Anyone that was entered into the book was not considered to be part of the plastics, or the in-group. As the movie proceeds Cady realizes that after being associated with the plastics her self-presentation does not match her “true self”. Cady then begins to spill the secrets of the plastics to the rest of the school. Cady has started to realize what the plastics really are, “mean girls”, and doesn’t want anything to do with them. She knows she may fall to a stereotype threat but her “true self” will not let her go on acting this way.
Beth’s office is through the kitchen in the back of the store. The Paradiso’s mission statement is “To build a lifelong partnership of raving guest, associates and stockholders”. Her job is to order supplies, doing schedules, hiring employees, cooking, serving, counting the register at the end of the day and taking care of the store. Beth says her least favorite thing about her job is the turnover never having enough people to run the store. There are times that she has to be the manager and the cook at the same time.
They don’t really pay much attention to what is going on with others outside of their group. They also suffer from overestimation of their group. They think they are the end all and be all of their high school, when in reality they are not. They also experience a lot of pressure toward uniformity because they want to get along just to get along. They do this so they don’t injure their friendship in any way.
Sherry thinks this is wrong because it cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills. 2. The author’s title is misleading. It leads you to think the story will be about cursing but it is really meant to represent the word failure or flunking. I think she chose this title because even though the “F” word is not as bad as you thought it would be, failure is still a pretty bad word for most people.
7 themes Major Themes Organization Even before he invents The Wave, Mr. Ross notices that his students are not living up to their potential because they lack organization in their lives. The Wave instills organization, but at a terrible cost to individual freedom. The novel does not offer any simple answers about whether people can think for themselves and be organized. Laurie has a strong work ethic (as shown by her commitment to her homework and to the school newspaper) but she is still unable to get things done because
To see waste bothers me a lot. The same can be said for my education. I am very inpatient. I don’t like to waste time. To be satisfied with a just passing grade due to lack of enthusiasm, or not studying would never happen to me.
Anything in life should not be given to anyone it should be earned or suffer the consequence. The fear of failing for some students is scary, he or she does not want to fail and if there motivated the student would most likely try harder and pay more attention in school. In example, when I was in high school I would never concentrate on social studies thinking it was important to me and one day my teacher came up to me telling me I would fail and not graduate this year because of my lack of effort in his class. From there on it got me thinking of my future and I didn’t want to fail and be back in high school for another year for stupid mistakes I made, so the next semester I work harder then ever and passed the class with an A. Sometimes a little motivation and being afraid of failure can motivate someone to work
One reason for this is that they are worried about their future, status quo and financial success. The majority of student are desperate enough to fit and blend into society which lead them to no longer attending classes they are interested in. The devoid of passion leads to end of striving for genius, leading to many uncurious and uneducated individuals. Since the student are trying to become the ideal persons, with successful careers, they are afraid to think out of the box and become genius. He writes about the lack of passion to point out that there will no longer be any genius in the near future.
The last resistance is that the employees are afraid to learn how to use the computer and they are too old. The employees think it would be too difficult to learn a new process and it would replace their jobs. To overcome the resistance, Martin Walker needs to gain the employees trust. He needs to be encouraging and ensure them that it would be the best move for the project and the company. Also, ensure the employees that he will always be there to help and answer any questions needed.
They were not encouraged to continue their education. On the other hand, Esme did not want to marry or have a family; instead she wanted to continue her education and travel the world. Even though these ideas were frowned upon by her parents and the rest of society, she was not afraid to admit to them and speak her mind, which often caused her trouble. It is clear that Esme did not fit into what society considered to be normal and obedient because she acted differently than others. On top of that, Esme experienced two extraordinarily damaging events at a very young age.