Intertextual connection of Ferris Bueller

1.) In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris fakes sick and then sneaks out of the house to do whatever he really feels like. He is an icon at school and in the community who everyone loves and thinks is perfect at whatever he tries and is the pinnacle of excellence. His best friend is shy and tries to hold Ferris back from doing the crazy things he does to no avail.
2.) The connection we made was to the movie Van Wilder. In the movie Van is in his 8th year of college and has no plans to ever get out. His father decides to stop paying for his tuition and that his son has become a complete failure. Van doesn't want to leave so he tries to raise money by planning parties, in the end someone sets him up to be expelled, however at his hearing he persuades the panel to allow him to leave, but graduate.
3.)The connection between the two of these movies is that the main character is an icon in his community and school and inspires a lot of people even though they really don't know what to do with their lives. They both have best friends who are largely submissive until the end of the movie where they come out and take a stand. In Van Wilder this is Taj when he figures out that Van can appeal his expulsion and in Ferris Bueller it's Cameron when he decides to take the blame for ruining his dad's Ferrari.
4.) Having this connection really allowed me to see how sometimes being the cool guy is great, but sometimes it's really awful, at some point when you need to move on in life no matter how much you love where you are or how much people love you where you are. This is evident in both movies where Ferris realizes that his run of high school is coming to an end and when Van is forced to realize his run is college is over. This is important to see in real life and here at memorial it is often seen with sports. Many people who play sports in high school and that are really good feel that's life, and it's not. They get out and realize that high school isn't real life and they flounder.

A Moral Look on House

The show House brings up many different moral and ethical dilemmas in the way Dr. House practices medicine. He rarely actually sees patients and when he does he doesn't show any real care into their problems, he just looks at each patient as a biological problem that needs solving. When dealing with patients he does some pretty unethical things in the eyes of modern medicine. When treating a woman who has come in with unexplainable symptoms, he treats her based only on his judgements without any clear prognosis to back him up. In the end he figures out what is really causing her problems, in this case a tape worm in her brain, and treats her accordingly. Dr. House also has a problem with prescription pain killers and uses his power as a doctor to feed this addiction. In this first episode he sees a patient who he suspects is an addict and is taking about things such as fibromyalgia, he is really just looking for pain pills so house goes to the pharmacy and fills a prescription for vicadon which he pours in his pocket, then he fills the container with candy and gives it to the man. All in all Dr. House's antics are unusual and sometimes very unethical, but he is one hell of a good doctor and solves mysteries many others fail to. If i were to be a fictional character in a medical show, I would want Greg House to be my doctor.

There Will Come Soft Rains

In this short story by Ray Bradbury, the world is a much different distopian version of it's current self. When he was writing this in 1950, his setting of August 2026 was very futuristic. There are no characters in his story really, just a house with artificial intelligence. All of it's occupants are gone while the house continues on with daily life. If I had to relate this to a moral I would connect it to nuclear weapons. This story was written shortly after the second world war came to an end and the cold war was just taking off. Bradbury wrote this to illistrate the possible effects of a nuclear attack and how the advanced world of 76 years ahead of his time would be affected. The lack of characters is a point in itself, everyone is dead, and this would scare people during the time it was published.

#2 My moral philosopy

My moral philosophy is simple, be a contributing member to society, keep out of trouble and if your morals are different from mine that's none of my business. I have my values to study yet have fun, be social and smart, but if others want to be super smart and nerdy that's fine with me, if some people want to never do anything and party all the time, that's their choice. My values are to take care of myself and help others take care of themselves. Summed up into one sentence my business is none of your business and your business is none of my business.

Now that being said, there are times when I've had to learn lessons the hard way. In my relationships I got stuck trying to take care of an ex girlfriend who had some deep issues. I thought I could fix her and I spent a lot of time trying to. However, after wasting a lot of time, nothing changed, so I had to give up and walk away. In the end people can't change people, people have to change themselves. Nothing can make someone change if they don't want to so it's not worth the time if they don't want it too.

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In both Fantastic Mr. Fox and Into the Wild the desire for adventure and a deep need for change from monotonous life was a driving factor in why the characters did what they did. Both characters cannot stand the everyday get up, go to work, come home routine of normal life and from that, both get into trouble in the pursuit of adventure.

Chris Mccandless in Into the Wild didn't even want to go to college, however his parents wouldn't allow that and he went into pre-law. I don't believe he ever intended to become a lawyer. When he was in high school he would go to the bad parts of town on Friday nights and try to help people. He had deep psychological problems with society and didn't really fit in. So once he had completed his undergrad, he donated his money to charity and took off on the road to nowhere. After exploring most of the continental US, he wanted to go to the final frontier of adventure this country has to offer, Alaska. After rail hopping and hitchhiking his way across Canada he wandered off into the wilderness never to be seen alive again.

On the other hand Mr. Fox also got himself into trouble because he was bored with his office life as a reporter, one he adopted once getting married. He yearned for the life he used to know as a thief. When his nephew came and reminded him of his younger self, he decided to give it another shot. He lies to his family and sneaks out at night returning home with goods of various kinds. However, when the big three farmers in town figure out that he is the one raiding their farms, they go on the offensive. This leads to his family finding out, and the entire city of animals being forced to hide underground with no food.

In both of these stories the characters wish for something more than mundane daily life. They desire adventure and excitement in their lives and do things in the pursuit of this adventure that ultimately get them in a log of trouble. In Chris's case, he ended up starving to death in the Alaskan wilderness, Mr. Fox's case, homeless with a very angry town. Everyone desires adventure in some way, it's just how we manage the risks taken to achieve this excitement. When the risks are too great it's just not worth it.