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Compare and Contrast Essay Have you ever wondered where the Cinderella movies or books got their plot? Well, it came from Grimm’s Cinderella. The story talks about a girl that is forced into servitude and tries to find love in the world. With the helps with magics, it brings her to the palace where she finds her true love. Soon after they marry. Over time, the story changes, but the plot stays true. Despite bearing some superficial similarities, the difference is between Disney’s Cinderella…

The meaning of discrimination is unfair or damaging treatment of a difference in people or object does to the race, age or sex. As in the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes where he explains his path and knowledge of rivers. The speaker is a member of a slavery making him part of African community and faces racism in American, when “Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans,” traveling the Mississippi river. (Hughes) The speaker in the poem seems to be telling a story for example,…

The tale of the Little Red Riding Hood has transformed over time being passed down from generation to generation. The version of these two tales most everyone knows is the innocent story we once heard as children known as The Little Red Cap, a short story by the Grimm Brothers. Although there are innocent versions of this tale there are also versions that could be considered to be more scandalous, such as Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves. Throughout history there have been many different…

In 1937, Walt Disney Pictures produced its first princess film. Almost seventy-nine years later, a total of twelve Disney princess movies have been completed, with each one bringing a captivating narrative to life. These classic tales feature a female protagonist that aspires to discover herself. Along the way trials are uncovered and, by the conclusion of the story, it makes the princess a better person overall. Villains normally create these obstacles and are an essential part of these movies;…

Over time, it has been evident that Disney has promoted a different message within their princess movies, which is a shift in rhetoric. At first, the princess movies displayed unrealistic goals for young girls and now, there is a paradigm of different princesses that set an example for those who have goals and wish to achieve them. From a classical princess such as Aurora to a modern one such as Elsa, the messages are displayed in the princesses goals and obstacles. Prior to Frozen and other…

The Disney film Pocahontas displayed the different ideas of the Natives and British but comparing them to each other. Disney also projects a romantic aspect of Pocahontas’s relationship with John Smith. Most people know her as the Native American that was in love with John Smith. Disney released an animated film called Pocahontas in 1995, showing the assumed events that unraveled between John Smith and Pocahontas. Many believed that the Disney film was true to the past historical events that…

before midnight. At this ball she meets her prince and they fall for each other but their meeting is interrupted by time and they have to be separated. The story continues with the prince searching for Cinderella all over the kingdom. In the movie Sleeping Beauty Maleficent, the witch, curses for Princess Aurora to die on her sixteenth birthday out of jealousy. However, with the help of fairies, the curse is turned into a deep sleep that can be broken only by the kiss of a prince. In The Little…

I love it when an old fairytale gets revamped, especially when it is done well. A Court of Thorns and Roses did not disappoint, it was still Beauty and the Beast but it also had an enticingly new aspect of faeries. Reading this was sort of like Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey books eloped and had a child with the amazing story of Beauty and the Beast that dressed up in the finest of writing styles. I have to admit, I went into this book biased for three reasons. One, I love faeries. Two, I love Sarah J.…

“The idea that animation is an innocent medium, ostensibly for children, and largely dismissed in film histories, has done much to inhibit the proper discussion of issues concerning representation.“ (Wells, 1998, 187) Disney has had a great impact on our everyday lives. Every child, boy or a girl, and every adult, man or a woman, can say that they have encountered Disney's product at least once. Therefore, it is obvious how the certain features which Disney includes in the movies are important…

Natali Petriashvili 03.12.15 Infographic Female Representation in Disney throughout the Years and its Influence on Children There have been many arguments that Disney’s representation of women has a huge influence on children’s perception of women, beauty and society. Disney has a very strategic syntagm of how they produce animated movies featuring princesses. The educational infographic I decided to make has several purposes. The most important message that I tried to implement in my design is…