The Walt Disney Company

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 that Disney represents…

Animated by Chris and Martin Kratt, Wild Kratts, is an American/Canadian based educational children’s series. The show is produced by The Kratt Brothers Company and 9 Story Media Group which is aired by PBS in the United States. In Canada, the show airs on: TVO Kids in Ontario, Knowledge Kids in British Columbia, and Tele-Quebec / Le Skwat in Quebec. In Australia, it is shown on GO!. PBS was founded in 1969 and is a nonprofit and private corporation. The show is also broadcast in many countries…

What if Disney princesses had realistic waistlines? Well, they would look pretty fab. No doubt about it. Buzzfeed’s Loryn Brantz decided to digitally edit six famous Disney ladies — Ariel (“The Little Mermaid”), Pocahontas (“Pocahontas”), Jasmine (“Aladdin”), Belle (“Beauty and the Beast”), Aurora (“Sleeping Beauty”) and Elsa (“Frozen”) — to show what the cartoon heroines would look like if they had more realistic physical proportions. After all, since these characters are supposed to represent…

take me to the used game store(which also sold VHS tapes and DVDs)every once in a while. I became addicted to owning VHS tapes, even as a six year old boy and honestly, I still am to this day. My favorites were the movies from Tim Burton and the Disney films were my absolute favorites; I just could not get enough of Toy Story and The Lion King.…

Moana at the cinema with my friends. Prior to watching this movie, I thought this was like a classic Disney movie with a princess theme and a love interest. Yet this movie has proved me wrong and it was truly one of the most unique and remarkable movie Disney has made. Unlike many Disney movie, this movie does not have a very fantasy theme nor does the main character has skinny Barbie like most Disney princesses have, but yet it focuses on a girl’s rites of passage and the brave story of hers to…

Agrabah Agrabah. Even the brightest geographer would have great difficulty pin-pointing this mysterious location on a map because, well, it's fictional. Agrabah is the fictitious city in which the well-known Disney classic Aladdin takes place. However, a limited number of people are aware of the idiosyncratic features that this city thrives on; most are only familiar with the story told through an hour and a half movie and a two-hour Broadway musical. So, hop on a magic carpet, and sour…

Richard Dawkins is trying to argue that reality can be proven by scientific evidence and magic is used to explain the unknown. We classify something as “real” when we can prove it using our five senses. However, we can also develop new technology to extend the reach of our senses. “we can enhance our senses through the use of special instruments” For example, a microscope can be used and prove bacteria” (Dawkins 2011, p. 2 par. 3). Although, we cannot see microbes with our naked eyes we can use…

Big is a comedic fantasy that all children and adults can relate to. A fantasy film is where characters may live in imaginary settings or experience situations that break the limitations of the real world. (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014) According to Goodykoontz and Jacobs (2014) sometimes a fantasy film also speaks to larger issues and offer commentary that adults will recognize as important beyond mere entertainment. In the following film critique I will analyze all of the elements that bring…

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…

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr. was born on October 01, 1924 in Plains, GA. Growing up, his father, James Earl Carter Sr., was a peanut farmer on a small plot of land, and his mother, Bessie Lillian Gordy, was a registered nurse. Carter moved to Archery when he was around 4 years old. There, at the age of 10, Carter started to work at his father's store. As a kid Carter loved watching baseball with his dad, and listening to politics on the radio. Before joining the Naval ROTC program at the to…