Cinderella Man Analysis

Many consider the Great Depression a tragedy but few actually know the ways in which it actually affected the people who lived through it. One way it affected the people of the time is the hopelessness it brought. During the early 1920's many men returned from the "Great War" jaded and angry. The same effect was seen in most people during the depression. It was this hopelessness that spawned modernist literature and thought. Another way the depression affected the everyday man was the loss of homes. Many homes were foreclosed during the depression and this left many homeless. In fact the "Okies" were people left homeless after farm foreclosures. The last way the depression affected people was the broken homes it caused. The number of father's leaving their families rose dramatically during

The great depression was a terrible time for many families in the United States. After the economic boost of the 1920’s, many people spent their many on stocks and credit. Everything went wrong after the stock market crash on October 29. 1929. People lost the money they had in banks when they panicked and tried to get all their money out at the same time. The banks didn’t have enough money to give back.The Braddock family suffered economic hardship, emotional distress and family unity during the great depression. The Braddock family had trouble with finding money, paying bills, keeping it together- both their emotions and family.

The Depression had many effects on the movie. All of the men down at the docks are very eager and most likely desperate the way they try to show there face to the man picking only a handful of them. The actions of these men are because they are unemployed and if they have family they are most likely struggling keeping enough food on the table for them to eat. Jobs were very hard to find and even if they did get them, it wasn’t like winning the lottery, it was hardly enough to pay ends meat. One day when James comes home he finds out his son has stolen a slab of salami for the local meat store. This is a very sad scene because after Jim finds out the true reasoning behind his son’s the audience finds out that he is really just scared of being sent away because he knows the times are tough and isn’t sure his father can provide for him and his two other siblings. His son stealing the meat is also symbolic for how and why the crime rate rose during the great depression. Another scene that represents the Depression’s affect on the Braddock’s family and there peers is all there kids together have one birthday party, all of there friends kids all share a birthday with one cake and little to no presents. The depression has hit all of the families so hard they don’t have enough money for individual birthday

In Peggy Orenstein’s article, “What’s wrong with Cinderella?”, she analyzes the obsessions young girls have for stereotypical feminine products and toys, such as princesses and the color pink. Orenstein claims that such obsessions have negative effects on girls as they grow into women, restricting them into playing a specific role in adulthood. Although the author expresses much bias, she effectively supports her claims through her positions as a feminists and parent.

In Peggy Orenstein’s article, “What's wrong with Cinderella?” she discusses the problems with princesses. The first problem being that princess merchandise is everywhere. Orenstein writes about when she took her daughter to the dentist and once the check-up was over, her daughter got a princess sticker. Princesses are embedded into a child’s everyday life, making a “princess” more of a way of living than a fantasy. To further this point, Orenstein mentions how even now, in a show that is supposed to be about teaching other languages, Dora the Explorer, has turned into Dora finding a fairy tale land where she becomes a princess at the end of her two part movie. This is only the beginning of the issues that are brought to attention in this article.

1. Throughout Cinderella Man, Jim Braddock is left with a series of tough decisions throughout the movie, however despite his hardships, he manages to do what he believes is right. When his family has little food and one of his children steals meat from a local deli, he makes his son return it rather than keeping the food. Although his son has already gotten away with stealing, Braddock still feels it is unethical and gives it back. Jim Braddock and his wife also make the tough decision to have their children stay with family after their heat gets turned off. Although Jim would of liked to keep them with him, he knows the right choice is to make sure they have a warm place to stay to avoid getting sick. Another ethical choice he makes in the movie is to return his relief money. Although, people were not expected to return the relief money, Jim Braddock returned it once he had enough money to. Braddock felt this was the right thing to do even though he didn't have much money. Jim Braddock made a series of tough ethical

Taking place in the states of New York and New Jersey, Cinderella Man takes you through the hardships an American boxer faces during the Great Depression. Starting out as a very successful prize fighter James J. Braddock is able to provide for his family, but then loses everything but his family after the stock markets crashed. He breaks his hand during a fight which not only prevents him from fighting but it also leads to him having a difficulty getting working shifts at the docks. Braddock’s luck turns around when he gets an opportunity to fight one last time due to a cancellation against the number two contender at the time. He proceeds to knock out John "Corn" Griffin and continous his boxing career. After a climbing the ranks he became

Disney makes over $3 billion on their Disney Princess products every year and now have over 25,000 items in their princess collection (Orenstein 2). Disney has played a big role in shaping not only societal viewpoints on what young girls should like, but also what little girls believe they should enjoy as well. Gender stereotypes have been around for a long time, but now with technology advancements, such as media in western society is able to play a bigger than ever role in influencing people’s perspectives. Not only do we see gender roles and stereotypes in television shows, but also in advertisements and in children’s toys. Although many readers of Peggy Orenstein’s “What’s wrong with Cinderella” have argued that the princess culture is corrupting today’s young girls and making them more dependent on men, a closer examination shows that many girls grow out of the princess phase with no negative repercussions and choose whatever passions they want.

Cinderella Man is a famous, nonfiction film that was directed by Ron Howard and produced in 2005. The timing of the production of this film can strike as interesting, and maybe even odd; this is because the film begins in the times of the roaring 20’s, when the United States experienced a peak in economic successes. However, the 20’s is not the only developed time period, rather, it is the 30’s that most of the action in the film protagonists’ story will take place. Jim Braddock, a well known, wealthy, married man takes the lead position to show audiences the first-hand impact that the Great Depression had on families of all backgrounds. Braddock's riches-to-rags-to-riches story has inspired the value behind family and hard work and brought hope to his neighbors and fans who found themselves also struggling to find work and pay their bills during one of the greatest the economic downturns in history.

Cinderella’s story is undoubtedly the most popular fairy tale all over the world. Her fairy tale is one of the best read and emotion filled story that we all enjoyed as young and adults. In Elizabeth Pantajja’s analysis, Cinderella’s story still continues to evoke emotions but not as a love story but a contradiction of what we some of us believe. Pantajja chose Cinderella’s story to enlighten the readers that being good and piety are not the reason for Cinderella’s envious fairy tale. The author’s criticism and forthright analysis through her use of pathos, ethos, and logos made the readers doubt Cinderella’s character and question the real reason behind her marrying the prince. Pantajja claims that

Today everywhere you look girls of every age seem to be caught in the glitz and glam of being that fairytale princess from the stories of their childhood. In “What’s Wrong With Cinderella?” Peggy Orenstein argues that it has come to a point where the craze for princesses has corrupted the minds of the young girls everywhere, and how it may be teaching them self-worth it has also led groups of girls to believe that they can lead the same lives as these fictional princess characters that sing to creatures and have magical powers. Also, to make matters worse companies like Disney keep feeding into this hidden epidemic of.

Cinderella Man was an incredibly magnificent and uplifting film that followed the life of the “Bulldog”, later entitled “Cinderella Man”, starring Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock, the American heavyweight boxer. Primarily, Cinderella Man embodies strength and willpower as once-undefeated heavyweight fighter, Braddock’s loses started to rapidly accumulate, so bad that he was released from his boxing contract and was merciless impeded from fighting. Correspondingly, deprived of work the bulldog began to undertake hard labor during the Great Depression to counterbalance myriad bills and overdue payments. Moreover, Braddock and his wife Mae together had three children to nourish. Correspondingly, years later, Joe Gould played by Paul Giamatti, was Braddock’s old boxing manager and contracted him one last concluding fight, which he won. Hence, the Bulldog started to train again and James J. Braddock was reborn after countless winning comebacks. Ultimately, Jimmy undergoes a fairy tale rise from a poor local fighter to the heavyweight-boxing champion of the world.

Do you know anybody whose little girls wants to be a princess? I do, my little sister, and my nieces. They are all crazy about princess.

Okay guys, I thought we played exceptionally well during the first half of the game, but we need to step it up. If everyone just puts max effort in this game we have a decent shot at pulling this upset off. They are up just ten points right now and this is exactly where we want them. Since they are a three seed and we are a fourteen, I expect them to come out cocky being the higher seed. They think that this game should be a piece of cake on their way to the championship. Games like this are what March Madness is all about. Everyone likes to see the Cinderella teams come from nowhere and pull of a massive upset. Let’s bust some brackets, finish this game strong, and no matter if we win or lose, have fun. Let's be that Cinderella team this year

I sat, folded script in hand, on a shaggy pink rug coated in decades' worth of glitter and hairspray. I observed the other auditioners rehearsing their lines over and over with each other.