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In the Pride Lands of Africa, a lion rules over the other animals as king. As king Mufasa shows the lands to his son Simba, he tells him that Simba cannot go to a shadowy place beyond the borders. Later that day, Simba's envious uncle Scar tells him that the shadowy place is in fact an elephant graveyard. Simba's curiosity is piqued, and he convinces his best friend Nala, a female lion cub, to come with him. At the graveyard, the cubs are attacked by three spotted hyenas, Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, before Mufasa rescues them. The hyenas are in fact friends of Scar, who then plots with them to take over the Pride Lands.======

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On Scar's orders, the hyenas stampede a large pack of wildebeest into a gorge where Simba is. Mufasa rescues Simba, but as Mufasa attempts to flee by climbing the gorge's walls, Scar throws his brother back into the stampede, killing him. After Simba finds Mufasa's body in the gorge, Scar tricks him into thinking that Mufasa's death is his fault, and afterwards advises him to run away and to never come back. As Simba leaves, Scar orders the hyenas to go after Simba, but the cub is able to escape. Scar then announces to the pride that both Mufasa and Simba were killed and steps forward as the new king.======

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Simba, now far from home, collapses in the desert from exhaustion, but is found by Timon and Pumbaa, a meerkat and a warthog who nurse him back to health. Timon and Pumba then take Simba in, and the lion grows on a carefree life under the motto "hakuna matata". Years later, Simba rescues Timon and Pumbaa from a hungry lioness, who turns out to be Nala. The two reconcile and begin falling in love. Nala tries to get Simba to come back home by saying that because of Scar allowing the hyenas to live in the Pride Lands, it has become a wasteland with not enough food and water. Still feeling guilt over his father's death, Simba refuses to return and storms off.======

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Wise mandrill Rafiki tracks Simba down, telling that Mufasa is still "alive" and then takes Simba to a pond and tells him to look into the water. Seeing only his reflection at first, Simba looks harder and sees an image of Mufasa. Rafiki says that Mufasa lives within him as a large storm cloud appears overhead and a specter of Mufasa speaks out to Simba, saying that he has forgotten who he is and that he must take his rightful place as the true king of Pride Rock. Simba then realizes that he can no longer run from his past and goes back home. Nala, Timon and Pumbaa follow him, and agree to help him fight.======

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At the Pride Lands, Simba confronts Scar on Pride Rock. Scar backs Simba up to the end of Pride Rock to the point where Simba slips over the edge, dangling by his paws. Scar taunts him and then whispers that he killed Mufasa. The enraged Simba leaps back up and pins Scar, forcing his uncle to reveal the truth to the other lions. A fight ensues between the hyenas and lionesses while Simba chases and confronts Scar alone at the top of Pride Rock. Scar begs Simba for mercy, saying he is family and accusing the hyenas of planning everything. Simba says he does not believe Scar anymore, but spares his life and tells him to run away and never return. Scar meekly walks past him, but afterwards attacks his nephew. After a fierce battle, Simba triumphs and throws Scar off of Pride Rock. Scar survives the fall, but is attacked and killed by the hyenas, who overheard his attempt to betray them.======

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With Scar and the hyenas gone, Simba descends from the top of Pride Rock where he is acknowledged by the pride as the rain falls again. Sometime later, Pride Rock is restored to its former glory and Simba looks down happily at his kingdom with Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa by his side; Rafiki presents Simba and Nala's newborn cub to the inhabitants of the Pride Lands and the circle of life continues.======

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__Simba__: In the beginning of the movie Simba is a rambunctious cub who is developing social skills through playing with his bestfriend Nala and his dad Mufasa. Simba is an extrovert, a happy cub who has an intact family consisting of himself, Mufasa (dad), and Sarabi (mom). Mufasa and Sarabi are authoritative parents, when Simba and Nala got into trouble at the Elephant Graveyard, Mufasa, scolded Simba, but also spoke to Simba and told him to not go looking for trouble and as a father he was scared for his child and Nala after he found out about the Hyenas trying to attack the two naïve cubs. After the death of his father, Simba, goes through a stage of depression and is filled with sorrow and anguish because he thinks he's responsible for the death of his beloved father. Through Timon and Pumbaa, who are like mentors to Simba, Simba learns lessons of life. The movie fast forwards to Simba as a young adult or adolescent who's still battling his inner demons. He doesn't want to be King of Pride Rock even after life long friend, Nala, tells him about the circumstances in Pride Rock. Simba is having an identity crisis and he even tells his friend he doesn't know who he is and it wasn't his place to be king. Simba finally comes back to Pride Rock and fights for his rightful place in the circle of life and takes the thrown as King.======

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__Scar__: Scar's character is marked by an envious tone. From the beginning of the movie with Scar's green envy laced eyes it can be said that he was sneaky. Scar has a debilitating hate for his brother Mufasa and nephew Simba. It goes past sibling rivalry when Scar is willing to kill his own brother for the throne and blame his young impressionable nephew for it. Scar has no moral reasoning and has no regards for others in his life. He lets Sarabi believe her husband and son were both death for many years while he carried the secret that he killed Mufasa and made Simba run off. Scar lacked empathy, he didn't care for anyone but himself and treated others unfairly.======

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The author's intent of showing these issues in my opinion is to show when you work your way up to the position you want to be in through hate, crime, and lying you won't prosper. Although Scar became king, it wasn't his rightful position in the circle of life so things started to wrong. The Pride Lands that was once lush and green was now gloomy and gray, once of full of life and animals, there was now bare bones scattered about and the pride could find nothing to eat and were close to death from malnutrition and starvation. For power and prestige some people will do the unthinkable as Scar did and won't think twice about it but in the end it will destroy them.======

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The author also shows that in life we can either run from that past and let it haunt us or face it and learn from it. As Simba ran from the past he still harbored the feelings. He tried not to think about it and keep it bottled up but he still had ill feelings from the death of his father and thinking that he killed him. It's shown when Timon and Pumbaa make fun of him and unintentionally hurt his feelings after he quotes Mufasa stating, “The great kings are in the stars”. When he goes back to Pride Land to face Scar and his past he's now relieved and lets Mufasa's spirit move through him.======

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After more than 10 years Lion King is still one of Disney's most loved movies. Lion King is still making waves on Broadway (loved it!) and still holds one of the top 10 spots on the best selling list of animated movies. The Lion King is loved by young and old and was recently re-released in movies in 3D. Entertainment Weekly states, “The Lion King, more than any of the recent wave of Disney animated features, has the resonance to stand not just as a terrific cartoon but as an emotionally pungent movie.”======

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//The Lion King //. Dir. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff. By Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton, Tim Rice, Elton John, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, and Jeremy Irons. Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc., 1994 ======

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"The Lion King." //IMDb //. IMDb.com. Web. 19 Apr. 2012. . ======

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"The Lion King." //Wikipedia //. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 19 Apr. 2012. . ======

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Boyd, Denise Roberts., Helen L. Bee, and Helen L. Bee. //Lifespan Development //. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2006. Print. ======

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__Subject Matter—10 points out of 20__ You need in-text citations to the textbook for specific developmental concepts you are referring to. You need to integrate the theory elements from the textbook, and give more specific examples.

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