Importance Of Magic In New Orleans

There is magic in New Orleans. Not the magic found in a Disney movie, or the magic shown in parlour tricks common in cities such as Las Vegas or Los Angeles, but a magic much more real and substantial: the magic of possibility. This realization dawned on me in the most abnormal way as I was watching a Disney movie. A girl in New Orleans spends her whole life idolizing her father and working towards the dream they shared together- owning their own restaurant. When her father dies, that dream they shared is what she holds onto to keep him alive in her memory. She works two jobs, takes care of her mother and saves up all her tips and odd cash so that she can purchase an abandoned, run down building by the waterfront. When she finally saves enough …show more content…
At first, the prince was desperate to get back to how he was: carefree, irresponsible, living life without truly thinking through his actions. And so was the girl, desperate to return back to her life so she could fulfill her dream of owning the restaurant. In return for her help in turning him back into a human, the frog promises her the money to buy that building. But the unexpected happens as they fight for what they think they want. They fall in love. And, as all Disney movies are prone to do, the storyline concerning that unconditional love becomes the highlight of movie. But I took away something much more substantial than that. The human mind is as easily changed as the desires of the soul. The city of New Orleans was a much a vital instrument in conveying that theme as the interactions between the two main characters. Without the magic of New Orleans as the setting, then the frog and his princess would never have realized what they really wanted in life, nor would they have started to see beyond the black and white imaginings of what they believed to be their dreams and started to see the in-between shades of gray and …show more content…
While in truth, I often think in terms of black and white, I also often see the shades of silver, gray, charcoal and tar that compose the other 98% of opinions and facts of the situation. The statistical analysis and composition of Tulane University are the terms in black and white; the opportunities and possibilities are the shades in between. For quite some time I have known my major of choice is anthropology, and I have entertained the possibility of a double major or a double minor. For each college I have toured my first three questions are always: how is the study abroad program? What is the anthropology major like? What is the average acceptance into graduate school if I wish to pursue a pre-law or pre-med direction with an anthropology major? With every black and white question I ask, dozens of gray questions and silver thoughts pop into my head concerning my future at that