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Lion King Religion
Abanob Aguib
Mrs. Mosley
English IV Honors
10 March 2017
[Research Paper Title]
The wealth and resources of a country or region in terms of production, and consumption religion. What is the religion? Timon and Pumbaa, The Lion King follows the concept "circle of life" in its economy there are three different economies that are shown. Although, all of them are different they have a leader and some sort of structure how money (food supply) matter and function in the Lion King How does a power system matter and function in the Lion King How social classes interact with each other.
There is greed alright religion is set of beliefs and practices followed by a group. Attempts to explain the nature and purpose of the universe. Some argue, there is
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Think about it... And yet... Everyone has a role... Eat, or be eaten. Despite the fact they live in paradise and find Simba's longing to return to his home odd, they went with Simba to help him anyway. Says something about the influence of this responsibility based society one more time..... Sound familiar? Because it should. When Scar takes over the kingdom everything becomes darker. Even the weather changes contrasting the two different powers between Mufasa and Scar. You see, the whole "circle of life thing" can be interpreted as indoctrination of one of the basic principles which, quite frankly, every God fearing American should be familiar with. Good thing too, or else we may have a commie revolution on our hands. The sooner everyone accepts this, the sooner we can all be happy. Especially the guy at the top. Scars Reign Scar takes everything he's brother has done and turns it into a dictatorship. He still keeps some of the structure giving everyone a role but it doesn't work since he integrated the …show more content…
But did Disney really mean to put all that in there? Did they mean to put this in? The answer to both questions? YES! Okay, maybe not. Although it cannot be denied that The Lion King contains suggestive content, the children watching probably cannot understand the socioeconomic implications that may or may not have been intentionally inserted into an otherwise innocuous children's film. However: The Lion King was conceived in the year 1988, the Cold War was still going strong and fear of Communism still fresh on people's minds during the production of the movie. Influences of Reagan era economic policies are also present with "trickle down" theory being introduced in the form of the "Circle of

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