Due: 10/01/12 Period 5 – (Alternative Film) Due: 10/01/12 Period 5 – (Alternative Film) Film And Sounds Are “So Fetch!” The critically acclaimed box-office hit film, “Mean Girls,” is set mostly at North Shore High School, and follows the life of Cady Herin, a former homeschooled and naïve student, who enters an American high school for the first time. The film encompasses high school issues ranging from experiencing culture shocks, losing innocence and dealing with the infamous “plastics,” the main antagonists of Cady. In this film, the director, Mark Waters, uses sound to show the theme of high school conflicts/issues. Director Mark Waters uses the film technique of non-diegetic sound to portray high school conflicts. This is evident in the beginning of the movie where a very relaxing and upbeat African instrumental plays in the background before Cady’s first day of school when she is talking with her parents.
I would like to propose a toast to my best friend Joy Kentish. For those of you that don’t know Joy and I have been best friends for about 7 years. We met our 10th grade year in high school at Tampa Bay technical High School. We were in drivers ed together and I was so nervous because it was my first time driving and we were partners. She told me to relax and just have fun but not too much fun.
Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), the 16-year-old homeschooled daughter of zoologist parents (Ana Gasteyer and Neil Flynn), recently moved from Africa, is unprepared for her first day of public high school at North Shore High School in Evanston, Illinois. With the help of social outcasts Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damien (Daniel Franzese), Cady learns about the various cliques. She is warned to avoid the school's most exclusive clique, the Plastics, the reigning trio of girls led by the acid-tongued queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams). Regina was once Janis' best friend, but they have grown to despise each other since the 8th grade when Regina started a rumor that Janis was a lesbian. However, the Plastics take a shine to Cady and invite her to sit with them at lunch and go shopping with them after school.
Fall 2012 College Composition I: ENG101 Argumentative Essay Two Assignment Specifications: 550-700 word essay, titled, double-spaced, MLA format Topic: Using our focus essays from “A Casebook on Bullying” (p 473-483) and Mean Girls, compose an argumentative essay answering one of the following questions: 1. Cady, the movie’s main character, navigates her way through high school, while encountering many different classifications of students and teachers. Her story begins with outsider status, but soon she is the Queen Bee of the “The Plastics.” Based on our class discussions, the readings, and the movie, is Cady truly a “mean girl?” Or does that title fall onto someone else? Use specific examples, quotes, or film scenes to answer
It is impossible to create something that everyone will like, but I believe that it is the elements that go into the movie that can make a movie entertaining or not. In the movie Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey, the use of humor and the overall message makes the movie enjoyable to many. The movie Mean Girls began with the first day of high school for 16 year old Cady Heron who, up until now, had been home schooled in Africa by her zoologist parents. Not understanding the social or school rules of high school, Cady found herself in dire need of some guidance. Luckily, two social outcasts, Janice and Damien, showed her around and warned her of all the other social cliques in the school.
Living in a state that is not known for being racist, it was difficult seeing this occurring at another high school. I thought it was so great that Morgan Freeman was willing to pay for the costs of prom so that they could integrate all the students for one united prom. He made an excellent point when he said that it was not about changing the students, ironically, the people that teach them had to be changed. These students, mostly due to their parents influence, were surrounded by racism, and in essence, had to choose if they were for or against integration. I was astonished to see that for so many years there were black proms and white proms and that there were two homecoming queens, one black, and one white.
Some associate being a student as the manageable part of life. Many adults assume it’s so effortless to get through school, but truly it is not. Once becoming a high school student my days became a lot less basic, and turned into an abundance of complication. Though high school has shaped me into the individual I am today, it was not an easy journey. High school brought about many experiences, good and bad, and I have faced my share of both.
In this poem, Duffy affectionately remembers her experience of one year in her primary school, in particular the class of Mrs Tilscher. School, and especially Mrs Tilscher's class, was a place of security and adventure: 'Mrs Tilscher loved you', school, 'was better than home'. The poem is very evocative. Duffy uses lots of sensual imagery to dramatise the childhood world, so that we can experience it for ourselves. There is a lot of visual imagery, from the description of the 'chalky Pyramids' on the blackboard to the sky splitting open at the end of the poem.
The movie ‘Mean Girls’ provides insights into the concept of belonging because throughout the film the director Mark Waters shows the journey of Cady Herring (Lindsay Lohan) trying to find where she belongs in the social ranking at her new high school. Her predilection to belong with the ‘popular groups’, this desire puts some of her very few friendships she has on hold and they slowly start to crumble. The film discusses how trying to belong does not always have a positive outcome and isn’t always a positive thing to achieve. In today’s society almost everyone is superficial; people are judged on their appearance, the brands of clothing they wear, weather they have the latest phone, laptop, the type of house they live in the area in which they live and if they have a high paying job. And if you don’t have all of these or most of these you are generally considered an outcast.
Of course we had fun and learned a lot of school related topics, but there was one thing I noticed my 8th grade year. We had a lot of “less fortunate” kids. Some of the field trips we would normally take, we couldn’t because they couldn’t afford to go. It was really sad, but then again the students couldn’t actually do something about it. Bullying is such a big subject now because it happens to everyone.