Jodi Benson Essays

inspiration come from for this amazing 1989 movie? The Little Mermaid was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker (who also helped producing and with the story). The music in the film was made by Alan Menken and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Jodi Benson (who also appeared in the live-action film Enchanted and many other Disney and animated films) played as Ariel, the Little Mermaid herself. But the inspiration for this film came about 150 years prior from a Danish Author. Around 1836 a story was

Introduction Ariel has not disappointed me since she started middle school. I wanted her to continue to love learning and become more social and she did. She is extremely liked by her peers at school and tends to make friends easily. Ariel has also been good at getting her chores done on time and finding ways to earn more money to save up for things she wanted to buy. I did not have a lot of issues with telling her what she needed to do. Ariel still loves to play with Rayann. A few years back

Across cultures and civilizations, the sea has always been an important figure both in the benefits it provides in daily life and its presence in storytelling. In consequence, sea monsters have been important figures in myths and stories whether it be in 1000 BCE Babylonian culture, or in 20th century America. The Babylonian Enuma Elish and Disney’s 1989 The Little Mermaid both feature a powerful female antagonist, Tiamat and Ursula, respectively, and these two figures bear many similarities. In

here,” simply offering themselves up so easily. Competition also brews between Ursula and Ariel, as they compete for the prince’s hand in marriage. Deborah Ross even argues that the bubbles in Ariel’s bathwater are significantly linked to Sebastian’s earlier ode that it is also “better down where it’s wetter.” Ross argues that sexual innuendos are implied in other aspects of the movie as well in her article, “Escape from Wonderland: Disney and the Female Imagination.” She also claims that Disney

When we’re young, we don’t understand much of what is going on around us, if we see something we like, we want it, or we would want to look like it. For someone who has grown up obsessed over Disney Animation movies, it’s very easy to say I have been a victim of their unrealistic body changes. Ariel for example, I thought being a mermaid is the most outstanding thing in the world, however, she changes herself, she traded what was her identity, for a pair of feet, and for who? For a man. I grew up

The characters in The Little Mermaid are stragetically designed in a way that conveniently adheres to stereotypical ideas of how males and females should behave, value, and appear according to their gender roles in a patriarchal society that demeans women. In order to do this, the main male characters, including King Triton and Prince Eric, must depict hypermasculinity to dramatically contrast from the creation of their fragile and inferior female counterparts. This is to also exhibit the men’s hypothetical

In the 1987 General Conference, President Ezra Taft Benson shared his concerns that as a nation we have “apostatized” from several of the principles of our Constitution. I was alarmed that he used that word when describing how we have strayed from these founding values. To apostatize means more than simply turning away from something. It also means to deny it. President Benson was so concerned that the people of our country were corrupting the principles of the Constitution, and making unauthorized