Mean Girls

In the film “Whale Rider” directed by Niki Caro, in a small town in New Zealand called Whangara a innocent young girl called Paikea is born and she is everything Koro didn’t want in the future chief/leader. Throughout the film she struggles to try to become the leader causing a heap of conflict. An important idea shown to us throughout the film is the idea of the role of men and women . A scene where this idea is shown in the film is when Paikea is not allowed to sit in the front row with the…

Deborah Tannen presents her factual clarifications in her article But What Do You Mean, where she lists the common areas of miscommunication. One area she mentioned was the moment of “praise”. When a girlfriend asks another friend her opinion on an outfit one does not expect a negative comment, she expects a nice comment and maybe a suggestion if the outfit does not wear the outfit well. Women try to avoid being blunt. If a girl asked a guy about an outfit she would expect a nice critique, but…

severely distorted. In reality, she was a smart, mischievous, quick girl of around ten or eleven when she interacted with John Smith, far too young to be interested enough to save him from a storied death sentence that would not have happened. Where the fictional Pocahontas was a young woman acting out of love and admiration for Smith and his people, what we know of the true Pocahontas shows that she was a bright and brave young girl, willing and ready to act for the betterment of her people’s…

Setting: Sitting in the food court by the Movie Theater and newly added Arcade. I watched as the teenagers would walk in the mall with their friends and some with the family members. As soon as I started to observe, I saw four teenage girls walking toward me to go inside the Arcade to play. They were mixed, as in color wise. There were two whites one Spanish looking, and one African American. As they were walking, I could hear them talking and laughing. I heard one said something about a…

have watched them both grow up and evolve into two very different people. Therefore, it confused me whenever people would tell them “You two could be twins!” As we all grew older, however, I began to understand. From the outside looking in, these girls could very well be identical twins; in reality, they couldn’t be more different if they tried. The outward similarities are shocking. Both have lightly tanned skin and big brown eyes. Their noses are sprinkled in freckles and their cheeks flush…

are where much of Holden Caulfield’s expertise lie as well. Even in matters of opinion, Holden Caulfield places his own ideas as superior to those of women, even those he seems to respect. “Every time you mention a guy who’s strictly a bastard -very mean or very conceited... She’ll tell you he has an inferiority complex” (Salinger 135). He immediately shows disdain towards the idea of excusing someone as having an inferiority complex, yet he continues on to say “His name was Bob Robinson and he…

This ad is completely, with no question, effective in targeting teenage girls because, its pink, all pink everywhere. I go back to the pink many times because most of this ad is indeed pink. The targeted audience is meant to get an even more youthful, beautiful, and flawless eyelash and face just from the mascara. She has pouty…

Hemingway illustrates the contrast of Krebs’ two lives, “There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar…. There is a picture which shows him on the Rhine with two German girls and another corporal. Krebs…

It’s nothing, I 'm having a natural feeling of being uncomfortable.” Olenna hugged her daughter and said: “Oh my sweet little girl, everything will be fine.” Visenya was showing a homesick impression, but she knows that her journey is about to start in this town. Part two: Visenya wanted to know her neighbors and she had notions of making new friends and having a proper…

“All I want you to say is nothing at all. And all I want you to do is stare at the wall. I love your plastic hair and your plastic eyes. Marvel at your plastic breasts and your plastic thighs” (Genius Lyrics, 2017). The 1998 hit, “Polyester Girl”, by Australian band Regurgitator, flawlessly and ironically construes the confining and claustrophobic mould women of the 21st Century are expected to shape shift into (Wikipedia, 2017). With the media’s influence at a skyrocketing high and women…