A lot of Miyazaki 's films involve the interaction between man and nature. Miyazaki takes great value in the protection of the environment and the compassion he shows for it can be seen in several films he has created. One example of this would be his film Ponyo. The story is about a young girl named Ponyo who lives in the ocean with her father, but she wants to be free from the restriction of her father and see what life is like on the surface world. Ponyo escapes from her father and her sisters and leaves to the surface world to explore. Her father is a wizard that is deeply concerned for Ponyo and her sisters because of the imbalance between the sea and the surface world. The humans and their actions have polluted to ocean which has caused …show more content…
Though most of the female heroines are accompanied by other male protagonists, it is shown that a lot of the women in his films are not dependent on the male to be strong on their own. San from Princess Mononoke is a prime example of an independent female figure. Throughout the film San struggles in an ongoing battle to fight for the protection of the forest which is her home. Although she shows a strong hatred towards the humans for destroying her forest home, she eventually realizes that violence will not solve the fighting and she overcomes this hatred. The fact that she has to fight for the protection of her home and overcome her inner hatred of the human race is proof enough that she shows a strong independence for herself. Another prime example of strong female role is Chihiro from Spirited Away. Chihiro becomes trapped in the spirit world by herself after her parents are turned into pigs and she has to find a way out of it. Even though at first she seems alone, she meets people within the spirit world who she befriends and they also help to guide her. Throughout the film she shows courage to overcome her fears as well as compassion and trust towards her friends especially Haku the male secondary character that she first meets. In the end she makes it out of the spirit world with the help of her friends, but also by showing independence and transitioning from a girl into a woman. A third example of one of Miyazaki 's strong female roles is Kiki from Kiki 's Delivery Service. Kiki is young girl who leaves home to live by the seaside and live her life as a delivery girl for a baker who she meets. Throughout the film Kiki faces self doubt, social anxiety, and a variety of other challenges. At one point her broomstick that she uses to fly around on and make deliveries with fails to work for her and she becomes unable to fly. She also has to deal
Eric Dickerson was once the most sought after player coming out of high school in the late 1970’s. Along with Craig James another blue chip recruit they came together at SMU in 1979. How two of the best recruits in the nation came together is just the beginning of “Pony Excess”. SMU was hailed as the best team that money could buy. The film covers the late seventies and early 80’s which was all about the cheating and probation and culminates in 2012 when SMU finally made it back to a bowl game.
Man has destroyed nature, and for years now, man has not been living in nature. Instead, only little portions of nature are left in the world
Hayao Miyazaki’s film, Spirited Away, portrays the journey of a young girl, Chihiro, into the spirit world, the loss of her identity, and the struggle to save her parents and return home. The story of a girl who finds herself in a world of spirits and dangers yet comes of age in unexpected ways. Chihiro’s journey is nothing less than a coming of age story. A journey that leads to her transition into adulthood. Chihiro’s maturation is an obvious change in this film. Prior to her experience in the spirit world, Chihiro behaves as a stubborn child unwilling to accept and also fearful of change. She describes her first bouquet as depressing because she received it as a goodbye gift and when reminded of the rose her father gave her on her birthday she delivers a snide response showing just how ungrateful she can be. It’s quite funny that that same ungrateful child is the
Almost all of Miyazaki’s films are led by strong female protagonists that go against the gender roles common in animati...
It is difficult for humans to live in harmony with nature because humans’ selfishness always places profits before our earth’s needs. We live in a consumer society, which we purchase interesting products and dispose of them carelessly. Those products with non-decomposable materials, which make our life easier and more comfortable, result a massive damage to our environment. In the articles, “A Fable for Tomorrow” by Rachel Carson and “Our Animals Rite” by Anna Quindlen, both authors suggest destruction in nature world due to human’s activities. As environment issues presented by scientists, governments around the world start to give highly attention on the environmental protection, but there are many challenges in implementing environmental protection policies. Some of the top environmental concerns are air pollution, climate changing and trash waste. Although people started to aware the horrible consequences due to polluted environment, an efficient life, people apathy toward ecosystem and human's unlimited desires for a confortable life have created obstacles for the world to protect the environment.
Water pollution has had devastating effects on the environment, which include irreversible effects to the oceans ecosystem. People often underestimate the importance of the ocean. They don’t realize how much damage pollution has caused to the ocean and the thousand of creatures that inhabit it. Earth is a huge place, but resources are actually very limited and will not last forever; unless there is a balance. We must protect the resources we have in order for them to last into the next generation. Every time we throw away a plastic bottle, drive our cars, and even burn those millions of fossil fuels to operate all those huge factories, there is a chance it will pollute the ocean and eventually effect the way we live. There should be stricter laws regulating human pollution, in order to protect our oceans ecosystem.
Pollution has a big effect on are oceans. There's so many causes and it all leads up to one effect which is pollution. The ocean covers up ninety-seven percent of are world's water supply. Seventy percent of the oxygen we breathe is produced by some marine plants. So clearly ocean and its water is are main thing that keeps us alive. Pollution is unhealthy and horrible because there's a lot of plastic in the oceans, land based pollutants, and the careless human interventions.
In a study done by Robert J. Adams he noted in one of his work on Folktale telling and storytellers in Japan that “Folk religion, costume, art, crafts, and all other facets of folklife contributed to the different version of stories.” (Adams 79) not one story was the same people changed them to have different hidden meanings in them and to teach children different value. Like in this story it teaches you that just because you are a women you should still be able to make your own decision in life. Because during the Meiji restoration the men of the household were losing their power because of Japan going the transitions of industrialization and urbanization. This can be portrayed in the story that women have the power to make their own decisions. But also in today day and age, storytelling has become less and less common though out Japan. Many people would settle to the city to raise families, being separated from the influences and the constant storying telling of the old tales, because they were be to busy taking care of the children and going to
Pollution comes in many forms. In the ocean we dump a variety of substances, including human wastes, chemicals from fertilizers, oil, and trash such as plastic which all contribute to the growing issue of our ocean pollution. In addition to, our usable waters are finite. More than 97.5 percent of the water on this planet is undrinkable salt water; the remaining 2.5 percent has two-thirds of the usable fresh water locked up in glaciers, snow, and permafrost. Of the one-third of freshwater that is available for human use, 20 percent is used for industrial use. (“Water Pollution”) “In effect, water pollution reduces the volume of water available for use by human and other populations.” (Robin Clarke, Jannet King) Knowing that there are approximately 7.2 billion people and growing on this planet with only 0.83 percent of available for our use wouldn’t you want to do everything possible to help put an end to water pollution? (worldometers)
First of all, among the top issues we face as a planet today, trash dumped into the ocean is increasing every year. Fourteen billion pounds to be exact. (ECO360 Plastic Garbage 1) It’s quite selfish of us humans actually. We are cleaning up our terrestrial world, but what about the marine animals? What are we doing to the marine animals’ home? We are destroying it. (A Global Map of Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems) In fact, we are destroying them too. Forty percent of all ocean ecosystems has been impacted by pollution. (A Global Map of Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems) As well as the organisms’ suffering in illnesses. They now face problems like an increase in cancer cases, birth deformities, incorrect bodily functions, and more. (The Effects of Ocean
During the 1960s through 2000s Americans started to worry about the future of humanity with the environmental changes and the movie “Waterworld” is a clear representation of their fears about the future. Starting in the mid- twenties people wanted to preserve nature because it was beautiful and some believed humans were spiritually attached to it, but the reasons change in the 1960s. The American people, in the 1960’s, started to realized that all the new technology was not eco-friendly and that the environment was seriously in danger. With this in mind, the growth of environmentalism was a result of the environmental degradation in the advanced industrial societies and the growth of the new science named ecology. Ecology provided the leaders of the movement called environmentalist with new and powerful arguments.
In multiple instances throughout the film, female characters violate gender norms by acting as both warriors and leaders because they are adapting typically masculine traits. In the film, women are the majority of the labor force at iron town. The men are merely there to do the labor that needs the most physical power. “Americans oversimplify Japanese women as demure, submissive, and oppressed” (Kyu Hyun, 2002, 38). This quote shows that the stereotype of women in Japanese culture had been just like the western perspective where they were below men. This quote also shows that Princess Mononoke reverses the gender role from being submissive to being above men. Another quote that supports that women were not submissive says that “the young unmarried women in Japan have become a powerful group, demographically and economically” (Kyu Hyun, 2002, 39). The women who were in the upper class society of Japan had time on their hands and we know this because they had time to write literature. “Most of the canonical work from this period was produced by women of the upper social class” (Varner, 2005,
In the works Genesis, Desert Solitaire, and National Parks they all have an underline theme of nature being the most important thing for our environment. In all of the readings the author’s essential message was to bring new beginnings and spread the word that everyone should experience nature for their self. I feel like many people have not experience what all our environment has to offer such as National Parks. Finally, most importantly take care of our environment do not sabotage it and just the simple things count. The quicker we start exploring nature the better our way of treating our environment will be.
According to World WildLife Fund, many ecosystems around the world are being destroyed, eliminating many plant and animal species that inhabit them (“Pollution”). 2. And acid rain, which is created when water in the atmosphere mixes with chemicals, ravage through rain forests and can even kill fish. 3.
"There is no match for the beauty found within America!" I thought with excitement when I first laid my eyes upon our American landscape. The fascinating forests and wondrous lakes have outdone the stories I heard while growing up. However, it puzzles me when I see sights that hamper my sense of admiration. Though there are forests that are untouched, "No Littering" signs seemed to be everywhere. One could be easily puzzled as to why so much effort was put into preserving a land already pristine. Some only know of the awesomeness American landscape offers and feel that it is only natural for people to preserve it.