Having loved the original animated Disney version of “Sleeping Beauty” since a young age‚ the villain inside the movie‚ Maleficent‚ always scared me. There was not much to sympathise with her in the original movie‚ yet here we are given a new chance to understand this classical villain with her back story. Most
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Children are the favorite viewers of this kind of movies‚ and they also learn a lot from these stories. It’s said that fairy tales help create our sense of ourselves and the world as well as telling us about gender roles. Movies such as “Aladdin”‚ “Sleeping Beauty”‚ and “Pocahontas” are the obvious examples. However‚ I think that “Beauty and the Beast” is one of the best ones in term of creating “our sense of ourselves” and transferring the values‚ concepts about gender‚ especially about men. Throughout
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Burnside‚ Bobbie Descriptive Essay ENC-1101 26 Jan 2011 Word Count- 1‚057 A Modern day Sleeping Beauty Once upon a time there lived a young couple who had found true love and were bound together by fate. His name was Brian and hers was Melody. They lived it the beautiful city of Anchorage‚ Alaska. Brian was a C-17 Pilot stationed at Elmendorf AFB and Melody a 1st grade teacher at local school. Melody was a beautiful sight; her body was athletic‚ her hair fell over her shoulders and was
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Katie Hinman Bailey 1113 1:00 pm 8 March 2010 “While You Were Sleeping” Think back to when you were a young girl. Did you ever have the fear of being alone forever or finding the right guy for you? That use to be one of my biggest fears. I hated the idea of being along but even more so I hated the idea of being with the wrong person. This is exactly how Lucy felt in the movie While You Were Sleeping. She felt alone but not so alone to she would just settle for just anyone like Joe Jr. She
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Human African trypanosomiasis‚ also known as sleeping sickness‚ is a deadly blood disease and is a daily threat to millions of men and women in undeveloped countries around the world. More specifically‚ more than 60 million people in 26 countries of sub-Saharan Africa are at risk for catching the disease‚ and around 500‚000 people will start to develop the disease each year1. Unfortunately‚ if the disease is not treated than it can lead to a fatal death. In about twenty African countries‚ trypanosomiasis
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Co-sleeping is a practice used by as many as 40% of parents‚ in which they have the baby sleep either in the bed with them at night or in a connected crib. There have been proven to be many benefits of co-sleeping which include increased bonding‚ increased breastfeeding‚ and faster reaction times to the babies cries at night. Parents number 1 fears or reason why they think they shouldn’t co-sleep is the fear that at some time during the night their child might accidentally be suffocated by themselves
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But the problem is his movies didn’t always portray these values. Many of the Disney Classics that our generation has grown to know and love have exposed children to many bad values. Classics such as: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves‚ Cinderella‚ Sleeping Beauty‚ The Jungle Book‚ 101 Dalmatians‚ The Little Mermaid‚ Beauty and the Beast‚ The Lion King‚ and Pocahontas display lessons not suitable for those of the younger years. In short‚ Disney movies have a bad influence on the younger generation by
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One evening‚ the mother read the little boy to sleep with a fairy story from the book the wise old witch had given him at Christmas. Next day he pretended to be the Prince who braves the terrible thicket of thorns to enter the palace and kiss the Sleeping Beauty back to life: He dragged a ladder to the wall‚ the shining coiled tunnel was just wide enough for his little body to creep in‚ and with the first fixing of its razor teeth in his knees and hands and head he screamed and struggled deeper into
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message that is being sent out is: the only thing for a ‘good girl’ to do is to take care of others‚ clean and find a husband. This is a recurring theme in Walt Disney animated features‚ especially in the older features‚ exemplified by CINDERELLA and SLEEPING BEAUTY‚ where the Princesses wait by to be swept off their feet. But also in the more modern films such as THE LITTLE MERMAID‚ it is the protagonist’s wish to marry the man she loves. Even in the features BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and THE PRINCESS AND
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Disney has successfully given viewers of their movies comforted and warm feelings in their hearts because there is always a happy ending. Disney productions have also taught young children the difference between good and evil. Films such as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs‚” and “Cinderella” are two of their earlier movies that are vastly different but share similarities as well. For instance‚ both Cinderella and Snow White are beautiful princesses that are forced to be maids. The antagonists
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