Essays on Pocahontas

Introduction

Kathi Miao is a feminist, a film critic and editor. She is also a fantasy and science fiction magazine columnist. Additionally, she has authored books on film essays with the Disney Dolls article being among her most famous and most controversial criticism. In this article, Miao subjects the Disney children’s films to feminism criticism, looking at the themes and the characterization with the critical eye of a feminist. She asserts that the female characters that we have come to know and adore in the Disney animated films; from the classics of Snow White , Sleeping Beauty, the little Mermaid, ...

Benjamin Franklin and Pocahontas are two outstanding Americans, who made a significant contribution to the development of the American society and its country, in general. Their actions and the course of their lives are recounted in books, documentaries, feature films, and plays and describe the importance of their deeds. Despite the fact that their actions are so important for the national heritage and the development of history, their lives were also highly influenced by the historical developments and the political processes, which took part during their lifetime. Despite the fact that Pocahontas and Benjamin Franklin lived in different centuries, ...

Disney premiered the movie “Pocahontas” to a crowd of over 100,000 people in New York City’s Central Park. At that time in 1995, the film faced strong competition from Batman Forever, Casper, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. Although less successful than Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King that preceded it, the character Pocahontas is one of Disney’s favorite princesses and the first who was not of European descent. Because she is the daughter of a chief, she is listed as one of the Disney Princesses. She is the only Disney Princess to have two love ...

Art is a collection of different human events and the results of those events. This project emphasizes on the paintings done by different artists in America and what the artists had in mind during the time when they did these paintings. The paintings are found in the statutory hall. There are varied emotions depicted by the artists that define the history of America before independence. These paintings are of much importance even to the current generation and help one to understand better the history of America by just having a look at the images. These places the images in their immediate ...

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EMBARKATION OF THE PILGRIMS by Robert W. Weir The painting shows the pilgrims who were on the deck of the speedwell ship in the July 22, 1620 where they went to search for their religious freedom. The artist is trying to show how the group was grieved and thinking about what they were about to do. The painting depicts the feeling of graveness because the group was not certain about what they were going to do, but they were hopeful God could protect them. This was depicted by the message “God with Us” on the upper left ...

The survival of the modern economy depends on a neverending stream of consumption. This is why cars do not last as long as they used to, it is why the cost of a new television is not significantly higher than the cost of television repair, and it is why restaurants continue to proliferate across the map, hopping from retail corner to retail corner to chase families down before they can get home and cook their own meals. This trend began in the wake of the Great Depression; while it was largely the mobilization of industry for World War II that brought ...

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Disney has shown the portrayal of women over many years in the movies by the use of animation characters. The role of women is portrayed to have changed over time in times of nature and the scope. There was a very big change since the early 1900’s to modern day in the personalities of the women, their attitudes and ideologies towards men and the way they were portrayed in the movies, as the passive damsels in distress to being their own superhero. The evolution of women in Disney movies shall be analyzed through the use of feminist essays written ...

Introduction

The mass media has always been an influential force in shaping social perspectives and culture. Disney corporation is particular has played a fundamental role in the development of socialization among young children particularly for little girls. For more than 70 years the multimedia giant has been a leading authority on the subject of influencing popular culture. The tremendous power that mass media is considered as a strong influential factor in child development, which will be the focal point of this discussion. It is apparent that mass media particularly Disney Company is among the strong influential factors in the development of socialization among children and ...

The Disney movie, Pocahontas might be a fiction version of the real Princess Matoika, but it is still a distortion of history. Moreover, displaying an erroneous relic of history in a prestigious dome of the country is a disgrace for the brave Native Americans, who courageously defended their territories against the English colonizers. Pewewardy in his article, “The Pocahontas Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for Educators” stressed that the character of Pocahontas in the movie was a sellout among the Native Americans. She was unjustly represented as a supporter of the race who was invading their tribal territory. The movie erased the issue of historical injustice ...

The story of Pocahontas and the English explorer John Smith is one of the central stories told about the colonization of the United States. Despite the many other instances of contact between colonizers and the native people living in what we now know as North America, this one has persisted, has been represented in many movies and is carefully studied in history classroom. The story touches about the central themes of colonization, but goes beyond the history of it by giving a narrative story of two people, one from England, the other native to The New World. These characters give ...

Settling in North America

The colonization of North America by the British Empire following the voyages led by Christopher Columbus during the late 15th century has notable economic and political characteristics. The British Empire saw North America as a resource-rich continent that is highly instrumental in expanding their economic activities. Given the initial failures to establish colonies and the rivalling Dutch, French and Spanish imperial forces in North America, the British Empire turned to joint stock companies for establishing settlements. Key to the operation of joint stock companies is the independent leadership exerted by the Proprietary Governors and the practice of mercantilism. Both the ...

Animation in Pocahontas" is good and one of the thoughtfully done because it depicts real issues in the society. However, they are treated with real idealism. According to this movie, there existed harmony between the Native Americans and the nature. However, when the European settlers came to America, they came with guns and destruction of the ecology. Europeans were really yearning for civilization and could realize what the Indians could teach them. Through the film, almost midway, we find Captain Smith who had dismissed (without thinking) ideas from the Indian lady whom he loves (Pocahontas) asking: "If the savage ...

Introduction

The new world 2005 is breath- taking; romantic- filled and creatively staged historical adventure. The film skillfully written and directed by an excellent film writer and director Terrence Malick, depict along the foundation of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement ,just around the beginning of the United State colonization at which the America was occupied and organized in native tribes. The film draws its inspiration from Captain John Smith and Pocahontas based on a classic poem. The cast involves Wes studi, Christopher Plummer, Christian bale, august schellenberg, David thelwis and Yolick van wageningen. A highly experienced production team consisting of the ...

History vs Archeology

- History is supposed to be a written account of what happened before, but there is no way to determined if all that was already written is the only “history” that we have or if these are all true because it presents no actual evidences. This is when archeology comes or plays its part. It tries to confirm what historians have written and along the way they may discover artifacts which historians didn’t write about that could be added to the written history. History and archeology are two separate fields but they must complement each other so there should ...

Pocahontas is a Disney animated feature that follows the story of a Native American Motoaka. She is the daughter of the Powhatan Confederacy chief in the early 17th century. It is the 33rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classic series following known hits like Beauty and the Beast, Alladin and The Lion King. It was released in theaters in 1995 and is the first film based on a known historical character. However, it did not follow the actual historical account of the Native American’s encounter with the British settler John Smith who had sailed in search of gold in the “ ...

The tale of the first meeting between the European expedition of John Smith and the Native Americans during the founding of Jamestown in 1607 is one that has captured the American imagination for centuries. The meeting of John Smith and the Native American girl Pocahontas, and their subsequent love story, is echoed by the tense clash of cultures, demonstrating a dramatic story of love being found in the strangest places, as well as issues of land ownership and the promise of a New World. The original John Smith writings tell the tale in a fascinating and Eurocentric way that belies the true ...

Judith Butler, in her book Gender Trouble, presumes that gender is not predetermined by sex, but instead is dictated by the gendered acts of people themselves. No universal gender exists, according to Butler; there is always a way to reinterpret and reassign behaviors to the masculine or feminine, and both biological men and women can exhibit male and female traits and identities. The assumption that there is an inherent identity of women as "female," according to Butler, is erroneous, and it does not need to be represented at all. No one can "be" a specific gender; it all lies upon a certain ...

Helen Rountree’s book Pocahontas, Powhatan and Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown retells the tale of Jamestown from the perspective of the Indians – the objective of this is to determine the effect of European settlers in America from those who lived there. Over the course of this book, their story is told – many blanks have to be filled in, however, as the Powhatan Indians do not have a written language. This leaves the responsibility of the information gathered to fall to the Jamestown English; Rountree does the best to keep the book objective, but “such sources of information ...

Introduction

During the visit to Virginia Jamestown settlement, a young white boy who was staring a pleasant bronze marking the ground entrance, the statue of the Pocahontas spat on it and said it was Indian. The parents remained silent and this amazed Robertson. That particular moment ignited his curiosity on the interaction between the English settlers, the development of the modern codes of class and race and the indigenous population. The interest of Robertson was provoked by the discovery of the fact that Pocahontas had witnessed the masque in the court of Jacobs. This offered the access possibility of the reaction of ...