Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants Analysis

Throughout the movie, Brian goes through the Identity Foreclosure, Identity Moratorium and Identity Achievement statues of James Marcia’s identity statuses theory. When Brian lives up to his obedient, “Good Citizen,” nerd image, he’s in the Identity Foreclosure status since he unquestioningly adopts his parents’ and society's visions, values and roles. He follows rules, questions rebelliousness and allows others to view him as weak for being a geek. Then, he transitions into an Identity Moratorium status where he delays his commitment to being the Brain and explores “alternative ideologies” and sides to himself when he smokes weed and connects to the troubles and philosophies of the rest of the Breakfast Club (Weiten, 457). Finally, at the end of the movie, Brian achieves the Identity Achievement status where he grows closer to a sense of identity and direction after “thinking through alternative possibilities,” or hanging out with the rest of the Breakfast Club (Weiten, 457). After being accepted by others, Brian builds his self-esteem and values his life despite his failures once and for all.

My Sister`s Keeper explores the moral, practical and emotional complication of putting one human being in pain or in danger for the well of another. Discuss the different kinds of ethical problems that Anna, as the “designer baby,” presents in this story.

“Recession is when a neighbor loses his job, depression is when you lose your job” Ronald Reagan. Recession is only a temporary decline and depression is a long and extended period of economic failure. There was a crisis in America during the time period the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? was based on. The Great Depression was occurring at that time and the characters in this movie reflected and showed was it was like to live in a time like that. Each character in the movie symbolized what an individual person would have went through during the Great Depression.

Brian Johnson, or the “Brain,” in the movie The Breakfast Club, possess thought processes evident in Piaget’s Formal Operational Period stage in his theory of cognitive development. During Piaget’s Formal Operational Period, people begin to “apply their mental operations to abstract concepts in addition to concrete objects;” their thinking is hypothetical, systematic, reflective and logical (Weiten, 448). Brian asks himself existential questions like “Who do I think I am? Who are you? Who are you?” as he brainstorms Mr. Vernon’s assignment for the students in detention; these thoughts are abstract. His thought processes are also logical since he’s extremely intelligent; being part of the math, Latin and physics club requires some advanced thinking skills. Additionally, he understands how concrete applications like engineering stem from abstract concepts like Trigonometry. He also reasoned that if he took a class like Shop that “dopes” take, he could pass that class easily to maintain his GPA; such reasoning requires complex thinking. Finally, his thinking is reflective, especially when he ponders the permanence of the Breakfast Club’s friendship and describes how he steps outside himself to analyze what he sees. Unfortunately, when he observes himself, he’s highly critical and despises his “true” self; he possess a highly negative view of himself, labeling himself a failure, eventually leading to suicidal thoughts and actions.

While Jenny repeatedly rejects Forrest as her lover, she is romantically attracted to him enough to keep coming back into his life. After Forrest’s mother passes away Jenny comes back, saying she misses home and is here to stay. Even after leaving again, she comes back into Forrest’s life with a letter, inviting him to her Georgia home, which brings Forrest to the bus stop where he narrates his autobiography.

Friendship opens our minds to different views and perspectives and change our perceptions. It has the power to change people’s views on life in a positive way. True friends will do anything to keep their friendship alive, no matter the barriers. Potok proves through the friendship of Danny and Reuven that friendship can be achieved no matter the barriers. He proves that friendship is a key value to life through his motif

She has a talent for storytelling.” Carmen’s motivation is seeing her daughters succeed and be happy in life. She gets there by helping her daughters with whatever like she helped Estela make some of the 100 dresses and she helped Ana by letting her go across the state to a great university at the end of the play. Therefore, she was a strong mother for letting them be free and she was there all along to support them with anything because she didn’t want to be in the way of her daughters’ fantasy. Another character is Ana. She is “18, plump and pretty, sister of Estela, daughter of Carmen. She is a recent high school graduate and a young feminist.” Ana’s motivation is becoming a writer. Ever since her high school year, she had a journal to write in so, when she becomes famous she will publish it and will be her autobiography of her accomplishing her dream. She gets there by getting a typewriter for a contest and she will save up money to go to a University. However, she is one hell of a great sister because whenever she leaves the house, she comes back to help her Estela with her

The Breakfast Club is a film that exhibits many dynamics within society which are then displayed throughout school systems. Throughout watching this, I was able to relate some of these sociological groups to my own experiences within high school and analyze sociological elements and themes within the film.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a Coen brothers film that was based on Homer’s epic, “The Odyssey.” The setting of the movie was during the depression era in Mississippi. The movie’s tone, characters, story, and settings reflect how barren and poor the general populous was after the stock market crash of 1929. This movie had many themes that warrant analysis. The theme of inequality between the white and black races was prevalent throughout the movie. Inequality and unfairness within the human race in general was also clearly depicted. This movie thoroughly depicts the multifaceted themes and issues present during the depression era.

Lilo and Stitch is a Disney animated movie that was released in 2002. It is set in Hawaii, and concentrates on a strong family ideal, revolving around a family unit of two orphaned sisters, Lilo and Nani. Even though ages were not mentioned directly in the movie, Lilo seems to be around 5 or 6 years old, and Nani around 18 or 19 years old. Their parents died in a car accident, and judging by their lack of change in appearance in a family photo that is referenced throughout the movie, and Lilo’s memories she shares, it seems to be a recent tragedy. In the movie, they are referred to as a “broken family,” and instead of the tragedy happening during the movie, we enter their lives during the transition period following the tragedy, where Nani is trying very hard to compensate for the loss of their parents and provide for Lilo while being visited by a social worker to determine if it is fit for Lilo to stay with Nani. While all of this transition and family struggle is happening, they go to adopt a pet at the local shelter and instead find themselves adopting an alien (even though they think it is a dog) who they name Stitch, and earlier in the movie is shown to be an experiment by an alien scientist and is programmed to destroy. For the purposes of this paper, we will not be going into detail about Stitch as an alien, and instead focusing on the family unit of Lilo and Nani, and their transition from being in a standard nuclear family to being just the two of them lacking parental figures.

The movie “My sisters keeper” is about 13 year-old Anna, who sues her parents for medical emancipation when she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister Kate, who has leukemia. This essay will focus on three events in Anna’s life, and discuss how each event in the characters life had an affect on her physical, psychosocial and cognitive development. The events that will be discussed are: how being brought into the world to save Kate affected Anna’s psychosocial development, how having to undergo many surgeries at a very young age affected Anna’s physical development, and also how Anna’s cognitive development was affected by her sisters sickness and death.

John Hughes's The Breakfast Club is one of film history’s most iconic and renowned movies and is a cornerstone of 1980’s pop-culture. The Breakfast Club showcases five unique high school students who all unfortunately find themselves imprisoned in an all-day Saturday detention. The students go as following: Claire (a pretty girl), Brian (the nerd), John (the bad boy), Andrew (an athlete), and Allison (the strange, goth girl). These students come from very different backgrounds and social settings which proves to spark many conflicts between them as well as with their supervisor Mr. Vernon. But through this conflict they find similarities between themselves, and after spending nine hours locked up together, they find resolution within themselves and with their new friends. Psychology can explain why this happened as well as what caused other events to occur. This paper will examine four different psychological phenomena: stereotypes, conformity/normative social influence, ingroup versus outgroup/superordinate goals, and the various causes of attraction.

The movie, The Breakfast Club, is a movie about five students who get Saturday school and become friends as a result of it. The characters were: Allison, the quiet girl who would sit in the back and refuse to talk; John, the troublemaker who always talked back to the teachers; Claire, the popular girl who always got what she wanted; Brian, the nerdy student who only cared about having good grades; Andrew, the wrestler who was only focused impressing his father. While watching the movie, I mainly related to Brian. He is pressured to have good grades by his parents and is labeled as the nerd because of it. I am also pressured to have good grades; however, I am labeled as the smart kid in many different classes, but I’m not classified as a nerd.

Firstly, the theme of friendship in the novel was shown through unbreakable bond of the protagonists. They had connected instantly upon working together at Maidsend Airfield in England. Together, the team used Maddie’s directional skills and Julie’s ability to speak multiple languages to navigate a lost airplane (Wein 43). This had been

Many wonderful Disney songs have impacted and changed or childhood greatly, yet often times some people fail to understand the meaning of it. “You've Got a Friend in Me”, by Randy Newman, is a favorable Disney classic that explains how true friends can help you tremendously when you are in a tough situation. This song relates remarkably well to the book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares, in which both stories discuss how a friend can help and give you the support and encouragement to be successful. For instance, Lena helped Bridget boost her confidence after a complicated incidence occurred. Newman addressed, “there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you, We stick together, we can see it through...”. In this statement,