High School Life

Robert Revilla Mr. Osman English 35 31127 March 17, 2013 The Past and Present of Teenagers withdraw any juvenileager right away and they go out tell you that they argon zip fastener like their conjures, that their parents just dont understand them. This may be true and this may be false, it just depends on how you look at it. Teenagers of the Rebel Without a have got, meaning the parents of todays teens, did face a lot of the comparable problems and issues that we at at one time face. Yet I am left over(p) thinking did the prehistorical times teens face exclusively the identical problems at the same time as we do and were some of their problems non as some(prenominal) of a problem as it is to us.Teens from the past and inaugurate are face up with problems such as school, relationships, and friends. There were many teenage problems hindquarters past in Rebel Without a Cause and todays teenagers. near of these problems that Jim Stark and the other teens faced were alike, but my own belief is that these same problems were non as big of problem back when they were growing up. allows take school and homework for example, oh sure your parents had it too but I just dont believe that there was as much pressure upon them to get ethical grades. Also, get into a good college as there is for us.And of play with the knowledge that college is right around the ecological niche most teens also need to work. They need to save money for college, or a car, or to steel the girl/boy of their dreams happy by taking them out on dates once in a while. Plus, all this pressure and work can build up for a teen and to most of us it happen uponms like we never have a candidate to just relax and hang out with friends any more. It relates to the movie because some of the teens do not care about homework or exit to school. The crusade is that was back then it was easy to get a job by only having a high school diploma with no college education.But, now in our te en lives it is hard to get a job with a high school diploma. Another thing that is different from the past from the limn is the fashion that students wear. In the past, boys wear plain regular clothes and the aplomb guys always wear menacing jackets or blazers. It is similar like what a gang member usually wears right now. Except the gangs have their quaggy pants or shorts and show their boxers in black or white. It is weird how those kind of guys like to show-off their boxers or underwear. For the girls in the past, they all more often than not put on dresses. Now girls mostly wear skirts or short shorts.Plus, girls always try to put on the sexiest clothes to wear because to get all the attention and be popular. alike in the movie, Jim Stark wears different clothes from his classmates. The rea parole is that he go to a lot of different high schools because he never do any friends and doesnt fit in with the other teens. Also, in all high school he went to the teens called J im, Chicken. Why he is called that because the teenagers see him acting like a chicken, when Jim does not want to get into trouble. I think back then music for teens like, Rebel Without a Cause, probably listened to rock and roll.But now teens prefer rapping and hip hop music. Its interesting how music has changed so much in the past because teens love to get crazy on rock and roll. I wonder how teens will react if music never came to rock and roll. Probably teens will make their own music or have to try out their parents music, which were more hip hop and dance music. Now teens today have a mix of genres they like to listen. Most teens in the evince relate their music to their emotions. The rea intelligence is because they must have some problems in their lives and music helps teens release stress.Plus, I am sure that it happens to the teens in the past except not big problems compare to our teen years. I take care Jim Stark and his classmates love to listen to rock and roll. Eve n though it does not show in the movie that they played rock and roll, but back then there was a lot of rock and roll. The teens in the primeval years prefer rock and roll because it was something they can be themselves with their friends. sometimes parents cannot stand their teens music and tells them to turn it off or take it away from them. It is weird how in the movie, it shows parents like Jims parents how they do not care about his school issues.For instance, when Jims classmates call him chicken, he tells them to stop and be angry to his parents. Then Jims parents decide to belong somewhere else again, which happen several times. Jim does not want that because he thinks it is going to happen all over again. So, basically Jims parents do not really help him and his life that much. But comparing to todays teens, Jims parents and other parents show more concern for each of their son/daughters education to make them successful in life. I can see that every year new parents lear n from their past seeing their mom and dad on how they take care of their son or daughter.Then later on the new parents learn from their parents mistakes and become a better parent. There are things that are similar between our time and the movie, Rebel Without a Cause. One is that teens detest doing homework and waking up early for school. Teens in the past and present struggle with their emotions like in relationships or family issues. Jim shows his emotions to his parents in the movie. He tells them how he feels every time when he transfers to a new school and he is not good at making any relationships or friends.The principal(prenominal) reason is everyone calls him chicken because he is different from his classmates and they think he is triskaidekaphobic of them. I just want to say that I am not saying that teenagers of the past did not have their own problems, but of course they did, every single teen alive faces problems that they think is hard and that their total world is crumbling down around them well at least once in a while. But now that they have grown up and turned into the parents of todays teenagers I feel that they put more pressure upon their own teenage child in order for them to strive more than they were able to.A common expression is, My parents are so strict, overprotective, or too involved in my life, because they dont want me making the same mistakes they did when they were my age but they need to trust me and just word of farewell me alone. And that expression can sometimes is kind of true. But all in all I feel that our parents do understand what we, as teenagers, are going through because they did face the same problems that we face today, but peradventure with just a little less pressure.