In Never Been Kissed produced by 20th Century Fox and Drew Barrymore's production company, Flower Films , director Raja Gosnell attempts to show how to move on from labels and bullying by telling the story of a young girl who is struggled though high school and how those emotions held her back. This film demonstrates the effects of bullying by showing how the main character Josie is hunted by her high school experience and encourages some self-reflection. Dork, dweeb, geek, freak, and loser are all labels that Josie was under. Dr. Suess first used the word “nerd” in 1950 it described a “small, unkempt, humanoid creature with a large head and a comically disapproving expression”. Later the word nerd was used to describe a person who is dull and conventional.
Luckily, two social outcasts, Janice and Damien, showed her around and warned her of all the other social cliques in the school. It is not long until the most popular girl group in the school, the “Plastics”, noticed Cady and invited her to join their group. Turning to her new friends Janice and Damien, Cady is convinced to pretend to be the Plastics’ friend in a plan to overthrow the leader of the group, Regina, and take away the group’s power over the school. Gaining instant popularity, Cady soon found herself sucked into the mean girl lifestyle and wanting to sabotage Regina for her own personal gain. It was not until Cady has
Ayla ends up being impregnated, however, this still does not stop her from challenging the clan and continuously showing her capabilities of when it comes to math and sports. In the end, Ayla ends up showing the clan extreme respect for elders and overpowers the ludicrous actions of the clan’s newly-elected leader. Hollywood ends this film with the generic, “walking off into the sunset” scene when Darryl Hannah walks away from her son, whom belongs to the clan, and the audience is left in hope and excitement for Ayla’s future accomplishments in furthering the growth of her kind; mentally, physically, and emotionally. This movie represents the Homo genus within the Hominin tribe. Homo Neanderthalensis is the specific subspecies that is
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.
Alice Bailey ENC1102 Smooth Talk Smooth Talk is a movie modeled after the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been. The Protagonist of this story is Connie Wyatt. She is a fifteen year old, young girl who is sneaky and secretively living a different life style away from home. Connie is also rebellious, selfish, and flirtatious. She seems to be in a hurry to grow up and experience the sexual pleasures of life.
GHOSTGIRL TOPIC: popularity, obsession, love and death. PAGES:328 PLACES: Hawthorne High TIME: this decade Characters Charlotte Usher (also called ghostgirl) – the main protagonist of the novel, a senior in High school. She has a Puppy love on Damen, and plans to be with him, but chokes to death on agummy bear before carrying it out. She then becomes a ghost. Damen Dylan – Charlotte's crush and Petula's boyfriend.
The movie Akeelah and the Bee by Doug Atchison, set in modern day California, is the heart-warming tale of eleven-year-old girl, Akeelah Anderson. Akeelah is discovered on the south-side of Los Angeles to have a talent for words. In spite of the objections of her mother, Akeelah enters a spelling contest. Her gift for words takes
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
Raven Aponte 3/5/2013 PSY 346.RA Dr. David Chun “Mean Girls: A Social Psych Approach” Mean Girls is an American teen comedy that portrays the “typical” high school experience. Cady Heron is a 15-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Africa, where she was home-schooled by her zoologist parents. When her family relocates to the United States, Cady finds herself attending a high school in suburban Illinois, where she gets a crash course in the various sub-strata of the student body: the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the "cool" kids, and so on. At the beginning of the movie Cady meets two friends, Daemon and Janis. These two students were seen as the outcast crowd or the out-group, but Cady has no idea.
This is so as, girls saw her as their idol and remained in mind the fact that it’s possible even for a woman to do anything she wants if she has the will and the education to do it. The bad side of it as, both times she was in office, she was removed by former presidents Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Farooq Leghari respectively, both times on corruption charges. As Bhutto was assassinated shortly before the