...The late 1980’s film, The Little Mermaid is relevance because it appears to oppose the feminist movement in history that advocated for female advancement and empowerment within society. It is imperative that Disney’s skewed recreation of the beloved tale, The Little Mermaid be analytically criticized because it was meticulously portrayed to perpetuate anti-feminism. It is also important to analyze the use of language, images and other affecting factors and how they too contribute to sexism depictions in this film. There are various examples within the film where the female characters’ bodies and minds are demeaned and undervalued because of the imposing dominance the characters imposed upon them. One of these includes the exchange of Ariel’s voice for legs and the declaration in “Kiss the Girl” that could win over Eric without saying a word because of her good looks....
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...I should’ve known this would happen. The moment they laid eyes on me. They picked me and my brother out of many others, and paid a nice price. Little did I know, my well-off owners wouldn’t treat me so nice. On the way to my new home, I was stuffed in the trunk with the other one’s they bought. 5 Me and my brother didn’t speak the whole ride, we sat and we thought. The others were excited; they knew they would provide a great service. I didn’t, however, I already knew my task; my purpose. The house was huge, for someone like me. Large, luxurious, with room for plenty. 10 One owner showed the other one’s their place. But another owner made me and my brother go another way. The first stop we made was a little girl’s room. It was colorful, and lively. When my brother was given to her, the little girl was friendly and smiling. She showed him his resting place, and he seemed to like it. 15 I knew my fate wouldn’t be so lucky, call me psychic. We left her room, and the next stop was mine. And to say I wasn’t scared would be lying. The door was locked, and had crossbones in the center. The teenage boy was finally visible and had a slight resemblance to the Grim Reaper. 20 My new owner looked me over, and gave a nonchalant gesture. ...
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...you will figure out what you could improve to make a more healthy relationship. You will learn about what our media makes it seem like people feel they have to do to get into a relationship. Most people around the age most likely to be looking for that special someone do not realize that there are other ways to go about it. You will also need to know how to talk, and use your body language to your benefit while interacting with others. It is interesting how the smallest subtleties are able to make such a big difference in how others view you. How others view you effects what social classification you end up in. This makes it very important to watch carefully and see how you portray yourself in the community. When you look into your own mind and try and pull out a successful relationship what do you picture? Chances are a good looking couple is part of the picture. While yes, it is important to be attracted to one another, it is not what your world should evolve around. When I picture a healthy partnership I see two people with positive energy surrounding them. I see both parties engaged in the relationship. I see their bond to one another as a priority in life. Each person has their alone time, it is important to respect boundaries. If there is not growth in the lives of both individuals, it can be unhealthy as well. They show respect to one another. To live with anyone you respect of course there can be no abuse, whether it be verbal or physical. It is important for each partner...
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...The Punch The Punch The most important thing to remember about leaving the past behind is to never look back, no matter how tempting it might be. That means leaving the physical and mental pain with the past. They never explained how much your fist hurts after that swing. The fact that the cheekbone of boy your age is as firm as the cement floors just a few metres away. This is the easy pain though. The pain which hurts most is when your throbbing fist becomes still and the adrenaline you felt is all but a memory. I tried to argue to the ref that he was being a grub all game, that I was provoked, that he threw the first punch and that some sort of justification would ease my pain. Constant vulgarities being tossed at me, elbows to the face, rubbing my face into my own home turf ground, tasting the bitterness of the mud and feeling the dirt seeping into my pores. There’s a limit to how many times you can tell someone to back off, before the testosterone within you breaks through your self-control barrier and forces you to make sudden decisions which affect your life. So I threw my punch. Then he threw his. Exchanging rapid punches like an eager child opening a birthday present. Constant yelling from the sidelines, in the background; whether it was abusive or positive comments. We didn’t hear the words, not in our current state. Those punches and jabs were far from swift though. Still half the time they scraped past our slippery shoulders. That didn’t die down the velocity...
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...she can’t do more things than an average fighter. Transportation, to move invisibly and quick/fast. Furthermore, Grapping gun, lie detector and a utility belt are special gadgets War Angel carry on her belt. Synopis: My character became a superhero when one day Cassandra was walking in the park at night she knew something was wrong, but she couldn’t actually feel it because she could hear it. At first she heard a continuous sound then it became clear. She heard a child yelling “ Help me! Help me!” She began looking for where the sound was coming from so she started walking around the park. Then she begin to run. As the sound got louder and louder. Soon she saw the two ninjas, one was in black and the other one was in grey. She spotted the little girl, it was hard to see because it was dark. Then she began to see clear, she realize she had x-ray vision. She jump high and climbed onto the wall, she realized she had the ability to climb. This all was so brand new to her, and so...
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... There was a couple moments only a sentence or two where he made me think the story was going to become easier to read, but it did not. In a way I do pity him, because his sentences consisting of only a few words and the way he would say the same sentence over, just switching the words a little made it seem to me that the narrator did not know how to speak correctly. The narrator seemed almost resentful about Robert coming to visit. He came across very rude and non-supporting of his wife, who was excited being able to see an important friend she had not seen in years. The narrator acted like being blind was a contagious and deadly disease. He did everything not to like Robert or to give him a fighting chance. Robert surprised me in the end, because after the way the narrator reacted throughout the story, in the end it was Robert who won over the narrator and gave the narrator an important life experience. Robert may be blind and could not see the narrator’s actions and facial comments, but he had to be able to feel the negative attitude the narrator had towards him. Robert just continued on, acting like he had not noticed how unwanted he was there. Robert pushed the narrator a little bit at a time to get him to open up and get to know him. After dinner I really did not notice Robert trying more than usual to get the narrator to like him. He seemed to take it or leave it as they went along, not taking the narrators attitude to heart and getting upset over it. The narrator...
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...and being unable to live in the moment and not thing about his future, this lets him realize that he is no longer the observer but rather the one being observed and judged by society. Throughout the whole book Mersault has always been portrayed as the observer of society. The man, who silently sits on his balcony, having a smoke, and watches the pedestrians walk through their life. But after being imprisoned, Mersault doesn’t feel his sense of empowerment anymore due to being in prison and forgetting how society acts. Normally a man in prison sooner or later forgets how society behaves (at least the little things). But Mersault doesn’t only forget this, but also loses his sense of empowerment, his little god-complex, sitting on the balcony, watching the people walk by. He no longer observes people, and instead is not invisible on the balcony anymore, but is being watched in a little cell. He...
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...An investigation into the representation of conventional Disney Princesses For many kids, Disney films have grown to nurture their escalation into developing as a child. Children have viewed different characters in different colours and patterns, whether idolizing them, favouring them or even despising them; those characters succeeded in impacting the mentality of those children, marking a point of interest that I would like to thoroughly investigate in this research assignment. Bearing that in mind, I have centered the aim of my research on the pink innuendos flaring from the very similar roles of the helpless princesses of Disney – the same innuendos that are now mostly looked as the societal norms of the Disney world. Some particular films that I have studied include ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Beauty and The Beast’, ‘Tangled’, and ‘Mulan’. Through the utilization of those films, I have carried my study in an order that would allow me to scrutinize the similarities assigned to the ‘pink’ customs fitted to Disney princesses, and any other differences that could break the code followed through years on the films – hence an investigation in the representation of conventional Disney princesses. Disney films have allowed children to compose a preconceived idea of women or female roles in the films or even in life altogether, as helpless, and in need of an external party (usually male – or the Prince Charming) to come in and switch their...
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...Remember watching this movie and then as it ended. I remember questioning myself. Does being such as mermaids exist? Bet this is a question in many minds considering we as human always thought we were the only creature walking-life form and there was no only type, but could there be completely other forms of living human beings unlike us swimming “under the sea” as it is said in the Disney’s television show the “The Little Mermaid.” As many social media stated such animal planet you don’t know what to believe it or not to believe. Because they said aquatic humanoids the half- human, half- fish being are clearly still remaining open to debating, because there are said to be some vivid imaginations. Because of a mermaid remains being found by American tourists whom were in Israel which they happen to catch footage of a mermaid. But if you were one of those tourist and went up someone walking in the streets now they probably would not believe what they were hearing and that it was coming from another person mouth. But there are also many people whom might believe it. Because you know if there were such things as gods and goddess, I think Neptune was a god and he happen to be a half-human but also half-fish which made him a mermaid. But this kind of topic has logical reasoning behind it. But that was a time long before us, and to come back to animal planet sources say that the mermaid’s story was all a show act. As stated in this statement “Mermaids were probably a lot more rooted...
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...Become a Critic Law Abiding Citizen was a very action packed mind binding thriller, it kept me on the edge of my seat from the very first scene to the very last scene. The advertising and previews of this movie did not prepare viewers for the action and mind binding events that took place. This movie had the viewer’s loving the victim that becomes the villain. The end of the first scene grabbed viewer’s attention. The action begins very unexpectedly and keeps viewers not wanting to miss a second. Because it begins with what the viewer see as a very possible real life situation. It keeps them feeling that this could happen to them, and if it did, we are left to wonder. Would we do what he did? In the beginning the movie viewers saw who the main character is, and who his family is. This tells viewers why his pain runs so deep. As the movie progresses we are not sure how he is doing but, we are rooting for him to get every bit of revenge. At this point, the movie goes into a little less realistic tone, but you do not care because you are with him one-hundred percent. Along with the action and suspense, this film offers a little twist that makes you say to yourself “that is how he did it”. This is where the viewer’s understand some of the reasons for events that took place, that were not made clear at the time. While I loved the movie because of the plot, the script, wonderful acting, and of course the psychological part of it was the best. I did not like the ending; it left me...
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...will only be the first of many depressing situations, but actually comes to the conclusion that it is only as depressing as you make it. It is kind of an open ending where the author puts in a line saying “Time waits for no man” which sums up on every reflections Pia had during her drive home. The atmosphere of the story is to begin with really tense and dim because of how Pia feels about herself. Turning 40 should be something to celebrate but for Pia it is the same as starting digging your own grave. When she hears the news of the neutrinos she “…wondered, too, if their course might be slowed by the cloudy melancholia that had descended on her today, on the morning of her fortieth birthday.” This leads to Pia’s reckless subconscious mind breaking through and she starts to not care for anything. She breaks the speed limits and rolls her window down, which she in the beginning didn’t want to do because “It felt safer like that.”. She doesn’t care...
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...change before your eyes. It is a total kind of change. There are simultaneous changes in facial expression, vocabulary, gestures, posture and body functions, which may cause the face to flush, the heart to pound, or the breathing to become rapid. We can observe these abrupt changes in everyone: the little boy who bursts into tears when he can’t make a toy work, the teenage girl whose woeful face floods with excitement when the phone finally rings, the man who grows pale and trembles when he gets the news of a business failure, the father whose face “turns to stone” when his son disagrees with him. The individual who changes in these ways is till the same person in terms of bone structure, skin and clothes. So what changes inside him? He changes from what to what? This was the question which fascinated Berne in the early development of Transactional Analysis. A thirty – five – year – old lawyer, whom he was treating, said, I’m not really a lawyer, I’m just a little boy.” Away from the psychiatrist’s office he was, in fact, a successful lawyer, but in treatment he felt and acted like a little boy. Sometimes during the hour he would ask, “Are you talking to the lawyer or to the little boy?” Both Berne and his patient became intrigued at the existence and appearance of these two real people, or states of being, and began talking about them as “the adult” and “the child”. Treatment centered on separating the two. Later another state began to become apparent as a state distinct...
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...what all they do not have. Hiba and Hamid's is a story belonging to the latter of the two categories. “... So, that is how you do it. Make sure you have blown just enough air into the toy—nothing more, nothing less. If it is less, it will look bad and they won’t buy it. If you keep filling in more gas, it could burst. So you have to be very, very careful. Okay, Hiba?” It took Hamid around twenty minutes to explain to his sister the basics of the craft he had mastered by now, at just twelve years of age. “But, why are we making these toys, bhai?” Hiba asked innocently. “To earn money,” he tried to brush aside the silliness in the question, and picked up another toy to breathe life into. But the little girl had more on her mind. “How will we earn money through these?” she shot back again. “By selling them, silly!” he retorted. “Who buys them, bhaijaan?” came another one. “The rich people!” went a roar. Hamid was getting impatient; he missed the fact that his sister was merely eight. But on hearing her squeal within, he calmed down. “You see, the ones who have more...
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...being home when I realized how important my life was. I saw my life flash before my eyes in a split second, while hearing the screeching of the tires. There were vivid memories that stuck in my mind; home, happiness, and friends. The thought of how I took everything for granted. Suddenly the car jerked and a loud crushing of metal occurred. My chest was burning from the seatbelt, and somehow my forehead felt like it had been punched. This car accident made me realize how important life is and not to take home, happiness, and friends for granted. While listening to the tires yelling; my mind’s first thought was of home, of my family. Snow was falling on my nose and all six of us were in a huge Christmas tree farm. It is a competition each year to see which one of us finds the fattest and biggest Christmas tree to put in the living room. This was the memory that crossed my mind of my family. The memory of how I didn't tell them that I loved them that day, or even the day of the car accident. I had taken my family for granted; I didn't tell them just how much I loved them before the car accident. I thought about how my family would feel if my sister and I didn’t live through the accident. Thinking about my family made me realize just how important my life is. Happiness crossed through my mind as my body began to pull forward from the hard break. The memory of being on top of the mountain while the sun was hitting my body and the slight wind was brazing my hair into my face. The memory...
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...The Little Prince, by ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY. It teaches us what the meaning of love is, and how to love being pleasant. The Little Prince is so in love with his rose, but he did not know how to deal with LOVE. Hence, he decided to leave his planet and starts his journey for grown-up. The story was begun with the childhood dream of a Pilot, who is the author and dreamed to become an artist when he was seven years old, but the adults were persuaded him to choose another career path. He was frustrated since nobody would appreciate his drawing and mistake his illustrations; therefore he stopped and became a pilot. He believes that he will meet someone who can fully understand his drawings. While he was trying to repair his aeroplane, which was crashed in the middle of the Sahara desert, a little boy appears and asks him to draw a sheep. Pilot drew several times but rejected. The prince finally accepted before exhausted his patience, but he was really surprised with the prince acceptation because he only drew a box and claimed that the sheep was being inside. The little man used to ask Pilot question but never answered, who made Pilot so curious about where the little guy came from. Pilot got some hints through their talk, and believed that the plant of little man came is the asteroid known as B-612. On B-612, the flower on this planet had always been simple, they were only one rings of petals, and took up no room at all. One day, a new beauty flower, rose, had came...
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