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    and recreated numerous times into stories‚ plays‚ and even movies. Perrault and Disney’s versions of Cinderella took special interest to Louis Bernikow‚ in which she analyzed in her essay “Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies”. In the essay‚ Bernikow shows that “there are two worlds in the Cinderella cartoon‚ one of women‚ one of men” (270)‚ and that the women in the story need men. In “Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies”‚ the women need men to secure social class‚ lift them from

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    1.Introduction This research is about American Movies spoiling our younger generations.I am about to take some of the American movies which come in the name of Teen movies and High School or College movies.Like major genres such as Action‚Adventure‚Horror‚Comedy etc… these movies come under Comedy and Romance genres.These Comedy movies involves more reference to Sex along with crood and vulgar jokes.Generally movies containing adult jokes is not something to bother and they are provided with

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    lacked variety. People will call each other when they see another gay person on TV. The story lines in movies featuring gays and lesbians were controlled and restricted. The whole story was not often told in gay movies. Even after the code was lifted‚ Hollywood still struggled with their portrayal of gays‚ the “proud sissies” and the “regular gays” who were not as flamboyant. In today’s movies‚ those issues are still prevalent. Gay scenes are laced with comedy and as a form of punishment. There

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    Maleficent A dominant trait in Disney movies is that only the voices of the privileged matter‚ while they cast the villains out. They show that villains’ voices have no significance in the story. Disney would always throw the limelight on the privileged ones because they are the right people‚ happy-go-lucky‚ energetic and beautiful‚ while they stereotype villains as the very unfortunate ones‚ the most despicable one‚ greatly dangerous and wicked. In Postcolonial theory‚ the subaltern describes the lower

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    families in Disney movies. Four main themes were identified: (1) family relationships are a strong priority‚ (2) families are diverse‚ but the diversity is simplified‚ (3) fathers are elevated‚ while mothers are marginalized‚ and (4) couple relationships are created by “love at first sight‚” are easily maintained‚ and are often characterized by gender-based power differentials. These four main themes can be problematic because they are apparent in almost all the Disney movies and causes to form stereotypes

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    different theories of crime and how they affect the criminal justice system. The Classical School of criminology is a theory about evolving from a capital punishment type of view to more humane ways of punishing people. Positivist criminology is maintaining the control of human behavior and criminal behavior. They did this through three different categories of Biological studies‚ which are five methodologies of crime that were mainly focused on biological theories‚ Psychological theories‚ which contains

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    Young children are acutely impressionable and the toys they play with and movies they watch as adolescents determine their ideas of their gender roles in society for the rest of their lives (Bispo and Schmid). Consequently‚ young women who model their lives from the Disney Princesses they played with when they were young could

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    articles I have found that while environmental factors do contribute‚ genetics also plays an important role in prediction. Now‚ in my opinion‚ it is a complex combination of two strong factors. The text describes four Biosocial Perspectives on criminology: biochemical‚ neuropsychological‚ genetic‚ and evolutionary. The text also describes two popular studies of twin behavior‚ sets of twins were studied‚ some were monozygotic (identical)‚ while others were dizygotic (fraternal).

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    criminological theories. For centuries‚ humans have tried to explain ‘deviant’ behaviors that are considered criminal. Social scientists have often wondered why do people commit crimes? Why are some things considered criminal and some other things are not? Why do some people continue a life of crime while other individuals desist? All of these answers gave birth to criminology and the plethora of theories regarding criminal behavior. One of these criminological theories is The Self-Control Theory‚ or The

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    than your small box television. When you go to the movies you must be on time. You also have to be courteous to others around you and respectful otherwise you could get thrown out. At the movies you do not have a remote to pause in case you need to go to the restroom or ask what is happening in the movie itself. At the movies you do not get to recline in a comfy chair. You must sit properly and make sure you don’t bother others around you. At the movies you have to whisper if you need to talk. Then when

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