Lizzy Caplan

When someone blurts out the word “high school”, what’s your first initial thought? I don’t know about you, but “cliques” are the first thought to my mind. The media is drowning in films that portray the idea of “cliques”, but personally, I believe the film Mean Girls is the best representation of the world of cliques. Means Girls is a teen classic, and I can almost bet the majority of my generation has seen or at least heard of it. It is American teen comedy film that manifests the harsh conditions teens undergo when it comes to high school cliques. The plot starts off when previously home schooled Cady Heron moves back to the United States, where she spent the last 12 years in Africa due to her parents jobs. Cady’s parents decided to do away with homeschooling and immersed her into the public school system. Cady quickly had to master the rules of the cliques and steep into a clique. Cady befriends the “Plastics” and become aware of how popularity divides her from the rest of the school. The “Plastics” are seen as rich, dumb, pretty, self conscious, popular girls who rule the school. After controversy with the leader of “Plastics”, Regina George, Cady makes a game of being friends with the “Plastics”. However, later on, Cady shifts from playing games to destroying the leader, Regina George. Sadly, during this quest, Cady, herself, begins to transform into a “Plastic”. Social Stratification is clear-cut throughout the film. Inequalities between certain individuals throughout…

High School is a period in adolescence where identities are found within the self by figuring out where they belong in this world. That can be hard especially for teens like Cady Heron in the 2004 movie Mean Girls directed by Mark Waters based on the book Queen Bees and Wannabes which encompasses females in high school cliques and how damaging it can be for development to girls. Cady Heron is a 16 year old who has just moved back to the states after living in Africa for her parents zoology…

Number the stars is a wonderful book about Ellen and Annemarie, 2 ten-year-old girls that are best friends. They go through a lot and their bond only gets stronger when Nazis show up and Annemarie has to protect Ellen because she is a Jew. Even though they go through so many troubles, it only makes them stronger. Number the stars somehow pulled you into itself, for example, when the Nazis boarded the boat, I felt scared. Not just worried but actually scared. I was scared for the safety of…

You are an old man, who has a health condition that makes you extremely tired to the point of passing out from only walking up a flight of stairs. You are the same old man that would throw around guys weighing over 200 pounds, and standing six foot and taller. These huge men would run swinging and kicking trying to beat the old man, but never could. This isn’t a Mr. Miyagi story, this is the purest form of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at its best. Since 1925 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has been helping the…

films? As you know, TV shows are fast-paced with quick (often weekly) deadlines per episode. That makes for really intense work – there isn’t a lot of time to fix things or do take after take like a film set allows. Actors have to be able to nail their characters immediately so the crew can move onto the next setup. There’s very little tolerance for actors who can’t bring it right away. On Masters Of Sex, they were ready to shoot my scene, and I was waiting for "Action," but I never heard it.…