Date of Award

2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Clark, Maribeth

Area of Concentration

Liberal Arts with Rhetoric and Writing

Abstract

This essay is derived from my interest in the Central Florida community and Disney’s eff ect on their lifestyle. The main interest was tourism's eff ect on Orlando. I used one small sociological practice, my experiences, media, and research papers, to discover more about what tourism hides in Orlando. I started by outlining my own experiences and addressing the privilege I had within the situation, then I analyzed the movie The Florida Project, which works as a good comparison to the true Florida experience for a lot of Floridians. I compared this all to the research I had done. The thesis ends with all the fi ndings coming together and forming a conclusion on the eff ects of tourism on communities. It isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, this paper explores that.

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