Not Another Teen Movie

stands for moral groundings and believes in showing positive leadership skills and the right road to success. She has developed her acting skills at a very young age and has not stopped motivation since then. The majority of her movies are children and teen movies, some of her most famous are people’s favorites worldwide. Many of her roles involve Andrews motivating children to follow in the right foot steps and stay on the right path in life. She showed her interest in acting and singing at the…

negative doings. According to a CBS News report from 2010, “Cyber-bullying has spread widely among youth, with 42% reporting that they have been victims.” There wouldn’t be as much cyber bullying if teens would detach their nose from their electronic. Through research we have found that “Hyper-networking” teens (those who spend more than 3 hours per school day on social networks) are 110% more likely to be a victim of cyber bullying, compared to those who don’t spend as much time on social…

Transforming Leadership on the Court The movie “Coach Carter” is based on the real-life story of Ken Carter who returns to his former high school to bring back the basketball team. This school was in an African American community, where graduating only occurred about half of the time. The school allowed the players to walk around like they were above the law and saw basketball as the best times of the lives of many of the players- not the potential of them to be successful in school, let alone…

Every face is welcoming, no one ever argues, and the biggest problem is a cat getting stuck up in a tree. The movie Pleasantville is a commentary on how humans are afraid of change in the world. A lot of the time we get so used to our daily routines that whenever we have to overcome an obstacle we crumble and don’t know what to do. This film does a great job showing how change can really affect people. The Pleasantville society shows a great deal of prejudice by being discriminate to those who…

communication. Many times individuals do not notice these different aspects that influence the way we communicate because they happen so often and so quickly. Movies are a great way to acknowledge these aspects because they are based on communication. In the movie Mean Girls, Cady Heron has lived in Africa her entire life with her parents, who were also her homeschool teachers. Her family then moved to the United States where Cady enrolled into a public school at the start of her junior year.…

“We're the planeteers, you can be one too! ‘Cause saving our planet is the thing to do, looting and polluting is not the way, hear what Captain Planet has to say: "THE POWER IS YOURS!!”; “But life is sustainable now. Look at this plant. Green and growing. It’s living proof he was wrong.” These quotes are from an eco-toon and films that critics or people have a problem with. The main problem, that I see, is that these enviro-toons or films, Captain Planet, Wall-E and The Lorax, use propaganda or…

The world of Salinger has no room for women The Cather in the Rye written by J.D Salinger is known for its themes of teen angst, alienation and more importantly its views against feminism. Holden’s views of women in general are not pleasant all of which is due to the fact that there are only there are three types of women throughout the world of Holden Caulfield: Role models who break away from stereotypical roles such as Phoebe, the weak who have the potential to become role models like Jane…

influential institutions of the dominant culture. The teen makeover movie is a visual medium that reinforces these expectations through the types of female characters they present. Gender stereotypes reveal a distinct correlation between performances of idealized femininity and the distribution of female power in their high school community. Heathers (1988), Clueless (1995), and Mean Girls (2004), despite having been released decades apart from one another, use similar makeover tropes to reveal…

softened his stance. “You dove into the ocean without telling me, Yasmin. We were twenty miles out. Ever seen a teenage girl bitten in half by a Great White?” Yasmin joked, “Yes, in that movie that comes on at one in the morning, Jaws.” Everybody laughed. Robbie was not amused, “Yeah, the Stephen Spielberg movie Jaws… Remember the scene when she was eaten, that could have been you.” Yasmin hugs Robbie -- clings to him like a little girl, “I promise, Robbie -- I’ll do whatever you want me to.”…

The Outsiders is about a story written in 1960s by the main lead, Ponyboy Curtis. Through narration, the story was told in a first person perspective. The story evolves between two groups of people, the lower-class group of Oklahoma youths called greasers and the upper-class youth from the west side of town called Socials, Socs for short. One night, some of the Socs were unhappy with some of the greasers when they befriended their girlfriend, Cherry Valance and Marcia at a drive-in. Later that…