Grease: You're the One that I Want! Essays

story happening on a sinking ship and an unparalleled success in the cinema, with 11 Oscar rewards won and countless nominations. It is a very expensive film to be made, and the first film to break the billion box office record. As I revisited this film, once again I was truly touched by the star-crossed lovers and the humanity in front of a disaster. Indeed, the world was moved by Titanic. It is considered to be the movie that ‘make men cry’. As Andrew L. Urban of Urban Cinefile said, You will

Sandy Olsson exchanging her goodbyes with her summer love, Danny Zuko. The opening scene of Grease may seem [depressing] but it sets up for one of the most interesting love stories put to film. Grease is a movie with great musical numbers accompanied with wonderfully executed dance routines and an unforgettable plot. Although there are questionable incidents throughout, it will always be classic. Grease is a romantic-comedy-musical, set in the 50’s, telling the story of two summer sweethearts who

makes him vulnerable to seizures. One of the main struggles that Arnold faces in this novel is between his part-time Indian WellPoint self (Junior) and his half-white Reardan self (Arnold). On the reservation he is intimidated and picked on, while at Reardan he receives respect and chooses to be somebody. In this novel Sherman Alexie challenges stereotypical representations of ‘indianness’. In this essay I am going

The movie Grease has many great elements that assisted its success. Grease is a teen movie focused on the love story between Danny and Sandy. During the course of the movie Sandy and Danny experience a rough relationship. Danny has a hard time dealing with his friends and his new relationship. Sandy on the other hand goes through a more significant journey. She deals with not fitting in with Danny’s friend because they are so different from her, so to make herself fit in with his friends she makes

armour, sweet and able to provide, whilst a woman is passive, submissive and overly attached. Both friend groups also convey society’s message of gender roles in this song. This is proven when Danny’s friends want him to answer the question “did you get very far?”, whilst Sandy’s friends want her to “tell me more, like does he have a car?’ This isn’t the only incident in the song like this, as it continues to “how much dough did he spend?” and “could she get me a friend?”. These lyrics heavily demonstrate

Picture a usual day of high school in 2016. Brick walls filled with jocks, beauty queens, nerds, the popular ones, and other stereotypical groups of people separating themselves from the others. Now picture high school in the 1950’s, when blacks and whites were separated by schools because one race seemed to overpower the other, which can be demonstrated by the movie Grease. Randal Kleiser, the director, chose to have an all-white cast to portray a 1950’s setting. Many viewers are aware that this

The holiday season is here and whether you’re at the office party or spending time with your family, there’s usually a lot of drinking involved. (Sometimes a lot more with family.) Here’s some practical advice you can use to avoid getting a hangover as you navigate your way through all the holiday parties. Hydration is important to staying healthy and helping your body perform at it’s peak. However, there’s a common myth we’ve all heard that all you have to do to avoid a hangover is drink lots of

jumped near the beginning of the story, which caused to be afraid and have fear. It also taught him to be cautious. Johnny says, (through chattering teeth) “Hey Pony, it’s, it’s that guy with the rings man.” (44) The Soc with the rings (Bob) was the one who jumped Johnny and cut him up real bad. So Johnny wanted to get revenge. While they were drowning Ponyboy,

steal medicine from the hospital for his family. It reads, “The lights in Batalla Hall are cold and fluorescent. I dress in a bathroom on the observation and analysis floor. I’m wearing long black sleeves inside a striped black vest, slender black

Carlos’ Outsiders Essay When you change the way you look at something the things you look at change, to give you a wider perspective of what you see. Ponyboy Curtis learns this the hard way. One theme in The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is that as people grow up experiences force them to see life in different perspectives and look beyond their bias. This essay will demonstrate how Ponyboy’s point of view changes throughout the book. You first start to see a slight change in Ponyboy’s point of view when

enjoyed working with young people. I am a lover of knowledge and love to learn new things all the time. It’s just something exciting for me, so I love to kind of share that with my students.” Surprisingly, she didn’t always want to be a teacher stating, “When I was in high school I didn’t want to be a teacher. I thought it wasn’t going to be my thing, I wanted to study

wanted to do was monitor the family planning practices of couples at Heritage Woods. William didn’t want to come right out and say it, but he hoped to God that the farmhands were using condoms. More mouths to feed on the estate promised to strain the finite resources the community produced. The community stemmed the influx of new farmhands, which meant the only new mouths to feed were newborn infants. “I don’t see how limiting access to Redwood is going to stop condom use in Heritage Woods. They’re

gun and some money. This is one of the very few unselfish acts Dally commits in the novel, aside from that there is another example when dally goes into the blazing church. "What for?" Dally sounded irritated. "Get back in here before I beat your head in”(77). Dally doesn't go into the church immediately. He follows after Johnny. Dally would risk his life for people that he doesn't know, as he has no connection to them. When we look closer into both situations, there is one equal factor, Johnny. At

beginning of the book it had Ponyboy starting out alone walking out of the movies. When he was walking home the Soc pulled up and started to harass him and beat him up. It is clear to the reader that the Soc hate the greasers when one of them says, "’Hey, grease,’ one said in an over-friendly voice. ‘We're gonna do you a favor, greaser. We're gonna cut all that long greasy hair off’" (Hinton 5). Then the other Greasers came to his rescue and scared away the Soc. The beginning of the movie started

to sunsets, cars, and even gold. In the book, Ponyboy loves sunsets, but he didn’t know anyone else who did. However, one day, he ends up meeting someone from a rival

Alma waved her hands across her face. "Earth to Jess." She flicked the hands away and sighed again. "Jess, don't tell me you've got all mopey again." Alma grumbled. "You're dating the hottest guy in college, your grades are amazing and everybody loves you. Face it Jessica, your life is perfect." Jessica faced Alma, pouting. "Maybe you're right." She said, but her mind was still daydreaming. Alma rolled her eyes and said she was going to class. Jessica waved her goodbye and then sat for a while, lost

You’ll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we’ll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn’t do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn’t prove a thing. We’ll forget it if you win, or if you don’t. Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs.” The quote is significant by connecting to an Essential question because it describes the difficult situation of the Greases, and the hopelessness of the fighting. Randy has decided to leave town instead of

is damaging your body because of all the unhealthy calories and salt that is causing obesity in America . I had one very important question about Mcdonald’s and that would be “ What is the food doing to our body?” Now of course the obvious answer most people would say is “ its making us fat” ( or not )well it might be doing a bit more. The Big Mac for example, there most popular burger is one of the most high calorie items on there menu. High Calorie items usually don't have many nutrients. Nutrients

with their fellow soldiers create a relationship with each other greater than a friendship, almost like love. It’s called brotherhood. A soldier’s brothers are people they can spend time with not during combat. They are there for each other when no one else is. This benefits the soldiers because their brothers they make memories with and they make each other feel better. The bonds created in the war affect soldiers because during the war the create a brotherhood with their fellow soldiers and create

there was no sign of the man who woke her. “Good afternoon, Mizz Charlotte. I’m sorry, I’d laid down for a minute with the baby, and I guess I fell asleep.” Charlotte stared at her, then kept pacing. “I have to talk to someone, you’re the only one who might understand. We’re about the same age aren’t we? We’re both from the north, and really that is much more than I have in common with anyone else around here.” Jeanne looked around again. This was the second time they had exchanged words. Charlotte