Cartoons Research Papers Samples For Students

Cartoons seem innocent in their attempt to make children laugh. In many cases they also seek to teach a lesson. The lesson can be something as simple as the importance of sharing or being honest. It can also teach something serious like looking both ways before crossing the street. The less obvious lessons are more subtle and often more lasting in the psyche of the juvenile audience. It happens more often when the cartoons characters are human beings instead of animals or puppets. Human cartoon characters cause children of all ages to absorb significant details about race, gender and culture. ...

The power of media and its effects on the society cannot be underestimated. The media has a profound effect on people’s culture, values, and priorities. Perhaps the biggest influence the media has on individuals is its determination of reality. Today many societies fall victims to media influences. The media’s influences especially on kids are so palpable that scholars have debated if the media’s influence on youth and the society is sustainable. The media also is credited for positive roles that its plays in the society particularly in regard with information. This paper explores different theoretical approaches on ...

Dr. Seuss emerged as a staunch opponent of isolationism in America in the late 1930s as well as early 1940s. He saw inaction in United Sates to German as well as Japanese expansion as appeasement and cowardice. While the world was in a war, America had isolated itself and just sat to look the other countries fight. Dr. Seuss felt the weakness and thought that Americans were leaving their victims exposed to Japanese and Nazi brutality. Again, just before the Pearl Harbor attack, Seuss used to depict isolationists together with appeasers as lazy, cowardly and unintelligent.

First Cartoon by Dr. Seuss

America First
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In a home where there are children, watching cartoons and other television commercials is an integral part of everyday life. In the contemporary world, the outdoor children games of the past are no longer favorites among children. This marks the critical difference between the child of this generation and a child from the past two or three generations. Currently, children get exposed to media at the tender age of six months. Parents for instance buy the kids’ music for their children at this age. A child may listen to the music in bed and after the sixth month, the little one ...

“The Little Mermaid,” the 1989 animated film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker and released by Buena Vista Pictures, delves on the story of a mermaid who falls in love with a human being. This film is likewise a cartoon adaptation of the original version of the novel of the same title written by Hans Christian Andersen and first published in 1837. With regards to the Disney version, it is observable that the film incorporates several techniques that seem to diminish the innate animalistic nature of the aquatic creatures, such as the crabs, lobsters, octopus, the tropical fish, ...

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy-adventure film and one of Walt Disney' s original classics. It is based on the play Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by J.M. Barrie. One of Walt Disney’s greatest financial successes, the film has often been criticized due to its unfavorable depiction of Native Americans. The film and the play upon which it is based, reflect American Societal norms at the time. The film has a lot to say about the psychology of the American male and female gender roles during the first half of the ...

Animation is not truthful; in fact it can be summed up as a deceptive way of entertaining people. This is so because it is generally a rapid sequence of purely still images put together in order to give an illusion of movement. It is a human creation that can even be seen as a trick that eyes play on an individual but gets some form of interpretation in the human mind. It is important to understand it from this perspective otherwise comparing and contrasting American animation and Japanese animation also known as anime will not make sense at all. Both of them are ...

Advertisements are nowadays everywhere from the billboards, magazines, TV commercials, and pop-up ads on the internet. The internet has become a cup of tea for almost if not all teenagers, they spend hours on the internet’s especially the social networking sites such as my world space, twitter, hi 5, Facebook among others. Marketers are targeting kids and they have found success in kids since children between the ages of 12 years and below will always convince their parents to buy then what they want. It is documented that parents in the US spend five hundred dollars in a year on ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889
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Introduction

As the epidemic of food related diseases including but not limiting to certain types of cancers, diabetes, heart ailment and obesity has been on a rise several global organizations researched and collected data to uncover the actual facts behind this severe health concern. Organizations like WHO, considered marketing or promoting unhealthy food products to children as one of the key areas that required serious regulations in order to promote healthy life styles.
Marketing is a general term that might involve various strategies that are not as prominent as others, for the sake of this research ...

English

Thesis Statement and Introduction
Has it ever occurred to you that children love reading comics and watching fairy tale movies more than reading story books? Ask them what they’ve understood from a fairy tale that was screened on TV recently and they’ll keep talking about it till you fall dead. On the contrary, ask them to read a story book and see what happens. I’ll bet that they wouldn’t get through to the second page. Pictures and color attract children and adults alike, and while adults like to watch movies, children love to watch cartoons and ...

The underlying problematic situation in this case is to be found in the food products which are part of the Disney Consumer Products. Due to its large following and support base, the company has the capability to influence the decisions consumers make when they go shopping. This is even worse for children as they will be more drawn into those products that are branded by their favorite cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse. The other problem in the case is the fact that the company needs to diversify into other income generating activities food products being one of them. ...

This paper offers the summary of the article about Disney Company and its achievements through the nineteenth century. Fundamentally, Disney Company productions is best known for production of animated films and entertainment in the 20th Century, having been founded by Walt Disney. Initially, the founder, Disney, began an occupation in animation with a company situated in Kansas City. With another close person Lwerks, a talented animator, Disney established another Films studio within the same city in 1922, where they produced which began to involve itself in the production series of cartoon films, about fairy tales. Notably, Alice in Cartoon ...

Homer Jay Simpson is one of the most famous cartoon characters and very much liked by children and adults throughout the world. Children of every age are fans of Mr. Simpson and they can’t wait to see him on television. Homer Simpson is not a real life character, but a fictional cartoon character who appears in the series The Simpsons. On the television show, Homer and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. As the family's provider, he works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer embodies several American working class stereotypes: he is crude, ...

Part A

Introduction
Fortune 500 companies are the top 500 companies in the US which are listed by Fortune magazine every year. The companies are generally ranked on the basis of their gross revenue (Fortune 500). The Fortune magazine started to enlist these 500 best company in 1955 for the first time. The concept of selecting best 500 American companies was first created by Edgar Smith, the editor of Fortune 500. In these 500 best companies, the top companies are Wal-Mart Stores, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Berkshire Hathaway, and Apple (Fortune 500)
The company chosen for this research paper is ...

What with the advent of CGI and other forms of computer animation, it is now almost impossible to tell what is real and what is computerized in movies. Taking a look back at movies made in earlier times can sometimes leave those films open to ridicule, unless one takes the time to consider the technology that was available when those movies were made. One example would be the original version of Clash of the Titans. From a modern point of view, the doddering movements of the Kraken and other creatures, as well as the wavering flight of the enchanted owl, look ...

Art has evolved over the centuries and great artists have been involved in art work producing inspiring and beautiful paintings, illustrations, sculptures and other works which have had a tremendous effect on the present day artists. Artists were and are inspired by what happens in society and want to put into illustrative works which can be understood by users as well as convey a message or entertain the reader. Many artists defined an era during their lifetime and some had tremendous Impact in society and their works can be felt today. This paper seeks to highlight some of works by great ...

Abstract

Many behaviors showed by children and adults are learned from television shows, movies, and novels. Fictional characters in a movie demonstrate specific types of behaviors that viewers and readers end up adopting in reality. The analysis of a movie helps in associating these characters to a specific psychological disorder. The aim of the paper is to analyze the character of Ariel in the Disney Movie Show “The Little Mermaid.” Ariel demonstrated hoarding disorder in the cartoon movie. The behavior of keeping many items in an untidy manner characterizes the disorder. Risk factors associated with the disorder include personality, age, ...

As a nation, America is populated by immigrants and as such, its culture is a mixed bag – a melting pot, if you will, of ethnicities, cultures, ideas and beliefs. As a result, it is difficult to define any one traditionally American aspect of culture as it is bastardised from a whole variety of European, African and Asian influences. However, America can boast its culture as having been affected by these various different influences and as being shaped accordingly. One such major influence is that brought to the table by the African American community who have influenced American culture for decades through music, film, literature ...

The term “manga” refers to Japanese comics or comics written in the Japanese language with the use of specific Japanese style. Nowadays, the manga is popular not only in Japan but also all over the world. With the growth of the international popularity, it often becomes the object of condemnation due to its sensitive content. This paper aims to study the development of manga and the roles it has played in society at different times. During its history, the manga was mostly used for political mockery, but through the years, it became more diversified and started to be the ...

Abstract

The purpose of this assignment was to analyze how the particular modern toy can influence the development of social, emotional, cognitive, motor skills of infants. We included the detailed description of the toy titled “Learning Letters Mailbox” in the paper and discussed different opportunities proposed by this toy for children play.
After analyzing and discussing all listed questions, we came to conclusions that the toy has the variety of different functions, and the toy can be attractive and exciting for a child`s attention, influence development of some infants` skills. However, despite many advantages of the toy, it is ...

Mergers and Acquisition

Introduction
Merging and Acquisition of business is the act of two or many companies forming a partnership between themselves through consolidation of funds. The units that they use in the business organization are combined to serve as a single entity. This strategy is adopted by the organizations to enhance the competitiveness advantage in the market share by companies. Therefore, the stocks, shares and the equities associated with the businesses that are joining are looked upon as a single entity. The result by the organizations is the ability to achieve specific synergies in the business such that, the benefits are ...

- Introduction
In the introductory part, the research will give a brief overview of what the research is all about and the importance of the research. In order for the research to have meaning the term, art should be defined. In the modern society, many artists are well known to combine different elements of many cultures and traditions in their art. There are many reasons for doing this other than getting profit. The thesis statement will be about how the artist can combine the elements of many cultures and traditions (Hampton, 1999).
- Research objectives
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Introduction
Heisei media essentially transforms human psychology. Media actively invade not only our lives but also in the lives of our children. Computer, TV, VCR firmly part of the lives of many kids, from the first years of life.
In some families, as soon as the child learns to sit, sit down in front of his screen. Screen becomes the main "educator" of the child.
This article will examine factors affecting the mental and physical health of children when watching television, as well as available technical means ...

In describing the ways in regards to ideas about race and how they shaped the American view of the Pacific Theater during World War II are many to explain. For example, according to Dower (1986) talks about the ugly racial aspects of the battle during the Asian theater of World War II. "In Britain and the United States," Dower mentions, "the Japanese were a people that were more hated than the Germans before along with after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On this note, it appears from the readings that there was not any form of argument among modern eyewitnesses. ...

World War II and the time immediately following World War II was a strange, uncomfortable, and uncertain time for the United States. There were many forces at work, particularly during the early years of America’s involvement in World War II, that threatened the very fabric of American society as it had existed up until that point in history. The world underwent so many vast and rapid changes that the governments had to work very hard to ensure that they kept their populations under control.
During World War II, most Americans were just becoming familiar with the idea of ...

Sex and violence in media refer to depictions of aggressive and violent behavior that particular characters direct at their colleagues in a media story, play or material. Those characters portrayed can be human beings or animals, cartoons or real visual objects. The general public tends to concentrate more on the graphic aspects and intensity of a scene in determining its degree of violence. However, children's cartoons have the highest frequency of television violence, but the public does not view them as violent. It seems that the affectively positive aspects of humor or animation qualify such depictions as violence. Therefore, media violence ...

Introduction

Hip hop culture began in the early 1970s. This occurred when a Jamaican artist, Clive Campbell also known as DJ Kool Herc moved from Kingston to the West Bronx, New York. In West Bronx, Campbell tried to incorporate his Jamaican style of Djaying into the music systems of the Americans. His style involved reciting improvised rhymes over the dub versions of his reggae records. During his initial performances in the city, he tried to adapt his style over the chanting over the percussion sections in the pop songs during that time. With the help of other Clarke Kent and Coke ...