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Essay Archive - Cry Wolf
Cry Wolf
Three little pigs dance in a circle singing "Who's afraid of the big, bad
Little Red Riding Hood barely escapes the cunning advances of the ravenous
wolf disguised as her grandmother.
Movie audiences shriek as a gentle young man is transformed before their
eyes into a blood-thirsty werewolf, a symbol for centuries of the essence
of evil.
Such myths and legends have portrayed the wolf as a threat to human
existence. Feared as cold-blooded killers, they were hated and persecuted.
Wolves were not merely shot and killed; they were tortured as well. In what
was b....
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