...History of the Mermaid Mythological creatures have fascinated the world for centuries. Mermaids are one of the most fantasized mythological beings. Today's image of mermaid is generally that of a beautiful woman who is half human and half fish. The sea dwelling creatures are often depicted wearing nothing but seashell bikini tops with long, flowing hair. There are numerous Hollywood movies and cartoons based on the belief that these mythological creatures are real and living in the oceans all over the world. The beings are first mentioned in the first century by a Roman author named Pliny the Elder. In his writings, he referred to an animal that had the body of a snake and wore a crown. The creature is often referred to as a basilisk. That...
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...This statue is titled the Little Mermaid, and has become an icon for Denmark. The Little Mermaid has made a famous name for itself in the modern art world for more then one reason. This statue is cast in bronze just like the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, however this is a much more recent sculpture. It was cast in 1913 and the differences in the time periods are shown in the techniques and overall look of the sculpture. The artist, Edvard Eriksen had molded the sculpture after the fairytale by Hans Christian Anderson, however many overlook the symbolism in the statue. The Little Mermaid is situated on a rock in the waterfront of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a rather small statue sitting at only 4.1 feet tall. It is in fairly good condition considering it is exposed to the elements at all times, also considering the amount of vandalism the sculpture has endured. The Little Mermaid has been repaired many times after accounts off vandalism and when it got blown off the rock it is displayed on, which caused damage to the knees and lips of the statue. Other major incidents of vandalism resulted in her head being knocked off twice and loosing an...
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...I went to the show on Thursday, even for opening night it was awesome. Although it was opening night, everyone did phenomenal. One of the best plays our school has ever done. The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney princess movie, I mean I was ariel 5 years in a row for halloween There might have been a couple bumps, but I didn’t really notice anything until Eli told me the next day. Some pros are that it was really well done. Also everyone seemed like they knew what they were doing. Costumes were really nice and portrayed the characters very well. The voices that people did to sound like there character was really good. They made there character come to life and made it very fun to watch. Casting was really good, each person fit their character...
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...Beauty and the Beast. The best known version of the tale is the Disney cartoon film of it that was released in 1991. However, 2017 was also presented with a live action film of the tale. Both are very similar in the way they were produced, but they do have some differences that can be picked out without even watching the film, one could probably tell by the movie posters presented to advertise both films. In 1989, Disney had just released the film The Little Mermaid, the film ended up being a huge success for Disney and the producers. Therefore, when Disney wanted to produce another princess movie so soon after, they really had to do it thoroughly and perfectly to ensure another Disney success. The 1991 film of Beauty and the Beast was advertised with a beautiful representation of the film. The movie poster is very colorful and simple. As soon as you look at the poster you are overwhelmed with the colors gold and blue, evidentially because of the iconic big and beautiful...
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...Vračević Željka University of Banjaluka Faculty of Philology English Language and Literature REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMININITY IN DISNEY CARTOON PRODUCTION: An Analysis of Selected Examples The purpose of this essay is to explore how media, especially Disney cartoons, affect gender, particularly young girls and how the representations of females within the media affect the viewers through stereotypes or ideals to live up too. THE INTRODUCTION (the explanation of media influences and basic notions of women representations in Disney Production) A good deal of feminist writing in the field of culture has been concerned with the representations of gender and of women in particular, and it is claimed that these representations of females reflected male attitudes and constituted misrepresentations of “real women”. Meehan (1983) analyzed the stereotypes into which women are commonly cast on television and the analysis showed that “good women” are, or are expected to be submissive, domesticated and home-centered while “bad women” are rebellious and independent. She concludes that “American viewers have spent more than three decades watching male heroes and their adventures, muddied visions of boyhood adolescence repete with illusions of women as witches, bitches, mothers and imps “. All researches about the media influence give the same conclusion that the mass media is a powerful resource through which viewers develop their...
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...TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory Join Search Browse Saved Papers Home Page » English and Literature “Do You Believe in Philippine Mythology and Folklore?” In: English and Literature “Do You Believe in Philippine Mythology and Folklore?” A POSITION PAPER IN PHILIPPINE LITERATURE “DO YOU BELIEVE IN PHILIPPINE MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE?” IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF REQUIREMENTS IN COMMUNICATION SKILLS II SUBMITTED BY: ROWEL M. MOJECA PRESENTED TO: MRS. GRACE ARANDA DR.FELIMON C. AGUILAR MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF LAS PIÑAS MARCH 2O11 TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview 1 Definition of Terms 2 Introduction 4 Point of View 5 Evidences and Proofs 9 Conclusion 12 Works Cited 13 OVERVIEW Philippine mythology and folklore include a collection of tales and superstitions about magical creatures and entities. Some Filipinos, even though heavily westernized and Christianized, still believe in such entities. The prevalence of belief in the figures of Philippines mythology is strong in the provinces. The country has many islands and is inhabited by different ethnic groups, Philippine mythology and superstitions are very diverse. However, certain similarities exist among these groups, such as the belief in Heaven (kaluwalhatian, kalangitan, kamurawayan), Hell (impiyerno, kasamaan), and the...
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...Angel Pelaez Mrs. Larsen AP Language, Period 3 21 November 2014 Disney Research Paper In society, gender roles (a set of social and behavioral norms that are widely considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex) are everywhere. For a long time men and women had to do certain things throughout their lives. It was expect that men would be the ones that had to work, while their wives had to stay home to take care of the house, the kids, bills, etc. Over time, these gender roles have changed. Females now take on tasks that only men were supposed to do. Gender roles appear in places that one wouldn’t expect: Disney movies. Disney movies do a great job at showing how gender roles were portrayed at the time the movie came out. Most notably, in these movies, males fulfill a certain appearance stereotype (tall, muscular, handsome, etc.). The same stereotype applies to females as well (makeup, being slim, posture, etc.). In Disney movies, the male protagonist is almost always good-looking, muscular, tall, etc. An example of this is Prince Eric from the Little Mermaid movie. In the movie, he’s tall, light-skinned, muscular, and handsome. He’s almost “perfect”. In the essay ....Happily Ever After (Or What Fairy Tales teach Girls about being Women) Alice Neikirk states “the hero, often a prince, is generally described as brave and handsome.” Over time, the appearance of the male protagonists have changed. For example, Flynn Rider from Tangled is just a slim, not...
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...1.0 Introduction 1.1 Starbucks Company Introduction 1.1.1 Starbucks Company’s Background Starbucks Coffee Company was founded in 1971. The first store of this company was in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. At that time, this company was roaster retailer of whole bean and ground coffee, tea and spices. This company established over 55 countries with 17,000 retail stores and serves the uncountable customers. It was count in 2011. This company’s name was built after the first mate in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. In 1982, Howard Schultz was the director of retail operations and marketing, and Starbucks began to provide coffee to those fine restaurants and espresso bars. Since 1983, Howard was travelling to many countries and he was finding out the population of the certain countries such as Italy, Canada, and so on. He found those countries’ population had the potential market to develop the coffeehouse culture. Furthermore, Starbucks Coffee Company had provided full health benefits for the employees no matter those employees were full-time or part-time employees. Today, many international airports have Starbucks Coffee Company. This market was developed since 1991; which the first licensed airport store was at Seattle’s Sea-Tac International Airport. In 2000, Howard Schultz was promoted as chairman and chief global strategist and Orin Smith was the president and chief executive officer. In the same year, they had deal with an agreement about issued a license of TransFair USA...
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...ks exudes? Is going to Starbucks a ritual‐like e compulsio on for some e people in n our post‐mo odern era? I I wanted to know the a answers to these questions. In this report, I analyze the brandin ng choices of the most t famous co offee shop in the world d. After rea ading and analyzing the q quotes featu ured on the e back of St tarbuckʹs to o‐go cups (ʺThe Way I See Itʺ quote es), which a are submitt ted by custo omers and s selected by y Starbucks, , I argue tha at Starbuck ksʹ subtle branding tec chniques en ncourage a specific life estyle for th heir target market. Overview Skylar, a wealthy British student at Harvard, approaches Will, an Irish‐American janitor from South Boston, hands him a slip of paper, and says, “There’s my number. So maybe we can go out for coffee sometime.” Taking her number, Will replies coyly, “All right, yeah, or maybe we can just get together and eat a bunch of caramels.” “What do you mean?” Skylar asks. “Well, when you think about it, it’s as arbitrary as drinking coffee.” ~Good Will Hunting It doesn’t really matter where in the world you go these days, because you can probably still get your grande non‐fat latte at Starbucks as if you had never left home at all. For many people, their latte is an indispensable part of their day. Or perhaps their espresso, cappuccino, macchiato, or frappacino—whatever the case may be. The fact that we even know how to pronounce the names o...
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...stereotypes and norms to assess the impact their portrayals can have on the viewing audience. The film Tangled is often seen as Disney’s take on a modern princess, and Rapunzel and Flynn have a great deal to contribute to both gender development study and media interpretation of gender. Gender development is a field of study which has been impacted in a number of ways by modern theorists and he field is continuing to be shaped by theories known as Queer Theories, as well as the changing demographics of the modern family. One thing that many of the classic and modern theories agree on is the importance of gender role models: whether or not modeling after these role models is conscious or subconscious is the topic for an entirely different paper in itself. In many studies, the...
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...Gender Roles in Disney Movies It is undeniable that the company that is leading to many generations in their child age is Disney. Who does not remember Mickey and Minnie Mouse?, Who has not thrown a tear when Snow White was poisoned by the evil witch?, Who did not want to ever be in the place of handsome John Smith or Pocahontas herself to revive their love story?, that tender these films, is not it, for example the Little Mermaid and Sebastian the crab song, who does not remember that song from "under the sea”? Has anybody ever wondered why the dwarves themselves did not do the housework when they came home once Snow White "moved in" with them? Or why an Indian as Pocahontas, falls for a murderer of thousands of his countrymen as was John Smith? Or why witches are always bad? Or why women are always in the background in these films (Hubka, Hovdestad & Tonmyr, 2009)? The world of Disney Princess began in 1937 when Snow White entered the world with the Seven Dwarfs (McRobbie, 2008). Since then it continued to add princesses in this world and the most recent movie was Tangled (Rapunzel) in 2011. In the past years, due to the lack of portraying ethnicity, Disney movie makers were highly criticized by their audience. Therefore, Pocahontas appeared in 1995 and after three years in 1998 came Mulan, which created a racially diverse collection of Disney princesses. After a decade The Princess and the Frog was released in 2009. It is important to understand that Disney plays an important...
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...The biggest landfill on the earth: Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can you imagine the amount of trash approximately fourteen times bigger than whole Slovakia? No? Then it is about time to make you familiar with Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This large floating landfill is the biggest one in the world. According to Charles Moore, discoverer of Great Pacific Garbage Patch (in 1977), "The ocean is downhill from everything" (as cited in Blomberg, 2011). Considering the fact that high percentage of all trash is produced on the land, it is very surprising then the biggest junk yard is actually in the water and not on the land. Even though, recently many people and companies started to care more about amount of trash in oceans, there is a lack of information about Great Pacific Garbage Patch and related issues among large number of population. First of all, Great Pacific Garbage Patch consists of two parts, Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch as mentioned in article written by Jacob Silverman (n.d.). Some sources refer to Eastern one as Great Pacific Garbage Patch and do not talk about the other one (Boudreau et al., n.d.), even though they do not deny the existence of Western Pacific Garbage Patch it can cause some misunderstanding with names. In this essay, there will be used distinction of Eastern and Western Pacific Garbage Patch as well as collective name Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Eastern one is situated between Hawaii and California, the Western...
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...PHILIPPINE FOLKLORE: ENGKANTO BELIEFS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: Philippine mythology is derived from Philippine folk literature, which is the traditional oral literature of the Filipino people. This refers to a wide range of material due to the ethnic mix of the Philippines. Each unique ethnic group has its own stories and myths to tell. While the oral and thus changeable aspect of folk literature is an important defining characteristic, much of this oral tradition had been written into a print format. University of the Philippines professor, Damiana Eugenio, classified Philippines Folk Literature into three major groups: folk narratives, folk speech, and folk songs. Folk narratives can either be in prose: the myth, the alamat (legend), and the kuwentong bayan (folktale), or in verse, as in the case of the folk epic. Folk speech includes the bugtong (riddle) and the salawikain (proverbs). Folk songs that can be sub-classified into those that tell a story (folk ballads) are a relative rarity in Philippine folk literature.[1] Before the coming of Christianity, the people of these lands had some kind of religion. For no people however primitive is ever devoid of religion. This religion might have been animism. Like any other religion, this one was a complex of religious phenomena. It consisted of myths, legends, rituals and sacrifices, beliefs in the high gods as well as low; noble concepts and practices as well as degenerate ones; worship and...
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...International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT) Vol. 2 IssueISSN: 2278-0181 2, February- 2013 Reduction 0f NOx Emissions with Three - Way Catalytic Converter For IDI Engine Fuelled With Diesel, JSVO and Their Blends P. Suresh Kumar1, Aditya Bhatnagar2, P. K. Sahoo3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India 2 [ M. Tech-Energy Systems ] University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India 1&3 Abstract: Petroleum based fuels are obtained from limited reserves. IIJJE ER RT T fulfill emission in certain is receiving control catalytic converters in order to future ultra-low exhaust way These are finite reserves which are highly concentrated standards. Three catalytic converter is an effective technique to reduce NOx emissions from diesel engines because of Rh being used as catalyst helps to release the oxygen atoms stored in NOx in the reduction reaction. After these studies succeeded in reducing the NOx emissions from biodiesel by regions of the world. Currently Jatropha biodiesel attention as an alternative fuel for diesel engine. The subject of the research presented in this thesis was the development new strategies for automotive three way www.ijert.org 1 International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT) Vol. 2 IssueISSN: 2278-0181 2, February- 2013 three way catalytic converter without a significant change of BTE, BSFC...
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...------------------------------------------------- Assignment 2 External and Internal Environments May 7, 2016 Lavoria riddick BUS. 499 Professor Beverly Williams May 7, 2016 Lavoria riddick BUS. 499 Professor Beverly Williams Assignment 2: External and Internal Environments Starbucks was founded in Seattle, WA in 1971, beginning with a single store in the Pike Place Market. The Starbucks name was inspired by the mermaid in the Moby Dick novel. It offered some of the best fresh-roasted whole bean coffee. According to starbucks.com, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company from the beginning. Not only a company that celebrated the rich tradition of coffee, but also one that brought a feeling of connection amongst people. The idea was for it to be the common place between work and home. Today there are over 16,000 stores in 50 different countries (starbucks.com website). In this paper, I will discuss the segments of the external and internal environments influence on Starbucks. According to the text, the challenge to each firm is to scan, monitor, forecast, and assess the elements in each segment of the general environment to determine the effects on the company (Hitt, Ireland, Hoskisson 2013). The segments include demographic, political/legal, sociocultural, technological, global, and physical environment. The demographic segment considers the population’s size, age structure, geographic distribution, ethnic mix, and income distribution...
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