Alessandra Ferri

"Robyn, hurry up we're going to be late?" Leo, my boyfriend called from the bottom of the stairs. "I'm coming, I just need to grab my bag." I answer back rushing around my room looking for my phone. Looking around frantically, I can't find it. I look down and what do you know, it was in my hand the whole time. Way to go Robyn. I grab my bag and rush down the stairs nearly tripping on the last two. I see my mom and my boyfriend sitting at the kitchen table talking to one another. "Finally, we're

J.D. Salinger expertly crafts a coming of age novel The Catcher in the Rye. This coming of age novel has set the tone for many other novels of the like. The main crux of the novel focuses on maturity and how it affects characters. This is very apparent with the main character Holden Caulfield, and Salinger uses this character to subtly create a commentary on maturity. Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is not the only character who demonstrates this claim, but he is the best example. The overarching

This film exemplifies the group dynamic by, showing how the characters in the movie interact with each other especially since they all come from different sociological groups in their school. In the beginning, it was difficult for them to get along. The characters in the movie are Claire Standish, who was in detention for skipping school to go shopping. Brian Johnson, was in detention for having a gun in his locker. Allison Reynolds, was in detention because she had nothing else to do. Andrew Clark

In a similar vein to The Breakfast Club (1985), in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) one of the characters from the film reels off a list of high school stereotypes that flood the halls of the fictional school. Grace, Rooney’s secretary, says that the “sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, pinheads, dweebies, dickheads, they all adore him [Ferris].” Though a few of these names do not translate to the contemporary audience, each of them still explains a particular clique or type of student at the school

Imagine you and your best friend ditching school in an R.V. full with pot and having to cross the illegal drug from Mexico to the United States just for a couple bucks. The film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is about a high school kid who simply gets away from cutting class and enjoys the rest of the day with his friends. Since Ferris took the day off, he and his friends decide to cruise around the streets of Chicago without Principal Rooney finding out. Whereas the film, We’re the Millers is about a town

Ferris Bueller and Catcher in the Rye – Comparative Essay Salinger’s 1951 novel, “The Catcher in the Rye”, and John Hughes’ 1987 teenage comedy film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, both reflect the lives of teenagers in a time span of nearly 40 years. The two authors successfully convey society’s values on materialism and education in the two different eras using language and a variety of techniques. These values have affected both Holden Caufield and Ferris Bueller, the former negatively and the latter

Strategies for the New CR-V Jayne Diaz BUS 620: Managerial Marketing Professor David Kalicharan February 6, 2012 Honda’s Market Strategies for the New CR-V The 2012 Honda CR-V recently came out with a commercial that spoofed the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The advertising and marketing strategies for this product will be analyzed in this paper. To begin, the paper will discuss some of the benefits that were highlighted about the new CR-V within the commercial. Next, market segmentation

Philosophy September 10, 2014 Philosophy through Film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off I am hoping that this essay will expand my understanding of certain philosophical archetypes. In the film, I will recognize philosophical themes in scenes and within the characters. Once an understanding of the themes is achieved, then I will be able to categorize the film as a sufficient or insufficient example. In writing this paper, I hope to determine if “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” demonstrates key ideas and themes

which they were written. His movies reflect the social, cultural and political aspects in the time period that they were made to represent. Many of John Hughes’ movies relate to family and their impact on children. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off came out in 1986, Plane Trains Automobiles came out in 1987, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation came out in 1989 and Home Alone (the original) came out in 1990. These movies make an impact culturally because they show the impact

Twiggy, Dior, the hippies and the mini, ripped jeans, Lagerfeld, Lauren and Armani are only a few of the fashion trends and designers in the nineteen eighties that were popular (Gelfand 118). Taking a look at a movie that was made in the Eighties, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ferris’s little sister, Jeanie, would wear sneakers with long white socks. She also wore was people call “mom jeans.” Another fashion trend shown in the movie was converse. When I was watching