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"Colors of the Wind" written by Stephen Schwartz (America, 1995)     The film Pocahontas was directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Jim Pentecost, from a screenplay written by Carl Binder, Susannah Grant, and Philip LaZebnik.  The Plot Of The Movie:    The 1995 Disney movie Pocahontas is loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English settlers from the Virginia Company. The English settlers talk of adventure, finding gold, fighting "Injuns" and settling in the new land. Meanwhile, in the Powhatan tribe, the daughter of Chief Powhatan Pocahontas, fears that she is to be married off to the tribe's best warrior Kocoum. Pocahontas thinks that Kocoum is too stern for her free will spirit. She then goes to Grandma Willow (a talking willow tree) in hopes of making sense of her dream of a spinning arrow which Grandma Willow makes known of the English settlers that were coming.   The

 "Culture - the way we express ourselves and understand each other - can bind us together as one world." - Yo-Yo Ma Early life and career:  Yo-Yo Ma was born to Chinese parents Dr. Hiao-Tsiun Ma and Marina Ma on October 7, 1955 in Paris, France. Dr. Hiao-Tsiun Ma was a violinist and music professor. His mother Marina was a opera singer. Father studied at a university in Paris and worked a low-income job until he finished his education. Yo-yo's life was very difficult at this time. Yo-Yo was surrounded by music so it was very easy for him to pick up. His older sister played piano and violin. Parents played classical music for their kids often. At Age three Yo-Yo learned how to play the piano and violin. One day his father took him to the local university and he saw a double bass. At that moment Yo-Yo told his father "That's what I want to play!" He told his father that he didn't like the sound of the violin. His parents bought him a cello because a double