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    in the front and you wish she would put on the radio or something because the silence in the car is unbearable. You remind yourself that even this dull journey was better than spending another day in the house. Seven days of very limited games of Mermaids of the Lagoon were taking their toll. Even Danielle had began to lose imagination‚ hence the

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    inner beauty. They are teaching little girls beauty is being white and skinny that is resulting in an image and standards set for girls. I totally disagree with that and think Beauty should vary and not be just be white and skinny. In "The little Mermaid" many stereotypes are involved involving Ariel and her prince. They teach the idea of changing who you are to be with someone and not following the idea of "being yourself". They teach the idea that women are submissive. I think symbolically it even

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    Anthony DeFilippis 4/28/08 Discover New York- Review of Little Mermaid Professor: Trickovic The Little Mermaid The Broadway play which I went to see was located at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater‚ 205 West 46th street. This is considered the heart of the theater district in New York City. The play which I saw was The Little Mermaid presented by Disney. As an 18 year old male‚ I was not very fond of seeing a Disney play but‚ my girlfriend wanted to see the show

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    However‚ one of the more prominent and recognisable forms of obsession is the ‘sea witch’ Ursula from The Little Mermaid (1989). Ursula is an exemplary case of the ‘female grotesque’‚ someone which Mallan describes as ‘…like Cruella‚ is a hybrid – half woman‚ half animal.’ (Mallan‚ op‚ cit.). She is powerful‚ insidious and filled with parody‚ and as Sells suggests‚

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    Psychological disorders in The Little Mermaid             In Walt Disney’s The Little Mermaid‚ various characters acquire many different psychological disorders. A psychological disorder‚ also known as a mental disorder‚ is a pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms that affect multiple life areas and/or create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms. These symptoms become clear throughout the duration of the movie. First‚ Flounder is discovered to suffer from panic attacks

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    The thesis of this paper argues that The Little Mermaid presents themes of sexual objectification among the women by the male characers’ imposed hypermasculinity. This is to emphasize that this film‚ along with other Disney films presents traditional idealisms that inflicts strict gender roles and biases into its young‚ developing audience’s minds. As an academic paper‚ it was crucial that the conversation remain forma and its primary and secondary sources are scholarly‚ to legitimize the claims

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    Faces” (Vogler). Christopher Vogler lays out twelve stages of a hero’s journey‚ which‚ if a hero completes them all‚ then he/she successfully fulfills the archetype and in this instance‚ Theseus from “Theseus” and Ariel from “The Little Mermaid” do. In “The Little Mermaid”‚ Ariel goes on a journey in which she finds true love and completes numerous obstacles while doing so‚ and in “Theseus”‚ Theseus travels throughout the Greek region and in turn‚ saves the woman from being killed by

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    In the Disney film “The Little Mermaid” we first meet Ariel as an independent‚ 16 year old looking for an adventure. Ariel has grand feminist goals to explore the world and has talent as well as beauty. However‚ she has a stubborn and aggressive attitude that always gets her into trouble; resulting in constant supervision. This is the reason why she disobeys her father and ends up falling in love with a human – which is strictly forbidden. Ariel changes herself for a partner of the opposite sex and

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    The prince and the butterfly Once upon a time there was a prince named Andrew. He was tall and handsome‚ with a very kind personality. Many women dreamed of marrying him. He lived in a kingdom with a magical enchanted forest with animals that could talk. The kingdom cabinet and the king and queen forced Andrew’s engagement. The ministers wanted him married to a princess from a very large and powerful kingdom for political reasons; they wanted to prevent an invasion from other kingdoms.

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    down and followed by media. Mermaid stories seems to carry unignorable evidence relating towards the human existence.. Growing up‚ mermaids had been depicted in Disney cartoons; beautiful creatures with long luscious hair‚ and irresistible charm. Many people have always had a special knack for believing in aliens‚ ghosts‚ and mythical creatures‚ the things that are unexplainable to the human eye. Mermaid stories have a different approach to all the fairy tales‚ the mermaid comes along with real concrete

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