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I. Love. Disney. In fact, I am convinced that I am a princess and I’m just waiting for someone to show me where my castle is and put a crown on my head. At this point, either you think I’m weird or you think I’m kidding. I will not deny being weird, but I’m not really kidding. I always liked Disney as a kid, but in the past couple years, I definitely like it more now than I ever did then. Maybe it’s because, to a 20-year-old, growing up sounds really scary. I don’t know where I’m going to live

The film “Moana” is a unique movie from Disney, that isn’t another one of those “helpless princess gets saved” movies. Disney’s two-hour film is about Moana - a strong Polynesian female protagonist that does her best to save her island from a demigod named Maui. Disneys film “Moana” is an improvement for Disney because they had Moana be an independent character, they took their time on the movie, and they tried their best to depict all the characters in an appropriate way. The main character in

The lives of gang members, especially ones that are young, were filled with many challenges of everyday life. Both the analytical essay What It’s Like To Be A Gang Member and the poem We Real Cool portray the life of a participant as short and fatal. This demonstrates that its life is very violent and scary. They foreshadow that the organizations recruit young kids to do the dirty work. In What It’s Like To Be A Gang Member, the author Bill Lee, a previous member, portrays what then life

The Golden Age of Piracy is the subject of many Hollywood films. One of the most popular film series in recent years is the series Pirates of the Caribbean. But how accurately does the movie capture the Golden Age of Piracy that spanned from the 1650’s to the 1730’s? In order to answer this question, a team of researchers will examine the mythology, the pirate’s code, the weapons, and compare real pirates to the main protagonist, Jack Sparrow in the movie to see if he closely resembles the pirates

The rise of Hollywood within the twenties was because of the economic prosperity throughout the roaring twenties era. individuals had longer to pay on leisure and americans fell gaga with the films. the films were an inexpensive sort of amusement and hollywood within the 1920s was a booming business in la california.the black and white silent movies progressed to paint productions within the 1920s. in 1927 the primary picture show was created. picture stars like rudolph valentino clara bow barrymore

History can be very boring, but Disney may have the key to attracting viewers. Especially with young viewers, history is not very appealing. Disney has created a way to incorporate today's culture into history lessons. Family values, heroism, and comedy are some of the main differences between the myth and movie. One difference between the movie and the myth was the family values. The biggest example to support this statement would be the fact that Hera wasn’t the mother of Heracles in the myth

Over the past decades, the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating system has spun controversy over whether it conflicts with the First Amendment and satisfies the interests and goals of not only the audience, but also the filmmakers. Many believe that the rating system acts as a tool of censorship for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the viewers. Using the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating system as a form of censorship will bring up dangers: it may indirectly

The film “The Interrupters” shows and gives an insight on crime in Chicago and what the three “violence interrupters” Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams and Eddie Bocanegra are doing to try to control and decrease it and and hopefully overall put an end to it. We see how violence is experienced in the different perspectives of different individuals in the film. We see how social, racial and economics contribute and breed the violence going on in these neighborhoods. The film also discusses what these

Prison gangs, not much unlike street gangs; a social entity devised to bring a sense of belonging, a sense of brotherhood. Prison gangs are found all over the world, consisting mostly of males with the majority of prison gangs made up of Caucasians. Although, the Latino gang population is steadily increasing. To help us understand prison gangs, we take a look at Robert Agnew’s theory called General Strain theory, in which an individual commits a crime or violence based off of 3 main sources: 1)

In order to make an iconic western film, directors and filmmakers need to have three very important characteristics in their films. These traits are having a cowboy who roams the western frontier, a conflict between multiple groups, and a shootout to end the film. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly by Sergio Leone is considered one of the greatest western films of all time. Another Sergio Leone film A Fistful of Dollars should be considered one of the greats as well due to the presence of the three