people want to make friends‚ and “up” their popularity status‚ they are nice to others. In high school‚ it seems that girls do this the opposite way‚ and are mean to one another in order to bond with friends and become more popular. This paper will discuss reasons why adolescent girls tend to put down others‚ rather than be nice and respectful. It seems that the number of mean girls are increasing every year‚ and high school seems to be a connection. Schools all around the country are dealing with
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Did you know that Mean Girls was inspired by a self-help book for parents? The marijuana the kids smoke in The Breakfast Club was actually oregano. Did you know Tina‚ the llama from Napoleon Dynamite actually belonged to director and co-writer Jared Hess’s mother? There is a wide variety of high school movies‚ each having their own story. The ten high school movies listed in this paper each made this list for their different content. Mean Girls is a high school based comedy movie created in 2004
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Thinking Monstrosity and Celebrity Culture in Mean Girls Mean Girls‚ written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters‚ takes its viewers through high school from the perspective of Cady Heron‚ a young girl who never known what “high school” genuinely meant. Upon arrival‚ she makes friends with Janis and Damian‚ who were in the stereotypical “unpopular” crowd. They warn her to stay away from “The Plastics”‚ an exclusive clique that includes three drama-filled girls who are superficial‚ spiteful‚ and have
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Kelsey Youell Research paper Mean Girls and its sociological structure Sociology is everywhere we look‚ it is everything we are‚ and can be describe with everything we do. Mean girls is a very popular movie in today’s society. It seems as though people of all gender‚ sex‚ age‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ and class has seen this movie and can relate to some aspect of it. Mean girls portrays the rough life of high school and the many cliques it has in place. It shows the many challenges students and teachers
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Title:Mean Girls Director: Type: Movie Genre: social realism‚ American teen The scandalous lives of a teenager was accurately portrayed throughout the movie ‘Mean Girls’ directed by: Mark Waters. The story follows a teenage girl named Cady Heron as she is starting her first day at high school after being home schooled in Africa for most of her life. Cady learns about the ins and outs of high school life and the cliques that are found throughout the school with the help of her two new friends
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Mean Girls‚ a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters‚ with the screenplay written by Tina Fey‚ describes how female high school social cliques operate and the effect they can have on girls. The two main characters in this movie‚ Cady Heron and Regina George‚ may have a world of differences between them‚ but they are also very much alike. They are alike in the way they deal with situations‚ but unalike in the way they handle the consequences of those actions. Throughout the movie‚
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is a Paramount Pictures presentation titled Mean Girls‚ starring Lindsay Lohan and also featuring a handful of Saturday Night Live cast members‚ including Tina Fey the author of this picture. The reason behind choosing this film is because it has a unique style of introducing characters‚ transitioning between scenes‚ and various tools to help spice up the film. Being one of my personal favorites‚ Mean Girls is a comedy about a home schooled teenage girl who enters high school for the first time.
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almost a decade since the classic teen movie "Mean Girls" hit the silver screen and this 30th of April 2014 would mark its 10th anniversary. The film has become iconic for its amazing comedic screenplay‚ written by the talented Tina Fey and its realistic portrayal of high school drama. From backstabbing popular girls to the art-nerd revenge‚ Mean Girls characters has surely taught female movie-watchers few important life lessons about high school‚ girl world and womanhood in today’s society (Cills
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TM Mrs. Rosen AP Psychology May 23‚ 2014 Mean Girls Paper Cady Heron moves to a new home from the Africa. She goes to a new school where she meets Janis and Damian. Her new friends warn her to stay away from the “Plastics”‚ a group of girls who are popular and cruel. Their group is headed by‚ Regina George with Gretchen and Karen. When Cady sees Aaron Samuels‚ she falls in love. When Regina discovers this‚ she seeks revenge by getting back with Aaron and dangling him in front of her
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through films you can see many sociological themes. I chose to look at “Mean Girls” and pull the sociological themes out. Mean Girls is a movie about a girl‚ Cady‚ who moves to the US from Africa and starts at a new school. She immediately befriends two outcasts‚ who explain the school ’s social scene. There are a group of three girls (the “Plastics”) who are popular‚ malicious and rule the school. As a trick‚ these three girls befriend Cady. Her outcast friends encourage her to hang out with the
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