...The person I have selected for this research paper is Princess Diana. She changed the world by modernizing the idea of what a princess should be. She also put substance over style. I already know that she thought she never had a happy life. I know she died in a car crash because photographers were chasing her. The car crashed under a bridge because she was trying to get away from the photographers. I would like to learn why her life wasn’t that happy, and why she and Prince Charles got divorced. I will be looking at websites, such as the following, biography.com, theodysseyonline.com, and more for my website sources. I will be using the documentary Behind Closed Doors as my one alternative source. For my book sources, I am planning...
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...Sierra is madly in love with High Wolf and planned on escaping with him and childhood friend, Prince Alathom, to Scotland where Princess Sierra and High Wolf would marry. However, through a plan of deception, the marriage between Princess Sierra and High Wolf is thwarted and she is forced to give her hand in marriage to Prince Alathom. With the Prince nowhere to be found, Princess Sierra is married to Prince Alathom by proxy and carries out the duties of the Prince in his absence. After 10 years without appearance, Princess Sierra is determined to hunt the Prince down and drag him back to the castle, until she runs into the one man that her heart still belongs to, High Wolf. While remaining steadfast in her mission to find her husband,...
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...The idea of purity is a recurring theme in myths regarding Diana. Diana was the chaste goddess of the hunt and of the moon (Vickers 268). Her power came from her chastity and her self-control regarding sex, because, unlike the other gods and goddesses, she would never have children that would have allegiance with her. When Actaeon see her in the grotto, her purity becomes jeopardized because Actaeon’s intentions were unknown. Diana transforms Actaeon into a stag in order to preserve her power as the chaste goddess Diana led a band of virgin hunters who took an oath of chastity as a way of pledging allegiance to her and they spent their days hunting alongside the goddess (Vickers 268). Unlike the other gods and goddesses, Diana would never have...
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...she couldn’t have a baby. One day she was sitting in the bath tube and she saw a frog, well instead of talking to herself she was talking to the frog. She told the frog on how she couldn’t have a baby and how she wanted one. The frog hopped away. Queen Elizabeth woke up the next day and was feeling a bit under the weather. The next couple of days have gone past and she still wasn’t feeling good. She figured it was a cold, but she was actually pregnant. She gave birth to a baby girl, when they wanted a boy so they would have a prince and not a princess. They named their new baby Aurora or Sleeping Beauty . They held a party for her at their castle. Invited everyone they could think of, some village folks, the thirteen wise women, their families to have a big celebration for the kid they don’t even want. The thirteen wise women got to give their wishes on Princess Aurora, they would come true on the night of her sixteenth birthday. Princess Aurora...
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...Princess Yorkenia and her journey to writing…. Once upon a time… Yorkenia a 17 years old adolescent in her way to college, was waiting for the train as her daily routine was of two hours to get to class… It was freezing that she thought that she was in the process of becoming Elsa… But, that wasn’t the only thoughts she had. She also, was thinking of an essay she must write for her class of creative writing which was “ Course goals.” Although it may seem an easy essay to write, she had a hard time writing it. She started the essay earlier to avoid procrastination, nothing came to her mind to write… Her mind was like a hurricane in the most arduous tropical times, taking all her time and energy thinking of her past. Searching how to write poetic, reading essays, reading articles but nothing worked. That day when the essay was due, that day when she was in the process of becoming Elsa, she had an idea of what creativity for her may be and what to write in her essay....
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...Princess Diana captured the world's attention as not following the royals way of living and breaking many traditions, but during her time in the public eye, she also became a prominent humanitarian. Diana worked tirelessly on behalf of charities around the world, at some point working with of over 100 charities, using her fame to raise awareness of a number of important world issues. Twenty years after her death, Diana will be remembered as the "People's Princess." During her many visits to hospitals, schools and fundraising galas, she became known for spending hours talking to people and listening to their stories. In April 1987, when people didn’t want to be around those with the virus and when they were isolated from the real world, Diana...
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...What would the world be like if there was no kindness? Would the world just continue on in one huge war? Would people only think about themselves? How would anyone go on without kindness? Kindness is acting on behalf of someone else and not expecting anything in return. Princess Diana once said, “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” Princess Diana was an excellent example of a kind person. She spent much of her time helping different charities, but one charity that she devoted a lot of her time to help was for the AIDS patients. Diana raised a ton of money to help find a cure for the disease and she would visit the patients in hospitals, holding...
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...The Princess Bride is a fairy tale classic and was first aired in 1987, based on a William Goldman novel which earned its own loyal audience. It was narrated by a grandfather reading a bedtime story to his grandson. The princess Bride had romance, fighting, torture, and more. For instance, this fairytale had two heroes Westley and Inigo. They are bot so have similar yet so different at the same time. Westley and Inigo are similar because they both Love, Master swords, and accomplished their goals. Also different life experience, accent, and race. The beginning of the movie Westley was a farm boy who loves Buttercup when he replied to her commands he would say ,“As You Wish” showing how he was willing to do anything for her. Buttercup soon...
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...Disney Princess Effect on Young Girls and Their Gender Role Perception The Disney Corporation has been around since 1937 when it released the first Disney Princess movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, millions of young girls have fallen in love with these characters and often see them as role models. From the dresses to the tiaras, the beauty to the fairy tale, Disney Princesses have a direct effect on young girls and their behavior. The media has been a powerful resource through which many young girls develop their identity and come to understand gender roles in society. Research indicates that watching televised gender portrayals has an effect on individuals’ gender based attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors (Mastro & Morawitz 131). These are the attitudes and beliefs that young girls who watch Disney princess films would inherit. Girls enjoy watching these films and see the beautiful characters overcome difficult trials, as well as fall in love with a handsome prince in the end. The overall message is not a realistic one, leaving many girls feeling self conscious and unhappy. The idea that beauty equals good and ugly equals evil can negatively impact the way a girl looks at herself or others. Girls will ultimately learn that what is beautiful is good. Snow White and Cinderella were attractive and charismatic while the witch and two stepsisters were unattractive and vile. And in the end, the princesses lived happily ever after. The purpose of this paper is to...
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...An Analysis of Gender Roles in Disney Princess Films Jasmit Singh 213749361 Traditional and Popular Culture – 1900 9.0 Susan Niazi – Tutorial 6 Whether it’s the colours they wear, the activities they engage in or how they behave, men and women are known to play different roles in society. These established gender roles “are not innate or natural but a product of society”. Children, adolescents and adults all learn gender roles through the environment they’re surrendered by. One of the many huge influencers that help shape gender roles is media. Although “there has been a lot of change over the years in terms of what is considered appropriate societal roles for men and women, this change is not reflected in contemporary film”. The ideology of mainstream media continues to focus on the males being the heads of society, which in result, shows an unequal representation of the females. From an early age, media puts an image into young minds, informing them how males and females should think, act, behave and appear. In many television shows and films, one can easily see the distinct difference between the role of a male and a female. Often films are enforcing stereotypical gender roles where the male is seen to holds more importance in society than the female. Amongst many film producing companies, Walt Disney Pictures for decades have been enforcing stereotypical gender roles in their princess films. Though it may not be outright obvious, Disney productions play a huge role...
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...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 role in societies today. The company has many princess films and has portrayed an image of different genders which is very well penetrated in the minds of children (Disney Princess, 2010). According to B. Davies masculinity and femininity are not properties inherent in individuals, although there is inherent or structural property our society that is, arising from social action and at the...
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...Title: Varying Interpretation of Fairy Tales in real life and The effects when introduced early in childhood. Justin L. Soriano Vincennes University Abstract This paper explores published articles that report studies done from research conducted upon observation of young children by Bettelheim (The uses of enchantment, 1976). The articles however vary in their definitions today. Bettelheim suggested that fairy tales have an emotional and symbolic importance especially those traditional stories that included abandonment, death, injuries and evil witches. These tales allowed children to cope up with their fears and understand moral values in their own terms. This paper also examines how preferred relationship traits are created based on stories like Cinderella or Snow White and how it affects us in choosing an ideal suitable partner. Varying Interpretation of Fairy Tales in real life and The effects when introduced early in childhood. Everybody as children has been read or told a version of “ Cinderella” at one point in their lives. They were recited to us by out parents and grandparents, aunts and uncle, older siblings or other relatives and of course our dear teachers at school when we were young. We can’t help but feel enthralled as our imaginations transport us to the enchanted time and place. But what really draws us to be so interested in fairy tale stories like these? How does these stories affect us or the children exposed to it in the long run as we...
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...Matt Williams Splitting Hairs in Disney’s film Tangled Cinderella tells us that a dream is a wish that your heart makes, and following suit dreams play a large part in the newest Disney princess film, Tangled. In the end of the film Rapunzel holds Flynn and they admit their deep secret that they had become each other’s dream, and an “awww” moment ensues. The question to ask is “Where do these dreams come from?” and “What do these dreams mean?” Taking this second question, the implications of Rapunzel and Flynn’s dream impact more than just the world of the film. The Disney Princess films have been studied within an inch of their lives by a great number of scholars in a great number of fields. One common study takes the ideas of gender development and combines them with the Disney Princess films. However, the implications of gender do not stop here as gender identity can still be impacted as the viewers age. Interpretation of the princess films has been a huge aspect of their scholarly application as the behavior of the princesses, and princes, can be interpreted and compared with gender 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...
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...Megan Woodrow December 10, 2012 Human Symbolic Activity Final Paper Gender and Communication: Disney Princesses Evolve Over Time Women have been around since the beginning of time, and have been stereotyped towards having “weaker natures and bodies” and “silly and emotional desires”. The women in the classic Walt Disney films are no exception to this criticism. But there is a saving grace. As women in real life have changed over time, our counterparts in fantasy film animation have also changed. The classic Walt Disney Princesses have therefore evolved through, and with, the media. After thinking back on what made Disney such a huge hit and major part of all of our lives, one answer came to mind: The Disney Princesses. Walt Disney and the Disney Company started out with young and beautiful Snow White, and then eventually moving onto the long line of famous Disney heroines such as Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, Ariel, Jasmine, Mulan, and many more to recent date. There have been so many princesses (and other strong heroines) added to the Disney list, but has anyone ever thought of how these princesses have changed over time, or how they have evolved due to how women in real life are represented in the media today? Before I go into any more on the Princesses themselves, I first need to explain what events and stereotypes have made the basis for the Disney Princesses of the past, and even the for the women of the past, due to how the media and others have portrayed...
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...Skip to NavigationSkip to Content TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory JoinSearchBrowseSaved Papers Search Home Page »Philosophy and Psychology Personal Model of Helping In: Philosophy and Psychology Personal Model of Helping PERSONAL MODEL OF HELPING Karen Carr January 10, 2010 BSHS312 – Effective Models of Helping Dr. Princess Clarke \ How and why you formed this viewpoint In growing up I always wanted to help other people. I was the child who other children confided in or came to when they wanted to talk or needed help with a problem. When growing up it was not common for black people to go to counseling. Families kept secrets among themselves and sometimes those secrets came back to haunt people many years later. When faced with problems people relied on their spiritual beliefs, the support of the family, and sometimes close friends. If a girl had gotten pregnant and not married that would have been kept top secret. Usually a family member would raise the baby and no one would ever speak openly about it. My family had to deal with the death of two of my brothers at young ages. It hurt my mother deeply having to deal with the loss of two children because of violence. These tragedies were never discussed even as we became adults. As I became older I realized that my mother and our entire family should have gotten counseling. It was not until after my mother passed that my uncle shared...
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