Long Vu / November 17‚ 2012 / Women Studies / Sally Winkle / Film Analysis Mean Girls In Mean Girls‚ the main character is Lindsay Lohan who plays the role of a 15 year old high school student‚ Cady Heron. Cady is The 15-year-old‚ Africa-raised high school girl begins her high school life by learning what it’s like to be a normal girl by making friends and talking about other classmates. The first thing the students thought when they heard there was a new transfer student in class from Africa
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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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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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I’ve seen it all. This is why the movie “Mean Girls” directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey was a perfect choice for my independent study. I’m going to be talking about how cliques define you‚ how friends betray you‚ and how you can easily change yourself to fit in with a group though it may not be your smartest idea. The movie “mean girls” is an accurate portrayal of how rough high school can be‚ and more specifically how horrible teenage girls can be. Cady Heron played by Lindsay Lohan
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“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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Tamara Mino Dr. Trier SYG 2000 September 19‚ 2014 Mean Girls Goffman’s theory says that Impression Management is the effort to control or influence the perceptions of other people. Based on what I watched in the film‚ I can conclude that this theory is reflected in most of the characters of the film because people can see how each of them try to control or influence other people. A clear example of this was when The Plastics had a three way conversation on the phone with Cady and they all
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Mean girls was directed by Mark S. Waters and was released by Paramount Pictures in 2004. This movie is one of the better teen comedies I have watched. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who is going to high school for the first time‚ after being home schooled for her entire life. Cady’s first friends are Janis Ian and Damien‚ school outcasts. Janis and Damien warn Cady about the Plastics‚ the snobby popular girls consisting of Regina George (Rachel McAdams)‚ Gretchen Weiners (Lacey
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An Examination of Cultural Norms and the Science of Fitting as seen in “Mean Girls” The movie “Mean Girls” follows the story of a high school age girl who comes from a homeschooled background and is suddenly thrown into a typical American high school social environment. Her adjustment to this transition is shown through a story arc that chronicles her attempts to gain her peers’ approval. The way in which she attempts to do so is by consciously changing her identity to fit into whatever social scene
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nonverbal‚ are received and interpreted by those around us. Although we are unaware of every detail communicated in our own daily lives‚ it can be much easier to study such phenomena within pop culture examples‚ where it becomes very evident. The movie “Mean Girls” is the perfect subject of such a case study‚ where it is full of examples of the theories discussed and read about thus far in the quarter. The two main categories that define communication are verbal and nonverbal. As discussed in class and
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that matter? Well‚ what I say is that you do not have to take drastic measures to be a nonconformist. There are many examples of non conformity- in movies‚ online‚ or in the workplace. Conformity is viewed as a negative part of life‚ and the movie Mean Girls‚ is a perfect display of the effects of conformity through different cliques in high school.
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