth harps, owls beating their bellies like drums, dancing broomsticks topped by heads of cabbage -- lies the lesson of vanity as a wicked spell.
Remember "The Ugly Duckling's" most famous line: "It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard when you've been lying in a swan's egg." In the 19th century, this was a bourgeois shot across the bow of the fading authority of inherited nobility.
www.washtimes.com /entertainment/20050429-084702-2997r.htm   (1088 words)

  
 RapReviews.com Feature for December 9, 2003 - Ugly Duckling's "Taste the Secret"
And that's where the perception of Ugly Duckling begins to depend not so much on the listener's humor but on his mood and musical taste.
That doesn't mean that Ugly Duckling don't have anything to say about the state of the hip-hop nation.
Ugly Duckling's odd mixture of simplicity and professionalism might be irritating at first, but chances are that you will grow to appreciate the former once you're overtaken by the latter.
www.rapreviews.com /archive/2003_12F_ttsecret.html   (1299 words)

  
 Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Duckling
On the next day the weather was delightful, and the sun shone brightly on the green burdock leaves, so the mother duck took her young brood down to the water, and jumped in with a splash.
And so they made themselves comfortable; but the poor duckling, who had crept out of his shell last of all, and looked so ugly, was bitten and pushed and made fun of, not only by the ducks, but by all the poultry.
It would be very sad, were I to relate all the misery and privations which the poor little duckling endured during the hard winter; but when it had passed, he found himself lying one morning in a moor, amongst the rushes.
hca.gilead.org.il /ugly_duc.html   (3374 words)

  
 Ugly Duckling - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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The offbeat hip hop trio Ugly Duckling will take you back to the glory days of De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising and A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory with a fresh old-school vibe and a refreshingly laid-back, sometimes goofy attitude.
Stream all available songs by Ugly Duckling and similar artists.
www.epitonic.com /artists/uglyduckling.html   (231 words)

  
 The Ugly Duckling
"I can't understand how this ugly duckling can be one of mine!" she said to herself, shaking her head as she looked at her last born.
Well, the gray duckling certainly wasn't pretty, and since he ate far more than his brothers, he was outgrowing them.
However, by springtime, he had grown so big that the farmer decided: "I'll set him free by the pond!" That was when the duckling saw himself mirrored in the water.
www.ivyjoy.com /fables/duckling.html   (749 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Stanley The Ugly Duckling
Stanley the Ugly Duckling is a 1983 cartoon given some new life in the digital realm.
Claiming to be "based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale classic," this 27-minute story follows the adventures of Stanley, a duck that's, well, ugly, and his various surreal encounters with other members of the animal kingdom.
A goofy, sporadically charming cartoon, which, despite its age and spotty animation, delivers a solid lesson (be happy about yourself) and a dose or two of fun times.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/stanleyuglyduckling.php   (485 words)

  
 Booktalks Quick and Simple
A runin with a dog, a little old lady, and a generous man help the Ugly Duckling find his home.
Everyone says that he is ugly and they don't want to play with him.
Permission is granted for the noncommercial duplication and use of this resource, provided it is substantially unchanged from its present form and appropriate credit is given.
nancykeane.com /booktalks/pinkney_ugly.htm   (309 words)

  
 The Ugly Duckling Picture & Story designed by Ashley Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This story is about a mother duck and her ducklings.
All the other ducklings do no want to play with the ugly duckling.
Then one day the ugly duckling discovers he can fly and soon the ugly duckling turns into a beautiful swan.
www.valdosta.edu /~amlamber/paint.html   (126 words)

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