Inexperience In The Song 'Fifteen' By Taylor Swift

Teenagers, as stubborn as some may be, are heavily influenced by their role models, especially in regards to how they perceive the future, and the

Teenage years are some of the toughest years a person may go through, on account of it being all about the mindset and trying to fit in. The teen years or rebel years, is usually spent in the mall with friends with the endeavor to get away with stealing, drinking or doing drugs by the authorities. Basically, doing such acts that one knows is forbidden, however if you get away with it, gives you a feeling of having great power over authority figures. Lasn states, “One day you act drunk and trick them into “arresting” you- only this time it actually is soda in the can. You are immensely pleased with yourself (379)”. In the rebellious years, getting the authorities to believe one accomplished something bad, gives this feeling,

In ‘Abolish high school’ by Rebecca solnit, she writes “High school is often considered a definitive American experience, in two senses: an experience that nearly everyone shares, and one that can define who you are, for better or worse, for the rest of your life.” which means high school isn’t wonderful for many people, it has a lot of challenges for teens, maybe some of them ‘kill’ by pressure and challenges, it would affect their rest of life. The high school is not a wonderful place for everyone. People should skip it and escaped it that you would don’t be suffered by it. However I disagree with her, because I believe high school is a indispensable place for students. It is a place for students, they can find a great relationship and an unexceptionable place to learn. On the other hand, I believe the high school is the key to definitive teens who they are in an great way. For example, Teachers would shape everyone’s identity, make you strong to face challenges, and open child’s heart. For example, in my childhood, when I lived with my parents, I was happy to learn, because my parents always encourage me to learn. Also, they want me learn from mistake, because It is a way to learn. They want me to be someone. However my parents left me at 12 age, they have to work more hard to support this home. I can’t focus on learning, I was playing video games every day, because I think I was ‘release’ from my parents. I have no ideas about my future. There is no one like my parents to guide me , I feel alone and confuses. Until I was be a part of high school.The high school make me stronger and hopeful. Teachers guide me walk on the right way again, they talk to me about future and how wonderful thing would happen in high school. I

Taylor Swift really knows how to have hidden messages and secrets throughout her lyrics and music videos. Taylor Swift also likes to trash talk other celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry. Which gives a viewer a good chance to critic her lyrics and videos.

This symbolizes the time in life where teenagers move away from their parents. After teens have been under their parent's supervision and confinement for years, they want to go out and learn new things on their own. "At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains."(5) Teenagers want to experience new things themselves, where that be drugs, sex, or other things. Although, when they do encounter new experiences, they sometimes learn that the experience has caused them great pain. In addition, teenagers may change their vision of life. Usually teens become hardened and more used to pain; they become more familiar with the real world. Even though many teenagers feel they have experienced a great deal of pain and think they know it all, they have not witnessed an extremely harsh life until completely on their own.

Kids nowadays can feel very pressured to have their lives figured out early on, including having to choose their destiny while still in middle school or high school. They may feel rushed to find out who they are when they should be out enjoying life while they have time to. In “Vienna,” Billy Joel uses diction and symbolism to tell the listener that it is important to live their life while they’re still young, which I can find very helpful in my own life. In Billy’s song, the speaker talks to juveniles saying they shouldn’t get caught up trying to make their lives perfect while they’re still learning.

First of all, with the use of plot and character as dramatic elements, MacLeod is able to depict the main characteristics of the nature of adolescence, mainly the search for identity and the quest for independence. Among the scientific community, adolescence is believed to be the most crucial period in human development. It is a period of “rapid biological, social and psychological change” (Soto, et al. 330). There are the transformations that define puberty, there are changes in the relationships and attitudes towards adults and peers, and many teenagers struggle to form a coherent identity (331). In the process of discovering their identities, most adolescents become self-centered. Having not yet

When we are young we focus on ourselves, having fun, and forming our identities. Most of that vanishes once we grow old. Education and society take away the opportunity to seize the day and to realize who we really are. Supertramp’s ‘’The Logical Song’’ focuses on life when we are young, and how it all changes once we start school and grow up. Life moves on and, we become average joes who sold off their dreams to work in an office. First of all, in the opening verse, when the speaker is young, he describes life as ‘’magical’’ and ‘’beautiful.’’ He makes it sound as though life is worry-free and that he has time to admire the ‘’birds in the trees.’’ However, then ‘’they’’ send him off to school, and he loses his worry-free life and becomes

Irresponsible, reckless and dangerous are only some of the general traits used to describe teenagers. The negative connotation given to an entire group of individuals is appalling and has caused them to suffer many unfortunate consequences. The stereotypes used to categorize adolescents of today are lead by the portrayal of youth in the media and misrepresentation in our legal system. My essay will prove that the stereotypes reinforced by these sources are untrue and in fact, negatively impact teens as they struggle to defeat these social generalizations. Teenage years are said to be the most important and defining years of your life.

Did you know that elephant owners in Asia can keep their elephants in their yard with a simple piece of twine and a post in the ground? I’m sure you’re probably thinking, “How is that possible? Elephants are strong, smart, and have potential to do huge things.” The answer has nothing to do with the twine and the post; but it has everything to do with the twine around the elephant’s mind. The thing is, teenagers are a lot like elephants. We are strong, smart, and have incredible potential, but somehow we are held back by a tiny piece of string, held back by a lie; the lie that teenagers are rebellious, good for nothing, lazy bums. Today I am going to be talking about how this lie affects the relationship between adults and

His guilt from his wrongdoing in his childhood continues to haunt him all the way through his adulthood and impacts his following life decisions. He begins to learn from his mistakes and accepts it as it is because he cannot change what is done in the past, he learns to move on and begin to make a wiser decision in the near future. Similarly, in society today, specifically teens are pressured to make various forms of choices since they are in that transitional period of becoming young adults. Some choices that they may have to encounter with can be minor, such as choosing to procrastinate, whereas, other choices can be major and it may affect their future in the long term. There are several major life choices that teens have to undergo, such as choosing their desired field of study to pursue at a post-secondary education.

Compared to concrete thinking in childhood, adolescents’ thinking becomes much more abstract. This enables them to partake in self-conception; differentiating between who they are and who they may become in the future (Arnett, 2013). This developmental milestone is presented in The Breakfast Club when the five teens are sitting on the floor, discussing their insecurities. Andrew asks the group, with a horrified expression, if they are going to be like their parents. Claire answers with certainty that she will not (Hughes, et al., 1985). As they imagine their future selves like their parents, they are conceptualizing their feared selves (Arnett, 2013). Andrew also speaks of the false self he presents to make his father proud. This is shown as he admits that the physical pain and humiliation he caused a peer was not something he wanted to do, though he knew it was an action for which his father would praise him (Hughes et al., 1985). According to Arnett (2013), it is during the period of adolescence that teenagers recognize the false selves they present and that their false selves are contrary to their actual feelings and thoughts.

In musical superstar Taylor Swift’s music video for her song “Blank Space,” she is portraying herself as the high maintenance and dramatic girlfriend that the media believes she is. The speaker of this text is the media’s perception of Taylor Swift and her message is about the disconnect between who Swift really is and who the media sees her as. I believe Swift has two purposes for this music video. One is for her character in the music video to warn her audience about the type of love that boys want, and the other for real life Taylor herself to poke holes into the media’s concept of her love life. The video is filled with satire and paradoxes to convince us that our idea of Taylor Swift is not an accurate opinion of her.

Nic was destructive. At least that’s what my mum would tell me. She’d spit out negative words about Nic so effortlessly, perhaps it was to protect me but I never understood. Nic and I had 7 years between us, he had a different mum. I didn’t get to see Nic very much, but he was my favourite brother so when my mother said such sharp words I found it hard to believe her.

As we continue to grow up, we learn that being grown up is not as we imagined it. We once convinced ourselves that growing up was the goal to achieve, and life would be much better once we were in fact grown up. When we in fact do grow up, we think back at our youth and laugh because we thought growing up was the most wondrous thing to accomplish, but now, more than ever, we crave for our youth; for the days we would sit in the grass and daydream of what we are to become when we grow up; and finally for the days when life was simple and we could imagine it any which way we wanted it and no one could do a thing about it.