The setting is in Roswell, New Mexico in 1999. This television series has three genres, which are drama, mystery, and romance. In the fictional series the town of Roswell is designed around the crash of 1947. The series retells the historical event by flash forwarding to 1999, and implying that the aliens that are among the community of Roswell, New Mexico came from the crash of 1947 and have been roaming the community for years.…
In Monsters University, a heartwarming movie, directed by Dan Scanlon, we follow Mike Wazowski through his college adventure in the sequel to the classic movie Monsters Inc. He goes through many problems and dilemmas. In the beginning of the movie, Mike goes on a field trip to scaring academy with his class. They take a tour of the facility, and Mike is fascinated by it all.…
The Sandlot - An American classic The cracking of a wooden bat, hollers coming from the mouths of middle school boys, the pop of the ball falling into the glove, and the grunts from the effort to throw the ball back towards home. This American classic revolutionized movie production. Directed by David Evans, The Sandlot is a comedic motion picture jam- packed with terrific acting. The movie takes place in the San Fernando Valley in 1962. Scotty Smalls is the new kid in town, and with his mom bugging him about getting friends, he heads to the nearby baseball field.…
Stranger Things season 2 is just the right ticket for those looking to find out if Barb Holland still lives. After Barb’s disappearance in season 1, many wonder if she is going to ever return. Until Netflix releases a new video that features Barb in action. Is this a prelude to Stranger Things season 2? Not necessarily.…
Epiphany “When you get bit by a snake, you have to suck out all the poison out of it,” Cady Heron said as she started righting her wrongs in the film, Mean Girls. In this film, we follow the young and naive Cady Heron on her journey throughout her first year of public high school. We start with her first day of public school and follow Cady Heron until she has her epiphany near the end of the film. Mean Girls is an adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman’s book, Queen Bees & Wannabes, by Tina Fey. It was directed by Mark Waters and produced by Lorne Michaels.…
In “What College Could Be Like” published in New York Magazine on January 2013, author Salman Khan points out that there is a basic divide between student’s expectations for college, a good intellectual experiences and what universities believe their value is. either intellectual and social experiences. To support his position first, Khan comments higher education is under increasing scrutiny, in parts. Next, he states that students have begun to recognize something very counterintuitive.…
After being taken from her mother in an unauthorized C-section, she is quarantined in a facility and tested on by the only people she knew. Eleven or El is a girl with a shaved head, and telemetry tic powers, which causes bleeding in the head when used. She escapes her facility in 1983 Hawkins, Indiana the day Will Byers disappeared and she met a group of boys Wills friends; Mike, Lukas, and Dustin who hide her from society and help her away from the bad men. Stranger things is a sci-fi thriller from Netflix and Throughout the season Eleven shows she is courageous and intellectual.…
I was at the doctor's office with my mom today, and naturally, I reached for one of the dozens of magazines to occupy me. When I flipped it open, there was a description of a Netflix horror show, Dark, that read, “Like a sausage casing that doesn’t care one bit if it will burst from overstuffing, this German import has elements of Stranger Things… Set in a dank little town… it involves missing children [and] a cave that occasionally belches a terrifying roar…” First of all, I am not convinced that this horror show is horrifying if the author is comparing it to sausage. Although it’s amusing, the ineffective simile is distracting. What is that suppose to mean?…
Have you ever just thought about how you would take college life? Today a class had to read an article on preparing for college. The transition to college life, dorm life, can be awfully difficult at times. But once one's use to the dorm life he/ she will not have to worry anymore. On a college campus, all individuals are held responsible for their own actions.…
My college life started in the summer of 2012, all of my hopes and ambitions were suspended in mid air. The apogee of the first year of my college life in spite of facing the stigma of my age group; was that of the support I received from the instructors in helpimh making my career goals obtainable. During the second semester of my third year of college I started losing my passion. I changed my major from Anthropology to Criminal Justice and tried to keep going. However; needing to take a step back.…
Two ideas are forced upon every single person. Taxes and death. Through the movie Stranger Than Fiction the audience follows Harold Crick, ironically an IRS auditor, who is forced to face his own fate. However, these are only the ideas posed on the screen. The underlying message stressed throughout this movie is the idea that time is precious and should not be taken for granted.…
It is often said that teenagers begin discovering themselves in high school, but I did the opposite- I lost myself. The source of my pleasure and delight shifted from books to parties, writing to boys, and video-games to my social life. Something within me desperately craved to be normal- to no longer be the girl that gets harassed and ostracized for being an “appalling nerd” and because of this, vital aspects of my personality began to change and I morphed into an entirely different person. Through this journey, I learned that my self-hate was a catalyst for self-love and appreciation. Having always been considered an unusual girl in the eyes of my peers, I'd never been truly comfortable in my skin.…
Cordelia wakes up , the first thing she sees is the dimmest of morning, and the sun popping out of the corner of her window. She crawls out of bed looking at the wood paneled floor and walks to the light switch and walks to her closet. Examining her closet Cordelia soon realizes it Monday, she has to wear her school uniform. All dressed and clean Cordelia walks down the shiny, crystal clear glass stairs to eat breakfast. She hears her mum washing her hands in the bathroom so she calls out to her, “I’m ready for school mum!”…
1. The movie Mean Girls has its own unique high school culture and within that culture there are many social communities. People tend to divide into their own groups with others who share similar ideas and values and this was also true in my high school, but my high school differed by being more open and accepting different groups similar to the ending of the movie. Also, social communities also have their own rules for example the plastics wear pink on Wednesdays and this stays the same to this day. People are guided by rules to fit in whether its what they wear, do, say, or act.…
College Experience The college experience is my initial step into finding my future career. Leaving home for the first time in my life and finding out if I have the skills to make it in the real world. Continuing my education in hopes of finding a great career and making lots of money for a leisurely lifestyle.…