After watching the clips from Mean Girls and the related video presented in class‚ along with the article "High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies" by David Denby‚ p. 366‚ I believe that genre films reflect reality. All the scenes in genre films took place in high school‚ where presented many types of people such as the jocks sport‚ the nerd‚ the gangsters‚ the mean girls‚ the pretty girls‚ the prom queens‚ the ugly girls‚ the rich kids‚ and the slackers. Because of the presence of these people
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of belonging. As there are many other situations the broad topic can stimulate. Throughout this task I have explained and analyzed three texts with the concepts of belonging. Relating them to connections between the texts. My related texts being ’Mean girls’ a movie by Tina Fey and Tim Meadows‚ The Lyrics ’I still call Australia home’ by Peter Allen‚ and a photograph by an unknown artist.
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Psychology Film Critique Number Two I believe the main character in the film to be Cady Heron who is played by Lindsay Lohan and is a sixteen year old girl. She was homeschooled her entire life until now. I would place Cady in the Adolescence stage of Erikson’s theory of development. It is described that the basic conflict in this stage is identity vs. role confusion. In this stage teens need to develop a personal sense of self and personal identity. If one is able to succeed it will lead them with
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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 popular girls in the
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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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Destroying Avalon and Mean Girls Comparative Essay What is worse‚ cyber bullying or face-to-face bullying? Argue in relation to both Destroying Avalon and Mean Girls‚ referring to specific events throughout both texts. Cyber bullying and face-to-face bullying are to major concerns in today’s society‚ the movie Mean Girls and the novel Destroying Avalon have themes about bullying in them. The texts show us how more people can be affected by certain types of bullying as well as how it can
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In Mean Girls‚ Mark Waters films the journey of Cady Herring (Lindsay Lohan) searching to find her place in the social ranking of High School. Her desire to belong to the popular group puts the few friendships she has on edge. The film discusses the over desire and temptation of belonging and how it isn’t always a positive thing to achieve. One of the key scenes in the movie that relates to belonging is when Cady has made two friends who don’t rank high in social status‚ as Cady is going to sit
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Mean girls: The movie mean girls ties in with educational psychology in many aspects. It is about a girl named candy who has been home schooled her entire life‚ until she moves. By time she moves she is in high school. She has very little social skills‚ after a few bad days in a row she becomes self motivated to fit in. This movie also shows diversity in the schools‚ with ethnicity as well as with race. Cady has a hard time fitting in with the other people from her school‚ and quickly be age
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Austin Ruggieri May 2‚ 2012 Adolescence Mean Girls The movie Mean Girls is about a girl who has grown up in Africa and was homeschooled all of her life‚ named Cady. She is a 16-year-old white girl who has to learn how to adapt and change to her new environment‚ which is in a suburban area and a new completely average high school. Cady already knows that the laws of the jungle and the survival of the fittest but must now understand how to play in this brand new urban jungle. When she arrives
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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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