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In the movie The Lion King, Simba ended up being the ruler of the land his father had abandoned when he passed. The build up of the movie made the happy ending refreshing after all the grief the viewers go throughout the whole movie. In the movie Finding Nemo, a dad fish, Marlon loses his son Nemo at the beginning of the movie. Throughout the remainder of the movie Nemo is trying to find Marlon and Marlon is trying to find Nemo. At the end they finally do get back to each other and everything…

Have you ever tried to fit in? Both “Good Enough” and “Game Over” are about teenagers trying to fit in at school. “Good Enough” and “Game Over” have a multitude of similarities and differences, such as their themes and the types of characters used. One similarity between “Good Enough” and “Game Over” is their themes. In “Game Over”, Ryan joins a tennis class, when everyone starts speaking Russian he does not tell anyone he can not understand them, afraid he will not fit in. On page 25 it…

The American Dream constantly changes over time. From the time of the Founding Fathers, the American Dream was simply freedom and independence. For the people, the dream was to strive to be the best. For America, the dream was to be considered a model for other countries. Today, America arguably is not the strongest country compared China, or the United Kingdom. But America is still considered a great influence. Many ideas of the American Dream change as a result of this. The ideas of wealth,…

of Marlin from Finding as a hero? Marlin is the overprotective dad of Nemo. His wife was eaten by a barracuda which caused his overprotectiveness. He had to track down Nemo and find him when he was across the ocean. On his troublesome journey he met a blue fish named Dory. They faced many troubles like traveling through a field of jellyfish and being chased by a group of vicious sharks. Marlin is a hero for being adventurous for finding nemo, and loving because he cares about finding Nemo and…

The life along the Great Barrier Reef is full of danger and Marlin, a single parent clown fish, has to protect his son, Nemo. As the time starts for school his dad nervously accompanies him and agonized over his every move. Nemo defies his father and swims to the reef's awesome “drop off” to investigate a boat. Suddenly he gets scooped up by a diver and Marlin helplessly watches the happening. Marlin frantically swims off in search of his son. As he passes a school of fish, he suddenly bumps…

The day is nice, warm and sunny. A young man walks along a path in the park, spotting a small bundle of people. The people are chatting to themselves as the young man approaches them. He talks to the group, getting along with them perfectly. However, this man has never before talked to or even seen these people. This describes a character in the movie With Honors. This film features roommates in Harvard who end up taking in a bum during their senior year. Even though some of the…

The Squalus acanthus is nicknamed the dog fish because they are known to feed in packs which is similar to the habits of dogs, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium website. These sharks are classified as chondrichthyes (“Squalus Acanthias”). According to the article Spiny Dogfish, the dogfish’s relatives include the Pygmy shark and the Sleeper shark. The Squalus acanthus has an endoskeleton skeleton type. They live in the interdial zone up to 900 meters deep. The dogfish sharks swim in water…

Finding Nemo gives the audience a unique experience into what a society should seem like using different norms and values. Nemo did not think about how fortunate he was until his regular routine was taken away. This teaches multiple things about life and how to correctly act to get the best outcome. “Animating Youth: The Disneyfication of Children’s Culture” by Giroux shows that Disney has the ability to put a script to society and shape the childhood of millions of kids. Gamson wrote “Media…

(King 129). In the closing scenes of the film, Marlin is depicted in a different light. He is seen to be more confident, capable of social interaction with the other sea creatures, and less restraining/constrictive in his interactions with Nemo (Finding Nemo). It would appear that Marlin has come to acknowledge his “disability,” interpreted as societally incorrect gender behaviors, and “such possibilities are reinscribed within a more normative frame and are ultimately recuperated from their…

The film I’m reviewing is “Finding Nemo”. This movie is about the adventures of two fishes named Marlin and Dory looking for Marlin’s son Nemo. In the beginning Marlin was ready to have a family with his wife named Coral because their eggs were a few days away from hatching. Marlin got a new home, which is an anemone by the deep ocean. One thing led to another, and a barracuda shows up to attack Marlin and his family. Marlin tries to defend his wife and eggs, but to no avail he gets knocked out…