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    Comparing Mermaid Movies

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    Mysterious‚ magical‚ and mesmerizingly beautiful‚ mermaids have enchanted people for thousands of years. No matter how far you go in the world you will hear stories of mermaids‚ who are sometimes benevolent‚ sometimes destructive‚ but always alluring. She creature has more correct facts about mermaid lore‚ while the movie splash is more fairy tail‚ most of the myth on mermaids in that movie are more made up just for the movie and does not really have most of the true lore and has existed for centuries

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    have told legends of mermaids in the seas for hundreds of years. Many recall their majestic beauty as they call out to men lost at sea. Some scientists have suggested that the sea ladies past sailors had seen‚ were most likely animals such as the manatees‚ and one could easily mistake their shape in a dark light in the middle of the ocean. However I have the great privilege of knowing a real mermaid. Yes‚ I can honestly claim that my grandmother‚ Diane Mitchell‚ was a mermaid in Florida. How many

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    The Little Mermaid

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    The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1836) AR out in the ocean‚ where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower‚ and as clear as crystal‚ it is very‚ very deep; so deep‚ indeed‚ that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples‚ piled one upon another‚ would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects. We must not imagine that there is nothing at the bottom of the sea but bare yellow sand. No‚ indeed; the

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    the little mermaid

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    Disney empire creates nice pictures of "happily-ever-after‚" there are great alterations to the original versions while inculcating cultural values without necessarily examining them. 
 
 In Disney’s movie The Little Mermaid‚ Ariel‚ a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess‚ is dissatisfied with life under the sea and curious about the human world. Ariel fills a secret cave with all the human artifacts she has found and collected. She frequently goes to the forbidden surface to visit Scuttle

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    Her beauty does not give her any power either. To the prince‚ the little mermaid is just a naïve and beautiful child. He likes the little mermaid because of her innocence and stunning beauty so wants to keep her around. In “Two Tales from Cruel Fairy Tales for Adults‚” Kurahashi Yumiko states‚ “but the idea of actually marrying her had never entered his head;

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    replaced with a long blue mermaid tail. Mariota instantly sat up from the rock she had been laying on to check out her surroundings. All she saw was colorful coral reefs surrounding her‚ until she saw the top of a woman’s head who appeared to be peering at her from behind the reefs. Panicking‚ Mariota rapidly started backwards crab walking across the continental shelf‚ to get away from the woman. The woman rose from the continental slope to reveal her long‚ purple mermaid tail‚ and slowly swam

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    Little Mermaid Essay

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    Jackeline Elizabeth Chang Chang 1 Ms. Carr EMS30 24TH‚ March‚ 2010 The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid is a film made in November‚ 17th‚ 1989. It was written by John Musker and Ron Clements. This is the story of a mermaid named Ariel‚ youngest daughter of King Triton‚ who is dissatisfied with life in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface. She dreams of going on land. She is often caught in arguments with her father over those "barbaric

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    Little Mermaid Vs Movie

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    In the Disney film called “Little Mermaid” Ariel saves a prince from a shipwreck and ends up falling in love with him later in the movie. She makes a deal with the sea witch Ursula. The deal is that Ariel will be human for three days. During those three days‚ she has to get a kiss from the prince. If she doesn’t‚ she will turn back into a mermaid and belong to Ursula. She then gives her voice to Ursula and in return her tail gets replaced with a pair of legs. She goes on the land and meets the prince

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    Little Mermaid Analysis

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    The Little Mermaid : Old vs. New Story The Little Mermaid is a well known story about the mermaid who was yearning for the life out of the sea. She wanted to be part of the human world and explore all of the wonderful things of living below the stars. The original Little Mermaid story was written in 1836 by a man named Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Mermaid was created into a Disney movie in 1989‚ many of the aspects of the stories followed the path of one of Vladimir Propp’s spheres he

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    In 1989‚ Disney Feature Animation released its twenty-eighth animated film‚ The Little Mermaid. The movie grossed over $111 million in the United States alone and was the recipient of two Oscars (Office Box). The merchandise for the film varied from bed sheets and Barbie dolls‚ to pajamas and Halloween costumes. In 1992‚ an animated series based on the movie premiered on Disney television and ran for three seasons (IMDb.com). A Broadway production began in 2008‚ with “50 previews and 685 performances”

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