While the essence of the Herculean legend is captured in Disney’s dramatization, it warps the story to keep it fit for a younger crowd, and this leads to some major inconsistencies between the myth and the movie. The addition and removal of prominent characters in the movie, while making the storyline clearer, adds to the number of incidents in which the movie is nothing like the myth. One of the most glaring errors is Hercules’ parentage. While Zeus is the father of Heracles, Hera, his wife, is not his mother. Instead, Heracles was the product of Zeus’ infidelity with Alcmene, the daughter of Perseus.
The main character was focused on making a movie that people will remember, rather than making a movie to get him rich. Whereas in the remake the main character was in the midst of a financial disaster and primarily was making a movie to restore value to the name “Denham” and to make money for himself. Throughout the rest of the movie, there were subtle differences in the moods of the characters, for example the captain in the original was nicer than the captain of the
Gatsby achieved the American Dream but he ended up dead. Going back to what has been mentioned earlier, The only reason that Tom and Gatsby were even interested in Daisy was because of the idea of her. They only reason that they were even interested in her was because of her beauty. This is the reason why the song “Will You Still Love Me When I Am No Longer Young And Beautiful” was in the movie. It refers to the fact that after Daisy gets old, Tom would just throw her away for someone who is younger.
I never, ever thought of it as anything negative; it’s all been positive… it would be wrong to change the team’s name.” The Redskins have had their name since 1932 so why are the Native Americans saying that the name Redskins offends them now. If the Redskins changed their name and logo they would lose a clump of money. The Redskins sell heaps of tickets at their games and if their name changed, then their ticket sells would decrease instantly. Also if they changed their name they wouldn’t have much fans left. Their name is so popular so changing their name wouldn’t help their popularity.
To some people the American dream is to make money, to some people it is to become famous. To Gatsby, it was to be married to Daisy. Gatsby’s dream was not possible to start with because she was married. Gatsby’s dream was weak because he wanted things to be as they were in the past. Finally it led to his own death because he wanted to pick up where he left off in the past which wasn’t going to happen because things had changed and times were different.
Current Event Essay Just over a month ago our federal government closed several of its agencies and national parks’ doors. About 800,000 employees were furloughed and money that needed to be spent wasn’t distributed. All of these effects including the shutdown itself can be summed up in three major points. Republican hostility towards the implementation of the many sections of Obamacare held up the ability of Congress to muster a fiscal plan for the approaching quarter. Tea party members’ egos are getting in the way of any cooperation between Democrats and Republicans.
So Pidgeon is saying that if he hadn’t been so hung up over his dream, and left when Nick told him to, Gatsby, would still be alive. He could make a better life for himself; make his fortune without being a bootlegger or whatever sketchy things he was involved in. Without being hung up over Daisy, he could have changed the world, like his dad believing he could of made a difference. He could have been the real Gatsby, not the pretend
According to National Academy of Social Insurance “social security faces a financial challenge from the impending retirement of the largest generation in American history, the 76 million persons born in the “baby boom” years, from 1946 through 1964. Boomers began to reach age 62 in 2008”. I believe that the aging of the population will place a strain on social welfare systems, and generations later will have to pay for the debt because more people are retiring than
Feeling helpless due to the economy they become addicted to claiming help from other sources other than themselves because it just seems easier. Thomas argues,” Anyone who thinks dysfunctional government is going to help their dreams is putting their faith in the wrong place.” In other words, the government cannot help everyone. Instead we should but putting our faith into ourselves. We are what makes America today, and if we don’t like it, then maybe we should take action and change it. If we were to start by supporting small business, we would be creating more employment, and keeping money in the community.
Disneyland management didn’t look at the depth of Chinese people needs. It just tried to match some obvious traditions and didn’t think further. The examples of misunderstanding Chinese habits are following: lack of Hong Kong-themed attractions, small park size and long queues as a result. Workers also complained they were overworked and underpaid. One of my recommendations would be to expand the park since this is one of the biggest complaints heard from visitors of Hong Kong Disney.