After a five day weekend, with the weather beautiful outside, school is just about the last place I want to be right now. With the end of school so near we must trudge through to the finish line, although we may not be thrilled about it. I am so happy that we got our final paper out of the way and now we can deal with the more creative aspect of our final projects. My presentation is on friday which feels extremely soon but it will get done like everything else seems to. I am going to use the thesis and main points from my paper, and use video and picture examples to give a clear argument of why and how disney women are depicted so poorly in their animated films.

Having our final paper done and out of the way is definitely a huge relief. I am happy that I can now fully focus on the marking period project and end on an easier note rather then a more difficult one. This week I will be focusing on my presentation for the Final Project. It will consist of a combination of talking and showing clips of what I am talking about from various disney films. I will find the clips on youtube.

This week real progress will be made on my essay. I already have a full outline describing paragraph by paragraph the direction of my essay. Also I have a strong intro paragraph with a clear thesis statement. Recently I found an essay written online in 1996, right after the release of Pocahantas that goes into detail about the retail stradegies involving the disney princesses and possible explanations as to why they have become so popular in recent years. My first paragraph will describe the anti-feminism present in the films. The second paragraph will explain these and why they are harmful to their target audience. And the third paragraph will show how Disney has used this collection of princesses to market a business worth billions of dollars.

This past week I made a clear pre-writing plan for my research paper that details paragraph by paragraph all evidence I will be using to support my claim. The women in Walt Disney's films (more specifically the princesses) are shown to be weak and useless without their strong men to protect them. It was a hard decision between having each paragraph be about a different movie or a different anti-feminist example but I decided on the second one. Each paragraph will have a different example and multiple movies will be used to back up each. Last Friday I wrote an introduction paragraph and hope by Wednesday I will have two body paragraphs done. I hope to finish my research paper completely by next Monday so that I have some time to edit and revise it before its due date next Friday.