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Hidden Messages in Disney Movies
Walt Disney, the man who started his business in movies which is known today as
Disney movies, was born December 5, 1901, in Chicago. According to historic Missourians
“Disney did not achieve financial success in Kansas City, but he experimented with and learned
animation, created his first animated series, and trained a number of young artists in this new
field. His first job was for Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio designing letterhead and
advertisements (Castillo 1). Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney created Disney on October 16,
1923, and it was known at that time as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, until it was changed
to Walt Disney Productions. Disney movies are popular everywhere, in apps, theaters, TV and
websites. All ages are watching these movies, but children are the top audience. Disney movies
have a lot of messages that people may not recognize, and those messages can impact the
audience, especially children.
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Women role in Disney movies :
Women in Disney movies play a big role, but by looking at men and women characters in
animations, you can see that they are represented differently. Women are represented unfairly
somehow in many different aspects. The most important aspect is appearance, and that is shown
in many different movies. Some movies show how women look ugly in their appearance and
their makeup, and good example for this is Alice in Wonderland. This movie talks about a girl
who chases a white rabbit and falls down a rabbit hole. Alice went to wonderland, this world that
represents nightmares that she saw when she was a child. One of the weird characters was the
Queen of Hearts. I picked this character because she look weird with her big head and her. She
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really look agley and her makeup is awful. Even though I like this movie but I think women
represent wrong in this movie, how can a queen look that much agley. In other movies, they were
focus on women’s body and how it should looks sexy. Such as a woman with a skinny body but
still there are some part she looks sexy on.
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Hero’s in Disney movies :
Why do men tend to be a hero in Disney movie? Why can’t women also be a hero? These
questions are another thing that people may not recognize. Even though there are some movies
women play a role as a hero, but still in Disney movie it is known for male to be a hero. One
good example is Rapunzel, the story is about a girl who has a really long hair that no one can’t
imagine and she was locked in tower. This tower has a high wall with a one window, and no one
can reach there. After a long time; one or two years, the King’s son was riding through the tower
and he heard someone was singing. Of course it was Rapunzel, He stood there and just listen to
her charming voice. He wanted to reach up there to see her but he couldn’t find a door for this
tower. He went back home but still her charming voice touches his heart, so he go there every
day to listen to her. After that her hair was a way for a man to reach to her. However, the
enchantress who locked at her she did that because she were made a magic in her hair. The
magic was by combing Rapunzel hair she get younger, but the king’s son cut her hair to remove
her magic. After cutting Rapunzel’s hair, the enchantress get old and the king’s son took
Rapunzel to his kingdom and he married her and they live a happy life. This movie show this
point, and I think a lot of Disney movies are known as this idea.
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Differences between men and women :
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The differences between men’s and women’s hands and arms in Disney are more extreme
than almost any you can find in real adults. The men’s hands are routinely three or four times
larger than the women’s. In real American adults, for example, men’s wrists are on average only
about 15% larger in circumference than women’s. In that scene from Frozen, not only is Anna’s
hand tiny compared with Hans’, but in fact her eyeball is wider than her wrist.
There’s still a lot to wonder about — and even complain about — in today’s animated
children’s movies, especially in the radical differences between male and female bodies. Yes, on
average real men’s bodies are bigger, and more muscular, than women’s. And yes, animation is
an art form not restricted to the boundaries of realism, which is what makes it great. But the
exaggerations in these children’s movies are extreme, they almost always promote the same
image of big men and tiny women, and they are especially dramatic in romantic situations.
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Who usually win in Disney Movies?
The Goodness in Disney movies is always win, and the evil should punish. Most of the
Disney movies have the idea of the good guy should kill or punish the evil, but they do not
usually end the movie with the good guy being punished. Children are usually who see these
movies, and they get this idea because they usually see it. Even when you watch a movie with
children where the good guy and the evil guy were fighting, you can see their violent feeling and
repeating some words like “kill him”. Disney movie nowadays are affecting the audience,
especially children, by having a lot of violent scenes, and that has a bad impact for children
behavior. According to Paul Castillo in The Sundial, “Many of the movies and characters created
by Disney are far more of an unacceptably bad influence on children than we realize” (Castillo
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Most focused Topics in Disney movies :
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Disney movies this days are focusing on love, dance and royalty life. I believe that this
type of movies affecting on young girls, they learn a lot and affect their thinking. As Paul said in
this topic “They teach little girls they are supposed to be complacent and weak if they want to be
successful” (Castillo 3). Let’s take “Cinderella” as an example, she is a girl who lived with her
aunt as a maid and her aunt is evil and treat her bad. The aunt has two daughters and she treat
them differently, she want the best for them. One day the prance wanted to marry a women and
he send invitation so he can see the beautiful girl that he love. The aunt were excited for her
daughters but she didn’t let Cinderella to join them. Cinderella was sad until a witch helped her
to dress nicely like a princess but she told her to be at home before midnight. However, she went
to the party and the prince was charm when he saw her, she was the one who took his heart. She
dance with him but when it was midnight she was afraid so she told him that she need to leave,
but while she was running one of her high heels fall down. She was in harry so she couldn’t go
back. The prince was thinking how to find her, so the only way was to see all the girls in the
town. The one that the high heel will fit on her will be the girl that he was looking for. Cinderella
was that girl, he was happy that finally he found her. At the end, he married her and they live
happy life after. Cinderella was one of the perfect example for a love and dance movies.
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Counter Argument :
As I have this point of view, some families think the opposite. They believe that Disney
movies give some lessons to their children, also they are the only movies that fit their age. Other
families enjoy watching those movies and they think they are fun, so they would go to the
cinema with their kids to watch it. According to Smikić who wrote in Novak Djokovic
foundation, “These movies we traveled to many wonderful places, learned to be noble and
honest, to respect our parents, elders and people different from us, to love our friends and help
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them in trouble. That’s why Disney “revived” all these stories – to remind us of their morals in
order to make us become better people who believe that good always wins over evil”. Smikić
also mentioned, there are a lot of Disney fans say that children when they watch those movies
they are not experiencing the messages as adults do. They just enjoy their favorite characters,
without knowing the hidden messages. Smikić continued the argument by giving this example,
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – We all know how the evil queen deceased and poisoned
Snow White by giving her the apple. The moral of this story is: Do not talk to strangers and do
not receive anything from them. It’s absolutely applicable in today’s modern world, where the
poisonous apple stands for drugs, alcohol, nicotine, various diseases and other dangers that
children should be aware of. In addition, the evil queen represents vanity whereas Snow White
represents the part of the child trying to overcome this unwanted attribute, and the defeat of the
evil queen represents the victory of the positive forces of the self over the negative ones”.
(Smikić)In today’s competitive, every-moment-counts child-rearing culture, American parents
want their kids’ entertainment to be not just fun, but also fulfilling. So if a movie sends the
wrong message, many parents stay away. That’s why the company has responded to the
criticism, shaping more recent princess movies such as Frozen and Brave around female
characters for whom romance is not the primary motivation.
“Walt Disney has made a huge impact on the lives of children in multiple generations
and is still making an impact on adults as well” (Taylor). Many people watch Disney movies
without even think what is the massages that they are sending. By thinking women
representation, man being a hero, love and dance, I think Disney movies have a bad influence on
either children or adults
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Work Cited
Castillo, Paul. “The Negative Effects of Disney on Children.” The Sundial. 04 Dec. 2006. Web.
10 Feb. 2017. .
Smikić, Nenad. “5 Life lessons from Disney Movies.” Novak Djokovic Foundation. Novak
Djokovic Foundation, 04 Feb. 2015. Web. 20 Feb. 2017.
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Taylor. “Main Menu.” Taylors Blog. 11 Mar. 2014. Web. 10 Feb. 2017. .
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Living with or without Roommate?
Many single people have difficulties deciding whether to live with a roommate or to live
alone. Each makes different decisions. Some people choose to live alone for privacy, while
others choose to live with a roommate for practical reasons. Living with a roommate definitely
has its pros and cons, but living alone does too. As far as I am concerned, I prefer to live without
a roommate. I have many reasons that made my opinion, one and the most is the privacy. People
in general are different and for sure they can argue in any simple subject, so for this reason
people should think a lot whether they prefer living with a roommate or not.
I’m studying here in WVU as a scholarship student from my country, Oman. It’s hard to
study abroad and Oman treats any person who doesn’t focus on their study by sending them back
home. This is tough decision and you have no choice to not focus on your study. Since I entered
the school my parents tried hard to help me recognize how my bachelor degree is important in
anyone’s life, and without it you won’t find a job. Once I got my scholarship, I promised my
family to work hard to get my bachelor degree with a dean’s list, as I did in school.
I began the first semester in WVU with 12 credits so I can focus and have a strong
beginning with high grades. The first semester goes as I want and everything was perfect, 3.0
GPA, a lot of close friend, no homesick and comfortable roommate. My Roommate is my
cousin, we decided to move to study here and live here together. My cousin is my best friend
since we were kids, she understand me and we haven’t ever get in trouble. From this point of
view, I selected her to be my Roommate. She is 20 years old, a sophomore psychology at WVU.
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When we completed one year as a roommates, we started to have friends and we moved to the
same building that they live in. we were enjoying living next to each other, and we felt that we
are one family.
It was summer, and as I’m engineering major I had two classes left to finish my
freshmen year. I took Physics and Engineering 102 which was about MATLAB programing, and
those two classes was too hard for me. It was a tough month for me, because I was fasting and
taking classes at the same time. My schedule everyday was as the following, I woke up go to
classes from 8am-4pm. when I’m done I go back to my apartment to have some rest then cook
sometimes. After I finish eating, we watch some series and TV programs. At 11pm I will study
for 2-3 Hours, and sometimes more if I have an exam.
Everything was good until one day I had a physics exam and I had insomnia and I couldn’t
sleep. I could hear the girls in the living room laughing as no body were sleeping or having an exam.
From there I started to be mad and said that I should say something, but as usual I can’t say anything
because I own 50% of the apartment. The only thing that I thought would work is to write a text in the
group that we had so it would reach everyone. I wrote some words that express my feeling and statues
with the classes that I took. One of the most wrote to them is that they could stay with us but not for long
time because I need to sleep well, and also they need to feel the pressure that I’m having in my classes
even though they have easy classes.
From this situation that I had, I changed my mind from thinking that living with
roommate is better idea to a worse idea. There are many common reasons that people could have,
but Jen Winberry summarized everything by saying “I can stay out until 4 a.m., come home and
not worry about waking up my roommate who made the terrible decision to take an 8 a.m. class.
I have the television, DVD player and stereo to myself all the time, and when I feel like blaring
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and even singing along to Eddie Money and Journey at 1 a.m., I don’t have to worry about
inconveniencing anyone. And best of all, I never have to worry about getting kicked out of my
own place so that my roommate can hook up with her boyfriend or some one-night stand.”
(Winberry)
For my own reason, I’m somehow a messy person so as I live alone I can be as clean or
as messy as I want and no one will mess with your mess. There’s no fight for personal space, and
you can choose the decor for your apartment. One of the things I enjoy is the quiet place, and
that what you would get if you live alone. To comment at this point, I enjoy studying in my
apartment so I really need that quiet atmosphere.
I have been changed from a social person to a person who like to sit alone. One of the
reasons that derived me to be what I’m now is now that I’m with my roommate I can see some
people who are invited in my apartment as without telling me, and I might don’t like those
people. Me and my roommate has different friends, so anyone can be annoyed if they saw people
they don’t like in their personal space. This leads to a big problems such as, you need to clean
the dishes after each gathering that you didn’t make. If you live alone you will live alone you
will have less dishes to clean. If you live without a roommate there are no distractions when you
need to get things done. As I’m chemical a hard major of course, I need to study alone without
destructions. But because I stay with my roommate she invited some of her friends, and
sometimes they would stay late night and I might have an exam or an early class. This mean if
you stay in your own apartment, you don’t have to deal with your roommate’s friends who come
over.
On the other hand some people think the opposite, they would live with roommate rather
than living alone. There is some major reasons such as, you need to have a best friend and here is
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your roommate roll. You can share anything you want with your roommate. Also you can share
memories as you travel together, you always had someone to go places with. If you get in trouble
the one you can stand by your side is your roommate. Even the happiness and good times they
could share it with you such as parties and your birthday.
This quote summarized a lot of reasons “After class, we vented about professors or
classmates. We always made sure the other was up for class in the morning. When I wanted an
opinion on an outfit or hairstyle, she was always there to tell me what she thought. When we
were up late studying, we motivated each other. When we went out, we always made sure the
other was safe and got home OK.” (Woiner)
One other quote I liked, “Without a doubt, your year will be filled with many new
experiences and memories. For many students, simply sharing a room may be a new experience.
Having a positive relationship with your roommate(s), suitemates or floor mates will add to the
richness of your year. When you feel at home in your residence, you will be a better student and
be better able to positively contribute to the University.”
Despite the negatives, I would go back to living with a roommate if I could. I think I was
enjoying having a roommate especially that she was my best friend. Also if we were alone and
no one interrupt our relation we would be the perfect roommate ever. (Woiner)
In my point of view, if I had a good roommate I would save money, time, and happiness.
By having a roommate you can split any money between you, also if you were buying grocery
you will split the money you should pay between you. If you had problem in money your
roommate would stand beside you, and you can borrow money and return it whenever you can.
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Finally, I think living with roommate isn’t that hard or annoying, but the hard thing is to
select the best and perfect roommate. I think to have a successful relation with your roommate is
to discuss how your expectations about sharing belongings, noise, guests, and anything else you
feel will be important in your room. Don’t be shy—the more you discuss these things up front
the less likely they’ll become issues later. There is some small details that people is not aware
with such, you may be able to sleep through a rock concert, but can your roommate? Are you
sure your roommate likes to study while listening to your music? Talk to each other about
schedules (day and night) and study preferences. Another thing to notice is the guest policy, talk
with your roommate about guests and how often you’re both comfortable having them in the
room. In my point of view if people follow those tips they would get better relation with their
roommate, otherwise they should live alone.
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Work Cited
Winberry, Jen. “Living alone suitable for some students.” The Daily Collegian. The Daily
Collegian, 27Jan.2006.Web.01Feb.2017.
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Woiner, Paige. “Living alone makes for a lonely college life.” The Daily Collegian. The Daily
Collegian, 14Oct.2015.Web.01Feb.2017.
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