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without seeing an advertisement, or something relating to The Walt Disney Company (Disney). Perhaps you are seeing this advertised using a cable network like ABC or ESPN, or possibly on one of the newspaper companies that used to belong to Capital Cities/ ABC Inc. (ABC). This was not always the case, and in 1995 it was time for Disney to improve on their media outlook. In 1996 at its New York Shareholder meeting, The Walt Disney Company's merger with Capital Cities Inc. created one of the…

Since I work at Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts, my options for the subject of this paper were very limited. Disney is extremely strict on what kind of information is released, so I couldn’t reorganize a stockroom – pictures backstage are off limits – I couldn’t produce a fashion show – I don’t work solely with apparel – and I couldn’t do anything that interfered with the visual merchandising department. With all that said, I decided to comparison shop Disney World and Universal Studios.…

In many classic Disney princess movies the characters promote female stereotypes. In fact, according to the Washington Post Disney films focus on looks so much that more than ½ the compliments given to the characters have to do with appearance. With the focus on beauty, young girls start to feel that being beautiful on the outside is what they are best at and what they should be good at. As they are being shown in these films the more they start to think that the being a female stereotype is…

Disney World My dream vacation would be going to Disney World with my family. It would be special because my family would be with me. I would love going to Disney World because there are many fun things to do. Another thing that would make it special is seeing all the attractions that are only at Disney World. One of the best thing about going on vacation is having my wife and two daughters with me. Going on vacation without them is not fun because I would be missing the people I love most.…

In 1987, a woman named Lillian Disney donated $50 million in order to construct a concert hall at the location of 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California, in honor of her fallen spouse, Walt Disney. For the project, they hired 80 of the most intelligent minds in the art of architecture. Out of those 80, came architect Frank Gehry, whose imagination is very common with Walt Disney’s. His work has a sense of wonder and delight, similar to Disney’s movies. With this bursting…

In 1993, Disney’s CEO Michael Eisner made plans to build a new Disney theme park in Washington D.C. However, over the past year, there was much debate and opposition on whether or not Disney should come to Washington. Disney could have better anticipated the opposition to its new theme park proposal by exercising “well-crafted lobbying and negotiating tactics” (Argenti, 2016, p. 230). With many influential groups in Washington, it would have been in Disney’s best interest to explore these…

Another expect to contribute to the role of a female character is also the visual representation. “Disney artists sketched the flesh and blood on these folktale templates with contemporaneous popular images of feminine beauty and youth, their sources ranging from the silent screen to glassy pin-ups.” (Bell, 1995, 109) What Bell is saying here is that the character designs for the Princesses are based on the beauty expectations of women at the time. It could be said that this is so that they look…

INTRODUCTION The Walt Disney Company, known today simply as Disney, first open its doors in the 1930’s as a small company with larger than life aspirations. Disney began as a hand crafted animation studio, with significant successes in the cinematography department based off of fairy tales and folklore. Movies like Cinderella, Snow White, and Peter Pan (Walt Disney, 2016) brought Disney into the forefront of its industry. In addition to movies, the company created some of the most memorable…

November 11th I visited the Disney store in the Flatirons Mall. This Disney store is one of 730 in the world. Wolf described shopping in a Disney store as one where you feel like you are in a play and staring in the leading role. As an observer in the Disney store, I did have a magical feeling and felt young again. The Disney store makes you feel like you are stepping into the Disney movies and surrounded by the fun loving characters you grew up seeing in the movies. The Disney store is able…

Disney World When it comes to my childhood there is not a lot I remember. I remember small little things like when I got an electrical plug stabbed into my fore head and I had to get stitches. I remember when I learned to swim at my aunt’s pond. I remember small details from my childhood, but one memory I know and remember enough about to write this 3-4 page essay is the time my parents took me and my two sisters to Disney World in Orlando, Florida as a surprise vacation. It was November of 2004…