A month before homecoming, Mount Washington High always post the list. On the list it names the prettiest and ugliest girls in each grade. There are copies everywhere. The list is written by a new person each year but no one ever finds out who it is. The girls become the center of attention for homecoming month. The eight girls each have their own story, background, problems, etc. No one finds out who write the lists until this year. Danielle Demarco was named the ugliest freshman. The nickname everyone gave her was “Dan the Man.” Abby Warner was named the prettiest freshman. She has a sister who is a senior and is known for being smart. Both agree that a person can not be pretty and smart. Candace Kincaid was named the ugliest sophomore. In everyone …show more content…
Bridget Honeycutt was named the pretties junior. She wasn 't very pretty in people 's eye but everyone noticed her change this summer. Even though she was known for being the prettiest she didn 't feel that way. She always thought she was too fat so she would starved herself which become a health problem. Jennifer Briggie was named the ugliest senior. She has been named ugliest senior for the past four years. She was the first in Mount Washington history to keep that record. Margo Gable was named the prettiest senior. Since she was named the prettiest senior she was considered the homecoming queen. The list had such a big impact on each of the girls. At the homecoming the person who wrote the list was discovered. They had the proof to prove it and that was the stamp which is stamped on every official list. The stamp was stolen from the principal 's office long ago and every year it is handed down to the next chosen senior. And the chosen senior who wrote the list this year was Jennifer the girl names ugliest girl all of her four years and Margo was the one who discovered it
Junior’s uniqueness makes his classmates find him strange. Junior’s growing up and learning on his own. While in “How Boys Become men,” it’s more of a process rather than learning from your mistakes. Which can be argued that the list is useless but the list shows character it shows the reader that he experienced
As the story begins she beings with a small plan to get nominated in the first place. She’s already confident she will be but she wants to have the most possible votes behind her. So, when she finds out when and how her boyfriend is going to ask her to homecoming, she gets it recorded. The video goes viral and she is confident in her nomination. Though when she discovers that new girl Erin Hewitt and outsider Ivy Proctor are on the nomination list she isn’t happy.
This shows that the girls trying to join the sorority are doing so because they believe that without it society will not treat them as well as those belonging to it. They see
A Character profile of Honey West in "Honey West: This Girl For Hire" by G.G. Fickling Personality: Honey West’s personality is a highly socially interactive woman that has exploits her sexual prowess as a means of gathering information from her clients and potential suspects. More so, West is an intelligent woman that is capable of solving problems with logic and reasoning. These personality factors define the sexual active and highly motivated social acumen that West utilizes as a private investigator working out of Hollywood. Honey West has many of the traits of a “protector”, since she becomes a private investigator to seek revenge for the death of her father. West as a strong intuition about people, which allows her to manipulate them through sexuality, charisma, and guile when investigating cases for her clients.
According to Pam Munoz Ryan, a girl gets to school one morning to find out that she doesn’t get invited to the popular kid’s, Bridget, party. All the people in her friend group are going, but she is the only one excluded. Her friends try to make it less awkward with her, but she ignores them and begins to doubt her appearance and how that might be the reason that she wasn’t invited. She begins her classes and get’s more and more anxious
Popularity, after all, is a status that many teenagers like to reach. Crystal tries to gain popularity when she suggests that she knows “what to do about the new vandalism policy,” which was her first step into popularity (Evans 208). Executing an elaborate plan to vandalize her school is amusing to Crystal and her friends. Crystal’s plan succeeded. She went from being known as anti-social to Cee-Cee, and her popularity skyrocketed.
My interest in Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. sparked when I met Sheila Hudson. At the time I had no idea that she was an active member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. What I saw in Shelia Hudson was a smart, accomplished, proficient women who completely shattered all of my preconceived expectations of what I thought a sorority girl was supposed to be like.
Mean Girls: implicit and explicit social norms, conformity, obedience Cady Heron’s life changed dramatically when she moved to a suburban area in Illinois, after living in Africa and being homeschooled her whole life. She started at North Shore High and quickly got sucked into the stereotypical girl drama. Prior to the drama, Cady met two of her best friends Damian and Janis, who were apart of the out-caste clique.
Wes makes this comment without any explanation and later on the reader learns that Wes really meant she was beautiful within, and not necessarily physically. Buckler also come to show that the meaning of a word can have a a strong foundation of what the text means. "It was a corsage. A corsage of simple flowers, such as a young boy sends his girl for her first formal dance. "(Buckler,pg.48).
Next, many gender and sexual stereotypes are perpetuated in media, through the ways of movies. In fact, the movie Legally Blonde fits under the category of stereotypes exceptionally well, since it shows many stereotypes of women in the society. For instance, there is one scene in the movie, where Warner, the handsome boy is playing football with his friends, and Elle, the dumb blonde sits on the sidelines to study and distract the guys playing as she wears nothing but a sparkly bikini top under a furry shawl on her upper half. This example evidently portrays the serotype of being a blonde dumb. Throughout the movie “Legally Blonde” Elle is shown as a material sorority girl, who is a duplicate copy of barbie in real life.
Introduction The film, Mean Girls, a 2004 American teen comedy, focuses on female high school social “cliques” and their effects. In doing so, the movie brings up various topics of sociological relevance, with connections to two of the main topics discussed in the first semester of this course. This film’s characters and world tie into modern socialization and gender issues, giving sociologists a satirical in-depth view of the social hierarchy present in today’s youth—particularly concentrated in young female teenagers. The movie addresses gender stereotypes, socialization and assimilation into a complex high school environment, self-fulfilling prophecy, and various other concepts important to the development of a social self for teens in the
It centers on females and how they act at that certain age. The four mean girls, Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Karen Smith and Cady Heron represent the stereotypes of the popular girls of high school. The role of gender plays an important role in the movie. The movie discusses the aspects of how a “typical” teenage girl should be, in order for her to fit in.
These experiences ranged from men catcalling her on the streets while making sexist remarks about her breasts, to those making comparisons of her height and attributing it to certain hobbies such as volleyball. In my mind, these give her quite a
The film Mean Girls is an American comedy movie for teens that illustrates the mainstream high school experience in the west. The main character, Cady Heron is a sixteen-year-old girl who is a new student at bob school in Illinois. Cady moved from being home-schooled in Africa, and therefore is unaware of the environment and lifestyle at a public high school. Cady then meets Daemon and Janis, who are part of an outcast group. Janis and Damien expose Cady to the norms of their school, talking her through cliques, and most importantly introducing her to “the plastics”, a group that Janis and Damian hated.
Mean Girls utilizes first person perspective with the protagonist, Cady narrating the majority of the film. This technique allows viewers to personally empathise with the protagonist and take on their world perspective. Further, Mean Girls frequently goes to close up camera shots of different staff and students in the school to show the overall opinion of the protagonist at varying points of her transformation; revealing the height of Cady’s popularity occurred when adhering to the ‘plastics’ materialistic standards (Mean Girls 2004). Similarly, Pink is also narrated from a first person perspective with the protagonist Ava. Accordingly, the audience is positioned to align with Ava’s perspective such as when she says ‘When I’d wanted to change boxes and become pink and perfect, all I needed to do was change schools and buy some new outfits.