So Big" : The Power of A Secret in The Crucible and Mean Girls Secrets are the ammunition in this girl battle within the novel and movie‚ Miller’s The Crucible‚ and Waters’ Mean Girls. Telling other people’s secrets‚ and even just holding them can put a person in a position of power. This isn’t a type of power that comes to you easily‚ the girls that become powerful work hard and covertly to do so. In both The Crucible and Mean Girls the girls with the secrets have bad intentions for using them
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evident in Mean Girls and Destroying Avalon. The popular kids are known to us as the ‘A group’ from the novel and as the ‘Plastics’ from the movie. To begin with‚ the people from the Plastics and the A group are represented in both texts as the cliché or stereotypical bunch of popular people. By saying this‚ it is being implied that they demonstrate the hackneyed qualities of people with popularity. Both groups are stereotypically shown as being judgemental‚ two – faced‚ superficial‚ mean and exclusive
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Mean Girls is one of the most watched movies in today’s society. It seems as though people of all gender‚ sex‚ age‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ class have seen this movie and can relate to some aspect of it. A brutal portrayal of high school cliques‚ Mean Girls depicts everyday high school struggles for students and teachers. The popular group of girls‚ referred to as the "Plastics"‚ control every aspect of the school by using their good looks‚ money‚ popularity‚ and power. They are middle class white girls
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Mean Girls follows the journey of Cady becoming part of the Plastics. This is all influenced by George Herbert Mead’s theories that perceptions of others and their approval influence what people make their identity or better known as the Social Self Theory (Julianne‚ Para 7). One example of the Social Self Theory is when Cady begins to dress similar to the Plastics by wearing pink‚ but hers is a men’s t-shirt while they have dressy pink clothes on (Julianne‚ Para 6). Through the film we can tell
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Joanna’s and Jane’s lifestyles. The Girls of Slender Means by Murial Spark is a novel about the girls who lived in the May of Teck Club during the year of 1945. There are many characters involved‚ but the one’s who caught my attention the most are Jane Wright and Joanna Childe. They represent different aspects of ideas‚ lifestyles and‚ also‚ have different perspectives on the “World of Books.” Joanna Childe was the daughter of a country rector
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we wear pink.” Most teenage girls would catch this popular Mean Girls reference. This pretty pink picture features the four main characters from the Paramount movie Mean Girls. The image focuses on Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan). Her three friends‚ Regina George‚ Gretchen Wieners and Karen Smith‚ are surrounding her fixing her hair‚ applying her makeup‚ and attempting make her perfect. The girls surrounding Cady symbolize the constant pressure placed on high school girls today to look a certain way in
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like empire with different levels of popularity. If you can’t figure out who’s who‚ you’ll never survive school. Keep your eyes open because this is your survival guide. Let’s start with the basics. The Popularities The movie “Mean Girls” feature a group of popular girls called plastics. The cliques or the league or whatever you call it are the highest of the high. They rule the school and maintain all the popularity. The popular kids look pretty or handsome. That’s how they gain attention. The
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AOS Journeys- Related Text Analysis Mean girls by Mark Waters- Visual/ Film Analysis What is the text about? Raised in an African bush country with only her parents‚ Cady Heron‚ a 16 year old home schooled teenager takes on a challenge when she enters her first public high school. She instantly makes friends with two sweet teenagers‚ Damian and Janis. However‚ she soon learns that high school is a jungle in itself‚ when she meets the ‘Plastics’- A group of four girls consisting of Gretchen‚ Karen
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High school in real life is full of surprises‚ but according to David Denby in his article "High School Confidential‚" High School in the movies is very predictable. The typical Hollywood "High School Scene" opens with the jock and the cheerleader characters. Blonde and buff‚ the Jock and the Cheerleader are superficial and proud to proclaim it. They are popular and perky‚ and always too good to be true. The cheerleader is usually the enemy of the hero or heroine. She is generally rich‚ blonde‚ and
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Everything Nice I. INTRODUCTION 1. ATTENTION GETTER: Can girls be mean? Has everyone experienced betrayal by the hands of a female? Do we even need to answer these rhetorical questions? a. Girls are mean. I really hate saying that‚ but everyone knows it is true and the more we pretend that girls are not mean‚ the more trouble we bring on ourselves. 2. Again‚ girls are mean that is all there is to it. They are not sweet little quiet
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