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Question # 1: Does who you are have anything to do with what you choose to watch on TV? Explain your answer using specific examples. Yes, because your personality will reflect on what you choose to watch. Question # 2: Think about the demographics of the show you watched—the age group, race, and gender of the people who are most likely to watch the show. Often, the commercials during a show correspond to the demographics for the TV show itself. Was this true for anything you observed on…

“ What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?.” This quote by John Green is not only inspirational, but it applies to himself as a writer, vlogger, actor, and producer. Many people set out to be remarkable but are not quite sure what that term really means. How can someone be “remarkable”? How do we know when someone has done something remarkable, or if we ourselves are doing something remarkable? If winning the Michael L. Printz Award and the Edgar…

An online dictionary defines dating as “being romantically involved with someone.” Dating is generally defined as being with someone, there are so many different meanings of dating because everyone interprets it differently. social media and television have played a large role in shaping the way dating is today. When with the other gender one always tries to impress them because one never knows where they might end up in the future. It is human nature for one to want to be liked by everyone.…

you,” (“Princess and the Frog (2009).”). It was not enough just to wish for something, if one really wished for it, one had to put some effort in to it to achieve it. Since Tiana really wants to accomplish her dreams, she decides to kiss a frog. In Disney movies, the prince is the one that rescues the women. In this case, Prince Naveen is not the typical strong, smart, prince we tend to see. He is the opposite of Tiana; he is lazy, and does not know how to take care of himself because his…

The inaccurate representation of historical events in Disney productions as erroneous as that of the film Pocahontas exemplifies why children should not be exposed to them; history does not always have a happily ever after and unfortunately that is exactly what Disney tried to achieve in the so-called “responsible, accurate, and respectful” (Text 3, line 3) recreation of Pocahontas’ story that Disney claims to have made. In A General History of Virginia, one reaches the conclusion that John…

Walt Disney’s animated films Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and The Jungle Book all explore the relationship between human beings and animals. In some films, such as The Jungle Book, this relationship has a greater focus than other films, such as Snow White. Snow White, Aurora and Mowgli meet their animal allies and enemies in the forest or the jungle, while Cinderella’s animal friends (and antagonist) are residents of her stepmother’s house. In the world of these four films, it is…

There are many sides to any story as we are told. The film takes us on an adventure with the iconic “Sleeping Beauty” villainess. This film is an adaptation of the Disney classic “Sleeping Beauty” from 1956 which was originally directed by Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark and Wolfgang Reitherman. The original only tells the story of Aurora and does not go into detail on how Maleficent came to be so evil and heartless. However this story is all about Maleficent and her journey to evil and good again.…

folktales and Disney films are known for populating their worlds with anthropomorphic animals. These animal figures are represented as either human characters who are transformed into animals or characters who are consistently animals throughout the folktale or film. Both representations of animals delineate a relationship between animals and humans. The nature of this relationship depends on how the animals are depicted. When a plot illustrates a human's transformation into an animal, Disney…

Miley Cyrus came out with a music video "We Can't Stop". When this video cam out I was shocked at how much Miley had changed, she had cut her long hair to a weird hair style, it was short and had blonde highlights. As well as changing her hair she had started dressing very shockingly. She went from country to a diva, this change happened so suddenly that I believe most people were thrown into confusion. Miley hade turned to a the darker side. That I ever thought would happen. Miley reminds…

An archetype that has emerged in popular culture is the girl who helps herself. This archetype has appeared in movies, such as Disney's The Princess and the Frog , books, such as Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games, and in music figures, such as Nicki Minaj. The Princess and the Frog’s main character Tiana is a hardworking young woman from a low income family. She works hard to make her dream of owning a restaurant to come true, and she does not wait for a prince to come and help her out. She is…