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My paper was about the Disney empire, and why their growth was bad for the industry. It explores not only how Disney turned from a small comic studio to a billion dollar conglomerate, but also how its growth affects smaller theaters, independent filmmakers, and us. Disney is a money making machine, and everything it does is fine-tuned to maximize profit, and that means, sometimes, manipulating us. With the release of Disney Plus and its established ownership of Hulu, Disney has turned our society from people who go out to the movie theater once a week to people who binge watch on our phones every night. "Eight of the top eight highest grossing films of 2019 were made by Disney" (CNBC). When I started my research, I was set on exposing Disney to all of their wrongdoings. But as my research went on, and as I wrote the counter-argument and interviewed an executive at Disney, I noticed that Disney is definitely not a monopoly. They may be big and have a lot of control, yet i...

https://auburnseminary.org/voices/naming-racism-in-high-school-one-muslims-story/ When I was younger, I loved learning. I was always reading books and was asking questions constantly. Because of this, my parents thought I would become an amazing student, and that I would love school. But each day I would come home from 2nd grade angry, saying that I didn’t learn anything. I remember hating the month-long unit we had on cursive and the pages and pages of show-your-work problems when I already knew the answer. It felt wrong, and every day after that I dreaded–and still dread–waking up and going to school every morning, forced to answer their questions and to learn nothing. In Between the World and Me , by Ta-Nehisi Coates, education’s “façade of morality” is critiqued and called out, and he explores the unintended effects on children by the school system.  Despite its core mission to teach and grow students, sometimes schools teach values that do not directly correlate with re...

Far and away,  Joker  (2019) is the most divisive film of the year. This Joaquin Phoenix led film is about the origin story of the classic comic book villain, the Joker (obviously), a troubled reject from society, and in the same way that the comprable character Travis Bickle exudes violence in the film Taxi Driver (1976), many claim Arthur Fleck poses as a potential inspiration for real world predators, including mass shooters . In a modern society where we can't be too careful about what we say, this movie begs the question:  are movies ruined? Do our 'woke' societal values restrict original and controversial media? Don't worry, because the answer is no. The reason why the worry about this R-Rated flick confuses me is because people are acting like violent movies didn't exist before today. Earlier this year, Ari Aster wrote and directed a film WAY more gruesome than the Joker called Midsommar (2019), and it KILLED at the box office , bringing in over 300% ...

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