Princess Bubblegum: A Hero's Lessons

Many parents/caregivers today may ask themselves if their little girls may be growing up too fast? Are they becoming little women too soon? Stephanie Hanes wrote an interesting and valid article “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect, “ which argue that many young ladies today in age may be impacted by Disney Princess regarding their life expectations. The author talks about the issues of young girls feeling the necessity to mature sooner rather than at a timely matter.

Authors James Poniewozik and Peggy Orenstein are both concerned with the increase of princess culture among young girls. Poniewozik’s article “The Princess Paradox” and Orenstein's article “Cinderella and Princess Culture” discuss similar aspects of princess culture that could be potentially harmful to it’s audience. Both Poniewozik and Orenstein take on a feminist perspective in their articles. Specifically, both authors discuss feminist themes in princess culture but Orenstein focuses on toddler to pre-teen aged girls while Poniewozik is more concerned with specifically teenagers.

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In “Cinderella and Princess Culture,” Peggy Orenstein compares girls lives to princesses. Society is stereotyping girls as princesses negatively impacting girls well being. As a result, Orenstein claims society should stop stereotyping girls as princesses and have parents limit the girl's exposure to them. Orenstein proves her claim by stating playing with princesses lowers girls self-esteem and can harm their mental and physical health. Orenstein also states the word princess is such a broad meaning, that it is very misunderstood. For example, when one hears the word princess they can think of a girl wearing a fancy dress, or all the princess products. A lot of girls are being stereotyped as being a princess,

According to Stephanie Hanes’ article titled “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect," she covers the story of Mary Finucane and her daughter, whom she observed and realized that she had changed abruptly from her usual playful self to a serious and more mature looking character despite her young age (509). Later she came to discover that this was because of the effects of the Disney programs that her daughter had begun watching. Hanes covers the issue of young girls growing up in a highly sexualized environment. Her article explains the influence that the media have on sexualizing the environment for kids through the biased images of women on the internet, books and even television. To support her notion, Hanes applies some

The memories leading up to Sodapop Curtis' practical loss of sanity were still fresh in his own mind, though they seemed like they were centuries ago. The gut-wrenching memories always made him a fool when he'd be certain that they were forgotten, only for them to come crashing down on him like a ton of lead, and always at the worst moments. Sodapop would reminisce one of those sweet childhood memories, playing in the park with his brothers or mom's soft, gentle voice while she took care of him when he was sick. But the relief never lasted, and those memories would crumble to dust once the others arose from the still, deep waters. They consumed him, ate away at him like if he were nothing but a rotting corpse and just like that, he was dead

Hasn't every little girl wanted to be a princess at some point? Well, now they can experience all of Disney's princesses in one ride. That’s right, Disney's top designers have used the newest technology to pack excitement, thrill, and sparkle to give you one magical ride. We are proud to announce our newest attraction “Happily Ever After.” It features all of our most inspiring and courageous princesses like Elsa’s Ice Castle, Cinderella’s Castle, Rapunzel's Tower, and many more of our amazing princesses. If you are brave enough to accept the quest of riding, you will get to meet the princesses themselves afterward. Disney has never done anything like this, and we would like you to sit back and enjoy the ride.

The story of Tiana in the movie The Princess and the Frog is one of Disney’s more progressive princess movies in that it moved away from the typical, cookie cutter princess story in which the woman needs saving from the handsome and charming prince. The movie is the story of Tiana, a young, African-American woman of low socioeconomic status, who lives in New Orleans. The movie centers around Tiana’s dream of owning her own restaurant named Tiana’s Palace and how she gets to her happily ever after of owning her restaurant. Though progressive the movie still contains similar traits to other Disney princess movies. The Princess and the Frog exhibits traits of Feminist theories throughout Tiana’s journey in building her restaurant while the movie still undermines the oppression of women. Moreover, in her journey aspects of Karl Marxist’s commodity theory arises when Tiana interacts with other characters in the movie.

The film Shrek makes myriad allusions to various other texts. These allusions are usually presented as a parody of an original text, in which the makers of Shrek imitate the style of the parodied texts. Their re-creation of these hypotexts (Dentith 36) involves subverting key aspects of the original texts, setting up incongruities between what the audience expects to see and what actually takes place. The focus is thus brought to the audience, as writers of media texts write based on assumptions that they make of their audiences. Studying the assumptions behind the construction of both the original texts and the parodies can then reveal something about the audiences for whom these texts were created.

One of the most beloved films/musicals of all time. People enjoy this musical for numerous reasons but mostly because of its campy humor and heartwarming emotion. After many years, this musical is still very relevant and able to make an audience laugh.

Cramped in a small Los Angeles office, Walt Disney drew a few larger than life cartoons. After Disney’s big hit Alice Comedies and cartoons of Mickey and the gang, he moved his office to Burbank, California. There, Walt and his brother, Roy, came up with their most famous movies such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Alice in Wonderland. Now with two American amusement parks, three international parks, multiple cruise lines, multiple resorts, over five hundred films, and over thirty academy award, it’s hard to not heard of Disney. Every boy or girl has at least seen or heard of Disney movies. It’s such a big part of society today that it becomes influential in a kid’s childhood. This project will look at the underlying effect of the Disney princess phenomenon and how it shapes a young girls’ perspective of herself and how she’s “supposed” to be.

The gameplay in N++ is deceptively simple. The goal is to press a switch with your ninja and make your way through the opened door. You have a limited amount of time and collecting gold along the way increases that time. Hazardous objects and enemies provide instant kills, and everything is presented on a single static screen. The difficulty

You could utilize your accumulated heroes in different methods the game, kick those inbound opponents by integrating your very own abilities with usage your personal controls for intense fights without using a solitary thing.

This charming story reverses the typical roles within a children’s book. With underlying issues of stereotypes, independence and empowerment, it fills children with imagination and teaches them the importance of being strong, smart, and the realization that beauty comes from within.

Sexuality “What Was Missing”: At the start of the episode, Finn is shown alone holding a pink lump of Princess Bubblegum’s hair that he had hidden under the couch in his tree home. He blushes when he is caught by Jake and Beemo. We later find out that her hair is one of his ‘beloved’ items that means a lot to Finn. Which both suggest that male Finn has a crush on female Princess Bubblegum and thinks of her as more than a friend. In addition, Finn sings the lyrics: “What am I to you?/Am I a joke, your knight, or your brother?/ What am I to you?/Do you look down on me 'cause I'm younger?”