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    10/30/14 Per 5 Pocahontas Essay Although Pocahontas teaches viewers that different cultures can unite people, its historical inaccuracies detain them from realizing the tragic reality behind Pocahontas’ life. Pocahontas evokes that love can exist despite differing races but executes the idea by turning Pocahontas into a completely fabricated character. At first, Pocahontas chooses to defy tradition and follow a different route, wondering “what’s around the riverbend,” which turns out to be John

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    Pocahontas' relationship with the animals is part of a Disney tradition. The transformation of wild animals into equivalents of pets and accessories is supported in the Disney film by the assumed notion of a fascinating, enchanted world within which all life forms are connected. For example, in the enchanted scene: "Color of The Wind," Pocahontas picks up the bear cub, which enhances the harmony with nature. Native Peoples lived in much closer propinquity to the nonhuman world than the explorers

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    Pocahontas: Cartoon Character or Historical Figure Walt Disney’s film Pocahontas is not historically accurate but there is value in creating cartoon interpretations of American history. As a child cartoons are very important for your development, both physically and mentally. Fairy tales help children understand the complexity of life. These visions use various symbols to teach morals and cognitive skills. Walt’s film was based off the legends and folktales surrounding Pocahontas, it was not meant

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    Walt Disney’s film Pocahontas is not historically accurate, but there is value in creating cartoon interpretations of American history. As a child, cartoons are mostly important for your development, both physically and mentally. Fairy tales help children understand the complexity of life. These visions use various symbols to teach morals and cognitive skills. Walt’s film was based off the legends and folktales surrounding Pocahontas, it was not meant to be historical but to promote racial tolerance

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    Disney’s Pocahontas is the first animated film to be based on an actual person and event. It also is the first Disney film to display interracial relationship. After all of these years growing up watching Disney movies, this is the first time I have watched Pocahontas. Knowing the historical context before watching the film really helped me understand how much of the film was historically accurate. I will be discussing what really happened during the time, then I will compare the historical accuracy

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    Pocahontas And Real Life

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    Many people believe the 1995 film, Pocahontas, to be the true story of a young Powhatan woman. However, the story lacks facts. Pocahontas isn’t even her real name. Matoaka, the real Pocahontas, faced mush more misery than the movie showed. Mataoka’s life in America, life in England, a comparison between the movie and real life, and how fictional portrayals of real people effect society today will show you that Disney’s inaccuracies could change history. In her early life, Matoaka was a Powhatan

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    Pocahontas is a name that we’ve all heard while learning about the history of America and the settlement of Jamestown. You also might have heard it in the Disney production of the movie Pocahontas and Pocahontas 2. But, as we know, Disney tries to make every story have a happy ending. But did Pocahontas really get her happily ever after? In some ways, the movie was historically correct. For instance, in the movie, and in history, Pocahontas was the favorite daughter of the Powhatan tribe Chief.

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    John Smith In Pocahontas

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    John Smith a widely known, beloved, Disney character in the movie Pocahontas. However, he is also an important and influential person in history. Both of these characters differ greatly from real life, to a movie character. In the Disney movie, John Smith is shown as Caucasian, slender, with blond hair and blue eyes. (“John Smith”). He is also shown in an age range from about 20-25. Socially, John Smith is shown to have many friends in the movie as well as being brave, and fighting for the rights

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    Pocahontas and John Smith are viewed by many people as a couple who loved each other, a tale of a native american girl who saves an English explorer, and later falls in love with him.This story has been around for awhile, and became very popular when Disney came out with its movie Pocahontas, this movie shows how a romantic relationship forms between Pocahontas a Native American and John Smith an English explorer while tension rises between the English colonists and the Native Americans. The story

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    Pocahontas : Disney vs. History Disney’s Pocahontas is a great movie, but is it historically correct? Well the answer is both yes and no. There are similarities between the history of it and movie, but there’s also differences. Why don 't I tell you about them. Let’s talk about Disney first and foremost. In the Disney movie she is portrayed as a beautiful, young, skinny, Indian woman. She is the only daughter of Chief Powhatan and speaks English very well(so does the rest of the tribe). John Smith

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