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Numerous educational enrichment programs can be found today, but few if any, are as appealing and inviting to children as the Disney Dreamers Academy (DDA). Academy, which was established in 2008, aims to empower high school students by offering them special programs that enable them to grow both as individuals and as future professionals. It is a four-day program that...
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Why doesn't Disney show gays and same-sex marriages? Is Disney trying to hide this from children? Throughout Disney movies, many people are noticing that they do not show any gay characters. Walt wanted to keep his company enjoyable for families of all ages so he kept them appropriate which may be a reason there are no gays because they may...
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Chana Chaikin Sociology Impact of Disney Movies Growing up I watched a lot of Disney movies. We primarily only watched Jewish media, except Disney movies, as my parents felt that many of the film’s themes had valuable lessons for us to learn. Disney movies were a big part of my childhood. I grew up admiring the life of Cinderella, Belle,...
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The use of media technology increases as time passes by. People, especially children and adolescents, are exposed to a wide array of information, issues, and trends in society with the help of media. It has been a great help for society to deliver and exchange all sorts of information. However, certain issues have been raised such as racism and religious...
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Disney Princess movies are not as safe as we previously thought. We are unintentionally damaging our kids by subtly enforcing social stereotypes. This is done by using classic story tropes like the handsome knight saving the pretty, helpless princess. Along with that, it can make girls self-conscious about their bodies. This is due to all the pretty princesses all sharing...
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The Walt Disney Company found on October 16, 1923, in Los Angeles, California was a corporation known as one of the best providers of children and family entertainment in the 20th and 21st centuries. Disney’s first animated movie Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was a big hit and since then Disney has had huge successes. Disney has made many...
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Have you ever caught yourself whistling at work? Perhaps you have told yourself to just keep swimming? Maybe even had your knee kissed better when you hurt it as a child? Are these phrases ringing any bells in your head? If yes, you have likely been influenced by the monstrous bundle of movies created by Walt Disney. If not, I...
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Numerous academic research journals can be found into the study of the progression and portrayal of Disney princesses and their impact to children’s self-esteem and self-identity. This literature was reviewed to determine the conclusion on if both environmental and biological processes are included in the discovery of the impact that Disney princesses have on children’s self-esteem and how the two...
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In his article ‘How Walt Disney Ruined Our Lives’, which appeared in the Brandeis Magazine in 2013, Harvard-trained psychologist Robert Epstein talks about the impact of some of Walt Disney’s most famous films on the nature and dynamic of committed human relationships, specifically marriages. He mentions how these Disney movies, which are themselves based on ancient (and quite sinister) folktales...
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Parents should write a petition to Disney to make their princesses fit the mold of young girls across the world and protest the amount of sexualization that is being presented to girls through TV and the Internet. Stephanie Hanes (2011), author of ‘Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect’, claims that Disney stated: “The Disney princesses teach girls...
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The media plays a significant role in our daily lives by providing us with cultural, educational, and supplemental information that cultivates our knowledge while also shaping our political aspects and framing our cultural guidelines in society. It has the role of being an effective educator, by informing us of anything newsworthy, which is quite true, but what most people don’t...
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Ever since the dawn of every family’s favorite franchise, Disney, young girls everywhere have had their minds contorted into believing they should portray a certain kind of woman and to never dare break the glass-ceiling. Right from the get go with the studios first feature film, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ (1937), by using a doolally doe-eyed sweetheart relevant...
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In this media content review, I'm going to talk about Disney princesses. My form of media I chose along with my topic is gender. The reason I chose this topic was because I love Disney and as a little girl, my favorite Disney princess was always Cinderella. This paper I chose discusses Disney’s way to feminism and how cartoons have...
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If you were to ask a little girl what she wants to be when she grows up, she is likely to say one of her dreams is to be a princess. Now this is not the princess you see in the Royal family; it is a Disney princess. A Disney princess is a slim physique, beautiful figure. From a young...
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Disney movies have been criticized in the past for promoting an unrealistic beauty standard through their princesses as well as constant reinforcement that a man is needed in order to complete a woman. However, in the 2013 movie ‘Frozen’, Disney seemed to have attempted to listen to some of these gendered critiques. The main characters, Anna and Elsa, do still...
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Contrary to the popular opinion that Disney films contribute to the positive development of morals of the younger generation, some of them contain ‘bad’ morals that can teach children what is wrong. This essay is dedicated to this topic. Children are easily influenced by what they see and hear and thus what they watch. One Disney movie that shows bad...
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Nature has been of little interest to publishers of children's books. In fact, there haven't been a lot of featured stories about environmental issues to transmit values like ecology to the youngest. However children's literature is meant for future generations, it has incredible power to shape the world of tomorrow, particularly in regard to the environment. My interest in this...
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‘Frozen’ is a movie like no other in the Disney industry because it has not one but two female protagonists. This story is about two sisters, Elsa, and Anna, who have this unconditional love and care for each other even when they were far away from each other. They show the power of sisterhood, contradict the belief that ‘true love’...
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John Musker and Ron Clements partner up yet again to make another astonishing film. Disney's hit movie ‘Moana’ is a sensational film created to fascinate its viewers. Featuring lead actors Auli’i Cravalho as Moana, and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson as Maui. Taking place in the large island and village of Motunui is very beautiful, as well as it is filled...
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My absolute favorite movie growing up was ‘The Lion King’. I had this movie engrained in my mind because I watched it often, every night my parents read it to me before bed and I listened to a cassette tape of it while I slept. The young lion cub Simba is tricked by his uncle Scar into thinking he murdered...
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Moana is on the verge of turning into the primary feminine chief within the proud history of her Austronesian tribe, shattering the cap below spectacular blue skies. Imagine that. Sure, you may go see “Moana” for its dazzling visuals, catchy tunes, pleasant performances, clever running gags, and overall sense of fun. It’s all there, and—except for some chilling moments—it’ll delight...
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This movie is about a Chinese maidens country that is in danger and her frail father is chosen to serve in the army to fight, to save their country. So after she failed the test with the matchmaker and disappointed her family, she asks herself “Why is my reflection someone I don't know”. Knowing that her father won’t survive, she’s...
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Here, we reach a rabbit hole in the form of a Disney scholarship. By way of introduction to the field, I suggest that Disney scholarship consists largely of two “camps.” The more contemporary strain of Disney scholarship, beginning to blossom in the 1970s, concentrates largely on questions of narrativization politics, including those of Walt Disney’s biography. A non-exhaustive list of...
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It would seem that it is not just the misrepresentation of Arabs and Muslims as a regressive group but also the lack of representing them in a balanced way. Pistritto in The Real Faces of Islam compares the representation of Muslims in “Islam vs Islamists”, a documentary that had taken the task to show Muslims battling with Islamic extremists in...
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Racism has always been part of our society in recent decades, people have been getting more to value than before. Same with animations and cartoons, people get more and more sensitive to what message the animation delivers to the audiences. Back in 1900 animation was published for entertainment only, Compared to animations published nowadays they are indeed for entertainment but...
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This essay will deconstruct the children’s film Aladdin (1992) produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker and how animation and Disney films, in particular, can internalize false ideologies on children and young women. This essay will be structured about Laura Mulvey’s essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and her theories on ‘The Ways...
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“Look inside yourself! You are more than what you have become. Remember who you are!” - Moana Amid the cacophony of orders and opinions - “Stay on the island”; your dream “is just not meant to be”; “I’m not killing myself so you can prove you’re something you're not” - Moana overcomes fear and doubt, she stays true to herself...
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The film Shrek is based on a book titled ‘’Shrek’’ which was authored by William Steig. The book is designed for use by children and is about the giant green ogre. This tale is aimed mainly at the children and their parents. From the beginning, the movie is barely a fairy tale, with a lot of twists. The film also...
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This may sound very archaic but: 'What is the use of man winning the world, if he loses his soul?' This phrase repeated endlessly, even on the big screen, can be applied to Disney standards and its new live-action remakes, increasingly referred to as dry remakes, as in the case of 'The Lion King' (The Lion King, 2019). The level...
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