“Mean Girls” Behavioral Analysis The movie “Mean Girls”‚ featuring Lindsay Lohan and Tina Fey‚ is a comedic film about a girl in high school who has to deal with all the problems‚ pressures‚ and choices of growing up in American society in comparison to that of being homeschooled in Africa. This motion picture was the perfect platform for showcasing various types of behavioral psychology. When Cady first moves from Africa to attend a public school she is a nice‚ innocent‚ respectful teenage girl
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Mean Girls is like the modern version of Julius Caesar. There are many connections between the two stories. High school is a good portrayal of the jealousy‚ backstabbing‚ and betrayal that is found in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Regina George is Julius Caesar in Mean Girls. She is the leader that was feared to become too powerful or too popular. Regina was both loved and feared by the high school like Caesar. Then Regina was plotted against to ruin her reputation and taken down by Brutus and Cassius
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Teen films and TV shows often follow same the conventions though depicting a popular girl who breaks up with a jock‚ which flows the jock falling in love with the outsider. In this genre the shows and movies shallow but they are a genre which teenagers can relate to. The movie Mean Girls‚ and the television shows Gossip Girl‚ and One Tree Hill‚ all follow the conventions of the teen genre while reflecting situations which teenagers face on a regular basis. Although teen movies and TV shows follow
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Similarities of Mean girls and Speak High school can be a great experience or a terrible one. Some people come in and pass all of their classes in flying colours and have a lot a lot friends‚ others however come in and fail all of their classes and are an outcast because they have a hard time with it. In the movie mean girls and the novel speak the main characters have about the same experience. The stories even are parallel to each other. The three main similarities of Mean Girls and Speak are
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The Myth Of Mean Girls The writers‚ Mike Males and Meda-Chesney Lind both have enough information and facts to discuss the issue of the “Mean Girls” epidemic.Males and Lind use an argumentative tone in this article‚ they are stating that critics most of the time label girls as “mean” or “bullies” (Males and Lind 105). The columnists provide plenty of facts stating that it is not fair to blame most of the cyber bullying and violence on girls. Everyone who participates in these wrongdoings should
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After watching the clips from Mean Girls and the related video presented in class‚ along with the article "High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies" by David Denby‚ p. 366‚ I believe that genre films reflect reality. All the scenes in genre films took place in high school‚ where presented many types of people such as the jocks sport‚ the nerd‚ the gangsters‚ the mean girls‚ the pretty girls‚ the prom queens‚ the ugly girls‚ the rich kids‚ and the slackers. Because of the presence of these people
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of belonging. As there are many other situations the broad topic can stimulate. Throughout this task I have explained and analyzed three texts with the concepts of belonging. Relating them to connections between the texts. My related texts being ’Mean girls’ a movie by Tina Fey and Tim Meadows‚ The Lyrics ’I still call Australia home’ by Peter Allen‚ and a photograph by an unknown artist.
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Julius Caesar Film vs Mean Girls Julius Caesar is an extremely old and extremely famous play written by William Shakespeare around 1599. Shakespeare’s plays are reflected in many movies and stories now a days and Julius Caesar is to famous that they even made thrice movies for the story. A movie that reflects the story of Julius Caesar is Mean Girls and it reflects the movie in many aspects you could think of‚ even though they do have some differences because the story slightly changes
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movie mean girls as an example of social identity theory. There are different clips in the movie that show S.I.T. the main character in this movie is a girl named Cady. She was homeschooled in Africa by her parents‚ her parents decide to move to Illinois‚ and she finally gets the experience of going to a public school‚ she notices that popularity divides a lot of the students into little cliques. There is one group in particular that are called the plastics‚ these are the most popular girls in the
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the immature drama. Tina Fey’s Mean Girls is an accurate portrayal of how rough high school can be‚ and more specifically how horrible teenage girls can be. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan)‚ a "home schooled jungle freak" recently moved from the jungles of Africa to a city in America ready to start her first year at a public high school. Cady is immediately thrown into the world of cliques‚ make up and girl fights. Regina George ( Rachel McAdams) plays the role of the girl everyone in high school is all
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