Mark Waters

In the short story Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain it shows his experiences and his surroundings on the Mississippi river. His perspective changes while traveling the river. He sees the river as a passenger, but he also sees it as a pilot, because the pilot sees beauty and the danger in the the river. Twain shows his experience and change in viewpoint from seeing the beauty, to seeing the danger while traveling on the Mississippi river. In the beginning he beginning of the passage he compared the water to a book that only a few can read by saying “ The face of water, in time, became a wonderful book-- a book that was a dead language to understand to uneducated passengers….” (Twain) He was interested in the water because it had…

“Our similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.” This quote by Tom Robbins proves true in many scenarios. One would think it best applies in befriending others, but it also applies a little in comparing literary works, too. The movie Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, tells the tale of Cady Heron, a newcomer to North Shore High School and public schooling, as she is invited to join the Plastics, a trio of girls that follow Regina George…

Epiphany “When you get bit by a snake, you have to suck out all the poison out of it,” Cady Heron said as she started righting her wrongs in the film, Mean Girls. In this film, we follow the young and naive Cady Heron on her journey throughout her first year of public high school. We start with her first day of public school and follow Cady Heron until she has her epiphany near the end of the film. Mean Girls is an adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman’s book, Queen Bees & Wannabes, by Tina Fey. It…

In the movie, Mean Girls, it started with a girl named Cady who came from Africa, and used to be home schooled. Her first day in North Shore High School started bad, because she had difficulty making friends. The first people she meets are Janice and Damian. Janice, and Damian introduce the whole school to Cady including a group of girls that are known as the plastics. The plastics are a group of girls who are well known, and they like to express negatively opinions about everyone in school, and…

In the movie Mean Girls, Cady Heron shows many common characteristics of teenage girls in the twenty-first century. The film explores ideas of social organisation in high schools such as cliques, and also addresses gender stereotypes for adolescent girls. Cady Heron is illustrates a dramatised version of what high schools are like and the issues that students may be faced with including peer pressure and bullying. Like most Australian High schools, North Shore High School in Mean Girls has many…

Mean Girls Social Investigation The storyline centers around a young girl named Cady Heron, who has just entered the American school system. Cady is introduced to many different social groups, one of which is named the Plastics who includes Regina (Ring Leader), Gretchen, and Karen. They are the most admired girls in school. Cady decides to take down the group's leader, Regina by sabotaging the group with the help of some social outsiders. The film concludes with Cady realizing that these…

In the very popular comedy movie, Mean Girls, which was produced in 2004, there are many laughs about the high school cliques but there is also psychology throughout the film. The movie stars Lindsay Lohan who plays a 16 years old named Cady Heron whose parents are zoologist who traveled to South Africa and have returned after 12 years. Since she was away she was homeschooled and is attending public school for the first time in Evanston, Illinois. She befriends Janis and Damian who warn her…

Mean Girls, is a film loaded with stereotypes and roles of all different genders and cultures. Many people see this movie as a center of American culture and is known to many as a great comedy. Famous characters including Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Karen Smith, Cady Heron, Janis Ian, and Damian help build the story and themes seen in gender and communication. Stereotypes of feminism, gay and lesbian terminology, and essentializing are key terms that are the basis of the movie Mean Girls.…

“Mean Girls: Adolescent Stage of Development” Adolescence is an important stage of development. Many viewers that have watched this movie do not realize that it shows so many developmental concepts. This movie is not only for laughs but for real life examples of these concepts are involved in an everyday life. Mean Girls is a movie that is great for showing the life of an adolescent through physical, personal, and social development. The main character is a girl named Cady. She is originally…

Movies are a huge part of our lives. They’re the easiest thing to watch when we’re bored, when it’s a cold and rainy day, and they’re the most common date choice. However, there is an abundance of movie we can all enjoy, although not all movies are worth watching. My all time favorite movie is “Mean Girls”. “Mean Girls” is an entertaining movie that combines all aspects of a classic film; an entertaining and dramatic plot, excellent cast, and memorable quotes. “Mean Girls” is centered around…