Did you know that one of Disney’s most well-known films was based on another film? Aladdin is a popular Disney movie that came out in 1992 and was based on The Thief of Bagdad. This movie follows the life of a poor street rat named Aladdin, who lives in the made-up city of Agrabah. Throughout […]
This past week at Hillel I attended “Let’s Eat, Women” Shabbat and a discussion where we discussed women and how they are perceived in Judaism. This discussion was facilitated by Hillel students and an organization called Turning Point whose mission is to make sure women have a safe place to sleep if it is not […]
Overall this course has taught me that writing is not as scary and hard as I think it is. The biggest thing that I learned about writing in this class was the importance of drafts. The biggest change in my writing is definitely the ease of getting my ideas onto paper. I used to have […]
“The Thief of Bagdad” I did not really know what to expect when I first started watching the movie. The beginning was a little confusing but soon I started to understand the plot. I can see lots of things that Disney took and used in Aladdin. The most noticeable were names such as Jafar, Abu, […]
Disney’s Aladdin came out in 1992 and soon became a well-known movie. When people hear the name Aladdin they often think of the scene where Jasmine and Aladdin are riding on the magic carpet singing a Whole New World. But have they ever thought about the first time that they meet? After being chased through […]
If you think about any Disney movie carefully you can always find something wrong/problematic. This article simply highlights some examples of this. In addition to this, the article highlights some of the choices that Zimmerman makes in her play “The Jungle Book”. I think that this article also helps explain some of the choices that […]
Photograph’s Orientalism is an article written by Ali Behad. The introduction to this article ends on page 13 right before the “History Matters” section. The introduction ends with Behad’s thesis, “In the Orientalist photograph, the fragmented images of the geographic region encompassing the Middle East and North Africa are unified through a system of ideological […]
Adding Our Own Stories to the Nights- The movie Aladdin ends after Jafar has been defeated but ever since I was a little kid I always wondered what happened next. Today I will write what I believe happened. A few months later, Jasmine and Aladin get married. Of course, Genie officiates this wedding because after […]
While I believe that there is some value in reading a source multiple times I do not think that reading Said multiple times was helpful. I got more out of discussing the reading in class than I did reading over again. The first time I read through the chapter I did so slowly and carefully […]
About Said’s “The Scope of Orientalism” “Orientals were almost everywhere nearly the same” (38). This is a very racist sentence and while I would like to say that this is an anomaly for Said, I can not. Time and time again Said makes racist comments in his writing. He does this to try and get […]
