...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 didn’t want to be Cinderella or Belle or Snow White waiting for prince charming. I wanted to be witty, brave, and free-spirited - I wanted to be Megara from Disney’s heroic feature film, Hercules. This always led to my friends waving their hands in my face and insisting that she is “not a princess.” So what? Not all of us need to be damsels in distress; or, as Meg puts it, “I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day.” She is Disney’s token “strong, independent woman who don’t need no man.” It just seems as if Disney spent a little extra time on Megara. She has a developed past, one that isn’t all cupcakes and rainbows, and that in itself is a lot more than most of the leading ladies can say. Her attitude packs a punch...
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...6 The little mermaid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid#cite_note-5 Upon reading the original story of Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, the love between the little mermaid and the prince can reflect the author’s love to someone who was going to get married at that time. In the story , little mermaid asked for the Sea Witch for exchanging her beautiful voice for her two legs to dance with the prince . From this scene, the author wants to highlight the love’s sacrifice and how love is so important to change one’s values and beliefs . The author utilizes little mermaid’s impossible yet touching love with the prince to represent human’s love ---love can be an ultimate power to make oneself to sacrifice. Yet , from the little mermaid ‘s love with the prince and how she still danced with the prince despite the suffering excruciating pain, we can interpret some messages from daily lives .Take shark fin soup as an example , while we enjoy drinking the shark fin soup during traditional Chinese weddings , we have sidestepped the painful feelings when the sharks’fins were torn off before being dumped back to the sea .Not only sharks , but elephants and tigers do love humans even we know or don’t know .Indeed , they are like the little mermaid , sacrificing their body parts to fulfill the happiness of human and this is one of my insights after reading this story. Although the love between the animals and humans isn’t as same as the love between the little mermaid...
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...Briana Hernandez 1/17/2013 Mythology Mermaids Well, the million dollar question here is: Why would you pick mermaids as your topic? To be perfectly honest, I picked it because...Why not? Mermaids are something that has always been a part of my life. (As strange as that may sound) But it’s true. Mermaids are just something I’ve always been around. They are these magical beings of the sea. They are beautiful. They are amazing and everyone wants to see one. I LOVE MERMAIDS. There. I said it…I love mermaids. I remember being a little girl and watching The Little Mermaid with my older sister and thinking, ‘Wow. This is beautiful.’ This movie really was where it started. I think for a lot of people, it began with this movie. This movie showed mermaids in this light of being beautiful and being able to love. As a child, this is a pretty cool thing. It feeds the wonder and innocence of a child. But that gets killed and shot down upon the arrival of Middle School. But that’s another story. Mermaids have always been something of wonder. Though I’m an eighteen year old college bound girl, I still keep that child-like sense of innocence alive. We really don’t know what there is in the sea. Most of it is unexplored because of the dangerous environments. The ocean is something of marvel, yet instills fear in me. I’m afraid of the ocean. I don’t like to look out onto the beach and see never ending water. I could never go on a cruise. It seems like an irrational...
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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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...14004Niroshaan Sivarajah 1247555 Neil Briffett 13words The Poetics of Popular Music December 9, 2014 Final essay Every day a person finds that special someone to love or thought to be love. Relationships are the hardest thing to work on. Many work out but many don’t. Most of the times the means is clearly no one’s fault. If there were a lyricist that explore most of his songs on the same topic who would it be? A speaker with the same motif in his songs is Bruno Mars, in which some of his are about breakups and betrayals. Songs like “Grenade”, “Natalie” and “When I Was Your Man” are some good example of which it shows Bruno’s relationship problems with woman. Bruno Mars expresses the consequences of his decisions throughout different concepts such as broken hearth, regrets and betrayal; also they are represented by using symbolism, irony and metaphor, in order to show his depressive mental state. Firstly “Grenade” by Mars, generalizing about the lyrics of this song, it is about a broken heart guy just got dumped by a girl, who did not love him and made him suffer a lot. The lyrics expressed show that the speaker is very sad and depressed, which are the same to a failure stage in a relationship like every other unhappy couples. The first sentence of this song, which says “Easy come, easy go/That's just how you live oohh” (1-2), makes you immediately think that this is the type of girl who doesn’t view relationship as anything serious, which causes a lot pain and stress...
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...Ghosts by Naomi Wood The short story by Naomi Wood was written in 2012, and is about Pia, who is a middle-aged woman and the day where the short story takes place, is her 40th birthday. In this story we meet Pia, her partner Daniel and random people from the streets and of course Pia is our main character. The short story starts in the middle of Pia’s day, she just finished working and she is about to leave the car park at work. She is on her way home, where her partner Daniel waits to take her to a restaurant to celebrate her birthday, but on her way home she is reflecting over what it means to turn 40. The short story is told in a chronological order, but with flash back-like situations “Giving in, she ghosted back through memory. She drank the coffee, ate the omelette, took down the laundry...”. What’s most important is the middle and the ending of the short story, how Pia starts by thinking that turning forty 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...
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...2008 and Sarah Palin, she was the Vice president for the Republican party in 2008. The media often discusses if Clinton is cvalified enough because she has PMS or how bad her hair looks and how hot Palin looks and that she is a MILF. You almost never hear the media talking about this kind of thing, when comes to a male politician. Then the news talk about what good he can do for the U.S and what he stands for. It is normal for the media to only focus on women’s appearances. Girls learn from there are little kids, that their looks are the most important. Great examples are the Disney movies. For example the little mermaid, she gives up her voice so she can be with a man, she does not even know. The man falls in love with her, although they have never had a conversation. In the movie, TV and model industry, there are only a few females, who are over weight. Most of the women have the so-called the ideal body and therefore they set really high standers for the average girl or woman. Actually 65% of women and girls in the U.S, have eating disorders. And the average U.S women spend 12,000 to 15,000 dollars on beauty products and saloon service. This affects the whole world, because the United States is trend-setting country. Many of our commercials, movies and television programs are from the U.S, it is also the only country, which is a...
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...Dustin Hingley Complexity and Individualism in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” “The Little Mermaid” is a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid (girl) who longs to be part of another world; the result of having fallen in love with a prince and learning how to attain an immortal soul. Fairy tales like those by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault tend to be quite simple, in the sense that they focus on general messages and lessons surrounding common initiations, or stages of life, that we all go through as human beings. “The Little Mermaid” is far more complex than any of the Grimms’ or Perrault’s tales. Andersen Provides the reader with a more individualized, realistic experience of life and its hardships, something not typically found in other tales. Through his highly refined detail and imagery, the symbol of a voiceless woman, and the little mermaid’s decision to sacrifice her happiness for the sake of the prince’s, Andersen shows us what it means to struggle in order to understand one’s identity. Andersen utilizes extensive detail to describe everything from gross manifestations of scenery to the subtleties of the young mermaid’s thoughts. By providing such detail Andersen allows the reader to see through the eyes of the little mermaid as she moves along on her quest. When we are introduced to the princess, whom the prince marries, she is described as having “delicate and glowing” skin and “long dark lashes” surrounding...
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...wagon. The family was going to New Braunfel, because that was where the Verein have its headquarters, so that they could find out what to do next. On their way to New Braunfel, Mina and her sister met some Indians, while they were searching for food. The Indian man stood on a rocky rise near creek. He was tall and sinewy with a red robe draped around his waist, and he had long black hair. Mina was so afraid, that she dropped all of the food. Mina screamed to her sister, that she should run. After a while the Indian motioned with his arm for someone to come. From behind the bushes an Indian woman and girl appeared riding on a horse. The girl Amaya was the same age as Mina. The little girl undid her belt, and gave it to Mina. Mina then found out, that they were friendly, and the only thing they wanted was to trade with a lock of her hair. After Mina had given her lock of hair, the little girl helped Mina to pick up the food she dropped. Further inland the party of Germans decides to settle down and start building their new home in. It was a very good town, with good and nice people. The people in the town helped them build the house. She was surprised that people could be so nice and helpful. Mina liked to have so many people around her. The community in the town was good. After they had moved to the town, Minas’ father got very happy. Mina had never seen her father so happy. He...
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...COMPANY DATA BRIEF HISTORY/BACKGROUND OF THE COMPANY/COMPANY PROFILE It was a fairy tale story for the creative woman Florencia Guanzon-Coronel from a little girl wearing pretty dresses which made her look like a little princess began to attract attention by the fine wardrobe she wore, all made by her mother. Together with her husband, businessman Eduardo Coronel, had a genius idea to establish Cinderella Dresses Incorporated when the news Florencia’s talent rouse high demands. Cinderella, the country’s premium specialty store started with children’s clothes as its main line when it was established in 1948. Soon after, its marketing arm, Cinderella Marketing Corporation was also founded. As it pushed deeper into the fashion scene since its establishment, Cinderella has evolved to become one of the top clothing retailers in the Philippines with 251 stores and affiliate stores nationwide, presently offering not only children’s wear but men’s and ladies. Cinderella has proven itself as one of the best among merchants; being included in the hall of fame of outstanding Filipino traders by the Philippine retailers Association and the Department of Trade and Industry in 1998 and 1999. Cinderella remains to play a major role in the evolution of the Philippine’s fashion history as it continues not only to adapt but also set local fashion trends. INCLUSIVE DATES OF TRAINING The training was started on November 9, 2015 and ended on January 22, 2016. The training days were from...
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... RnR erupted in 1950s ~ kind of… Major RnR songs: “Rock around the clock” by Bill Haley and his comets 1955 “Crazy man crazy” by Bill Haley 1953 “Sixty minute man” by Dominoes 1951 Definition is vague, as it has to deal with RnB, sexual context and the actual genre of RnR. Sexual context of the term dates back into the mediaeval times. E.g. Shakespeare RnR was very multicultural. A simple algebraic formula for RNR is RnB + CnW = RnR, but it is overlooking some other significant elements that contributed to the creation of the RnR. RnR meant ethnicity and working-class African American contribution was also significant White and Black performers were equally performing Black church from jazz/gospel Ray Charles (I got a woman), Clyde McPhatter (Treasure of love), Sam Cooke (You send me). The Orioles, the Crows, the Chords, the Penguins created the sub genre of RnR “doo wop”. Barely any females in RnR. Only occasional females in charts like Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker Women did not sing, they were sung about, often in sexual connotation songs. RCA, CBS, Decca, and Capitol released more than 80% of all weekly top 10 hits. What allowed independent labels to compete with others: * poorly capitalized independent radio stations * Development of lightweight 45 rmp record no the 78 rmp. In early 1950s patterns of ownership started to change from individual stations to “chains” Todd Storz and Gordon McLendon both owned radio chains, who solved the problem...
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...imagery. Baldwin effectively conveys the foreboding imprisonment of anyone that gives in to Sonny and the Narrator’s environment. Baldwin depicts the environment of Harlem by utilizing rich imagery to describe the people within Harlem who have succumbed to the environment. "I didn’t want to go. I certainly didn’t want to know how it felt…quick silver barmaid with menace was their reality" (Baldwin 8). Through the text, one can infer that the society at the time could affect a person’s character and suck them in. Baldwin portrays a negative environment by describing the barmaid as a semi-whore, this helps the reader to see that subtle observations of Harlem’s society. Baldwin quotes “When she smiled one saw the little girl, one sensed the doomed, still struggling woman beneath the battered face of the semi-whore”(2) ; through this brief yet revealing description, one sees how the people within that Harlem society succumbed to the environment through the use of imagery. “And now, even though he was a grown-up man, he still hung around that block, still spent hours on the street corners, was always high and raggy” (1). Through this description of Sonny’s friend one can see how he has succumbed to the environment and remained imprisoned by it. Through suffering, one sees why Harlem was a setting where one had to escape and this can be seen when the narrator illustrates the environment at the revival meeting and the people that were there. "…women whose...
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...Raicharan's personality was related to who fathers who only thinks about loving their children so much, without even considering their selves. What I hate about it was giving too much, I think it's enough to tell you child how you love him every day, but not giving "all", specifically, material things. I think it's not fair. Be equal to your son and to yourself. A Little Incident • The theme of the story for me is that kindness lies in everyone’s heart. it’s just a matter of waking it up. This story is a light read but contains a lot of message not only about grace but as well as the truth in the social status of the people within a nation. Nice job and two thumbs up for Lu Xun. My Lord, the Baby The main character here is named Raicharan. He was only 12 years old when he became a servant. His Master made him a private servant to his Son. He took good care of him, until the time that the little Master Anukul grew up and got married. When Anukul had a son of his own. Anukul still made Raicharan his Son’s private servant. But fate got in the way, the little Master disappeared when Raicharan was taking him for a stroll. No one knows whether the Baby was taken by a group of Gypsies who were hovering nearby or He drowned in the river. Anukul’s wife got so distressed and furious that there is no reasoning with her. They made Raicharan go back to his Village. There he learned that his wife just gave birth to a Baby Boy but she...
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...The Little Mermaid is an example of how woman were seen in society. In the fairy tale, women are characterized by appearance rather than personality by both men and women. The little mermaid mentions “But if you take my voice, what shall I have left?”. In this quote, the little mermaid believes that she cannot just be herself to win the prince’s heart. The prince also looks at women the same way because of how he talks to the little mermaid. He asks her, “You’ve no fear of the sea, have you, my dumb child?”. He treats her as if she is still a small child just because she cannot speak. The tone helps shape the whole story into a feminist piece. Anderson relays the moral of the story for women in a cautionary tone to make them realize the message that is being said. The little mermaid gave up everything for the prince, and in the end, she paid a terrible price for it. Hans Christian Anderson’s writes her story The Little Mermaid in a cautionary tone with the usage of imagery and characterization to symbolize a feminist work of literature. The little mermaid’s grandmother demonstrates how appearance rules over personality. In the story, they characterized women in such a way that good looks are everything. When the little mermaid asked if the humans liked mermaids, the grandmother said, “They very thing that’s so beautiful here in the sea, your fish’s tail, seems ugly to people on the earth; they know so little about it that they have to have two clumsy supports called legs, in...
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