Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Adolescent’s Effect on Ferris Bueller The adolescent age is a period of development that is described as the transition period between childhood and adulthood, taking place between the ages of 10 to 18 or even later, but often times not going much further then that. Ferris Bueller, the titular main character of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, is a fun-loving and mischievous adolescent played expertly by Matthew Broderick, who wants to have one final big day off from his high-school career. While…

Hollywood’s Portrayals of Teenagers in the 1980s ...discuss Hollywood's portrayals of the teens of the 1980s. Talk about films that examine these portrayals. Evaluate how they reflected the social and political perspectives of the decade. In the 1980s, Hollywood saw a resurgence in teen films. A majority of these films dealt with sexual activity. Films like Little Darlings (1980), The Last American Virgin (1982), and Joy of Sex (1984) portrayed teenagers as only concerned about their own…

From marriage to graduation, speeches often help mark major milestones in life. Barbara Bush’s speech to the graduating class at Wellesley college is no different. She spoke to an exuberant crowd and carried across a powerful message about what choices life has to offer each of the students. To understand why this speech is so highly regarded one must examine the use of rhetoric in the speech and how it brings power to her words. Barbara Bush’s speech, “Choices and Change”, was an incredibly…

Although I didn’t like the idea of ruining a book that someone had put effort into writing, I payed for it, and I don’t know how it would have turned out otherwise. With the Images and quotes that are included within the pages of the book I started off with a few ideas. One of those ideas was to find some quotes within the actual book that relate to social values of the time to highlight. I found two quotes and they were “People make the rules of society, not god.” and “Never would I become so…

1. What are some strengths and weaknesses of Freud’s ideas? There are a number of strengths and weaknesses associated with Freud, and his development of psychoanalytic theory. Through his introduction of the three major systems of personality: the id, the ego, and the superego, Freud thoroughly explained how the collaboration of all three systems contributed to the developing personality. With his consideration of the role of the unconscious mind, Freud prepared the way for the growth of other…

Ferris talks to the viewers as if he’s known them his entire life. He continues to do this throughout the entire film, creating an intimate relationship between himself and the viewers while maintaining a good story and flow in the film itself. His monologues don’t in any way detract from the plot that is unfolding in front of us while Ferris narrates. This as well is a kind of emotional connection that you can’t find in…

The movie Glory is the story of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the first all black regiment in the Civil War. The movie is a cinematic view into the lives of men who were charting new territory and breaking down barriers. Glory is an important and wonderfully crafted piece of film, that has value in both entertainment, and education. The movie for the most part is casted beautifully, other than Matthew Broderick as Shaw. The cast was otherwise well regarded, especially in Denzel Washington,…

On June 1, 1990, Barbara Pierce Bush delivered a speech to Wellesley College graduates. She was the second choice to deliver the speech after Alice Walker, a feminist author who penned The Color Purple, declined the offer to speak. Some of the feminist students who attended the small women’s university near Boston were outraged that Barbara Bush was to speak at the commencement. After dropping out of Smith College after two years to get married, her only accomplishment, they argued, was being…

Nostalgia, as defined by Tom Vanderbilt, is a form of propaganda, an exercise in laughter and forgetting, in which the right visual iconography and perceived authenticity can create a longing for an existence which is no longer possible and was in fact never possible. There is no denying that no matter what year a person was born; they have experienced a form of nostalgia at some point in their lives. In The Nostalgia Gap, Tom Vanderbilt further explains nostalgia and the different ways in which…

Throughout my tour of the greater Chicago area, I saw countless of interesting things, from the people walking the streets to up to all the admirable buildings. While not knowing my way around the city I got lost multiple times which was very exasperating and time consuming, but my overall experience of walking the loop was somewhat tolerable. The two buildings that stood out me the most were the Willis Tower and the Kluczynski Federal Building. These two building stood out to me because of the…