Rationale: This Written Task will explore the exaggerated speech of stereotypical girls in movies. It will look at Mean Girls in particular‚ as the three main popular girls are known for their exaggerated speech It is very common how movies stereotype girls as popular and dumb especially in ‘Mean Girls’ there are three girls who think they are the smartest girls in high school just because they are popular but when it comes to them speaking well your jaws will drop. “So if you are from Africa
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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 “Mean Girls”‚ a teen comedy film directed by Mark Watersin in 2004‚ is based on a girl named Cady Heron‚ who currently starting high school; after being homeschooled throughout her previous life. The film is about Cady pretending she is someone she’s not to fit in with the popular girls‚ later then becomes the bully herself. In Watersin’s film‚ he successfully shows the stages of bullying of a social behaviour that occurs in the girl’s world in a chronical order. There are four different
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In the movie Mean Girls‚ the main characters are three girls that are labeled as The Plastics‚ who basically run the school. The leader of which is Regina George who bosses the other girls around a lot and. The new student Cady then joins the group and we see how the group slowly pulls her into their way of thought. Since Mean Girls main characters are in a ‘group’ setting the majority of the time‚ symptoms of Groupthink are portrayed several times throughout the movie. Groupthink occurs when a
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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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I chose the film Mean Girls for this assignment because I have already seen the film. With previous knowledge about the film‚ I knew that it was full of conflict and watching a movie I have previously seen allowed me to focus on the textbook and its concepts‚ rather than everything that was taking place in the film. Power without question is a major reason why conflict took place in Mean Girls and why it takes place in the real-world. Power is the structure of conflict and it is rare for people
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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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or if I want my child to succeed then I must feed them Subway. This is far from the truth. Furthermore‚ with the popularity fallacy they say that all it has people believe that all athletes are doing it so why shouldn’t I eat Subway? In the movie Mean Girls they do use the poisoning the well fallacy‚ but this is not an advertisement. With the Pedigree dog food commercial it does use appeal to pity by using the dogs that look so sad. However‚ they do help these dogs‚
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Critiquing Mean Girls The film industry into one of the highest grossing within the larger entertainment sector with companies investing millions of dollars on single releases. As a result‚ there is a need for the production firms to create a trailer that intrigues the intended audience into buying cinema tickets or the DVDs for entertainment. For example‚ an investigation on how a trailer of one of the most popular movies in 2004‚ Mean Girls‚ applied art and cultural values can show how a film can
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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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