I was 11 years old when this movie came out and I still remember singing along to the catchy songs, laughing at the rambunctious raccoon, and wishing I could talk to trees. As an educated 24 year old and presently in a class about Native American culture, this viewing was drastically different than that of my first. As a kid my only reference point to the story of Pocahontas was this Disney movie, and after I learned the truth behind the numerous myths, I was angry but more frustrated. My frustration stemmed from the misrepresentation, mistreatment, and misguidance that Disney steered me in. Through the research of the Powhatan people, factual information, and analysis of Matoaka, Pocahantas’ birth name, an anthropological and Native American mind set will be used to retrieve and rectify the lost and or skewed historical records regarding both Matoaka and her people.
There’s One in all of Us “And his mother called him wild thing!” One of my all-time favorite children’s book as a child, and even now as an adult is Where the Wild things Are written by Maurice Sendak published in 1963. In 2009 I was ecstatic to hear that director Spike Jonze was writing an adaptation of the 1963 book and turning it into a movie, however, I was very curious to see how he was going to turn a ten page book into a two hour long movie. Could that be possible, could he make the movie and somehow still keep the essence of the ten page book or would he be stretching the story out too thin, and possibly loose the simple symbolism behind the classic book? I was probably the biggest critic out there and I wasn’t going to be easily impressed. For those of you that
It was the drawing of a whale spouting chicken soup out his blow hole on a blustery Fall day. My brother always laughed and I would hush him as I continued to read, “Spouting once, spouting twice, spouting chicken soup with rice.” I felt a tremendous sense of accomplishment when I finished the last words on the page. I was proud that I could read big words like spouting, slipping, and sliding. I think that self confidence is what made me choose that particular book to read to my classmates that same year. My kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Brinkman, let everyone pick a day to bring in their favorite book.
Steve was hoping to face Mitchell on many occasions but Billy Mitchell turned him away. Mitchell made excuses that he wouldn’t be able to show up due to various reasons. In the year 2007, Guinness books of world record asked twin galaxies for the list of top 5 Donkey Kong players. This was the chance for Steve Weibe to show how determined he was to win. Weibe scored 985,600 points in the
Favorite Color by Jay Davis Mom, I wish I knew your favorite color. The only one of God’s many crayons that gets you to sit up straighter. To unbraid your spine from a roach egg infested headboard. Your five children sit campfire cylinder style around playing guessing games about it. I bet it’s red Like a sea I’ve never seen But hear quite often in your voice late at night.
Nevertheless, it was true, and it became equally true for his younger brother. Through some quirks of DNA, my ex-husband and I--two average-appearing adults--spawned genetic celebrities: square-jawed, pearly-toothed, mahogany-haired, 6-foot-5-inch slabs of guy flesh whose casual glance seems to turn many otherwise articulate young women into babbling Barbies. I'm not proud of this. Wasn't the motherhood manifesto for women of my generation to abolish stereotypes? Weren't '90s men supposed to be fully functioning members of a newly designed home team, a mutually supportive, multiskilled unit?
Three years later, Disney came out with his second great hit; Pinocchio. From the very beginning, the blue fairy tells Pinocchio, a puppet that comes alive due to wish, that in order to become a real boy and not just a walking, talking puppet, he must prove himself brave, truthful, and able to tell right from wrong. “ A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face,” is the famous Blue Fairy quote that children remember. Children fear that if they lie, their nose will also grow and grown till its three feet long, teaching children that lying is wrong. Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket serve as a moral compasses for Disney watching children.
By determining that children had no clear costume of their own, and aspired to be smaller versions of their parents, left commentators of the master narrative, Aries and Stone in particular, to deduce that children had no individual characteristics aside from that of their gender. Aries evidence was also based on a small sample of diaries between the 16th and 18th Centuries, and from these also deduced that there was a lack of parental love for children. He says in Centuries on Childhood that parents rarely even knew how old their children were, and gives the example of Sancho Paza who, in his diary, writes about his daughter “she may be fifteen, or two years older or younger”. This, he explains, illustrates a lack of parental affection for their children. Lawrence Stone agreed with Aries that there was there was a lack of parental affection, and early modern childhood rested upon discipline and strict patriarchal regime.
Ayers,W. (1997) “A Kind and Just Parent”Beacon Press When I was given the name of this book to read I had no idea of exactly what the subject was. I can now say that I was very intrigued when I found out just what “ A Kind and Just Parent “ was really about. William Ayers book really gave me an informative view of children (I really hate the term kids) caught up in the juvenile justice system that we do not get from reading newspaper articles or watching television. William “Billy” Ayers born December 26,1944, is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the movement that opposed U.S .
She holds her hair back with sunglasses, in summer and in winter. After spending even a short time with her, one can't help but think of Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, who believed that the manufacture of flavors -- particularly the sweet and flashy ones that go into candy, chewing gum, and marshmallow -- demands a childlike openness. At the end of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Wonka tells Charlie Bucket that an adult could never run his factory. "Mind you, there are thousands of clever men who would give anything for the chance to come in and take over from me, but I don't want that sort of person," he says. "I don't want a grown-up person at all."