Essays on The Lion King

The song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” has a special place in the history of South African music. As often happens, the original version, and its performer, remained little known to the general public, while the numerous alterations received glory and reward. For 70 years of existence, this song has more than 160 versions and the total time of its sound on the radio has passed for three hundred years. Song led a variety of charts and according to estimates it collected over $15 million (LaFraniere, 2006). Still, the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonigh” is mostly famous for its use ...

(Student’s Full Name) Classism and its Connection to Consumption as explored and presented in the Disney Films The Lion King and The Princess and the Frog Classism and its Connection to Consumption as Explored and Presented in the Disney Films The Lion King and The Princess and the Frog

Introduction

Giroux (1999) notes that the power structure created by Disney allows children to relinquish “their roles as critical subjects for the passive role of consuming subjects” (Giroux, 1999, p. 23). This desire to consume has caused many to see the necessity to consume media as pointed out by Dafna ...

Introduction

Since its establishment, Disney was known to promote racism through racial messages embedded within their films for several years. Though many people assert that Disney followed the signs of the time, it was against the moral law to be insensitive to other cultures while promoting the interest of another race which was perceived as superior. Dumbo, for example, was a film laced with racists messages. Disney has embraced the word, Crow, to stereotype African Americans as cigar smokers, lazy as well as associated with criminal activities. Peter Pan film also emphasized the notion of racial discrimination against other cultures. ...

Reflection of My Day

As I had laid down in bed last night there was just one thought on my mind that approximately 24 hours later, I would writing a reflection of the day ahead of me. I wonder if this was the reason that I woke up earlier than usual today, or perhaps I just had never been aware of the bright sunlight that fell upon my closed eyelids everyday in morning until today. Now that I think of about it, maybe all this time I have been too addictively accustomed to waking up to the buzzing of my alarm clock, just like ...

Prince Hamlet is the hero although he ends up dying. Hamlet’s tragedy is rooted on the odd activities that are happening in a royal compound. The King of Denmark is poisoned by Claudius who is his blood brother. The king’s death is blamed on a venomous snake bite. Claudius then assumes the throne and hastily marries Gertrude who is the widow and Hamlet’s mother. This wearies hamlet. Meanwhile, the king’s ghost appears to the castle guards in two nights and on the third night, they invite Horatio who unsuccessfully try to dialogue with the king’s ghost. ...