Gitchie Girl Analysis

Sheila Sharp was sleeping over at a friend’s house, while a neighbor’s son, Justin Smartt and John’s friends, Dana Wingate were sleeping over at the Sharp’s in Cabin 28. The following morning Sheila returned from her sleepover to witness the horrific scene of her mother, brother, and Dana’s murdered bodies lying on the floor. All three were killed

At the j.v victory game Morgan was no where to be found and when Remy got home he didn’t even call her. Remy started to have a break down and decided that she didn’t want to go to church anymore. None of the kids really wanted to go to church. They hated staying there so long and really hated the fact of staying there for so long. Remy ask her brother if he wanted to stop going to church he hated being on Morgan side even though he didn’t want to go to church either he still told her he wouldn’t break his mother heart and loved going to church. When Morgan got home his family yelled out eleven o’clock in any other house hold that means bed time but in Morgan’s house it means to watch the news. They all would sit around watching the news when a report that a 26 year old DENISE THOMPSON was hit broad side by a truck she was killed instantly. The police say there was suppose to be a stop sign. But on Denise way home from dropping her baby sister off came to the intersection with Warren Street, there was no stop sign. The car was crushed by a mason’s dump truck. The front door had been cut off to extricate the driver. Morgan was screaming on the inside but yet it was so loud it was like a truck was running through his brain. He thought to himself there’s supposed to be a stop sign on cherry road. Morgan heart burned. His heart seemed to catch fire he was hot and dry; he wanted to look at his skin but could not take his eyes off the screen. He thought to himself no body

Natasha has been feeling like Hayley and Jenny don’t want to be friends anymore, so she goes back to Becca. Together, Natasha and Becca try to find out how she got in the river. Later on, everyone was at play practice. Tasha wasn’t feeling good so she sat out. Becca’s best friend Hannah stepped in her place. When Tasha went to go move the overhead light, it came crashing down over Hannah. It killed her. Both the police and the girls had decided that Hayley and Jenny had led Tasha into the river and did something to the light for it to fall. The two girls were sent to prison and counseling for murder and attempted murder. After that, everything was going fine until Becca started to get a little suspicious. She asked the police if she could look over all the evidence again. She then came to the conclusion that Natasha had done all of it. She had thrown herself into the river and framed Hayley and Jenny, and she loosened the light so that it would fall. The police did not believe her. One night, Becca and Tasha went out into the woods. Becca was going to try and get her to confess. Natasha did end up confessing, but then she

In the sessions to follow, they met at a church, because she was under a form of witness protection to keep her safe from her perpetrator’s fellow gang members. Dr. Perry allowed her to guide the “play” during their sessions and she chose to reenact the night of her mother’s murder, using him as the dummy. She forced him on the ground and had him lay as though he were hog-tied. She would then walk around the room and bring various toys to him. Dr. Perry determined that she was choosing to relive her horrible experience, but this time, she was the one who had control. This allowed her to come to better terms with what happened and begin to heal. Slowly, Sandy began to change Dr. Perry’s position to laying on his side. Then, one day, after months of work, she chose to lead him to a rocking chair instead. She then handed him a book and sat in his lap. Sandy spent the rest of her sessions sitting in his lap, as he rocked her and read to her.

One day Mary Lee, Madrigal, and their friends went skiing, Madrigal was dressed up nicely, and Mary Lee was wearing an all blue hideous ski suit. Madrigal thought it was a good idea to change ski suits with Mary Lee and pretend to be each other. Their friends couldn't recognize which one was Mary Lee or Madrigal. Mary Lee (as Madrigal) was loved by the students, and Madrigal (as Mary Lee) was alone in the ski lift, until an accident happens. The lift breaks and Madrigal falls to her death, but because of the outfit, the students think it's Mary Lee. Mary Lee tries to tell everyone who she really is, but they think she's just in shock, even her parents, so she pretends to be her sister because she had a better life. In school, Mary Lee realizes that her sister didn’t have the great life she thought she had. Student's were afraid of her, even her friends Scarlett and Van, because they thought she was Madrigal, so she ends up spending her time with her sister's boyfriend, John Pear. John Pear planned on taking Mary Lee somewhere that night, on the way to the place, they picked up a girl named Katy. When they arrived Mary Lee noticed that the neighborhood was

Jeannette Walls, the second oldest child, was chosen to be interviewed next. Jeannette Walls is a tall, skinny, pale, orange haired thirteen year old girl with large scar across her body. Jeannette got this scar from an incident when she was three years old and living in trailer park in southern Arizona. During this time, Jeannette was left unattended and allowed to cook hot dogs and her dress caught on fire, leading to her to receive severe burns that required a skin graft (Walls 9-10). Jeannette Walls, being only three years old at the time, was far too young to be left unattended and allowed to use a stove, which results in her receiving severe burns. This blatant neglect from her parents shows their irresponsibility, due to the fact that they allowed they left a three year old child unattended and allowed her to get into an extremely dangerous situation that could have resulted in the death of the child.

The book “Pretty Good for a Girl” is a biography on a cross country star and her rise to the top, but also her spiral downward with her personal battle to win.  Leslie Heywood was a long distance runner with no weakness or fear. Heywood takes us through her early years filled with eating disorders, sexual abuse, and an unhappy home life. It wasn't a drive to win, but a drive to be accepted as one of the guys.

In our world today, there are many different types of cultures. In America especially, there is so much diversity within culture that it's what makes America what it is today. What is culture you may ask? Culture is basically a human’s way of living life through values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects. In the well-known movie, Mean Girls, there are a lot of different types and aspects of culture throughout the movie. The movie Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady Heron who lived in Africa and was homeschooled for most of her life, has to attend a public high school called North Shore. She is clueless at first and after a while she makes friends with a group of popular girls known as the Plastics. She fits in quickly and tries to adapt through high school. There are different types of cultures and subcultures at North Shore such as the Plastics, the Jocks, the Nerds, the Cool African Americans, the Cool Asians, the Foreigners, and the Losers. Everyone at North Shore high wants to be like the Plastics so some of the girls like to copy everything the Plastics do such as the way they speak and dress. In addition to that all the students are desperate to fit in so in order for them to do that they have to value sex, drinking, partying, makeup, and other typical teenage stuff. Mean Girls did in fact have a lot of different types of cultural aspects to it and there are strong examples to prove this.

On this date worker spoke with Mrs. Julie Johnson after meeting Mrs. Marilyn Beaird. Ms. Johnson stated she wanted her mother taken care of and did not care what happened to her father. According to Mrs. Johnson, her father has always been a mean person and beat her and her mother. Mrs. Johnson is afraid Mr. Beaird will flip out one day and kill everyone in the home himself included. Due to this Mrs. Johnson had Mr. Beaird committed a few days ago. She is now afraid that if Mr. Beaird returns home he will "finish the job." According to Mrs. Johnson, her father has many connections due to his mining work and his wealth.

Commonly referred to as a classic by millennials, Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters in 2004, allows an interesting critique of racism when viewed through a sociological lens. The story follows Cady Herron, a normal teenager- except for the fact that she grew up in Africa, homeschooled by her scientist parents- as she is forced to integrate into the public-school system in Illinois. Never having been in an institution like a public school, Cady quickly learns what not to do and who to hang out with. Through trial and error, Cady assimilates and becomes a ‘normal’ American teenager who is part of the ‘popular’ crowd, befriending “The Plastics”; Karen Smith, Gretchen Wieners, and their leader, Regina George. The story of Mean Girls is not as superficial as it seems. This film illustrates the perils of not only teenage life, but current life in America, and accurately depicts the struggles that minorities face. Looking at this movie through Functionalist theory, the racial aggressions present are part of a larger institution of the public school system; insinuating that the micro and macro-aggressions directed towards minorities are part of developing the future generation and teaching them to perpetuate racial inequality in America, allowing white people to remain the majority race and to reap the benefits that come with it. The complexity of the movie lies within an interesting discourse that examines the effects and functions behind the racist

Connie goes out and does things that are morally wrong for a young girl to be doing because she

The movie, Girl, Interrupted, displays Susanna Kaysen’s eighteen-month stay at a mental institute in the 1960s. This film was an adaptation of a book based on a true story of the main character and author Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was checked into Claymore, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. At first, Susanna denies this blatant attempt at suicide and constantly struggles with uncertainty of her thoughts and emotions. Although Girl, Interrupted exhibits several mental disorders one of the most prevalent disorder of this film is Susanna’s Borderline Personality Disorder. This film depicts majority of the signs and symptoms of a person with Borderline Personality. As stated in the textbook, “the lives of persons with borderline personality are marked by instability. Their relationships are unstable, their behavior is unstable, their emotions are unstable, and even their images of themselves are unstable” (Larsen and Buss 593). Susanna’s romantic relationships are extremely unstable and she frequently engages in casual sex. She jumps from one guy to another in a matter of few weeks. One scene that establishes this the most is when her boyfriend at the time comes to visit her at Claymore and expresses his true feelings for her and she instantly withdraws. He asked her to go to Canada with him and she turns him down immediately. She also kisses Lisa who she befriends at the mental institute, displaying a switch of

In the movie Girl, Interrupted the plot surrounds a period in the life of Susanna Kaysen played by Winona Ryder who was institutionalized at the Claymore mental hospital in the 1960s. In the movie, the main character Susanna is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and undergoes treatment to which at the end of the movie she is released. It is at this hospital that Susanna encounters many other patients of which she shares many experiences with. One of these patients was the longtime resident and popular amongst all the other patients Lisa Rowe played by Angelina Jolie whom Susanna became close with and would mid-movie escape the hospital with to only return on her own and find that Lisa would be back a few days later. Lisa, while being the protagonist of the movie, was very charismatic in her own way and based on her behavior and revelation in the movie is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, particularly a sociopath in the movie.

"Cold, shiny, hard, PLASTIC," said by Janice referring to a group of girls in the movie Mean Girls. Mean Girls is about an innocent, home-schooled girl, Cady who moves from Africa to the United States. Cady thinks she knows all about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when she enters public high school and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teen girls deal with today. Cady goes from a great friend of two "outcasts", Janice and Damien to a superficial friend of the "plastics", a group of girls that talks about everyone behind their back and thinks everyone loves them. Adolescent egocentrism and relationships with peers are obviously present throughout the film. I

In todays modern society, there is now a constant growing concern about adolescent’s exposure to the medias portrayal of sexuality and love. The publicity of love and sex that todays adolescents are saturated in is mainly unrealistic and false, theoretically affecting and distorting their, behavior, beliefs and attitude towards sex and love. These impractical pictures tend to commonly be publicized through social media, networking, television and movies. The medias views tend to contradict the biblical messages towards love and sex, confusing young society on the meaning of true commitment and love. A popular television show targeted to the demographic of female teenagers ‘Gossip Girl’ features and emphasizes the wrong messages concerning love and sex.