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waists. But don’t look for hips, because Disney princesses tend not to have them, Viguet pointed out in her tutorial, using Meg from “Hercules” as an example. “[H]er curves DON’T come from having really round hips, but from connecting the top of her legs (which are at their widest) to a slim waist,” Viguet writes of Meg. A real woman, however, has a thicker neck, wider shoulders and a less defined waist with actual…

Roseanne Barr, a woman with an incredible insight on how women should advance themselves, once said that “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power” because “you just take it” (“Quotes about Feminism”). Contrary to getting power from within, the Disney princess movies showcase distinct gender roles and female expectations. However, they do provide children with lessons that will stay with them throughout their lives, and they lower children’s aggression. Influencing young…

Disney movies seem to be one of the main culprits of stereotypical characters, masking them with catchy songs and cute appearances. Most of the time the audience does not even realize that the character are stereotyping race, gender, or sexual orientation while watching just because of how normal Hollywood made it be. The lessons taught in Disney movies are very important, however negativity used through characters reveal very inaccurate descriptions of how people actually are. This stereotyping…

In 2012 the Walt Disney Company released a commercial entitled “I am a Princess” that shows a diverse array of young girls doing many different activities while inspirational music plays in the background and the voice of a young girl proclaims what qualities make up a princess. When this video is viewed through the lens of the construction of gender, the audience can see that the video has a rhetorical purpose. The “I am a Princess” commercial makes the argument that the ideal feminine figure…

Sweep and dust and afterward, clean some more. As Snow White would say, “Just whistle while you work… and as you sweep the room imagine that the broom is someone that you love.” This well-known song mirrors one of the many concepts involved in the negative stereotype associated with Disney princesses, distinctly outlined by Rachael Johnson, a writer for the Education Specialist: “Princesshood is bound with being weak, passive, subservient to males, dutiful, and incapable of living an independent…

As indicated by the Official Journal of The Academy of Pediatrics liquor and tobacco are the two greatest dangers to adolescents. These two substances have an effect on adolescents and different substances that they will likely use in the future. “A preadolescent or adolescent who smokes tobacco or drinks alcohol is 65 times more likely to use marijuana, for example, than someone who abstains” (APA 2012). Commercials regularly promote different liquors and the use of these sales go up in the…

Self-Actualization: For Colored Girls “I found God in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.” (Shange) For Colored Girls is based from a play with poems written by author Ntozake Shange called, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow isn’t Enuf, describing the life of eight women in New York who face tremendous crisis and heartbreaks. Each woman in this film represents a character/color and a poem from this play. From abuse, secret affairs and abortion, to deceit…

Gender Roles There are many techniques or “claims of fact” that are used in order to allow an argumentative essay to fulfill the needs of its writers. These techniques include: the Aristotelian rhetoric, the Rogerian model, and Toulon model. In this analysis, these techniques will be analyzed in two different essays, “Girls on Film: The Real Problem with the Disney Princess Brand” by Monika Bartyzel and “In Defense of Princess Culture” by Crystal Liechty. These essays debate the impact of…

The plotline of this folktale provides the basis for those as the Iron Heinrich in Germany, accompanied with The Princess and the Frog of Disney’s “American” culture. These three works all depict a similar story, moreover different cultures have taken an original myth and have adapted it to better suit the specific region. The Tale of Tulisa and The Princess and the Frog depict a love between a cursed prince and a woman of low societal standing; exhibiting one’s ability to change their societal…

Most little girls grow up watching Walt Disney princess movies. Disney is one of the biggest brands in the world. And they have a huge following mostly consisting of little girls who look up to characters disney puts out. They are one of the few brands who have really mastered the art of marketing. At first businesses thought the best way to get consumers to buy their products was to make sure there was more than enough of it. Manufacturers believed the best way to make a profit was to make more…