films‚ and he writes‚ “One cannot help but wonder what is ‘wholesome’ about the overt racism Disney displays toward both African Americans in the notorious racist The Jungle Book and Arabs in Aladdin‚ the retrograde gender roles at work in The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast‚ the undisguised celebration of antidemocratic governments and racism (remember the hyenas‚ who sounded like poor blacks and Hispanics?) evident in The Lion King‚ or the nostalgic portrayal of gas-guzzling‚ humanoid automobiles
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Hamlet’s delay caused all of these people to fall like dominoes‚ death leading to death‚ leading to more death. Once Polonius falls to Hamlet’s zeal‚ Ophelia goes mad and commits suicide‚ "[falling] in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide / And‚ mermaid-like‚ awhile they bore her up; / which time she chanted snatches of old tunes‚ / As one incapable of her own distress‚ / Or like a creature native and indued / Unto that element; but long it could not be / Till that her garments‚ heavy with their
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ is a dramatic monologue in which the speaker recalls his insecurities in dealing with the opposite sex and the choices he made in general in his life. He wonders if he should have done things differently. Prufrock starts in a city-scape “Like a patient etherised upon a table;/ Let us go‚ through certain half-deserted streets” and ends on a beach “I shall wear white flannel trousers‚ and walk upon the beach
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knows is not true‚ since the outside doesn’t reflect the inside in this way. That’s why we might feel more accepted in the society if we look good‚ and this all starts from just looking at an innocent cartoon film. An example of this is “The little mermaid”‚ where Ursula plays the evil character and Ariel is the good girl‚ whereas Ursula also is more unattractive than Ariel. That then gives pressure on girls and their looks‚ and how they are supposed to look like. It’s getting more and more usual
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Feminist or Not? A Disney Princess Narrative Media has been a pervasive tool in affecting societal views on gender roles. Its extensive reach in today’s society‚ made possible with recent technology‚ has made it difficult for us to escape its influence. With the thought that children are generally more susceptible to external influences‚ it is thus vital to understand how media has played a part in shaping their perceptions of gender. Among media targeted at kids‚ Disney films have a considerable
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Imagine flying across the world for a wedding where once a first love who broke your heart was going to be. A young girl by the name of Peyton is going to her Uncle’s wedding in Florida. She met a boy named Jace there last year and fell completely head over heels for him. A week before the wedding she found out he was going to be there also. She had a few doubts about not going to the wedding because of him‚ but her mother made her go because it was family. The Puritans would obliterate the book
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At the beginning of T. S. Eliot’ s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ there stands an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno‚ Canto 27. This epigraph unifies the text and brings‚ through its imagery and context‚ a deeper understanding of Eliot’s poem. Prufrock represents both of the characters in this section of the Inferno‚ corresponding to Dante in the first section and Guido da Montefeltro in the second and third. Dante represents the antithesis of Prufrock as well as the ideal that Prufrock strives
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A very good morning to Pn. Nirmala and my dear friends. Today my partner‚ Kogilavani and myself‚ Elisha Yeo would like to give an aural presentation on mythical creatures. Mythical creatures have always been a subject of fascination and a topic that is discussed constantly throughout the ages in many different countries. Mythical creatures are almost always literary creatures that generated popularity out of literary circulation and story-telling. They are legendary creatures that at one point
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fellow classmates. I am Zhi Qing from DACP 02 and I am going to present about a movie entitled ’The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ released by Disney in the year 1996. Disney had been focusing on more fairytale-like stories such as Snow White‚ The Little Mermaid and Cinderella so in comparison this movie is quite unconventional as it highlights the theme of discrimination towards people with deformities. This movie is set in Paris during the middle ages. The main character is a deformed man named Quasimodo
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A young princess is stolen from her parents by a vain old witch in the dead of night. The magical long haired princess‚ Rapunzel‚ is locked up in a tower only to be discovered by a thief on the run. Her world is flipped upside down‚ by finding out secrets‚ going on an adventure of a lifetime and falling in love. Walt Disney’s Tangled is a modern day take on the German fairy tale Rapunzel that revolves around a princess with long hair. Walt Disney films are a classic childhood staple for young boys
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