Essays on Aladdin

INTRODUCTION

There are very few children who grew up in the 1990s who does not remember watching Disney’s “Aladdin.” They remember the image of endless sand dunes, hidden caverns, flying carpets, a beautiful princess, a handsome hero and, of course, a big blue genie. Disney’s Aladdin garnered a great deal of praise and theatrical success. “Aladdin,” unlike previous Disney animated features, where the characters and stories were in some fictitious worlds and kingdoms, “Aladdin” was going to bring to life elements of a real world location. “Aladdin” takes place in the Arabian Desert. Brining this story to life, ...

Aladdin is a classic Arabian fairy tale that was used as a basis for many movies and cartoons. The main character of the story is a poor young man who achieves the princess and other rewards with the aid of magical powers and own personality. Writers from many countries used similar plots. For example, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen used such characters and situations in his tales The Tinder-box and The Flying Trunk. Stories have many differences, like author, length or plot, but there is always one similarity – focus on main characters. The screen adaptation of the fairy tale ...

“The Monstrous Births of Aladdin Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic review Aladdin is probably everyone’s favorite folk tale from the Middle East, a fantasy story of a boy unwilling to learn the trades that come about through hard labor and apprenticeship. After his father dies, a sorcerer who claims to be Aladdin’s uncle by virtue of his being his late father’s brother pops up and demands parental rights. He tries the same thing his father did-to teach him a line of trade- but he won’t have any of it. Disney’s rendition of the Aladdin ...

The term representation is used to refer to the construction of meaning through various symbols and images (Sisler, 2008). Cultures, races, and religions are represented in different forms of media around the world, but in most scenarios these representations are filled with stereotypes making western cultural ideologies and beliefs as better or ideal compared to other forms of cultural ideologies. The portrayal of Arab- Muslim Americans or Muslims in general, within the media of the United States focuses on the idea of agenda setting and the dominant ideology which frames the perceptions of mainstream America (Gerhauser, 2014). The United ...

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. ...

ASSIGNMENT 5

Please identify the current CEO of each of Cisco Systems and two of its competitors. For each CEO please examine his or her bio and any back ground information. Please summarize his or her previous successes. Cisco system’s niche is in the computer communications industry, whose main competitors are Huawei and ZTE Corporation. The current CEO at Cisco, John Chambers worked at IBM as a technology salesperson. Seven years later, he joined Wang laboratories as an assistant to a top executive mandated with US operations. He later joined Cisco in 1991 just as the company became a public ...