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Essay Instructions: Need to watch animated movies, Shrek I, II & III. Need to summarize and integrate how each movie deals with dating, courtship, engagement, marriage, child bearing and family interaction patterns while adjusting to new family members. This analysis should be approximately 1000-1500 words and SHOULD NOT be a simple review of each movie. Should synthesize and discuss the dynamics of the characters involved in a way that will indicate a higher level of critical thinking about relationship and family development. Analysis of Relationship & Family Development

Essay Instructions: The movie should be a review it is a critical analysis of the film Shrek in light of scholarly ideas. You are not to write why you like or dislike the film you are to analyze the movie to prove or disprove several claims by the essay's author who is Linda Seger " Creating the Myth" avoid allowing the essay to become plot summary with running commentary plot summary should be one paragraph after the introduction and no more. You should frequently reference the source essay's claims through quotes and summary, likewise you should frequently provide concrete details from the movie shrek that relate to those ideas.

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Essay Instructions: View the movie, Shrek (2001) at least once (Two viewings may offer a distinct advantage). Then, after watching the movie, identify 3 social-psychological principles that appear to be operating in the events or individuals depicted in the film (e.g., cognitive dissonance, schemas, self-fulfilling prophecies, group-think, deindividuation, conformity, realistic conflict theory, prejudice, etc.)

After the social-psychological principles are identified, it must be described and explained how it applies to the events or individuals in the movie.

After discussing the implications of the theories and findings for the events in the film, also discuss the broader implications of the theories and research findings for understanding human behavior.

This paper should include a short Introduction to orient the reader, as well as a short Discussion to tie things together.

For each Principle that is identified in the movie Shrek (2001)

(a) Briefly describe the relevant scene (you may assume that your reader has seen the film)

(b) Describe in detail the social-psychological principle you believe is relevant, bringing in research findings as much as possible (that is, briefly state the findings of relevant experiments you've read or heard about)

(c) Elaborate on how the selected scene conforms and/or fails to conform to the social-psychological principle you have identified, as well as to the research findings that support the principle (for example, describe how the scene is similar to or different from relevant experiments you've read or heard about).

Even though three sources are required the movie Shrek (2001) is the main source for this paper. After the three social-psychological principles have been identified in the movie, then the three sources can be used to support them.

Most of the social-psychological principles that need to be discussed in this paper can be found in the textbook by Baron, R. A., Byrne, D., & Branscombe, N. R. (2008). Social Psychology (12th edition). New York: Allyn & Bacon.

Essay Instructions: To explore the “What is Beautiful is Good Hypothesis” play the scene from Shrek where Donkey discovers that princess Fiona changes into an ongress when the sun sets (chapter 6:”you ate the princess.”). Fiona says that princesses aren’t supposed to look like that.


After watching chapter 6 from Shrek, write an essay using ideas from personal experience such as encounters you have with people, social attraction, and personal attributes. Along with sexual and chemical attraction.

-Discuss how the film relates to stereotypes
-List 2-3 other stories or films in which rely on similar stereotypes
-what examples of the “what is beautiful is good” hypothesis have you personally witnessed or experienced.

All this needs to be in your own words.