Pocahontas: Legend vs. Reality The stories of Disney’s Pocahontas and the real Pocahontas are not the same. The movie is mainly accurate: It captures the spirit of Pocahontas‚ her people and the early days of Jamestown. Both Pocahontas and John Smith were young when they met‚ although in real life‚ Pocahontas was 11 and John Smith was 28. When John Smith first came to the New World‚ in the Disney movie he started scouting around right away‚ and was captured when he ventured out alone at
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The movie The Avatar touched upon many different topics we discussed in class this year. But these five topics (Ecosystem’s flow of energy‚ Modified Organisms‚ Developed vs Undeveloped Nations‚ Dependence of Species‚ and Animal Populations) were easily spotted in the duration of this film. The director/writers of the film wanted to depict just how greedy and controlling developed nations can be towards undeveloped nations. In the real world this is currently happening with the US and UN trying to
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The story of Pocahontas‚ recorded by John Smith himself‚ explains how Smith was captured while exploring the upper Chickahominy River. Smith had participated in a series of rituals that involved dancing‚ singing‚ and yelling. Smith had not been treated as a prisoner‚ as the king of Rasawek‚ Opechancanough‚ had feasted with him. After feasting with him‚ he was taken later and introduced to Powhatan. Here‚ another ceremony had been held. Smith had explained it as being a determination of his intent
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Disney. The real story is raw‚ and it shows you that the English Colonist were not respectively close to being heroes. The True Story of Pocahontas was written by Dr. Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star”. Dr. Linwood‚ the oral historian of the Mattaponi tribe‚ and Angela L.‚ his coauthor‚ decided to be the first to document Pocahontas and her people in this book. For nearly 400 years Pocahontas’s story only lived within the Mattaponi tribe out of fear of a violent retribution
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The man once an English diplomat‚ England’s main tobacco producer‚ and husband of Matoaka (also known as Pocahontas)‚ was none other than John Rolfe. In the time where the New World has been recently discovered‚ in the year of 1609‚ his journey set sailed from England to Jamestown‚ Virginia on the Sea Venture as part of a new charter from the organization of the Virginia Company. The ship‚ however‚ wrecked onto the Caribbean on one of the Bermuda islands from a hurricane. While stranded between
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characters or events. Disney’s 1995 rendition of the story of Pocahontas is the first of the two historically grounded animations; historically based‚ however‚ does not necessarily mean accurate. In this instance‚ the film’s creators plucked a handful of factual events and the names of a handful of people associated with those events. The bulk of Pocahontas was designed with entertainment‚ rather than history‚ as the primary objective. Pocahontas‚ in the form of her Disney counterpart‚ is the daughter
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It can be easily assumed that almost everyone has heard the tale of the American Indian princess‚ Pocahontas the narrative of a mysterious young girl who rescues an English explorer from death only to fall in love and win his affections in return. It is one that is quite popular and has even been developed into an animated movie by Walt Disney Pictures. <br><br>Regardless of which version they may have heard‚ most people are familiar with the legend now thanks in part to Disney. However‚ what they
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Pocahontas; Reel vs Real The Disney version of Pocahontas and the real story have many differences such as the romance‚ Pocahontas’ personality‚ and how the story ended. Disney has romanticized the tragic story of Pocahontas into not one‚ but two cartoons‚ with a target audience of children. And with deeply embedded messages into the plot of love and strength‚ many differences surface‚ showing off Disney’s ability to make a story of war‚ captives‚ and death a happy tale for children to enjoy. In
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Disney’s Pocahontas is supposed to be based off of history‚ but Disney fails horribly. They had the money and the resources that they needed to invent the film closer to the actual recreation of history. The company’s drive of greed lead them to produce Pocahontas as “reel” history instead of real history. There tends to be only one reason why Pocahontas ended up being created as “reel” history and that is greed. When viewing any film that’s foreseen as portraying history viewers need to be aware
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In the movie Avatar‚ the concepts of greed and ownership are greatly shown. To start off‚ the concept of greed is shown by the humans. The humans wish to take away the lush Pandora land where the Na’vi’s lived for their own personal use. Through external research‚ it was revealed that Earth had been depleted of natural resources and that the land was going to use for mines to extract an energy providing mineral. This shows the extent of the greed; the humans had already used up all of their own
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