child‚ they decorate‚ right? For girls‚ they buy frilly dresses and tea sets. For boys‚ the toy chests are overflowing with trucks and dinosaurs. Even as children‚ we are taught by our parents that becoming like those stereotypical families in old movies is essential; where women always stay at home and care for the kids; where men go to work and make it home in time for dinner; where little girls are expected to wear dresses and play with dolls; where boys have to be physically active and play with
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Movies are not the only part of the film industry that misrepresents mental illnesses; cartoons and tv shows misrepresent them as well. By referencing mental illnesses within children’s cartoons‚ it allows the children to learn to stigmatize mental illnesses early in life. For example‚ in a study of six main cartoon characters portraying mental illnesses‚ three of them were comical‚ and the other three were the villains (Wilson par. 15) This is another example of how the entertainment industry is
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society is shaped around what the rebel symbolizes. Many people are drawn to the iconography of the rebel through every day activities. Just a few examples are children movies‚ music‚ celebrity icons‚ and our everyday transportation. There are a lot of movies with violence‚ drug abuse‚ or some type of rebellion. Even children’s movies incorporate the idea of a rebel. As a child‚ many girls‚ including me‚ idolized the Disney princesses. Cinderella‚ Rapunzel‚ Ariel‚ and Jasmine are just a few of the
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Similarly to the Paradox of Horror‚ we also seem to be in a sort of paradoxical state when we experience pleasure from watching films of a melancholic nature. We in engage with these fictions and we experience aesthetic pleasure from these feelings of sadness that they stir up. This stands in conflict with everyday life‚ where most people seek to avoid sadness in order to avoid experiencing the negative feelings that are associated with real sadness. Some attempts to resolve this paradox amounts
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Like most young guys I like movies very much. Movies in English are an effective tool for learning English. I remember when I went to New Oriental to study English I always worried about my poor listening skill. Then I accepted a teacher’s advice and started to watch some English movies. I can learn some useful words and expressions from them. Gradually I found that English is not so difficult to understand and it became more and more interesting to me. Now I can say movies not only improve my listening
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beginnings of film history the issue was ironically the containment of women. Megan Stem Wade states in her research paper on gender in postwar class room films that from 1946 through the 1970’s there were films called social hygiene films in which mini movies were watched in educational settings serving as the base example of how men‚ and women should act in societal settings. The films had titles such as “What to do on a date”‚ which served to encourage abstinence‚ and waiting ‘til marriage‚ while titles
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The Outcast Archetype Movies and films are important parts of not only our education‚ but also our life. Some teach us historical information or life lessons‚ and some just make us laugh. When we watch movies‚ we realize that many characters are just like us. As Linda Seger says‚ “Whatever our culture‚ there are universal stories that form the basis fall all our particular stories.” (Seger 386-387). One character that always seems to steal the audience’s heart is the one that doesn’t always fit
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James Cameron’s “Titanic” and Nick Cassavete’s “The Notebook” although two tragic movies are two of the most romantic tales ever seen. Two loves found by destiny. In Titanic‚ Rose is a wealthy young girl forced by her family to marry rich to secure her place in society and Jack is a poor young artist that won his ticket to the Titanic in a card game. “The Notebook” tells a similar story of a forbidden love of two young souls who are distend to be together. These two films similarities can only be
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Expository Writing Extreme Sports: A simple adrenaline rush‚ or something deeper? Extreme sports are a phenomenon that are taking the world by storm‚ increasing in popularity and daring every year. One such sport is ‘wingsuit flying’‚ where a pilot wears a suit with material between the legs‚ arms and torso‚ which allows the pilot to glide at unimaginable speeds through the air; the speed record in a wingsuit is a colossal 363 kilometres per hour. One wingsuit flyer says that the most intense
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be particularly susceptible to the influencing powers of the media‚ opening an avenue where media created especially for children can indoctrinate entire generations. Disney movies‚ like all other media “are powerful vehicles for certain notions about our culture‚” such as racism. (Giroux 32). Racist scenes in Disney movies are often identified as simply being “symbols of the time” when the films were produced. Furthermore‚ Disney racism is often passed over as simple humor‚ or as a simple guide
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