Rationale: This Written Task will explore the exaggerated speech of stereotypical girls in movies. It will look at Mean Girls in particular‚ as the three main popular girls are known for their exaggerated speech It is very common how movies stereotype girls as popular and dumb especially in ‘Mean Girls’ there are three girls who think they are the smartest girls in high school just because they are popular but when it comes to them speaking well your jaws will drop. “So if you are from Africa
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evident in Mean Girls and Destroying Avalon. The popular kids are known to us as the ‘A group’ from the novel and as the ‘Plastics’ from the movie. To begin with‚ the people from the Plastics and the A group are represented in both texts as the cliché or stereotypical bunch of popular people. By saying this‚ it is being implied that they demonstrate the hackneyed qualities of people with popularity. Both groups are stereotypically shown as being judgemental‚ two – faced‚ superficial‚ mean and exclusive
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or if I want my child to succeed then I must feed them Subway. This is far from the truth. Furthermore‚ with the popularity fallacy they say that all it has people believe that all athletes are doing it so why shouldn’t I eat Subway? In the movie Mean Girls they do use the poisoning the well fallacy‚ but this is not an advertisement. With the Pedigree dog food commercial it does use appeal to pity by using the dogs that look so sad. However‚ they do help these dogs‚
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Mean Girls is one of the most watched movies in today’s society. It seems as though people of all gender‚ sex‚ age‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ class have seen this movie and can relate to some aspect of it. A brutal portrayal of high school cliques‚ Mean Girls depicts everyday high school struggles for students and teachers. The popular group of girls‚ referred to as the "Plastics"‚ control every aspect of the school by using their good looks‚ money‚ popularity‚ and power. They are middle class white girls
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In the movie Mean Girls‚ the main characters are three girls that are labeled as The Plastics‚ who basically run the school. The leader of which is Regina George who bosses the other girls around a lot and. The new student Cady then joins the group and we see how the group slowly pulls her into their way of thought. Since Mean Girls main characters are in a ‘group’ setting the majority of the time‚ symptoms of Groupthink are portrayed several times throughout the movie. Groupthink occurs when a
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Text Analysis In the popular movie Mean Girls‚ Lindsay Lohan plays a confused teenager struggling her way through high school hierarchy. Her character‚ Cady‚ is a transfer student that finds herself in a place where everyone is categorized in some kind of group‚ whether it be jocks‚ art freaks‚ or something else. Some of the cliques were seen as more powerful than others‚ but each had some kind of reputation. The movie can be analyzed in the Marxist perspective‚ wherein the text shows who is
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Mean Girls follows the journey of Cady becoming part of the Plastics. This is all influenced by George Herbert Mead’s theories that perceptions of others and their approval influence what people make their identity or better known as the Social Self Theory (Julianne‚ Para 7). One example of the Social Self Theory is when Cady begins to dress similar to the Plastics by wearing pink‚ but hers is a men’s t-shirt while they have dressy pink clothes on (Julianne‚ Para 6). Through the film we can tell
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movie Mean Girls talks about a girl who is called Cady Heron used to accept home education. Cady used to live in Africa for twelve years because her parents are zoologists. Now‚ she has to go to high school because her mother becomes a lifetime professor of a university. Cady makes two friends called Damian and Janis. They tell the rules of the high school to Cady. Also‚ they introduce “the Plastics” to Cady. The Plastics‚ which is represented attractive and beautiful‚ is a union of three girls. Karen
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on belonging‚ as understood from Steven Herrick’s the Simple Gift: - It is the similar needs & desires (e.g. love‚ happiness) of Caitlin‚ Billy & Old Bill that draw them together to create their sense of belonging - The recurring symbol of "gift" signifies both giving and receiving‚ which are both aspects of belonging (as seen in marriages‚ when both partners give & receive and therefore find belonging together) - The Simple Gift explores the idea of identity‚ particularly as Caitlin
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Joanna’s and Jane’s lifestyles. The Girls of Slender Means by Murial Spark is a novel about the girls who lived in the May of Teck Club during the year of 1945. There are many characters involved‚ but the one’s who caught my attention the most are Jane Wright and Joanna Childe. They represent different aspects of ideas‚ lifestyles and‚ also‚ have different perspectives on the “World of Books.” Joanna Childe was the daughter of a country rector
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