High School in Real Life VS. High School on T.V. “I bet in high school, everybody made somebody 's life hell.” This quote was stated in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and by far one of the truest quotes about high school that I have heard yet. More often than not people get an idea of what life, jobs, and even high school is supposed to be like from the things they see around them. Normally these ideas of what things are supposed to be like come from a show, or a movie. Sometimes the audience even truly believes that the way something is shown is how it should be. A major target audience for television and movies has always been teenagers. To relate to a teenager you have to show them what they know, and what does a teenager know better than high school. The industry uses high school to appeal to teenagers, but they also alter it to make it seem better than what it really is. This gives false expectations. While high school on T.V. seems much more appealing, it does not give an accurate representation of what high …show more content…
This mostly happens for two different reasons, one of these reasons is a school rivalry. Every high school has that one school, that they always go back and forth with in sports, academics, and various other aspects of school. School rivalry gets the students ready, and riled up for any big game, this is called school spirit. School spirit is what makes all 4 years of being stuck in class fun. The school banding together to support the football team, or any team really, with chants, banners, and lost voices. The other reason everyone bands together is a tragedy. It doesn’t matter if you are in a big city, small town, on T.V., or in real life when there is a terrible event people come together. Regardless of if it is a sad situation, it’s amazing how people can put aside their differences to support one
of millions worldwide watched on T.V. The World Cup has been the most popular sporting event ever since the 1930s when Uruguay hosted and won the first ever World Cup. Since then the World Cup has been hosted every four year in different countries apart from during World War 2 and there have been 17 World Cups. Since the 30s football has became the world's most popular sport and with the introduction of commercial air flight, motorcars and the global T.V network it has become an important
getting into my eyes occasionally. There are so many questions race through my mind as stare at the crowd in front of me. Every Saturday as I walk by the thousands of parked cars I wonder why they are here. What compels these men and women who have real jobs and live in exciting cities to come back here and tailgate? So I sit amongst them, and try to understand them. They talk and eat all around me. We have some camaraderie, but we are different. Maybe because I can't imagine myself in their shoes
drama at that time would seem boring to a modern audience such as: the clothing, setting, sound, props. In those days the audience wanted action, this was shown at the beginning, also in act 3 scene 1 (between Romeo and Paris), the audience wanted high drama, violence and also comedy. The comedy that Shakespeare included in his play was quite rude e.g. act 1 scene 1 "maidenheads" also Mercutio was being sexually rude "knockabout", also the servants in act 1 scene 5 doing verbal wordplay such