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    Film Analysis: Pocahontas The animated Walt Disney movie Pocahontas is based on a true life story of a young Powhatan Indian girl named Pocahontas who falls in love with John Smith. In the making of the movie, Walt Disney, attempts to relate to the early 17th Century historic event of Europeans settling in Jamestown; however, Disney did not portrait the true story. Disney rewrote the story by making it a beautifully romantic and animated love story like a Cinderella fairytale. In the Walt Disney

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    compassion merely describes the surface of the story of Pocahontas. An individual might only be able to see Disney’s version, but upon further analysis, an individual can find that the story is much more political and not as happy as it seems. In John Smith’s account of Pocahontas, Pocahontas is a woman who falls in love with him even against her father’s warnings. He was captured and supposed to be killed. This did not happen, as Pocahontas jumped in front of Smith to save him. This is from the account

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    Disney released the classic film “Pocahontas” on June 23, 1995 about a young girl who is a member of the Algonquin tribe with her father being the Chief. The movie takes place near Jamestown in the early 1600’s. Pocahontas father, has arranged for her to marry a man,Kocoum, who is thought to be the greatest warrior in the village. Pocahontas, was not too thrilled about the idea and felt like there was something better awaiting her. Meanwhile, Captain John Smith along with Governor Ratcliffe and

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    The True Story of Pocahontas, written by Dr. Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star”, is a nonfiction novel that tells the tale of Pocahontas and the encounters of her tribe with John Smith and other English colonists who come over from Europe in the early 1600’s. Chapter three depicts how Pocahontas was used as a peace symbol by her tribe when entering the fort of the English, and how she became a peace symbol overall to the Powhatan people. This chapter tells about how

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    Famous for saving the life of John Smith, Pocahontas is a legend (Morenus). The real question is “Who was Pocahontas and was she real or just a legend for kids?” Most people have heard of Pocahontas, who was primarily linked to the English colonist through Captain John Smith (Biography). Pocahontas, whose real name was Matoaka, was a native American who became famous for helping English colonists new to America (“Pocahontas Facts”). Matoaka, the beautiful and lively daughter of Powhatan (Morenus)

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    Well my one thousand word essay is over Pocahontas. I guess I should start from the beginning as we all must do in this situation. She was believed to be born by historians around the 1596 in Cloucester County, Virginia; but the exact date was unknown. Pocahontas had many names, it was a very normal thing for Powhatan Indians (the tribe that she was from) to have several different names. The different names had different meanings for different times and different situations. Native Americans were

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    give you a different story. Pocahontas, a girl who seems unreal and real at the same time leaves us a little confused on her real identity. So, who is the real Pocahontas? What are the differences between history and Disney? How does Disney affect our view? The real story of Pocahontas from her point of view may never be known, but with a little digging we might just grasp her perspective. To begin with, we all know or should know Disney’s version of Pocahontas, a person we could only dream

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    This is a story about a young female warrior. She is an Indian girl, is a tribal princess, also a British immigrant settler. She is Pocahontas. Through this article, you'll learn when she was two seats as Pocahontas and Rebecca's different life. Her story will make you understand that a person can actually have a lot of power to influence and change many historical trajectories. Townsend starts off the book with a background to the Native American people. She describes Pocahontas’s father’s role

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    book or a movie. I found some similarities between Pocahontas and me. Some correspondences we have together are that we both love to explore nature, we are both brave, and we both express our feelings freely. Comparing myself to a character from a book or movie is difficult, but I love the character I compare myself to. First, I compare myself to Pocahontas because we both love to explore nature. I love to be free and discover new things. Pocahontas also loves to be free and discover new things. One

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    Pocahontas, the Untold Story In the novel, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, the author brings a new perspective to the familiar fairytale. Camilla Townsend gathers evidence from journals and diaries of the Englishman to gain facts and stories of what happened. Since there are no records from the Natives around this time period, Townsend is tasked with using context clues from those English sources to gain their perspective. Multiple encounters come from John Smith’s journal, however, his sources

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