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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 different cliques including: “Asian Nerds, Cool Asians, J.V Jocks, Black Hotties, fat girls, thin girls, band geeks, want-to-be’s and The Plastics”. Cady Heron begins the movie as a part of the “Art Freaks” clique with characters Damian and Janis Ian. Throughout the film she transitions to the clique described as “the worst people you will ever meet”, The Plastics. The Plastics are the stereotypical “popular”…

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 today’s general public, more than three million students are victims of bullying each year. The movie, Mean Girls is ultimately about bullying. The Plastics and their leader, Regina George, are prominent for their ugliness toward other students. They judge others for their looks without even knowing their identities or individual stories. It additionally demonstrates how hanging with unpleasant individuals can make you turn into a great deal like them. Sounds a great deal like our society…

In the movie called, “The Mean Girls” there is a character named Cady Heron. Cady Heron just moved to the United States from Africa. She has been homeschool her whole life and she was starting a new high school. In high school, Ms. Heron has to deal with teenage life that run socially by a group of artificial girls called, “The Plastics.” As the story goes on, Cady Heron winds up becoming the plastic’s queen of sorts and is dethroned by the old queen, when all of the students find out what these…

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…

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…

Mean girls is a movie about a teenage girl going into public school as a junior in high school for the first time, after being homeschooled for her entire life up until. She is discovering herself and where she fits in with her peers. I will be discussing the Influences on Identify Formation that are reflected in this movie. Cognitive Development Cognitive development is defined as ones individualization, it is the development of the distinct personality of an individual in regards as a…

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…

One reason why intragroup conflict had occurred was due to insecurity and personal conflicts that occurred once members of the group began to dislike one another. As a result of Cady’s plan of turning the girls against each other, they began to feel ostracized from Regina, who is the group leader. According to Alicke et al., 1992, personal likes and dislikes do not always translate into group conflict, but people will air their complaints about the group or their dislike for a group member.…

Many people know of Germany's most well-know supreme controlling and murderous famous dictator, Adolf Hitler. Many people also know of the hit movie Mean Girls staring Lindsey Lohan before her drug downfall. What many people do not know is that Adolf Hitler and Regina George of Mean girls have many similarities. Adolf Hitler was a dictator governmental leader in Germany from 1933 – 1945. Adolf was a major power in Germany, being a brutal an unforgiving leader. During Adolf leadership he was…