...Be Spoiled Being spoiled used to mean getting everything you wanted, whenever you wanted. Being spoiled was having "mommy" and "daddy" shower you with all kinds of goods and love. Being spoiled was not having responsibilities; it was about not having to worry about price tags or if you'll have enough money later on. Being spoiled did not know what budget was. Now a day's being spoiled is getting more help than you need. Am I really being spoiled? Or am I just getting more help than I need? For anyone that doesn’t know me, doesn’t know that I work hard for everything I buy. I work to support my own shopping habits; I don’t buy what I can't afford. Though I rarely borrow, I payback every penny I do borrow. Every now and again I tend to find a pair of shoes I don’t think I could live without. That's when mommy or daddy lend me a few bills which eventually down the line get paid back, in full. Just recently I learned that when people first meet me they get the impression that I must be a spoiled brat. I never knew the vibe I gave off until I was confronted by a guy who couldn’t seem to understand why I work two jobs. What he knew about me was so little and mostly of my past. He knew the girl that took weekend trips to New York for seasonal shopping. The girl that never paid for anything herself, never worked for anything. The girl that was handed anything she asked for whenever she asked for it. He knew that the girl that didn’t know what a budget was, never looked at price...
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...its first week • Contains 11 songs • 5 singles released: Tim McGraw, Teardrops On My Guitar, Our Song, Picture To Burn, Should’ve Said No • Later released a deluxe edition that included 3 new songs II. Fearless • Second album released on November 8th, 2008 • Sold 592,000 copies its first week • According to a listening session held by the Nashville Chapters and The Producers & Engineers Wing, Taylor mentioned Fearless was her breakthrough album • 5 singles released: Love Story, White Horse, You Belong With Me, Fifteen, and Fearless • Love Story was her first number one single to go International • Contains 13 songs • Later re-released as Fearless Platinum Edition which included 6 new songs and a DVD with her recent music videos • 7 total Grammy nominations, won 4 III. Speak Now • Released on October 25th, 2010 • Her first album to sell one million copies its first week • Contains 14 songs, deluxe edition includes 3 new songs • 6 singles released: Mine, Back To December, Mean, The Story Of Us, Sparks Fly, and Ours • 3 Grammy Nominations – won 2 • Taylor stated in an interview that she wrote this entire album solo to prove people wrong IV. Red • Red was released on October 22nd, 2012 • According to Rolling Stone, Red sold 1.2 million copies its first week • Contains 16 songs, deluxe edition includes 3 extra new songs • 7 singles released: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Begin Again, I Knew You Were Trouble, 22, Red, Everything Has Changed...
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...materials but the company wanted to wait until she was eighteen but she knew she was ready to launch her career with her own material, so she left that record company. At a café in Nashville, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks records executive who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine records. Taylor was one of his new labels first signings. Since then she has written over 200 songs which all written about her true experience and feelings. In 2006 she released her first album called “Taylor Swift.” She received positive reviews from the music critics. And by the time 2008 came around she released her second album “fearless, and in 2010 “Speak now.” The lead single from the fearless album “Love Story” was the second best-selling country single of all time. In 2009 swift became the first country music artist to win an award on MTV Video Music when you belong with...
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...films dealing with serious issues. In this case the film is a conspiracy thriller, which looks at the involvement of a large pharmaceutical company in testing drugs in Africa. That said, the film is much more, combining a love story, a quest for revenge and expressing real anger about the West’s apparently unchecked exploitation of ordinary African people. The Constant Gardener is an adaptation of a novel by the British writer John le Carré, best known for his tales of spies and Cold War intrigue. Fernando Meirelles seemed an odd choice for director, because of his Brazilian background and the seemingly huge difference between this film and his first feature, the explosive story of a Rio favela, City of God (2003). www.filmeducation.org 1 Mike Newell was the first choice for director, but had already committed himself to the new Harry Potter film, but Meirelles was very interested in the project. He told The Independent, ‘The chance to take on the pharmaceutical industry was one of the three elements that made me want to direct The Constant Gardener, as was the chance to shoot in Kenya. Also, it’s a very original love story about a man who marries a much younger woman who is very different from him, and it’s only after she dies that he truly falls in love with her.’ Meirelles’ Brazilian background gave him a source of empathy with the poverty in the Nairobi shantytown of Kibera, the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa where some of the film was shot. Crucially his sense of...
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...Capitalism: A Love Story, which opened in 962 theaters earlier this month, is Michael Moore’s most ambitious work yet – taking aim at the root cause behind the injustices he’s exposed in his other films over the last 20 years. This time capitalism itself is the culprit to be maligned in Moore’s trademark docu-tragi-comic style. And by using the platform of a major motion picture to make a direct assault at the root of the problem, Moore has created space in the political mainstream for a radical conversation (radical meaning “going to the root”). It’s a conversation that is desperately needed as the economic crisis continues to devastate low- and middle-income Americans in spite of President Obama’s and Congress’ efforts to stop the bleeding by throwing trillions of dollars at the banks. Yesterday, Democracy Now! reported that while the Dow Jones topped 10,000 for the first time in a year, foreclosures have reached a record level of 940,000 in the third quarter. But with this film airing in major chain cinemas across the nation, the normally taboo topics of how wealth is divided, who owns Congress, and how vital economic decisions are made are now open for discussion in a way they haven’t been in the U.S. for decades. In Capitalism, Michael Moore features the reality of the economic crisis for America’s usually-invisible poor and working class. The movie begins with a family filming their eviction from their own home. In a terrifying scene, we watch from inside their living...
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...Julia Darling ’’The Dress’’ is a short story about a single mother who lives with her two teenage daughters, Rachel and Flora. In the story we hear about their daily life with fights between Rachel and Flora, how the mother feel and how she reacts to these fights. It seems like the family lives in a rich and wealthy place, because of the expensive restaurant and the Café Malata where Flora is drinking some cocktails with Alberto. The mother in the story is divorced from her daughters’ father, and it didn’t seem that she since divorce has had strength to find a new man. She is forty and works as a bereavement counselor, where she is helping people with their troubles. Her relationship to her teenage daughters is not very well. The daughters have often fights and as their mother she always has to interfere to get her daughters apart. At her work she always meet people with sadness, who she has to help, and then when she come home she want to have a break and relax, but it is not the case, because of her daughters fight: ‘’I’m forty, the mother said. She felt sorry for herself. All day she had sat with tearful needy people. It was her birthday, and she wanted to relax. She wanted to feel loved’’, (page. 10 line. 18-19). At the restaurant she is talking about to leave her job and instead make something with jewellery, because she does not want to live the rest of her life with sadness. Maybe she feels alone, she has only her two teenage daughters, and they are only thinking about...
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...Romeo And Juliet : Not Acceptable for Ninth Grade Curriculum. Romance could be tragic but it's how lovers cooperate with it. Romeo and Juliet showed that love is tragic especially when situations are being rushed. In the novel of Romeo And Juliet it clearly had showed based on the situations that was being occurred that those couples were a bad example of romance. Since they showed a bad example of being a role model it shouldn't be teacher in a ninth grade curriculum. In this essay i will be covering three different reasons to why Romeo And Juliet shouldn't be taught in a ninth grade curriculum, due to the fact of immatureness students are still which connects to them idolizing actions and taking it as a lesson. First of all, income students in high school are still not matured enough to understand serious situations that's happening in the story. Based and according to my experience in watching the movie i clearly saw the situation that was being occurred that those situations of action are just a silly part of those student’s part of life . As in reality i have actually seen how my other classmates could be so immature when we were watching the movie about Romeo And Juliet. Further on yet there are still students who doesnt consider maturity yet in their age....
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...importance states involvement in the placement of restrictions for teenage drivers to prevent fatalities and accidents. Ages from sixth-teen through nineteen the number one cause of death is automobile accidents. Michelle Andrews demonstrates the District of Columbia maintains a lower percentage of fatalities of teenage drivers by acquiring rigorous laws to prevent auto vehicle accidents of teenage drivers. Meanwhile, the state of North Dakota and South Dakota assembles a higher percentage of auto vehicle accidents within teenage drivers and obtains more lenient laws in the Nation for teenage drivers. Nevertheless, cellar devices are becoming an issue for not only to teenage drivers the issue expands also to ages under thirty. Although, the purpose of the article The New Rules of the Road introduction commencement with a story of an accident involved two teenagers; one as the passage the other as the driver. Allows the audience to associate the situation with personal experiences or become aware of the possibilities occur to...
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...The Plight of Young Girls Living as Teenage Prostitutes Angela Clyde October 5, 2009 Shorter College Professor Ashley Robbins Abstract In recent years there has been a surge in the number of young girls living as teenage prostitutes. The average age of a teenage prostitute today is 13 years old, and this problem has hit communities from the impoverished to the upper middle class. The lure into prostitution has captured girls that are runaways from broken homes, as well as those who suffered emotional and sexual abuse. Although these girls are offenders, they are first victims; thus causing advocates, social workers, and policy makers to unite to establish prevention programs and provide help to those girls living as prostitutes under the hands of men who represent themselves as their pimp a way of escape. Teenage prostitution is a problem in our community that many have failed to look at the severity of its growing presence. The number of girls living a life of prostitution has greatly increased over the last few years and is now beginning to draw local and national attention. The numbers and tragic stories of these young girls lured into this lifestyle for various reasons are beginning to cause society to stop and take notice. Girls as young as eleven years of age are being forced into a lifestyle of prostitution as a means for survival. In order to begin to work on addressing the problem of teen prostitution...
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...read is named (un)arranged marriage and is written by English-Indian author Bali Rai. The novel is about a young boy named Manny who lives in a small English city with his Punjabi family. The novel tells the story of how Manny (Manjit) tries to escape the fate his two older brothers both received, being married to a woman he doesn’t know and having to live the Punjabi way the rest of his life. Manny is born in England and unlike the rest of his family he is only used to the English culture, which he loves. He wants to go to university, find a girl he really loves, live out his teenage years to the fullest and travel the world. His father on the other hand has a whole different plan for Manny. He wants him to follow his brother’s footsteps and marry an Indian girl through arranged marriage at the age of seventeen. Manny understands quickly that in order to live his dream life he has to act fast, as he has only four years to escape his dreaded destiny. The story goes on throughout those four years as we follow Manny and several helpers (his best friend Ady, and girlfriend Lisa) as they work together to save Manny from the arranged marriage. Dealing with both the issues of being a normal teenager and the pressure from the family we experience a both funny and fresh story of a young man’s fight for freedom to be himself. The greater part of the plot is set in Leicester, England. Manny lives in a small house with his parents, two brothers and their wives. This affects him a lot...
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...half full, being able to attend school is a privilege, and we should be happy to have parents, who worry about us. We realize just how lucky we are. As its title reveals, Depi Alper’s short story “How lucky you are,” deals with this theme of appreciation. The story is a typical “boy meets girl”-story with a twist. The twist being that the meeting with the teenage girl, Ishraqi, becomes an eye-opening experience to the teenage boy, Max. The story has an atypical structure, in which the opening is written in the present tense as flow of Max’ thoughts. In these thoughts we are being sent back to the flashback of his father leaving him and his mother, in addition to being presented to Max’ world. The narrator of the story is a limited omniscient 3rd person narrator from the protagonist, Max’, point of view, which lets us follow his thoughts and feelings, whilst making the story subjective with only his version and view of things. This also becomes clear in the usage of the story, which involves a lot of slang. In the end of this opening flow of thoughts, Max closes his eyes and drifts back into the daydreaming, it all began with: the daydreaming of Ishraqi. This daydreaming leads to a full flashback of the day, Max met Ishraqi, which the story continues and ends with. The story takes place in London, where our protagonist lives with his mom, with whom he does not always get along. Max is attending a school in London and is gifted with creativity, which has resulted in...
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...Red from green - analysis Life is a journey. A journey filled with love, grief, tears, joy and sorrow. A journey of different stages in your personal development. First, you are an innocent and joyful child, then you turn into an insecure and self-doubting teenager, and then you will hopefully turn into a responsible and independent adult. Life can be though at any times, but especially the teenage years can be challenging. You may begin to question whether you need parent attention or not, you feeling towards the opposite sex change, and you feel more rebellious. This is exactly what happens with the main character, Sam, in Malie Meloy’s short story, “Red from Green”. The story revolves around fifteen year old Sam. Sam is a typical teenage girl, insecure and fragile. This show in the following quote from the text: She was akward at fifteen, and praise made her suspicious. This also tells us that she is not very confident about herself, and she does not believe it when people compliment her. Sam goes through a huge personal development during the float trip. When she goes shooting with Layton, he gives her an attention she has never experienced before. As a fifteen year old girl, this is probably the first time a man ever lays eyes on her, and finds her attractive. This makes her feel a sexual desire for the first time in her life. This can be seen in the following quotation: When Layton came through the trees she knew that she’d wanted him to show up, though she hadn’t known...
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...In William Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet, focuses on the deaths of the two teens, Romeo and Juliet. Poor mentorship grouped with fate and the anatomy of the teenage brain are most responsible for the deaths of the young lovers, demonstrating that when teenagers make poor decisions, it is not entirely their own faults. The first factor affecting the two deaths is poor mentorship. The main adult in who supported the love of Romeo and Juliet’s throughout the story was Friar Lawrence. The reason the Friar was a poor mentor for the teens is because he did not take a stand against the two kids, even though he knew they were making a wrong decision. The Friar gives advice to Romeo by saying, “These violent delights have violent...
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...of How I Met My Husband ENG 125 May 24, 2014 The features of a short story give structure to the storyline providing a fictional narrative of real life situations. How features are utilized in storytelling can contribute to how the reader is affected by the story and the overall understanding behind the story. Point of view and symbols are features that contribute significantly to the overall theme in How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro. An event in Edie’s life as a young teenage girls helps to shape her understanding of finding love in an unexpected manner. Edie first begins to experience life away from her family structure and norms when she is sent to live with and work for the Peebles. This is her first experience with things she is unfamiliar with, but yet curious enough to explore when she explains “the only thing I did not like about working there, in fact was feeling half hungry a lot of the time (Clugston, 2010 para 25). Edie solved this problem by hiding food under her bed. The story is told in first person point of view which contributes to Edie telling the intimate details of how her experience led to how she met her husband. While the story does not give you much insight into how the other characters in the story felt about Edie’s experience, it does invite you into how Edie was affected by her interactions with the characters as she matures throughout the story. The story opens up with a description of the first symbol, a shiny plane arriving on a...
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...one of the daughters smoking a cigarette. He struggles with the situation. As a parent he would like his daughter to toss the cigarette and be his little girl again. This party gets them both thinking about their youth, and therefore they decide to leave. Unfortunately their car is stuck and they have to go back for help. They are confronting their daughters without any problems, and the girls help them collect money to get the car free. 2. Roger Hedlund is a farmer and lives with his wife and two teenage daughters. He has a good relationship to his wife and he loves her very much. You see that clearly on page 12; line 149-150 where he kisses her neck and goes to sleep full of love. He seems like a parent struggling with the fact that his daughters are growing up. He goes through a process in his life. In the beginning he is being a father with clear principals, for example this shows on page 1, line 3 where he had laid down the law, animals stay outdoors. But throughout the story he simply gives up. He thinks the role of being a good father figure is too much to handle, when his daughters are throwing a big party. You can see that on page 3; line 91 where he says “I’m getting tired of being a dad.” The girls do exactly what they want, and who is he to stop them when he as well, did the same things when he was young. Instead of confronting his daughters, he then gives up being a proper father. 3. Roger Hedlund’s philosophy of life could be a sign of having too much to...
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