Essay on Circle of Friends

Throughout our lives we encounter many people. A person can come and go in an instant. But some individuals stick with you, and you stick with them and eventually become friends. There are many different ideas of what friendship is and what it means. A friend is more than just a person who you like and enjoy being with. A true friend must love unconditionally, be trusted, and show understanding.

The primary source that I have chosen to analyze is a scene from the movie Grease. This movie was released in June of 1978 and is about a so-called good girl named Sandy falling in love with bad boy greaser Danny over the summer. Once it’s time for class to be back in session, they find out they attend the same high school and challenges face them as to how they can rekindle their prior romance with the eyes of their friends focused on them. Sandy is the typical good girl who obeys the rules and does what she is told. She falls in love with Danny who is a polar opposite to her. So instead of the typical movie ending where the bad boy turns into a good guy for the girl he is in love with, the writers threw in a plot twist and it ends up being Sandy who changes the most. She alters from a goody two shoes into a “hot and sexy bad girl” as co-creator Jim Jacobs states in an interview about the meaning to the ending of the film. I think that this movie is a prime example of the way gender roles have been visualized among society for a very long time. Additionally, it also doubles as an example as to how gender roles have changed as well throughout the decades that have passed by.

The last film we watched, The Big Heat, shows some different perspectives on female movie characters of the mid-1950s. We revisited some reoccurring themes relating to gender roles from previous films, but explored new ones as well. We got the sense that some of the main female characters, including Katie Bannion and Debby Marsh, were strong and resilient, despite being women in a mid-twentieth century film and somewhat relegated to stereotypes. They also mirrored some of the characteristics of the female characters from the previous film, Executive Suite.

Though many gender role advancements were achieved in past and future decades, gender roles were more segregated in the 1950’s than they were in even colonial times. In the 1950s, there were rigid gender roles represented in popular culture. To start off, women were expected to be as similar as they can to this propaganda.

High school is a combat zone. Perhaps incognito, high school is vile in all ways, shapes, and forms. High school is destruction of humanity. From blondes to redheads, and albinos to bronzed beauties, there is no fair play. Manipulation, deceit, lies, and forbidding grades are the fate of these entire helpless quarry. After many devastating centuries, mankind has learned to adapt to this revolution. Fighting for freedom and molding to the staggering state of affairs, students have mastered separation brilliance and competence, creating differences with style, interests, and appetites. One thing that will never change… there is no escaping these dreadful high school cliques!

In the book Orphan Train it highlights two women throughout the book. Both Vivian and Molly were very similar but very different. Both of them went through a get deal of tragedy at such a young age that made them stronger. Since both of them have gone through so much they have same characterizes. Christina Baker Kline makes three points throughout the play on how these characters are both similar, but different.

Do you remember when you were a teenager? When you were exceptionally awkward and most concerned with your peer’s opinions? I am certain that you would agree that your teenage years were some of the most stressful of your entire life. Currently, your teenager is experiencing this same anxiety-filled time period, which is overflowing with self-discovery and mistakes, that you once endured. Although, your teenager may not act as though they require your support, they do need it. Nevertheless, you might struggle to provide assistance as you grew up in another environment and cannot understand their decisions. As a result of a difference in values and experiences, teenagers and adults struggle to interact in a positive manner. Yes, this is frustrating

In ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’ both authors indirectly show their beliefs and opinions towards women and the way they are treated by society. In the time both texts were set- 1912 and the 1930’s- women were generally seen as a lesser class than men and due to their sexuality, they were not treated fairly. Steinbeck and Priestley show this at many points in their texts.

The anxiety that infused film noir, born out of post-war fears about the place women had found outside of the family structure, challenged hesitant conceptions towards the role of women in family and oppressive social relationships. Film noir’s included gender politics were to alleviate male confusion over women’s roles and their sexual identity through a restoration of the patriarchy. The femme fatale represented an independent and powerful femininity, rejecting the conventional role of the devoted wife and loving mother that mainstream society had prescribed for women, but in the end her transgression of social norms led to her own destruction and the destruction of the men who were attracted to her.

As a former slave, Nanny's ideal view of marriage is influenced by her race. Back when

During the 1960’s the feminist movement began to take shape. This movement addressed many different inequalities women were experience within society. A few of the inequalities debated during this movement were sexuality, workplace ethics, and legal inequality. Historical female depictions in film have changed throughout the 20th century. These changes have occurred due to different Women’s movements.

There are a lot of important things in life. However, one of the most important things for people to survive in this world is friendship. Without friendship, people can die of loneliness. What do you think about your friends? Do you like your friends? There are a lot of different types of friends. There are friends that I like and some friends with whom I do not get along. Friends with positive characteristics such as reliable, trustworthy and faithful whom I usually get along with are the one that tend to have more friends and the negative one whom I usually not get along with tend to be alone. However, friends with negative characteristic can also give us some good examples of seeing double sides of something, like, a character can be

Imagine your sole confidante, childhood playmate, personal comedian and physiologist disclosing your secrets to a stranger. Unfortunately, this stranger happens to be the person who enforce a form of punishment for the actions that were once a secret. Furthermore, this confidante is considered your friend. Does an instance of this friend disclosing your secret of immoral activities to a person of authority violate the success of the friendship? In fact, this act is not a violation of the laws of friendship. The ideas of friendship are subjective, and thus where you might think your friend’s actions are unjust, your friend is actually looking out for your best interest and security. Also, a good friend would not desire

Do you have friends? Most likely, you answered yes, but I’m asking do you have “true friends”? I use quotes because my understanding of the general populous concludes me to believe people don’t have real honest, genuine, friends. These superficial friendships I speak of lead to a disastrous chaos, betrayal, and most importantly: a broken heart. Friends are those who look out for each other, those who will abort any personal objective for you at the drop of a hat. These aspects show a real friend, these aspects describe Rachel Stephenson.

Through my experiences I have come to realize that there are basically three types of friends a person can have. There are friends that I call “sometimes” friends, these people appear to be your friend but only when you are face to face with them, and when you are not around them they act more like a foe. They are often referred to as two faced or a back stabber. These types of friends are not very reliable nor should they be trusted. Another type of friend a person can have, and the best kind, is a “true” friend. A true friend is someone you know you can always trust and rely on no matter what. The last type of friend is the “acquaintance”. These are the type of friends that you do not necessarily hate, but at the same time you do