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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I decided to use the 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
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The Mean Girls EffectDavid Jin Mean Girls is a 2004 film about the life of a popular high school girl. The teen comedy is considered by many high schoolers to be a legendary movie that depicts a dream high school that is ideal for many of today’s youth. The film centers around 4 junior girls called the plastics. They are pretty and preppy‚ popular and legendary in the school. They are worshipped like goddess by the students of the school because of their fame‚ riches‚ and popularity. However‚ the
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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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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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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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Plastic in Disguise This movie‚ Mean Girls‚ is a very interesting movie that shows that you should always be yourself no matter what people think and no matter what they have to say. A few of the main characters in this movie include Cady Heron‚ Regina George‚ Karen Smith‚ Gretchen Weiners‚ and Ms. Norbury. All of these characters take part in the high school that the film take place in. The director of this movie is Mark Waters; he is a film director and producer. This movie was published in the year
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Pictures‚ Broadway Video and SNL studios‚ all came together to release the infamous teen comedy movie‚ Mean Girls which premiered on April 30‚2004. This movie was written by Rosalind Wiseman‚ and was directed by Mark Waters. It grasped the attention of a wide audience because the issues that the main character encountered are relatable. The rules of high school are applicable to many life situations. This movie sheds light on real sociological issues; moreover‚ that includes bullying‚ weight obsession
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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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Running Head: BPD in Girl Interrupted Borderline Personality Disorder in Girl Interrupted Girl Interrupted is a movie based on Susanna Kaysen’s novel‚ which was inspired by her stay in a mental institution in the 1960s. Incidentally the main character‚ played by Winona Ryder‚ is named Susanna. She is eighteen years old and begins the movie by reflecting back on the events leading up to her visit to the psychologist. She has just graduated from high school and other than being an aspiring
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