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    Mickey Mouse

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    MICKEY MOUSE, Walt Disney 's most famous character, made his screen debut on November 18, 1928, as star of the first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie. Since his debut, Mickey Mouse has become an international personality whose success laid the financial foundation upon which Walt Disney built his creative organization. Besides being the personification of everything Disney, Mickey Mouse has become one of the most universal symbols of the Twentieth Century. Mickey Mouse was born in Walt Disney

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    Mickey Mouse Monopoly

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    Mickey Mouse Monopoly The Mickey Mouse Monopoly documentary reveals the obscure social messages behind the animated films created by the Disney Company. Although we are conditioned to believe that these movies are pure forms of entertainment, further examination has proved that there are hidden messages concerning gender, race and class that Disney is instilling in the minds of children. The speakers in the documentary argue that Disney is extremely political and hides its ideas behind innocence

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    The Creation Of Mickey Mouse "Oswald is my character, I 'm the one who created the rabbit with a round, white face, big button nose and floppy black ears, That was all my creation!" I shouted frustrated. "We know that Walt, but if you just -, " Scott an executive at Universal tried explaining to me before I cut him off. I shouted again, "No, I made this rabbit and I refuse to let you guys take it all away!" "Listen, Walt were giving you a chance to keep Disney only if you just take a lower salary

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    Do you know who Walt Disney is? He is the founder of Mickey Mouse. Have you ever heard the quote "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mouse." - Walt Disney? Technically it did not all start with a mouse, so if I can change that quote I would change it to "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a rabbit." - Colby Ackerman. First Walt had made a rabbit named Oswald, and it wasn't until he lost Oswald to the corporation

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    story Mickey Mouse woke up extra early for school and tried to look his best for Minnie Mouse. He was very excited to see her although when he was riding the bus and saw Minnie walking to school with Goofy it made him very upset. Denial is a way of Mickey protects himself from an unpleasant reality by refusing to perceive it. Mickey blocks out these hurtful feelings by putting on his sunglasses and headphones and continues to smile as he pretend that nothing is wrong or hurting him. When Mickey arrived

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    Mickey Mouse, you know him, correct? Of course, you do he’s the face of Disneyland. But do you know that voice behind him? Let’s introduce Walt Disney, the man behind the smile. On December 5, 1901, he was born in Chicago, Illinois. He had 3 older brothers, Herbert, Raymond, and Roy. When he was 5 years old, his whole family moved to a farm in Missouri. This is where the magic started, when he was living there he was bizarre by all the animals. This is where all his ideas later on came from. What

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    a symbol of innocence and imagination since its creation in the mid 1900’s. The video Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood, and Corporate Power was produced to highlight how racism and sexism can be seen throughout the Disney franchise. This video focuses on the Disney movies and how they can influence culture as they are consumed by mass audiences around the world. Henry Giroux wrote the book,“The Mouse that Roared- Disney and the End of Innocence” which was one of the first to bring attention

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    The Creation of a Mouse “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever” (Walt Disney). During 1928, Disney created something he knew that all the children would love to see; a mystical mouse that danced and acted out what children were thinking. This was Mickey Mouse the lovely mouse that did not talk at the time. Mickey mouse made children realize that they can make a joke out of anything and you should be able to imagine at any age without being judged and should dream

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    1. Describe three specific example of how Disney movie can unintentional create roles certain groups of people through socialization. Disney creates gender roles, racial roles, and white supremacy through socialization within their motion pictures. For example, Walt Disney’s “Snow White”, “Fantasia”, and even “The Little Mermaid” all show females as obscenely beautiful, male dependent and flirtatious creatures who couldn’t save themselves from a Chinese finger trap. Males are the perfectly sculpted

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    Unlike the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse of today, the old Mickey Mouse Clubhouse wasn’t all cartoons of Donald Duck or Minnie Mouse. There were actual people who played the roles of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. In the 1950’s, there were 39 kids and 3 adults who were in the Mickey Mouse Club who called themselves the “Mouseketeers”. This show was aimed towards children just like today. The show was created by Walt Disney, who requested that the cast be played by ordinary kids without any experience in

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