Kick Ass: The Hero’s Journey “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” Joseph Campbell was the author who identified the concept of the hero’s journey. This quote can be interpreted as meaning that when hard times are forced upon people, people are often forced to look within themselves and find the strength to power through it all. In the movie Kick Ass, released on June 7th 2010, Dave Lizewski is a teenage boy whose story exemplifies this idea perfectly. Lizewski was nothing more than a social misfit hiding from the brutality of high school in his world of comic books and superheroes. Living in an impoverish and crime filled city, he learns early on that, since he’s not a tough kid, the safest thing to do is be invisible and back down from any sort of trouble without asking questions.
The Butterfly Effect The Butterfly Effect was a science fiction psychological thriller full of suspense and excitement until the ending. The title of the movie acknowledges the chaos theory which is a theory that states that a small thing such a butterfly flapping its wings here can cause something catastrophic to occur in Africa. In the movie starring Ashton Kutcher as Evan, who suffered a traumatic childhood filled with blackouts that caused him to lose certain memories. Evan discovers that he has the ability to travel back in time and change his past, which than changes his present. Having had such a traumatic childhood filled with sexual abuse and tragedy he decides to change everything to make it right for him and all of his friends whose lives were also filled with tragedy.
Transitions are a complex process involving unique challenges which may lead to an overall enrichment or growth to the individual. Steven Herrick’s The Simple Gift follows a boy’s mission leaving home at 16 because of an abusive alcoholic father, looking to better his meaning in life. Similarly, In Li Cunxin’s The Peasant Prince explores a boy’s transition from poverty to fame, but his successful career doesn’t satisfy him until he is reunited with his family. Both transitions amplify to the responder how the challenges in transition create growth and development to the individual. As an alternative to challenges in dysfunctional relationships, individuals may seek escape, leading to an active step towards transition.
Escaping The Ascent, the 2009 short story by Ron Rash, is the devastating story of an eleven-year-old, Jared, who loves to imagine new adventures to get away from the real world. While reading Rash’s story, readers will vividly experience the emotional and psychological effects experienced by Jared due to his parents’ life style. For this reason, he always tries to escape to a better, utopic world with the help of his imagination. Ron Rash’s story is a vivid example of dystopian literature, wherein the protagonist is always trying to escape to a greater world; the escapism is seen not only in Jared, the protagonist, but also in the story’s other characters, Jared’s mom and dad. It is not easy to deal with the social and familiar problems encountered by the members of a drug abusive family, but for a non-abuser that is part of an addicted family, it is worse.
Zits is a young foster kid who is strange, rebellious and curious all at the same time. Within his mind, he travels through time, making stops in the bodies of different men and , falling into their different conflicts, which shows his vast imagination. Even though Zits goes through physical changes, the biggest changes were mental. Zits travels into the bodies of men from different time periods. In each body he enters, he seems to learn a new way of seeing or a different interpretation on life, history and even simple judgment.
The techniques used within these texts are a demonstration of the characters moving ‘into the world’. When people embark on new experiences, the beginning of their journey is always the most complex as many have a tendency to succumb to fear. In the novel, ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’, Tom, the protagonist, has an issue with coming to terms with the forced move that his family has suddenly made; from his hometown
I Comparison/Contrast Essay As kids, different situations and values learned shape us differently. As shown in the autobiography excerpts “Always Running” by Luis Rodriguez and “An American Childhood” by Ann Dillard, there are similarities and differences in which the kids in the stories grow up to remember passionately due to the situation they had found themselves in. Both kids are running from either an older figure or an authority figure. The essays contrast in that one has a negative ending leaving the character with a bad memory and the other story has a lighter happier ending despite the struggle while running away and to figure out what was going to happen to her, which at the end she finds herself happy and exhilarated. Different locations, different social status.
In this book, Carlson tells of her trials and tribulations raising her bipolar son Ben, and there are many incredible challenges. At age 14, just when Ben is perceived as “stable” on his lithium, and his Prozac, he kills himself. Carlson details her viewpoint on suicide prevention; and it is insightful. She proposes age-appropriate self-tests and workbooks that allow a child to answer questions regarding his/her state of mind. She emphasizes the need for schools to extend the hearing and vision testing in the schools to expand into this realm of testing.
He concludes that there should be a limit for how far one can go, when you are making reality TV show. Mr. Sam Mettler, Intervention’s creator says that it is not easy to show the reality on TV, sometimes he has to come forward and stop someone for hurting themselves like crack addicted or alcoholics. He adds that he can cross the line if someone is putting someone else in immediate danger, but it is very delicate balance. 161 words Outline Text 2: “When reality TV gets too real” is written by Jeremy W peters. The text is focusing on whether it’s the television station and the team behind the cameras that have the responsible for actions the participants may do to themselves or others such as a crime, while participating on the show.
With the same manner of complaining and clenching of teeth, we are doing now with the current teenagers. These technologies alter lives, entirely. However, it is a generational thing (Valkenburg, Peter, & Schouten, 2006). Let us begin with question one, is the technology affecting teenager's physical and mental health? The physical and mental effects on teenagers through technology are causing concerns for many parents and experts.