Clique

A clique is just a group of people spending a lot of time together because they all have something in common. In high school, a person can walk down the halls and through the flood of students and see all kinds of cliques. Each clique has their own drama, their own way of doing things and, their own personality as a group. There are several different types of cliques too such as active cliques, creative cliques, and intelligent cliques. It is usually not very hard to determine what the common factor is in a clique, most of the time just looking at a clique can give it away. There are cliques because something brought all those people together, whether it was a type of music, a way of living or even bonding over the love they all share for a certain T.V. show. The Athlete Clique consists of students of all ages and most in the Athlete Clique play more than one sport all year. They could play football in the Fall and play baseball in the Spring. One could also be a cheerleader in the Fall and then play basketball in the Winter. This clique in some schools could also be the “Popular” Clique because they are what makes the school proud, especially a school in a “football town” such as Rosman, North Carolina. A lot of times these Athlete Cliques are big with the teachers, even…

is clearly evident: cliques that are self dissociated by gender, race, age, and character of the children. Cliques are used to describe an adolescent social group of teenagers used to describe themselves and others-such as jocks, druggies, populars, brains, nerds, normals, punks, freaks, and skaters. However, there is such a thing as groups that are completely based on friendships. These types of groups form when the people in them have something in common. Friendship groups are how every group…

Have you ever been in a clique? Or have you ever been excluded from one? A clique is it is a group of people that share similar interests and exclude others on purpose. Sometimes they exclude others and even make fun of them, which may lead to bullying. This makes people feel left out and insecure. When cliques are formed, they are created to leave kids out. In the text, how cliques make people feel left out the author states “Trey, Zack, and Steve were friends, but Zack and Steve left out Trey…

Cliques. As much as I want to pretend they don’t exist and that everybody is friends with everybody, that simply isn’t true. Certain people hang out with certain people, that’s just the way it is. There are the stereotypical ones, nerds, jocks, drama kids, popular girls, etc. But little do some know, it goes in a little bit more in depth than that. For example, there are the “nerds” who do their schoolwork at lunch and that’s all they do. But on the other hand, there are the nerds who sit around…

detention, while lifelong friendships are made by the simple act of understanding and relation. In the opening of the movie, the teenagers quickly group together based on what they know: the ‘popular’ and ‘athletic’ together, against the ‘rebel’, ‘nerd’ and ‘odd-ball’, who are all ultimately against the covetous Vice Principal. As detention drags on, the bickering teens get to know each other, sneaking around and finding activities to pass the time, slowly getting closer to one another as they…

often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leaves people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.” Today, most people allow themselves to be sorted into friend groups and be labeled by the media. When allowing the media and world around them do this, they can become something they are truly not. Some people don’t let anything but their actions define them. Some say that cliques benefitted them, but others say that they missed out on…

Language arts Have you ever been in a clique? Or have you ever been excluded from one? Well if you are wondering what a clique is it is a group of people with similar interests that exclude others on purpose. Sometimes they leave you out and even make fun of you, this may lead to bullying and this makes people feel left out and make kids feel insecure. When cliques are formed, they are created to leave kids out. In the text, how cliques make people feel left out the author states “Trey, Zack,…

Dr. Seuss he stated, “ Why fit in when you were born to stand out? ” While many students are different from their mates, they try to fit in with the rest of the crowd. Although social cliques can have a bad thing on a person, it can also be a good thing for a person to be in such a social clique. Many social cliques don’t just happen at school; they happen almost everywhere in the world. Out of people from anywhere, people can choose their friends that have unlike characteristics from what they…

Luc Martin, Blair Evens, and Kevin Spink wrote in “Coach Perspectives of ‘Groups Within the Group’: An Analysis of Subgroups and Cliques in Sport” about negative effects of the Inner Ring. They interviewed different coaches about the different subgroups within the teams. There were both positive and negative ways the subgroups can effect others. The overall consensus was, “subgroups have the potential to elicit negative outcomes for members, but can also facilitate the development of beneficial…

I was never physically or verbally bullied as a child. I was shy and soft spoken; therefore, I never did anything to attract attention to myself. Instead of harassment, I had more difficulty dealing with isolation. Though this is not same type of bullying we had seen in the video, it did make me depressed and abandoned. I typically felt this while attending McKinley High School. McKinley is full of cliques, which may be due to a high rate of students from the same middle schools. Most of…