Disney XD Essays

  • Alisha Vellani Diversity

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    I am one who appreciates diversity in film and TV--I really do. I know I'm as white as they come (I have regularly apologized over the years for the color of my skin as more often than not, many things are assumed about me because of the way I look), and when I noticed Aliza Vellani in a recent Hallmark film, I knew I wanted to interview her. Thankfully, she agreed, and she was quite happy to tell me how she got started in the business, her notable and current works, and even a bit about her unique

  • Spike TV Has Gotten So Annoying: Article Analysis

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    The world we live in has many problems, with no solutions. Some problems are more extreme than others. However, one problem in particular is a problem that many people face in their everyday lives. Commercials on the television cause problems on their own. When watching tv, the individual does not want to watch commercials. They pay the television company, whether it is Dish Network, DirecTV, Charter, or whoever their supplier is to watch shows, not commercials When the individual is sitting at home

  • Comparing the Grimm Brothers' Rapunzel and Disney's Rapunzel

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    version of Rapunzel, Disney illustrates it with a contemporary look rather than an older gothic look. Instead of using people, Disney makes the ... ... middle of paper ... ...e horse has a rounded face to make kids see that everything is happy. Rapunzel is a story told still today and illustrated differently as more time goes on. After reviewing the Molly Bang theory with the story of Rapunzel, and contrasting the Grimm brothers story illustrated by Zelinsky and Disney, we accept that the illustrations

  • Disney’s Pocahontas: Selling Lies as the Truth

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    found the movie to completely overlook the true essence and spirit of the Powhatan Indian princess. In an attempt to curb many of its criticisms and appease angry minorities, Disney produced a sequel. Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) picks up on Pocahontas’ life in Jamestown and transports her to London. Here Disney hoped to give more accuracy to the historical figure’s life and continue to teach society the lessons of tolerance and good triumphing over evil. However, this second film

  • Disney's Fantasia

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    Fantasia is remarkably crafted masterpiece and is one of the most unique videos in Disney History. The intense music and intriguing animation makes this film extremely interesting. The movements of the characters are fascinatingly coordinated with the sounds of the music. As you watch the film, every act is put together to perfection. The imaginable variety of animation and mysterious music is boldly noticeable. The scenes in this film can be analyzed in many different ways according to your imagination

  • Disney Vs French Government

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    their interest in the negotiation in question. How successful were Disney and the French government in: a) Identifying their underlying interests? The interests of each side were quite different. In fact, those of Disney were mainly financial interests, whereas those of the French governments were political and economic. The other distinction highlighted is that the French interests were linked together, whereas those of Disney were different interest without links in between. Disney's interests

  • Marketing Disney Consumer Products in the Middle East

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    Marketing Disney Consumer Products in the Middle East 1. Disney Consumer Products Middle East was interested in Lebanon, which has only one million children and teenagers and not Egypt, which has a much larger population, due to the following reasons; a. The literacy rate in Lebanon was much higher than the literacy rate of the populations of other Arab states in the Middle East at that time. b. The population of Lebanon was more familiar with western products, which included the

  • Snow White Controversy

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    applause from many of the best actors and actresses at the time, Disney began appearing in the media and everyone knew his name. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs earned Walt Disney an Academy Award, which was unique because it included seven miniature Academy Awards, each symbolizing a dwarf, as well as the film was nominated for an Oscar for its music. Since its premiere, thousands of fully animated films have been produced, with Disney producing over a hundred of them, with many more on the way,

  • Disney Channel Case Study

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    Introduction: Disney Channels Worldwide are 24 hour kids and family entertainment channels that owned by Disney Channels Television Group, which is part of the Walt Disney Company, based on the United States but Disney Channels Worldwide broadcast in 163 countries, as well as broadcast in 34 languages (“Fact Sheet-Disney Channels Worldwide,” n.d.). Disney Channels Worldwide were able to reach diverse geographical locations through the partnership with to third party broadcasters in different parts

  • Disney Channel Show Research Paper

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    listen. The current Disney Channel shows do not teach children relevant lessons. As a concerned teenager, I can see the effects that these shows are having on children who are still in a very critical developmental state. The shows that Disney creates do not teach important lessons, they are littered with racist, stereotypical and sexist comments. These shows are sculpting a certain kind of child. This child then grows up to be an adult who does not have the best morals. The Disney Channel shows as

  • Defying the Disney Image: The Testimony of Walt Disney

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    Walt Disney was born in 1890 to a woman named Señora Isabelle Zamora. His father, Elias, met Isabelle in California of that same year and the two carried on an affair that ended with the birth of Walt. Later, Elias brought the two back to Chicago, Illinois where Isabelle became a housekeeper for the Disney family. Walt was assimilated into the Disney household and treated as the biological son of Elias and Flora Disney. Isabelle was with the family for years, being passed on from the Elias and

  • Walt Disney Research Paper

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    Walt Disney arrived in California in the summer of 1923 with a lot of hopes but little else. He had made a cartoon in Kansas City about a little girl in a cartoon world, called Alice’s Wonderland, and he decided that he could use it as his “pilot” film to sell a series of these “Alice Comedies” to a distributor. Soon after arriving in California, he was successful. A distributor in New York, M. J. Winkler, contracted to distribute the “Alice Comedies” on October 16, 1923, and this date became the

  • Subnetting

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    Subnetting allows you to create multiple logical networks that exist within a single Class A, B, or C network. If you don't subnet, you will only be able to use one network from your Class A, B, or C network. Unless you have been assigned many major networks, you really need to subnet. Each data link on a network must be a unique subnet, with every node on that link being a member of the same subnet. For serial interfaces (standard HDLC), you will need one subnet for the circuit, or "wire" (both

  • Disney's Medievalesque Sleeping Beauty

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    Disney's Medievalesque Sleeping Beauty "It was not once upon a time, but in a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale. He did not use a magic wand or demonic powers. On the contrary, Disney employed the most up-to-date technological means and used his own American "grit" and ingenuity to appropriate European fairy tales. His technical skills and ideological proclivities were so consummate that his signature obfuscated the names

  • Disney

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    have a plot, and were mostly a series of little gags. Then came ... COLOR. To make an animated movie popular, color was needed to give it style. Walt Disney and his technicians created color to make the movies more enjoyable for the viewers. What was the first Disney Movie to come out? It was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. To make this movie Disney ran into a slight problem. Sure, it was easy to animate animals, but humans? To solve the problem, they filmed live actors doing exactly what the characters

  • Walt Disney the American Hero

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    Walt Disney the American Hero Walt Disney; When that name is spoken faces of children and adults alike light up with looks of sheer joy. When debating what to see at the movies the newest Disney flick is almost always decided upon over the others. With Disney people are 100 percent sure to walk out of the theater happy and smiling. From the catchy theme songs to the thrilling theme parks Disney has built the fantasy empire. Although he built the fantasy world Disney was not a man who walked around

  • Disney Character Analysis

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    Spiderman, Buzz Lightyear, and Air Bud, those are just a few of my favorite Disney characters I used to enjoy watching in the old hit kids movies. Every child has their own favorite Disney production movie that they will always enjoy watching and remember forever as they get older. Disney used to just be about movies and television shows for young children all the way up to early teens. However as the years go by Disney has made changes to their target demographics and they try to produce movies

  • Disney's Whitewashing of Pocahontas

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    In 1995, Disney produced a romanticized version of relationships between early Native Americans and Europeans in the film, Pocahontas. It is controversial whether this movie was intended to enlighten children about the beginning of America in a story-like manner, or a way to conceal a dark past and brainwash future generations with this illusion of a happy beginning to the United States of America. In order to make the Pocahontas and John Smith love myth suitable for children, it is understandable

  • Lessons of Equality, Understanding, and Tolerance in Disney’s Pocahontas

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    Lessons of Equality, Understanding, and Tolerance in Disney’s Pocahontas Introduction [1] The children’s movie Pocahontas is an attempt by Disney to promote racial tolerance, equality, and understanding. Most of this movie is not historically accurate, yet an important message can still be learned using the characters from long ago. The first contact scene between Pocahontas and John Smith (0:28.34) demonstrates the importance of racial tolerance by showing strengths and weaknesses in

  • A Walt Disney World Advertisement

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    can get their parents to buy what they want (see advertised on television). The Walt Disney World advertisement, however, takes a different approach by marketing to the entire family. The Disney advertisement is extremely effective, appealing to both the parents’ and children’s sense of wonder and excitement, while also making an emotional appeal to the parents’ sense of value. The caption of the Walt Disney World advertisement in Family Circle magazine reads: “Pretend your family is on the most