Tag: Politics
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Discriminatory “Circle of Life” in Disney’s Animated Movie “Lion King”

And all through the house we hear the hyena’s hymns Nick Cave Lion King opens with a song accompanied by beautiful scenery, showing the animals ranging from ants to elephants living in perfect harmony and joy: But the sun rolling high/through the sapphire sky/keeps great and small on the endless round/It’s the circle of…
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“The Lives of Others”: Auschwitz of the Soul

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s expressionism, as it can be seen in his painting “Mountains and Houses In the Snow”, conveys the overstressed colors which are on the verge of puncture. For this article, white and its sublime horror presented in the painting are particularly interesting. The symbolism of this use of white will be present throughout…