The Brooklyn Nine took place during world war one and during the immigration migration. The main character Felix Schneider is a germen immigrant who cheered for the New York Knickerbockers as they played in 1845. In 1957 a ten-year-old Jimmy Flint thought he had enough to worry about with bullies and sputnik, but then the Dodger announced they were leaving Brooklyn in. In 1981 Michael Snider finds himself pitching a perfect game during the little league season at Prospect Park. Snider Flint tracks down a bat that belonged to one of the Brooklyn’s greatest baseball players in 2002. The immigrants need a lot when they got to America. The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz accurately portrayed the 1800’s and the1940’s through education, large populations, and various religions of the immigrants during this time period.…
Mean Girls, a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters, with the screenplay written by Tina Fey, describes how female high school social cliques operate and the effect they can have on girls. The two main characters in this movie, Cady Heron and Regina George, may have a world of differences between them, but they are also very much alike. They are alike in the way they deal with situations, but unalike in the way they handle the consequences of those actions. Throughout the movie, it will become evident that Cady is the better person both morally and physically.…
Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters, takes its viewers through high school from the perspective of Cady Heron, a young girl who never known what “high school” genuinely meant. Upon arrival, she makes friends with Janis and Damian, who were in the stereotypical “unpopular” crowd. They warn her to stay away from “The Plastics”, an exclusive clique that includes three drama-filled girls who are superficial, spiteful, and have vicious attitudes that obtain their power and fame from beauty and glamour. However, “The Plastics” ask Cady to join them. Cady, Janis, and Damian together plot against the leader of The Plastics, Regina George, the most monstrous of them all. In reality, the more time Cady spends with The Plastics, the more she starts to actually become one. The Plastics themselves show how monstrous qualities are formed in celebrity culture, while the use of Cady is the perfect example of how culture builds up celebrities to break them back down. The Plastics took Cady, someone who was naïve and candid, and turned her into something she is not through the manipulation of their own standards and rules. Celebrity culture heavily relies on qualities of manipulation. This was done through thru burn book, etc…
1) The theme of “Lincoln” is that slavery is the cause of separation in America. By passing the 13 amendment, the Confederates would join the Union and the Civil war would cease.…
It's been almost a decade since the classic teen movie "Mean Girls" hit the silver screen and this 30th of April 2014 would mark its 10th anniversary. The film has become iconic for its amazing comedic screenplay, written by the talented Tina Fey and its realistic portrayal of high school drama. From backstabbing popular girls to the art-nerd revenge, Mean Girls characters has surely taught female movie-watchers few important life lessons about high school, girl world and womanhood in today’s society (Cills, 2014). The point is, why is this movie still so in-trend? Firstly, it is said that Mean Girls is a cult classic. It is by far one of the most quotable movie of the 21st century. Teens of today can be seen slipping a few Mean Girls quote here and there in their daily conversation such as “That’s so fetch”, “You cannot sit with us” and there are even Mean Girls merchandises sold in all forms with all the infamous quotes printed on it.…
The movie I am choosing for this assignment is Mean Girls starring Lindsey Lohan as Cady Heron and Rachel McAdams as Regina George. I am going to compare both girls to Erikson’s identity v.s Role Confusion…
Everyone carries the stories of their lives wrapped around their shoulders. Some people carry feather-light stories; other people’s stories, heavy as bricks threaten to break their spirit as they carry its burden. In my opinion, the best stories – fiction or not − begin with the famous and treasured words of “Once upon a time.” So allow me to share with you my tale of a hellion land, filled to the brim with vagabonds in every corner, and survival of the fittest.…
The Breakfast Club relates to social health and mental health, by the characters personalities. In the Breakfast Club, five teenagers have to spend a full day in detention. Claire is the princess; the pretty, popular girl with parents that fight all the time. John is the criminal; the bad influence, and the pothead that gets beaten. Brian is the brain or nerd; he is the smart one of the group, that is pressured to do good by his parents. Allison is the basket case; a crazy goth, that makes things up. Andrew is the typical high school athlete; pushed to the max by his father and coach to be the best. People can come from all walks of life but still have common social and mental struggles.…
You can choose a movie from the list below. Your goal is to identify federal tax issues and how the tax law should be applied. Also, if relevant, discuss how the actions of the character involved would be altered if significantly influenced by the tax factors.…
Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club is a story of a monthly mah-jong gathering whose members consists of four Chinese mothers with American-born daughters. The novel is narrated by the four mothers and their daughters. At these meetings, the mothers share their concern of the growing rift between their daughters and Chinese customs. Each mother shares her story of her life in China and each daughter tells her story about her life in America. In The Joy Luck Club, the consistent conflict is formulated from the cultural and ideological clash between the mothers and daughters. Tensions arise out of the struggle to adapt to the American way of life when old customs are expected to be honored. Communications between both sides are limited, and from this, they all struggle with the expectations that they have for each other. Amy Tan's novel provides the reader the perspectives from two vastly different worlds - the conflicts the mothers faced and how the Chinese values conflict with American values in the lives of the daughters.…
Through the stories of The Joy Luck Club, we peer into the secret-laden lives of eight Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters. The daughters reject their mothers’ seemingly constant criticism of everything they choose, from husbands to hairdos. They view their mothers’ warnings as irrelevant, and their advice as intrusive. The daughters do not know what has inspired their warnings and advice: the hardships their mothers suffered in China before coming to America. Thus, as the mothers see it, their daughters are flailing in their modern American circumstances, unable to use what is “in their bones,” the family’s inheritance of pain that led to their determined strength for survival, which their mothers try to bequeath them. The mothers, meanwhile, watch with heartache as their daughters’ marriages fail, as they expect less and less and so accept less and less. They recall moments in their past when they were faced with similar circumstances but defied what they believed was bad fate in order to find their true worth.…
Each generation is different from each other. While the younger generation has their opinions on things, the older generations have different opinions on it. This is the result of the society they are raised in and the changes in the society as the generations evolve. This is exhibited in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. In the book it displayed how the mothers, who were raised in China, had contrasting opinions on love, family, and life than their daughters, who were raised in America.…
Topics: (these are questions that should help guide your essay writing and should be your focus as you write CHOOSE only ONE TOPIC from the options below for questions email me at ondraya.green@clayton.k12.ga .us)…
The way people envision the “perfect” life has changed over time with new advances in technology to improve health for longer life and more acceptances on social issues such as homosexuality, race, and sex to name a few. Even with these changes, the basics of the “perfect” life people strive for has not changed. The big picture is still to find someone to share your life with, have a career you enjoy, and live in a place where people have a similar mentality. But how many people actually achieve this life? What is the pressure to have this life? The characters in each of these stories are trying to make changes in their lives for the “better”, but at what cost do they make these decisions?…
I had actually never planned to go to college at all, but I had an awakening. I am going to present some of my life experiences that have made me the person I am today. I will also compare and analyze these experiences using the adult development theories from this class. Near the ending I will also provide the goals of my future.…