This story is about 3 really good friends who are twelve and travel from New York to Hollywood for an opportunity of a lifetime. They’re going to Hollywood to audition for a part in a movie, two of the girls get cut and become very jealous of the girl that makes it! Massie and Alicia are ready to pack their bags and go home, but Claire the girl that got the part, doesn’t want her friends to leave. So she asks around the studio and finds out that there is a job for the girls to film behind the scenes. Massie and Alicia are still mad because they think Claire is trying to control the show, but Claire is just trying to help them out. They also feel left out because Claire is meeting new friends and not hanging out with them. But when that nice cast member turns on Claire she runs back to Massie and Alicia who were right there for her the whole time. Once they finished shooting the movie, they all left for New York, they all became much closer after their ordeal and realized that they needed to look out for each other. I would recommend this book to a friend my age because they c...
After reading this passage from Howard Zinn, I can agree with his beliefs to a certain extent. When he starts off saying that we shouldn’t give up but keep playing to create possibilities of changing the world, I could relate as I am a person who doesn’t like to give up on any task but to keep trying until I know I there’s nothing more I can do. Howard’s statement about this was, “I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate: life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.” (Zinn pg. 784). Another note to add is how much I enjoy Howard saying “life is a gamble”, because it is. We all make decisions every day that determine certain outcomes that we would like to benefit from, whether good or bad. If we don’t feel beneficial from these decisions, we sure do learn from them and that puts us in a better situation than to just give up. After, Howard goes on to talk about how Hollywood doesn’t show society certain stories or perspectives on events that occurred in our U.S. history. One example of an historic
Plot Summary: This is a story about a kid named Crash. When he was four he met this boy named James but that was all that was told about him so I didn’t put his name in the character list because he wasn’t all that important. He and Crash got into a lot of trouble at their house I mean a lot so one day when they were 12 and 13 Crash’s mother kicked him and his friend James out to go to the arcade. There they met this girl Winnie that crash liked I mean loved dearly but, she never really realized him until that day when they went to the arcade.
Ava is a senior who is new to the school. With being new to the school, Ava wants to just get through the year with no drama. She is an unwilling participant in the Prom Bowl as the “Wild Card”. While not as skinny as the other girls in school, Ava doesn’t care about the social dynamics of the girls. The other main character is Mark Palmer, a typical senior football player. As the quarterback for the team, Mark is trying to earn scholarships for college. The character Mark has never had a long-lasting relationship in high school. Mark tries to save Ava from being involved in the Prom
The movie The Breakfast Club is a perfect example of peer relationships in the adolescent society. It shows the viewer some of the main stereotypes of students in high school you have a jock, a nerd, the weirdo, a rebel, and a prep. Over the course of a Saturday detention the different types of peers learn a lot about one another by hearing what each one has done to get into Saturday detention as well as why they chose to do it.
Five teenagers are declared as the following: a princess, an athlete, a criminal, a brain and a basket case. They are sentenced to serve detention on a Saturday morning in March, 1984. They share their backstories, shed a few tears, laugh, and become closer as a group. However, we never find out for sure if they continued to be friends after that Saturday in detention. Of course, the audience would like to think that they all walked the halls, interacting as they did on that day, learning each other - from their most embarrassing, to the saddest moments in their lives.
... woman who comes from a very rich family. She has plenty of friends and money and she is a good student at Julliard, a school for music. Andrea is not satisfied with what she has and yearns for more. She wants to find out who Goddard is and steal all his money. Just when she has almost fulfilled her dream, she is shot, and left without even her life.
Jeanette had somewhat of an usual childhood compared to other kids in the United States. Where most kids don’t have to worry about if there are going to school or the money problems that come up, nevertheless Jeannette has to worry. Jeannette have to deal with her self center mother , her eccentricity father , her older sister that does not protect her and her brother that give up almost everything for her. Jeannette overcome it all and become the strong woman that all reader will believe she is .
Characters: Maddie is the main character. Maddie came into the story first and then met Q. Q and her are like brother and sister, they are very close and they help each other when they need some confidence or they need to be convinced that everything is going to be ok. She is very poor and she is homeless, she has a great personality which is very kind and caring. She starts out not super confident in herself but she always stays positive about herself when she is homeless. When she meets Q she becomes very confident in herself because Q shows her how she can get perfect food from the dumpster at the restaurant and she makes a plan for her life. Then she realizes that life may not turn out to be so bad. Her and Q are very nice to each other. They protect and comfort each other when they are not feeling good about something. When they meet Dylan, a young boy who is also homeless but has no parents so Maddie and Q are stuck with him, they think that Dylan is a very kind boy and he feels bad that Maddie has to take care of him. “‘I’m sorry, he said.’”(71) Dylan said this because he feels bad that Maddie has to watch and take care of him.
High school sophomore, Samantha Baker woke up on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, hoping for an overnight transformation. While on the phone with her best friend, she stares at herself in the mirror, praying she had grown a few inches and a set of boobs. Much to avail, she has not and her day goes on just like every other one. She has the added pressure of being a bridesmaid for her older sister Ginny’s wedding, the next day. After being felt up by Grandmother Baker, Samantha deals with the ridicule and torment of her annoying little brother and takes the bus to school. During her study hall class she takes a silly quiz another friend had given her. The quiz ends up in the hands of her crush, Jake Ryan! The anxiety sets in.
It begins with a happy 9-year-old girl named Ling who lives in a hospital complex with her father, a very successful surgeon, and her mother, a well-known doctor. Her mother, known as Mrs. Chang, is very strict, always nagging Ling to act like a woman and to be perfect in almost every way. Ling believes it is because her mother never wanted to have a daughter. Father, on the other hand, Mr. Chang, spent much time with Ling, and got very close to her, teaching her reading and English lessons. He would
The movie main character is Cady Heron who is a homeschooled girl. Her and her family lived in Africa for 15 years. They return back to the states and place Cady into a public school for the first time. Cady meets her classmates and finds a few good friends the introduce her to a group of girls called the Plastics. She ends up joining the plastics with the motive of bring them down because her new friend don’t like them very much and thought it would be funny. However, she eventually gets assimilated into the group of three unkind girls and starts to be just like them.
Friends are there to you make you feel happy, even in your worse times. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness” (Euripides). In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” told by Ray Bradbury, a young girl named Margot gets tyrannized by her fellow classmates for remembering about the sun. But in the movie, “All Summer in a Day” retold by Eric Kaplan, Margot only gets tyrannized by William, and not so much by her classmates. While the short story has a theme focusing on jealousy, the movie focuses on sympathy. The movie makes the theme different because they made Margot more outgoing and the kids had sympathy for her.
JIAFILMS is an irregular license plate name. You might be pondering what is the meaning of this name? Obviously, it's my last name with “films” at the end. Other than that, this tale begins, 4 years ago, with three girls. Their names were Kaylee Yu, Jennifer Jia, and Jacquelin Jia. These girls were inseparable, although they lived 30 minutes apart. One day, they were playing with Kitty; Kaylee’s dog (yes the dog’s name is Kitty) outside in a garden, they were bored like always, then suddenly, Kaylee had a suggestion. She suggested, “we could pass the time by filming a random movie?” It was a peculiar and insane idea. Nonetheless, it was harmless and fun and they were only doing it to have time fly by right?
...o end up together and run away alone but I think this did make for a better story. I would certainly recommend this to my classmates because it is very entertaining and an easy read. I really enjoyed reading it because I could relate to certain aspects of the story and I think my classmates could as well.
Are you a hopeless romantic, waiting around for the right girl or guy to come around and make sense of your world? Well, maybe you’ve been watching too many romance movies. Hollywood presents love as a feeling, one that most teenagers confuse with infatuation and lust. Movies like The Notebook create a false view of what love looks like and many teenagers lose the opportunity to find love because they are waiting for someone to sweep them off their feet and kiss them in the rain while the background music slowly plays; but there are movies out there that do give us a pretty realistic view of what love looks like without having to showcase any nudity or sexual scenes. I wish to contrast the differences between the movie The Notebook and Fireproof along with their affects on teenagers. Most teenagers have learned to handle heated situations in the manor in which they have seen presented in movies. Dr. O’Hara, a researcher at the University of Missouri, studied the behavior patterns of 1,200 teens for six years and he found that the teens that watched suggestive movies tended to be more sexually active and have a more casual view on sex than those that were not exposed to as much media (Hagelin 2). What if Hollywood made more movies that focused on wholesome values and principles? In this paper I challenge the parents of teenagers to take off the blindfolds and help their teens to find a balance between these fantasies that Hollywood presents and reality, and I believe that Hollywood could play a role in reshaping the mindsets of teenagers.