They have made bad decisions in their life and they are getting publicity out of it. Is this really the type of thing that you want your child to be looking up at? Seeing these popular movies, television and teen icons influences us to think that it is cool to be pregnant at a young age. The media is influencing us too much, we follow whatever the "trend" is and we don't think for ourselves. Casual naked people dancing around, thin and built models, and teen pregnancy is subconsciously affecting us to think all of this is okay.
When she meets mysterious bad boy Jason Dean she goes on a psychotic mission to end the Heathers. On the other hand, when Cady joins the Plastics it is simply an accident that turns into sabotage. All she was supposed to do was tell her friends about “all the mean and ridiculous things Regina [said]” (Mean Girls) so that they could
For the first time in the story when Jude came to demand more jewels from Isobel, she denies him and says “…stop calling me Precious; my name is Isobel!” (P. 72). Finally, being able to recognize the beauty of her own name, she no longer felt a prisoner of Jude’s desire for sex and wealth. She finally sees the true preciousness of herself, her words! Isobel’s journey led her to finding the ability and the courage that she needed in order to express her true feelings. She became capable of confronting Jude by making him aware that he never loved her.
She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them.” Even though she has everything she needs, a stable family and enough money to support her needs, she still wants more. She says that she is “very unlucky” because she “married an unlucky husband”. Instead of taking the responsibility upon herself that she is unlucky and does not have everything she wants, she blames others for her lack of happiness. In the end she turns out to be the luckiest character in the story because with Paul’s luck she gains all of the money he won.
Juliet seems like a seamless responsible girl tangled in an interesting relationship, but her own feelings combined with others, result in a deadly concoction. Juliet is a brave young girl, defying social standards, while keeping her relationship together. Juliet has many expectations put to prevent her from blossoming. On page 48, Juliet says, “Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty.” Juliet is playing a dual personality. On one side she is attempting to be this perfect child figure for her parents.
We should be strong enough to say no if someone's asking us to do bad things. The most common reason is that trust that is especially things you can’t tell your friends. Finally, Strong jealousy and unhealthy competition can make people stop being friends. Most women feel a sense of competition from time to time toward the women in their lives. Psychologist Irene Levine, author of "Best Friends Forever," explains that women naturally compare themselves to their friends.
She gets everything is wants out of life and more. She reveals in the movie that she doesn’t have the ideal home life that everyone thinks she does. Her parents use her to get back at each which makes her get everything she wants. She is corrupted by this and feels that she needs to get attention from her peers by being pretty and popular. By the end of the movie she realizes this and changes her ways.
My understanding of belonging has been influenced by the way people will act just to fit into society. In the TV series Pretty Little liars the poems “Feliks Skrzyneck” and “ Ancestors” and ______________ it demonstrates belonging by showing the way people will act and the measures they would go to just to “fit in” And the extent they would go to just to ruin other people reputation and lives and relationship just so more people would like them. Pretty little liars The TV Series Pretty Little Liars is a show based on a group of teenage girls who at the start of the series they are all “losers” and don’t exactly fit in with society. Hannah was an overweight young girl and was self-conscious of her-self image. Alison the girl who the story line us based on brings the group of girls together and manipulates them and transforms them into girls who have the potential to be “popular”.
I honestly am not okay with her story. The part that confuses me the most is how her best friend once bullied her to death, because “she was just kidding with Jodee”. To look back at the times when I was being bullied, I could never think of asking my bullies to be my best friend in my wedding. The only person that could forgive someone that did them so much harm has to have a big forgiving heart. After asking her that question I feel as if she does not have that heart.
Imagine the long-term effects that being told that she was not pretty enough will have on the confidence of a young girl, especially after all the hard work she had put into her performance. These children are being taught that it is outward beauty that matters most rather than who they are. The young girls that participate in these pageants have to go through a lot of preparation, including spray tans and even painful eyebrow waxing. The television show “Toddlers and Tiaras” has included footage of young contestants crying, begging their mothers to stop because of the pain. It is obvious that in these cases, it was not the child who chose to experience this sort of “beautification”, but rather the parent.