Movies

My top 10 favorite movies are: Monsters, The Notebook, Dear John, Elf, The Hangover, Monsters Inc, Poseidon, Never Back down, United 93, and Big Daddy.  I like all of these movies because there all very different. I like each of these movies based on who plays what roles and obviously what the plot of the movie is. Movies have become a big over the years, but in my opinion some movies are just awful.

Monsters was a movie that I have recently watched with one of my friends. We watched it because there was nothing on, but I'm glad we watched it because it was really good. I liked it because it was funny and scary all at the same time. I also like that the movie was about how humans turn into these gross looking creatures because of a disease that was going around. The Notebook  and Dear John are a completely different genre. I picked The Notebook and Dear John because they both are about relationships that any girl would kill for, Although the relationships are unrealistic, everyone dreams of having a relationship that stays strong and lasts forever. Elf is my all time favorite movie. Will Ferrel is hilarious, and one of my favorite actors. Elf is the type of movie that I could watch every night and never get sick of. Christmas time is my favorite time of the year and Elf is a happy movie that just makes Christmas ten times better. The Hangover is another movie that I could watch all the time and never get sick of. Sadly I can recite half of the lines in The Hangover. Monsters Inc is a childhood favorite. I haven't seen it in a while but its still a movie that is unforgettable to me because of Mike Wazowski. Poseidon is my all time favorite movie. It's adventurous and it has a realistic plot. Never Back Down is a movie about fighting. I love this movie because the main character wins a fight that he was expected to lose. United 93 is a really interesting movie. Its a movie based on the events that happened on one of the planes that was involved on 9/11.  Big Daddy is hilarious, Adam Sandler is another on of my favorite actors because of his movies and how funny he is. I like Big Daddy because of the way that he loves the kid he is taking care of but mostly because he treats him how he would treat any other adult.

Themes

This world has always had a sense of sexism. The 1950s played a huge role  in demonstrating that woman were inferior to men. As this may have been true in the 1950s, I still find that in todays world many men still think that woman are still inferior. Woman are equal to men in all aspects. Although some woman may not be able to do a certain job that men can do, men cannot do certain jobs that woman can do.

Nothing is meant to last forever. In Death Of a Salesman the porch is collapsing in. The significance of this is that the family is falling apart.  When things break you have to fix them, in this case Willy does nothing to help fix his family. The porch is old but it could be fixed. The family has fallen apart due to many things but mostly because Willy cannot fix it.  The porch is not the only thing that is falling apart. The other things signifies the little things in life that are also falling apart.

Time is something that no one should take for granted. For Willy, without having a clock to tell the time Willy is constantly stuck in the past. Without time the world would be an absolute disaster. There is only a limited amount of time in the day, so to take it for granted would be a bad decision.

Homework...

Willy tried to teach Biff and Happy that in order to succeed working hard is really the only option. Biff and Happy were taught that life is not easy so in order to be successful and go far in life, this is where hard work pays off.

I think that a father should definitely teach his sons these concepts. Every father wants to see their son succeed in life and find happiness. Although my father and brother don't have a great relationship i know that my father would do anything to help my brother succeed in life. I have grown up to know that a son and father have many tensions, well in my case at least, but the lessons have still been taught.

The inconsistencies tell us that Willy may have a problem with his memory, or he is a liar. I don't think that Willy means to contradict himself,  I truly think that we will find later on that he is sick. Lying is a problem that sadly a lot of people have.

Linda does not have any reaction to him. I think that Linda, like many woman, tried to help him but gave up because he is making no effort to change his ways. Linda seems like the typical wife that loves her family but is secretly broken apart by the lack of effort Willy makes towards having a good relationship with his son. Willy continues to bad mouth his son Biff and secretly this tears Linda apart.

Writers block

This week in class we watched a movie. The movies are always a good way to put an image in your head about what the scenery in the book looks like but this movie was a lot different. I think that most, if not everyone in the class probably thinks that they could have shot that movie just as well. The movie had zero special effects, but even when they tried to have special effects it caused the whole class to laugh. I guess we can give them an A for effort.

I'm really no movie expert but watching this movie I laughed more at the acting, effects , and scenery more than I did at the movie itself. When they attempted to show the letter A shooting across the sky, it looked like and aroura, or even the northern lights. The whole class, including Mr. Bresnick, laughed. From the beginning i expected just another corny movie they allow us to watch in school, this movie definitely reached a new level of corny.

School movies are usually pretty tough to watch. Most of the time kids in the class will fall asleep. I have to admit that I have been that person before. The Scarlet Letter kept me awake because It was funny to watch. It was said in class that it almost felt like we were watching a soap opera. That was the perfect way to describe this movie.

Pride

In The Scarlet Letter, the main character, Hester has a lot of pride in something that many in that time period would be ashamed of. By her making the Scarlet letter so beautiful you can tell she has a lot of pride and thats she doesn't regret her wrong doings. I have found myself relating a lot to Hester becuase I try to find the best in all the situations that i have been in.  Reading The Scarlet Letter I have realized that everything happens for a reason and you just have to go with it. There are many things in life that have no right or wrong explanation.
Pride is also a way of self confidence.  Knowing that you have done something wrong but you are proud of it definately shows that you don't care about what others think. High school has a lot of juding and gossiping, but a lot of it comes from the low self confidence of others. Everyone makes mistakes here and there and theres nothing that you can do about it. What i don't understand is why do so many people care about those mistakes? The Scarlet letter was a symbol that showed people a mistake you made. Even though things were different from now and back then i still think that same idea applies, why does it matter what mistakes another person makes?
Being a high school student I have come to realize that its inevitable for girls and guys not to judge another group or clique, or its inevtiable to make a mistake. Things happen for a reason but if you have pride in yourself and you don't regret the "mistakes" that you make, then being a strong human being is in your future.

Why?

Why is there so much hate in the world? There is no logical reason behind it. Yesterdays class, Mr. B showed us a window display that happens to be in our own school. This window display has a symbol that we all know and call a swastika. This symbol used to represent peace. After the Holocaust many are scared of this symbol, including me. This window display has not only come up in conversation in class but my friends and I also talked about it. There are symbols that are okay to show, but this symbol is not one of them. Swastikas remind many of how the world was during World War 2.  This symbol represents the millions of people killed during World War 2.  So my question is why is it ok to remind our school community of that?
Symbolism is not a bad thing, especially if it doesn't offend people. Everyone has their own beliefs but if you don't believe in what someone else does why even say anything? Symbols are a way of life. There's no way of getting around them. For the protestors they believe that freedom of speech is a way of bringing others down. They have their beliefs and others have theirs. To protest against someones else beliefs is wrong and just shouldn't be aloud.

I hate liars

In todays world lying has become apart of life. Weather you tell a white lie or a fib, you still lied. Many think that its okay to lie to protect someones feelings. I truthfully believe that you have to accept the truth one way or another so you might as well just be honest to begin with. It has been said that "what you don't know only makes you stronger". Although that may be true for some I would prefer that I am told the trust, as would many of other people. One of my friends is a pathological liar and I have found that I cannot believe anything that comes out of her mouth. Her lying has become a problem for because it has only gotten her in trouble. Obviously at some point in every ones life they lie or tell a fib. Lying is inevitable.

I have been in many situations where I have caught people in a lie. In my opinion it has made my respect for that person fade. I usually laugh after i catch people in a lie because i usually find that there's no need to lie. My biggest pet peeve is when I'm told a lie over something so ridiculous. In that situation whats the point of lying? I really hate that lying has become such a big part in today world.

"What you don't know only makes you stronger."  Many believe in this quote and i do to a certain extent but i also believe that the truth hurts and that if you are willing to accept the truth eventually things will be easier in the end. High school is where a lot of lying takes place because you don't want people to hate you or have enemies because they found out you lied. I believe that honesty is the best policy from experiences that I have been in and it has only made me a stronger person.

Trust & forgiveness

Trust is something that I have always taken seriously. Once someone loses my trust, gaining it back is hard.  I have found it hard to trust a lot of people. Only my closest friends really have my trust. Lately I have found that you cannot trust anyone because, in high school things spread faster than you can blink. I have found myself to be a very trust worthy person because I know the feeling of having your trust betrayed, it really is the worst feeling.
My friends are some of the most trusting people I know. I'm sure that everyone says that about all their friends.I truly believe that my friends are the best. I have lost trust in a lot of people, and only one of them has been able to gain it back entirely. I tend to not let many people in because of things I may hear about them or just simply because I don't want to be let down.
Forgiving is the hardest part about gaining trust back. Learning to forgive is never an easy and hurts emotionally. I have learned from experience that once trust is lost it is never gained back completely. I find it hard to trust people because of experiences that I have gone through and realized it is not worth getting hurt in the end. On the positive side, I do believe that it is necessary to have people you can trust so that you can go to them in a time of need.

When I was a little girl I always wanted 3 wishes from genie.  If i received those 3 wishes I would have wished for what all little kids would say, world peace, feed the hunger, and of course an unlimited amount of toys. As I got a little bit older I realized that genies did not exist and my heart broke, but I eventually learned about witches and how they were awful people. What I didn't understand was that witch craft was a huge problem in Massachusetts in 1692.

Rumors have been spread around that Salem End Road in Framingham was a place where witch craft has  taken place. There is a house on Salem end that is creepy and old. Some have even been in this house and seen the old mail that was sent, and even old credit cards. Although some of these rumors may be exaggerated it is still pretty cool living in a town where there has been talk of witch craft. Although,  witch craft is cool, it is also very creepy to think about because, much of there rituals Satan was claimed to be involved.

I still wish I could meet a genie and have 3 wishes. My wishes may have changed since then, but I still know that I will never get 3 wishes and if I want what I want I will have to work for it and live the American dream. Witch craft is not something that many people find interesting, they find it scary.

The Puritain dream

Many cultures came to America for a better life because they believed that coming to America all their dreams would come true and all their troubles would be resolved. The puritans think of themselves as more pure than other men. The American dream is about equality and working for what you want. The puritans came to America that all their troubles would just go away and that they could start over. Puritans had a dream of their own. It was said in the Dream of the Good life on page thirteen "it is only because of their dream that those Americans who followed had theirs.". The puritans may have come here for religious purposes, they also came to America for a dream they could not pursue in England.

I perssonally think that puritans deserve the reputaion that they were givin, because if they were not givin the reputaion in the first place they would not deserve it. Puritans think that they are the most pure and that they are above all the rest. When the puritans came to America they thought all of their problems would go away in a blink of an eye but if you lived in America you would know that nothing comes that easily and to live the American dream you have to work for what you want.

Many immigrants came to America for a better life and to see their troubles away. The imigrants expects life to be easy and things to come easily to them.  The puritans have made a bad name for themselves and I believe that they should keep that name because thet have not proved their reputaion to be any better. They came here for religious purposes but then they ended up living the American dream through their own set dream. They came here with an amition to practice religion however they want.

The American dream is an array of goals that Americans tend to achieve during the span of their life. My parents have both worked hard to find the freedom of home ownership. My mom works very hard at what she does every day to support my family.  I have found myself following in the foot steps of my mother by working hard to acquire good grades and doing well in sports. My dad has had trouble with the recession, like many he lost his job. However, losing his job has not stopped him from supporting my family. My parents have both inspired me to do well in everything i do. Before every sport i have tried out for my dad always tells me " Be the best that you can be". Hearing thats so many times, i learned that nothing comes easily and you must work to reach your goals.

My grandparents have taught my mother and father so much. I have been lucky enough to grow up in a home that has taught me to never give up on something you believe in. My parents have been taught to always be honest and to never take anything for granted. I believe that those two qualities have given me a better perspective on the world and what to expect as i get older.  I truly hope that i have gained both of these qualities from my family.

Getting what you want and exactly what you want has never been and option in my house. Although if you work hard for what you want usually you will be rewarded. I have always been pushed to do the best i can even if the outcome is not what strived for. My mom and dad have gone through a lot with my older brother. Things have been difficult for him, but they always have pushed him to work hard and just get through the day. The American dream puts a certain pressure on parents to work to the best of their ability. Most parents, if not all, want there children to do well in life and pursue their dreams, just like they did.