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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The movie that I‚ choose to watch and was related to Psychology was “Girl‚ Interrupted” directed by. James Mangold. The movie is an ardent film that captures the lives of a group of women in a mental institution. To be noted‚ this was a book before it became a movie. It was a book based off of the main character and author‚ Susanna Kaysen‚ who details her life after checking herself into an institution after attempting suicide. The movie is about Suzanna and the relationships she makes while living
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English 132-10 29 November 2014 Conflict and Segregation in Song of Solomon There ’s a lot of of conflict and segregation featured in Song of Solomon‚ by Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison emphasizes the country ’s state of racial injustice and mentions racial uplift groups and makes note of segregated hospitals to create a focus on race in Song of Solomon. I wanted to look into how different conflicts affected the characters lives in Song of Solomon. I also wanted to see how segregation made life harder
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Paradise By Coldplay Song Analysis The song ‘Paradise’ by Coldplay is very unique and special to me in numerous ways. One of the main reasons I enjoy it so much is because there is so much room for interpretation. Anyone can have a different perspective on what it means to them. The song to me represents the attempts by a girl to maintain a child-like innocence in her life by dreaming and running away to paradise. During the first half of the song‚ I noticed the rhythm and beat rather then the
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live in. In Tupac Shakur’s song “ Changes” (1992) the most important controlling idea supported by the lyrics is the way African Americans were treated bad for being a minority. He specifies struggles they go through living in the ghetto‚ war on drugs‚ and how they would get treated by the police because of their skin color. This was how it was back then when he wrote this song and we still see it now going on. As we look closely to this lyrics he starts the song with this question‚ “Is life
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She’d stepped away to pick flowers‚ returned‚ and at the sound of her footsteps behind him‚ he’d turned around before he was through. It was becoming a habitthis concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. ANALYSIS NOTES In the novel Morrison uses this Theme of things behind Milkman as a set up for his character. Milkman throughout the novel is concerned about past events. What happened between his mom and her dad‚ what happened between his dad and his aunt and so on
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As people reach the middle of their lives‚ their age comes many things: wisdom‚ experience‚ a different point of view compared to when they were younger. But what about a middle age crisis? In T.S Elliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ Elliot exemplifies the contrast between ages as he writes about the circumstances of the narrator‚ Prufrock. He draws the reader in with veiled allusions to the narrator’s perceived age in comparison to his actual age as he walks down the street and at a social
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Author’s Purpose Sylvia Plath writes her autobiography The Bell Jar utilizing a smart protagonist‚ whose life is driven into depression by the deterioration of today’s society to familiarize her readers with suicide. Esther lives a perfect life‚ according to anyone looking at her on the surface. Esther continues to live her life in a fully coordinated “patent-leather” outfit from “Bloomingdale’s” while she sips “martinis” surrounded by “anonymous young men with all-American bone structures”‚ yet
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prosecuted. Today in our society‚ people have believed that men are the superior gender. Everywhere‚ from the bible to the everyday life‚ men are given a high pedestal while women are treated as second class citizens. In the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath‚ Esther Greenwood struggles with this idea of how women are treated and how that leads to mental deterioration. According to a document on sexual assault‚ sexual assault is a crime of power and control. Sexual assault is used when sexual behavior
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This song is about a woman who is a tease. The woman will kiss the man and even turn them on but will have nothing else to do with them. Eventually the man gets addicted to this girl and believes that she’s the one. He tries to break his addiction of her but she will always be the one. In the end the man keeps trying to break her and she resists. I think this song tells an interesting story about real life and love at first sight. The amount of imagery in this song immediately draws
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