Mermaid

Under the Sea The audience cheers & claps with satisfaction for all of our hard work. It all began a few months ago at lunch. My friend Medina & I were talking about he upcoming musical at pinewood, "The Little Mermaid." Medina told me that audition dates & told me to go with her on day two. I wasn't available on any of the days of the auditions. This made me very agitated. I was looking forward to the musical all year. I asked the coordinator of there was any other alternatives. She said yes…

Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a play that revolves around two characters who fall in love at first sight, but they have caught themselves in the midst of a family feud. They struggle to fix their lives together, which leads to a tragedy. Fate is a term which describes the reasoning of them being "star-cross'd lovers", as Shakespeare states, and that an event is destined to happen. Romeo and Juliet thoroughly express these predetermined courses of events. All throughout the…

Spirited Away is an animated Japanese film (anime), by Hayao Miyazaki, he “has made many famous films including; Laputa: The Castle in The Sky (1986) and Princess Mononoke (1997) and his excellent work has earned him the title of ‘Walt Disney of Japan’” (Dugdale). Even though the film maker decided to retire in 1997, he decided to create Spirited Away after noticing that young girls don’t have much to look out to in the media other that romance, he wanted to create a film “in which they could be…

Similarly, in her article about Richard Kelly’s lighting designs, Margaret Maile Petty summarized: [Stanley] McCandless... a well-known theatrical and architectural lighting designer... taught that the primary characteristics of light—intensity, color, form, and movement—had a direct effect on sensual perception. He held that the studied combination and manipulation of these elements allow the designer to determine the emotional and psychological experience of any individual within that…

Ariel. The Little Mermaid made her debut on November 17, 1989; when Disney release the movie. When many people think of Disney they may think of Cinderella and her castle. However, Cinderella was not the first princess it was Snow White who started the trend of Disney Princesses. Ariel or The Little Mermaid is the fourth Disney Princess in the line up. When a new disney princess comes out Disney sees how well the movie does in order to see if they should do more. The Little Mermaid was such a…

thing or substance. (26) For instance, a monist would be a belief that there is only one God. Furthermore, dualists hold the belief that the mind and body have two opposite principles. (28) An example of dualism would be evil vs. good. In Little Mermaid, Ariel was the good because overall she wanted to be a human and be able to walk; whereas Ursela was the bad because she made an awful deal with Ariel that she will get feet but will lose her voice forever. On the other hand, functionalism is…

in my new mermaid tale. Today was my first day swimming in it because it took the past couple months to perfect. While I am swimming in it I hear this simple melody which is at odds with the strength I feel in my lower body. Whenever I swim I feel so powerful as if there are no limits to what I can do. When I was still recovering from my depression, art became a visual way for me to express my emotions. I loved drawing random pictures as a little kid, but I continued to draw mermaids with…

its stories with enchantment, taking away the story line from the original tale. Leading children to believe that life is a fairytale that always ends with a happily ever after. Some deceiving fairytales are Snow White, Cinderella, and the Little Mermaid. In Disney's version of Snow White, the poison of the…

Tragedy is intended to expose humans of their fallibility and hubris. In the short story “Mermaids”, Richard Van Camp illustrates a young man, Torchy forgets his grandfather’s warning to him after giving Torchy a bless to win in the gamble. Torchy’s lust for money and sex leads himself to his own tragedy. “Mermaids” is a tragedy because Torchy’s tragic flaw undermines his judgment that leads to his misfortune; however, it elicits fear and pity in the end that enables readers to experience…

tales, the characters have deep psychological problems, or disturbing meanings that would never be in a story advertised for children today. The modern version of “The Little Mermaid” is full of singing, true love, and curiosity, while the original, by Hans Christian Andersen, has underlying themes of low…