Lippi-Green
When you were eight years of age, did you ever think that watching a cartoon may have an influence on you? Or did you think it was entertainment? Rosina Lippi-Green, the author of “Teaching Children How to Discriminate,” expresses her view regarding the influence children receive when watching Disney films. Lippi-Green argues that Disney films have a heavy impact on a child’s perception of viewing people. She claims that children learn to assign values on the basis of variation in language linked to race, ethnicity, and homeland. In her conclusion, she states the following sentence: “What children learn from the entertainment industry is to be comfortable with same and to be wary with other and that language is a prime and ready diagnostic for the division of what is approachable and what is best left alone”(502). An extended close reading can be done on Lippi-Green’s summarized conclusion and the words same and other can be observed and analyzed. How do the words same and other relate to the whole text?Throughout Lippi-Green’s essay, Lippi-Green provides many statistics and facts. One of the facts she presents is the fact that by majority, the main characters in Disney films speak MUS
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Approximate Word count = 900
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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