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John Smith/Pocahontas Formal Writing Claim

I believe companies and individuals should be held socially responsible for their presentation of history. I argue this because, in the case of Disney’s Pocahontas, there are many inaccuracies throughout the film due to the company wanting a happy ending and a love story typical of other Disney movies. As said in the book, The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History, the true events surrounding John Smith and Pocahontas are, “…vastly different from the history you have been taught from school, novels, and movies.” (Custalow). Whereas the movie portrays Pocahontas as this young woman in love with the Englishman John Smith and both the Powhatans and the English Colonialists are in the wrong,
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