Gender Roles Mulan

Mulan

The movie takes place in ancient Chinese, and is based on the folktale of Mulan. She poses as a solider to save her elderly father form going to war. The movie upholds morals such as the importance of the importance of family, courage, self-sacrifice, honour, and country; it includes scenes of ancestor worship. Overall, it teaches young girls that it is okay to defy gender roles set forth be society. Mulan poses as a solider in ancient China, she goes to training camp, and takes on traditional men’s role, despite the risks ( a woman could be killed if found out to be pretending to pose as a man). She is really remarkable!  

                        

Moral of Aladdin

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The moral of the original Middle-Eastern tale 'Arabian Nights' is that greatness and strength comes from within, not from without. This is demonstrated by Aladdin's bravery and intelligence despite his upbringing on the streets. It also stresses that it isn’t okay to lie about where you come from. In Disney's animated musical version of the story, the writers updated this theme to a single phrase, calling Aladdin a 'diamond in the rough'.

Disney Movies

           

Movies when our generation was young where so simple. They actually had morals versus some of the popular movies today. These are just some examples. So next time you have some free time, go back and watch a Disney classic.

1.       Beauty and the Beast- treat others the way you want to be treated. When a spoiled prince is transformed into a beast, he grows bitter and repressed. When he captures Bell’s father on a trip, she offers herself has a prisoner in exchange for her father. Ultimately, the two fall in love and thus the curse is broken. Plus, the movie also makes reading cool.

2.       The Little Mermaid- always follow your dreams, and honor your parents

3.       Bambi- learn about environment and survival skills

4.        Snow White-Don’t talk to strangers and be grateful to whom your staying with ( the seven drawfs)

                               

Technology

    

Technology has given people numerous advantages and consequences.  It needs to be used reasonably. But are we too addicted to technology? If bad weather where to move through, and cause cell phone towers, and power lines to go down, how would some people cope? It has happened before due to different weather conditions.

                People just cope. One learns that their life isn’t dependant on Facebook, cell phones, or television. Some people play card games, talk, and catch up with whomever their hanging out with. That’s how people cope, sometimes being standard without power can make the best memories, after all one never knows something worth remembering will come into their life.

                          

What we often forget...

We often forget the simple things in life, or take them for granted. I sure did. I can’t even hear out of my right ear. To sum it up, I’ve had seven ear surgeries. Five sets of tubes, then due to a set of tubes growing attached to my ear surgery; I had to those surgically removed. My right ear drum never healed properly and that led to my right ear tympanoplasty.

                                             

Oh, and throw into the count having throat surgery where tonsils and adenoids removed when I was seven, which makes eight total surgeries in all. But it’s the aftermath of the surgeries people take for granted. With my tympanoplasty surgery any stannous activity isn’t an option, doing simple activities such as walking up the stairs, or even sneezing is out of the question. Indepdance

Independence is what we take for granted; the freedom to do an activity without constraint.  Whether constraint is due to surgery, or another source, we do take independence for granted. I am thankful to have had a successful sugery, and to live in America, the land of the free.

                                                                  

                              

be thankful your family dosen't turn you in for thinking

How Winston Smith’s family was literally ‘purged’ from him in the novel makes me more thankful for my family. Parents or legal guardians should not live in fear of their children turning them in for a ‘thoughtcrime’ as Parsons and his wife do with their children, their Junior Spies. Toward the end of the novel, Parsons gets turned into the Ministry of Love. Although, the purges which Smith lost his family to is similar to Stain’s purges of the nine-teen thirties, and the children spies group he refers to in the novel is a grime echo in history of Hitler Youth in the Nazis regime. He took the worst of Nazism and Stalinism and made them into the ideal panoptical control.

This is from 1984, by Gerogre Orwell. Children in the novel are recurited into the Junior Spies, and encouraged to spy on their parents, for any disloyalty to the party. The family isn't really even a family, as we think of a family today. Plus, Smith, in the novel, dosne't even have any family photos of his family. This causes a lot of confusion and torment for him throughout the novel.

So be thankful, that we live in America, and can enjoy our family. Even our annoying parents and siblings.

Where did the fun go in "snow days"

                What do you do on snow days? Depending on the activity, they can be a lot of fun or just miserable (plus the fact that you have to make the snow days and hour(s) delays up in the precious summer). As a child, snow days meant pulling up the sled and playing outdoors in a wintry wonderland until my heart’s content; then, going back indoors to get a big mug of hot chocolate form my grandma. But, as a junior with a younger sibling, those once glorious days has turned into watching my younger sister, finishing/studying for classes, and chores and…

                Whatever happened to the fun of snow days? I mean their great, until you get to school the next day and the teachers still load you up with a pile of work. Those days where once spent in innocence and fun! Now, there not   : (

                I’ll always remember snow days as a child, playing outdoors, or a card game with my grandmother, ect, sweet memories. I miss those simple activities. You don’t know what you have untilbv it’s gone.

The Golden Rule

Today, Monday January 17, 2011 is Martin Luther King Junior Day. We are all familiar with the history of the Civil Rights moment, and the injustices that minorities faced in the past. Is this prejudice taught? As a child, I just remember playing on the playground. All that mattered that a new potential friend was nice and fun. Although as we get older, many could argue that we forget the simple rules of childhood. Such a simple rule, easily forgotten, the golden rule; treat others as you want to be treated. How much better would the world be if we remembered this rule?

“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." –Strength to Love

More than meets the eye

At a first glance, something may seem so insignificant. It could anything, to cleaning out something, meeting someone new, buying something new. Then, it’s later you realize that the insignificant encounter made an impact in your life. It could be small or large. But, a small action changed you. It helped mold you into who you are today. That’s what I’ll be writing my blog about. Small encounters in my life that have made a lasting impact on this so-called journey called life. Stuff, I never thought that would matter, but really did.