Ariel Bybee Essays

Imagery is one of the most provocative and pervasive forms of literary techniques available and is often used to develop themes and characters. As such, it is no surprise that it is prevalent throughout Shakespeare's plays and regularly employed to develop overarching themes. In his tragic play Othello, Shakespeare uses demonic imagery as a point of contrast between a character’s true nature and the impressions held by others in order to develop the theme of how people’s impressions of others can

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 thinking for a man to like me, he doesn’t have

hypothetical ownership over these women, and using their displayed incompetence as justification of their assumed possession of Ariel. Ariel, the central female character, is depicted as beautiful, because she meets stereotypical standards of beauty

always want what they can’t have. For example, Ariel from The Little Mermaid falls in love with the human, Prince Eric and wishes to be with him. However the only way she could do that is if she leaves her family behind and joins the human world, which her father disapproves of as he thinks humans are dangerous. This is seen when he says, “you could’ve been seen by one of those barbarians by by one of those humans!’ referring to the time when Ariel disobeyed him and went up to the ocean’s surface

Have you ever wondered if Mermaids exist? Mermaids don't exist because there hasn't been any proven evidence that Mermaids exist. The picture of the mermaid had purple hair because she's blended in with a purple guppy fish. She's the smallest but she's the friendliest with fish. Also her majestic tail turned green because she had her tail rubbed against seaweed and water doesn't affect her tail at all. Also she doesn't like going up top on the water she likes to stay below with fish. This

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

Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes - A recent addition to my pressure cooker baking list. To be more specific, I have made these eggless chocolate cupcakes in my pressure cooker without oven. You can follow the same recipe and bake in your oven. Eggless cupcakes I made my first frosting when I tried these egg free chocolate cupcakes. I was very happy with the results. There may be many of you who wants to make cupcakes in cooker for so many reasons. It is an awesome feeling to see the cupcakes beautifully

younger gods are, and waits for Marduk to engage in battle. When he declares to fight her one-on-one, Tiamat “[goes] wild, [and loses] her temper,” then “they [engage] in combat, they [close] for battle.” In Enuma Elish, Marduk is the hero, and though Ariel is the protagonist, her romantic interest, Eric, is the technical “hero” of this battle. Like the battle in Enuma Elish, the fight begins when the hero declares battle. In the case of The Little Mermaid, the declaration comes in the form a harpoon

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

Children were soon believed to have a unique outlook on the world because they had not yet been socialised and forced to interpret things in the hegemonic way most adults did. This drastic change in the perception of children as separate from adults influenced such poets as William Blake to use children and the idea of childhood as the subject of their writing in an attempt to understand the innocence that they seemed to hold. In this essay I will aim to examine the centrality of the child

The Little Mermaid is a whimsical tale of about a mermaid named Ariel, being just one of her seven sisters and princesses of Atlantica. While this fairytale is one of popularity, it was reperformed in a unique style at Southlake Christian Academy on March 10th, 2017. Presently directed by Alexa Wallace, the performance was unforgettable and related Christian beliefs in with the traditional Disney scenes. Starting with the intertwining Christ’s works with the generalized thought of good versus evil

Holiday baking season is almost here. Are you worried about not having an oven to bake with? Have you recently moved from a city home to a country cabin, and there is no more flick of the switch lights, no more thermostatic heat, and no oven to bake? Luckily, there is more than one way to make your favorite "baked" goods such as your cookies, biscuits, and brownies. However, the cake texture may not be similar to those you make in the oven. But it definitely turns out moist and good enough to gratify

how the characters should move. The six animators that teamed up to create Ariel used the same model so they would all draw

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 published by the author Hans Christian Anderson. The name of this story was The Little Mermaid, this story followed the tale of a young mermaid who wished to be a human to receive a soul and eventually go to heaven (as in the story mermaids had no soul and couldn’t get into heaven). Which is a drastic change from the Disney version, which Ariel (the Little

There are many ideas as to what makes a feminist icon. Samantha Brennan discusses about a childhood female character that represents feminism and a body-confident role model. In her article "Miss Piggy's Feminism, Redefining Human Relationships through Martial Arts" Brennan creates an educational diction through viewing how Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show has the potential to be a feminist icon. Writing with a proud and didactic tone throughout her article, she shows how Miss Piggy's character is

Justice, vengeance and forgiveness are common issues amongst the characters both in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Pushkin’s short story “The Shot”. Both authors display intense irony and symbolism throughout their stories. Poe use these literary elements to create an interesting plot in which the reader can predict the future of the victim throughout the story. Pushkin uses irony to add a twist in the events that occur in his short story. While the stories are very different in

Prophets and prophecies abound in Western literature. From the ancient texts designed for people of all walks of life— such as Homer’s Odyssey and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, to more modern works targeted to specific audiences— such as the Harry Potter and Gregor the Underlander series, authors have employed the literary device of prophecies to entice the reader to stay with the story. Instead of telling the reader outright what is going to happen, or how a situation will play out, the author offers

outcome. Whereas, the second option could be risky, unpredictable, and the outcome may not be favorable. When you choose the latter option, you are “pushing your luck.” Unfortunately, Liana from the fictional writing “Kilifi Creek” by Lionel Shriver and Ariel Levy, who was the main focus in the autobiography she wrote called “Thanksgiving in Mongolia”

Whenever the slightest portrayal of sexism is seen, feminists are quick to react and correct what is wrong. The solution to sexism is not to blatantly ignore it and say it does not exist anywhere; the solution is to stand up for what is right and implement the actions that need to take place. In “Bad Feminists” by Roxane Gay, it was stated that “[her] favorite definition of a feminist is one offered by Su, an Australian woman who...described them simply as ‘women who don't want to be treated like