“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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
*This writing is unedited* Something I thought was well done: Something in the movie that I thought was done well was the music. I think that all the songs in the movie helped move the plot along while also enhancing the viewers’ experience. I think that music is a very powerful tool in movies. I […]
I found the prologue of Arabian Nights very interesting and fast-paced. The narrator would tell a part of the story and just as it was getting interesting he would switch directions. I thought that this was a very interesting method of storytelling. It definitely made me want to read more. I am excited to see […]
I have a love-hate relationship with writing. You may be wondering, What does that mean? For me, there are some days that I really enjoy writing and other days when I would rather run a marathon than sit down and write. My favorite type of piece to write is creative writing. I enjoy writing creatively […]
