Cher

During my travels around Nashville, my group went to NSAI, the Nashville Songwriters Association International, located on Music Row. This non-profit organisation helps support up and coming talent whilst targeting congress in the US over rights and laws in the songwriting industry. We received a performance from the top talent, whom she performed her top songs and shared her tactics at succeeding in the music industry. The intensity of her presence and her determination was what struck my…

Poetry and thought are often interpreted as too lofty for the realm of politics, a realm dominated power (Berlin: 2004). Yet memory, as elaborated by poets should always be an exercise in education. The value of narrative, writing, and poetry is high. For ‘the very fact that so great of an enterprise as the Trojan War could have been forgotten without a poet to immortalize it several hundred years later offered only too good an example of what could happen to human greatness if it had nothing…

Cher has always been a person I admired while growing up, many may not agree with that but that is alright. Unlike many others I admired her for her strength, her journey, and of course her music. I can remember having the volume turned up to twenty singing, “If I Could Turn Back Time”, with my step mom with all the windows rolled down. From that day she was my go to when I needed a little pick me up. For that reason amongst her disability for dyslexia; something both I and my twin sister suffer…

dominant and extravagant teenage girl named Cher Horowitz, ironically, the movie displays the effects of her “social project” with Tai Fraser. Through the lens of this social project, the themes of perceptions of desire attributes and the dominant stereotypical culture in high school are explored. With the use of the costumes, characters, and script, Heckerling comments on the significance of fashion and social relations in high school. In movie, Cher is a naïve high school popular girl that…

Amy Heckerling’s film, Clueless (1995), we are introduced to Cher, who at the top of the social scene in her high school, who feels it is her responsibility to help the new disheveled student Tai become more stylish, so she could be taken serious in the school’s social scene. It becomes clear for us the social class is an important theme in Heckerling’s film, when Tai reveals her feelings towards Travis, the sloppy skater. Cher makes it clear to Tai that her choices influences others perception…

Heckerling updates her audiences from the small town of Highbury into Beverly Hill, she closely imitates the plot and characterization. From the beginning of the novel and film, the similarities between the two heroines are obvious. Both Emma Woodhouse and Cher are spoiled, high class teenagers whose superficial and pretentious attitude throws them into a crisis and are transformed into mental maturation and social awareness. Character transformation is not the only theme that the movie…

them apart, and how the different time periods influence their persona. In the book, Mr. Knightley’s relation to Emma is through the marriage of their siblings. In the movie, Josh is Cher’s supposed “ex-stepbrother”. Although unrelated to Emma and Cher Mr. Knightley and Josh take on a similar familial role. Furthermore, they both portray superior judgement,…

romantic way, he is not attempting to hurt Cher on purpose. Furthermore, Christian never intentionally encouraged Cher to pursue him before she found out that he was not interested in her gender. Have an unredeemable character simple doesn’t fit into the tone of Clueless, see as their isn’t many dramatic moments in the movie other than the climax. Where Frank Churchill is trying to cause considerable emotional pain through his games, Christian is there to support Cher through the rest of the…

Throughout Clueless, it was simple to detect the similarities between the characters of those in the novel Emma. Cher Horowitz, the main character in Clueless, lives in the wealthy…

time, teens learn to distinguish their thinking about thoughts and thinking about thoughts of others. Arnett (2012) The film begins by introducing Cher and her friend Dionne, while…