The Lion King

The Senufo Face Mask and Western Guinea Coast Masquerade Figure both have Raffia as one of their materials. Raffia is a palm tree native to Africa with a short trunk and very long leaves. Another meaning is the fiber from the leaves of the raffia tree that can be used to make mats, baskets, hats and other things. On the back of the Senufo Bird figure, there is a tail, one bird on each wang facing each other, two figures that seem to have two arms and two legs, or four legs, and a wavy line on…

Facing The Lion is an autobiography by Joseph Lekuton, it is primarily set in the 1970s and 1980s in Kenya. The book was originally published in 2003. It is about Lekuton’s life living both as a Maasai and a schoolboy in the Kenyan Savannah. The Maasai people’s entire lifestyle center around their animals, in the biography’s case, cows. In the book, they herd and protect the cows from hostile animals and conditions. They have to constantly move to find grass for their cows, and never stay in…

Company Name: Lion Music Productions The name “Lion Music Productions” relates to our school because the lion is our mascot. We decided to create a short and simple company name so that it can be easily remembered by the students. We decided to incorporate music productions because the events we hold are specifically related to music. We also decided to include the word lion in our logo because this is the mascot of our school R.H. King Academy, the same place where our company is located. Our…

Thirdly, The Cowardly Lion is a character who supposed to possess the characteristic feature of a lion, king of the jungle, yet he describes himself as a “coward" (Baum 31) when Dorothy and her companions run across him in the forest. Cowardly Lion tells his story and how he does not manage to rule other animals because of his fear. Other characters who off to see the Wizard of Oz encourage him and he decides to accompany them to ask Wizard of Oz to give him courage. But before Wizard of Oz…

him in the face. The Lion King by Roger Allers and Macbeth by Shakespeare are two very different pieces of work but have similar themes throughout. The Lion King and Macbeth have two character in which guilt haunts them in different ways. Blood is significant in both pieces of literature because the main characters feel that they cannot get the blood of others off their hands. Both characters go on a journey significant to their upbringing or downfall. Disney's The Lion King and Shakespeare play…

Jungle Book The Jungle Book has always been a childhood favorite of mine for as long as I can remember. Disney has started doing remakes of famous movies and The Jungle Book was one. The director could not have made this movie more similar to the original, however, there were some differences that came with the remake. The director mixed the two movies together, to keep the strong mythic theme from the original Kipling film. and Disney personality. The first major difference is the…

Zootopia is a beautifully plotted fantasy film set in a metropolis where anthropomorphic predators and prey live together in peace and harmony. This 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film (McNary, 2017) was produced by Walt Disney Animated Studios and release by Walt Disney Pictures in 2016. The film was co-directed by Bryon Howard Richard Moore and stars the voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, J.K. Simmons, Jenny Slate, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Alan Tudyk, Octovia Spencer…

The Protector of all Sidekicks Imagine trying to talk to your parents but all they hear is gibberish coming from your mouth. Imagine not being able to walk in a straight line. Imagine feeling alone. Someone with autism deals with these issues every day. In the documentary Life, Animated the audience walks through Owen Suskind’s life as he struggles with autism. Owen was a normal kid, running around and playing with his brother every day; one day he became distant and started talking in…

Tianming -- Analysis of The King of Masks (1996) The film The King of Masks (1996), describes an elderly artist who has extraordinary skill that is able to change masks frequently on-stage named as the king of masks, living alone, wants to find a boy (the skill can only be passed to male inheritor) to pass his skills to him. The story begins when once in a human trafficking market, the king of masks bought a boy named Gou Wa, they kept each other alive from then and the king of mask loved Gou…

Did you know that The Lion King is a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet? It was surprising to hear that, but after watching the two movies, their storyline themes are parallel to each other. The two films' storyline included sibling rivalry, loyalty, and revenge, power and corruption, trust and friendship, appearances are deceiving, and decisiveness and hesitation. However, the way the characters are presented and their roles are different in a way. In the next paragraphs, I…