Mean Girls (2004) follows the journey of sixteen year old Cady (Lindsay Lohan) in her first year at a public school in suburban America - a stark contrast to the previous twelve years of her life: being homeschooled in Africa. Cady moves to Evanston‚ Illinois and soon finds herself in with ’The Plastics ’‚ the "teen royalty" of Northshore High School‚ led by the ’Queen Bee ’‚ Regina George (Rachel McAdams). The Plastics in Mean Girls are an example of a neo-tribe‚ as evidenced by Cady ’s observation
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Mean Girls and High School Confidential The movie Mean Girls‚ was filmed and produced to highlight the various and different forms of the “average” High School‚ and its students which include: the various cliques of students‚ who believe they are the most popular‚ or those who are too scared to expose themselves to the real world. There are many various groups described in Mean Girls which‚ reflect upon almost all high schools throughout the world. Mean Girls brings out a major discussion
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In the movie Mean Girls‚ Cady Heron who is played by Lindsay Lohan is one of the main characters in the movie. In the selected scene we see Cady is sitting with the her friend and the popular girls at the school called the plastics. The plastics have a set number of rules that none of them can break‚ such as what they can and can’t wear. Her friend happened to break one of these rules‚ which resulted in the other girls at the table to get mad and tell her she has to leave. Cady is not able to really
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The movie “Girl Positive” is about‚ Rachel‚ a teenage girl Rachel in high school that has come in contact with the disease HIV. The movie shows how people in her high school view the disease. They also stereotype it‚ saying only gay people can get. They are quickly proven wrong though. A recent report put up on the school website shows that the star athlete that graduated before them was doing heroin. He had just died in a car accident and they found it in his system and in his car. Everybody was
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The divisions of popularity in the world of girls are very clear. Rosalind Wiseman‚ author of Queen Bees and Wannabees and also Odd Girl Out‚ discusses two of these divisions. She labels the first group the "alpha" group; these are the girls that are considered "popular‚" who wear the trendy clothes‚ and are beautiful and wealthy. The second group she calls "beta‚" and these are the girls who are "outside the box" - they long to be invited to the parties‚ and try everything to fit in. Susannah Meadows
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people want to make friends‚ and “up” their popularity status‚ they are nice to others. In high school‚ it seems that girls do this the opposite way‚ and are mean to one another in order to bond with friends and become more popular. This paper will discuss reasons why adolescent girls tend to put down others‚ rather than be nice and respectful. It seems that the number of mean girls are increasing every year‚ and high school seems to be a connection. Schools all around the country are dealing with
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through films you can see many sociological themes. I chose to look at “Mean Girls” and pull the sociological themes out. Mean Girls is a movie about a girl‚ Cady‚ who moves to the US from Africa and starts at a new school. She immediately befriends two outcasts‚ who explain the school ’s social scene. There are a group of three girls (the “Plastics”) who are popular‚ malicious and rule the school. As a trick‚ these three girls befriend Cady. Her outcast friends encourage her to hang out with the
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This film focuses on the controversial topics of feminism‚ immigration‚ Latino Health inequality through art‚ reproductive justice‚ and human rights. Where in the 1960’s women who went to seek medical care in the county hospitals especially those giving birth went back home while sterilized to save taxpayers money and control population among Mexican immigrants. This procedure was a forced one as mothers signed them while going into labor and others didn’t remember signing them. Civil rights movement
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remember‚ I always had more guy friends than girl friends. I am not sure if girls intimidated me‚ or if I just got along better with boys. Hearing this from a girl might sound strange. Being older‚ I realize the reason I prefer to surround myself with boys is because they can be more laid back and less dramatic. While I do have a couple of close girl friends now‚ I still have a bigger group of close guy friends. Middle school is when I first realized how mean girls could be‚ forming cliques and teasing
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No matter what school you go to‚ there will always be cliques—the social hierarchy of the entire student body. The movie Mean Girls‚ or really any teen high school-based movie‚ depicts the lives of teenagers and how everyone fits into a certain group. However‚ these movies tend to be hyperbolic‚ and not everyone necessarily meets the standards to be in a group. For example‚ the cheerleaders and jocks are always at the top. Those who excel at sports are considered the "popular" kids‚ but I’ve never
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