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Speech Analysis Of The Movie 'Mean Girls'
Dianna Jamil
Professor Paulin
SPEECH 142
13 January 2015
Movie Speech Analysis- Mean Girls The 2004 movie, Mean Girls, may be portrayed as the typical chick flick; however, there are essential scenes in the movie that exemplify great life lessons. After moving from Africa to an American high school, Cady Heron\ Lindsey Lohan, makes friends with the wrong group of people, which consist of three girls called "The Plastics”. The girls are able to change Cady’s viewpoints, decisions, morals, and actions that she grew up being accustomed to. Trying to fit in, she and the three girls from the IT table write in a burn book that is filled with rumors humiliating faculty and students from their high school. At first, Cady is trying to adapt to

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