The film that I chose to write about 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
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198 I)‚ decision making in non-Western cultures has received little attention. Janis and Mann (1977) proposed that having to make decisions is stressful. Drawing on the psychology of stress and its relationship to decisional conflict‚ they suggested that a major motive driving the behaviour of decision makers is a concern to reduce the stress and conflict aroused by having to make decisions (Gerard‚ 1967; MaM‚ Janis‚ & Chaplin‚ 1969). The conflict model of decision making
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homeschooled all her life. Her parents decided to move to Chicago and made Cady attend a public high school. She made friends with Janis who was supposely a lesbian girl and Damian who was "too gay to function." Cady was told to steer clear of the Plastics. The Plastics was a group of three girls named Grecthen‚ Karen‚ and Regina. Cady started hanging with the Plastics‚ because janis ask her to incapacitate them. Cady Spends so much time with the Plastics‚ she begins to act like them. Cady did realize she
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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 Smith‚ Gretchen Wieners and Regina George are members of the
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Which Egyptian Queen made the greatest contribution to her country? Hatshepsut or Cleopatra? Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Egypt were ruled by a "king‚" and the Egyptian ideal of succession was from father to son (Shaw‚ 2003). The female relatives of the ruling king often played significant roles in the rule of Egypt‚ and the ideology of kingship itself was a careful blend of both male and female elements. Women who ruled autonomously as king were unusual in Dynastic Egypt‚ but it did occur; the best-known
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Groupthink I have always had a different idea of what groupthink really means‚ to me I thought of it as a bad idea from someone amongst a group of people that had not been voiced seemingly because the person having this thought lacks confidence or backing. More like trying to proof to your business partners that an idea of using an outdated tactic to target a young crowd is not the best idea In its own definition Wikipedia(2013) describes groupthink as a psychological phenomenon that occurs within
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I remember it like it was yesterday. Standing in the middle of millions of people‚ jamming to great music‚ and freezing as the temperature got colder. When Jimi Hendrix came out to play the National Anthem; some people loved it yet‚ some people were not. During that song people separated by their opinions. You have the people who love rock‚ who loved Jimi Hendrix‚ and the people who admired everything he did. Then‚ you have the people who think distorting the National Anthem was wrong and shouldn’t
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Self-Deception‚ Dan Goleman cites a passage credited to Irving Janis. The passage cited is: The leader does not deliberately try to get the group to tell him what he wants to hear … nevertheless‚ subtle constraints‚ which the leader may force inadvertently‚ prevent a member from fully exercising his critical powers and from openly expressing doubts when most others in the group appear to have reached consensus.(Goleman‚ 1985‚ p. 181) Janis points out that a leader may unknowingly constrain group. Group-think
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Digital Music Piracy Can’t Stop‚ Won’t Stop Digital music piracy‚ or the unlawful downloading of copyrighted music‚ has been a controversial topic for more than a decade now. The issue was first brought to attention in 1998 when Shawn Fanning created Napster. Though the MP3 file was originally developed in 1987‚ Napster represented the first mainstream and user-friendly program to transfer and download these files. Napster‚ a peer-to-peer (P2P) program‚ allowed online users to connect with
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zoologist. On her first day‚ Cady was introduced to Janis and Damian‚ the friendly outcasts; furthermore‚ they warned Cady of the plastics‚ which was a clique of 3 girls known as Gretchen Wieners‚ Karen Smith‚ and their leader Regina George. The plastics were the most popular and proportionally meanest girls on campus and Cady’s attractive looks got her to click with this clique. Next‚ upon the news of Cady’s new friends‚ she is asked by Janis to sabotage and destroy the plastics; moreover‚ Cady
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