Gossip Girl Research Paper

Gossip Girl, an American teen drama television show created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage released on September 19, 2007 on The CW, is based on teens life from the Upper East Side of Manhattan that are friends that occasionally betray each other's trust throughout the episodes. Their wardrobes are full of designer clothes, they drink cocktails at New York City’s coolest bars, dabble in drugs, all while still in high school. The drama that these young and spoiled people have to deal with differs from many other people’s lives. Their parents are known to being the greatest in New York. Either the manager of great empires, business manager, designer in clothes and much more. The lives of these residents of Manhattans Upper East Side is a big scandal.

Today’s society lives in a world that would cause much confusion to others in the past. The people who are “known” are not necessarily people who are loved. Many so called celebrities have just as many haters and they do fans, but that does not stop them from becoming a household name. For example, the Kardashians are a household name across the world. Many people love them, but just as many people love to hate them. Even though, people do not like them it does not stop the family from being one of the most known families in the world. Even if someone has a strong hatred for the family, it does not mean that their name won’t ever come out of their mouth. The love hate relationship society has with the Kardashians reflect how in this society

“And who am I? That's one secret I’ll never tell.. You know you love me. xoxo - Gossip Girl,” this famous opening from the show “Gossip Girl” which represented the mystery in the show until the very end. “Gossip girl,” a show that let the audience in the lives of manhattan's elite. “Gossip Girl” is a blogger who spills secrets of the teens of New York’s upper east side. Blair Waldorf the queen bee of Constance Billard’s school, Serena van der Woodsen her beautiful best friend and occasional rival. Chuck Bass the “bad boy” who loves to have fun, and then there’s Nate Archibald; Chucks best friend, who wants to be able to plan his own life out. The secrets of these characters and many more are spilled and we watch them get caught up this drama that

My movie is Mean Girls. I have probably watched this movie more times than I would like to admit. This is a great movies because any high school girl can relate to it. Mean Girls is about a teenaged girl names Cady that movies from Africa after being homeschooled for all theses years, and she goes to a public school and eventually ends up part of “the plastics” and completely changes from who she was. (Waters 2004) This movie really hits close to home being a teenage girl at one point. Mean girls has a lot to do with adolescence development such as: peer pressure, self-esteem, moral identity and observational learning.

At 12:10 a.m. on June 13, 1994, the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found by Los Angeles Police brutally murdered. Steven Schwab, a neighbor of Nicole, was out with his dog late at night going for a walk. While they were walking, Schwab came across a dog with blood on its paws. The dog followed Schwab back to his house, neighbors of Schwab Sukru Boztepe and Bettina Rasmussen offered to keep the dog overnight. The dog, named Kato was barking and running around all night. The couple decided to let the dog out and see what he was so wound up about. Kato led the couple to Nicole's house where they found Nicole and her boyfriend, Ron, dead.

Cady Heron is a 16 year old teenager who moved to a small town in Chicago where she also attended Northshore High School. She was homeschooled by her parents and they also stayed in Africa for about 12 years because of her parents job but since her mom got an offer in Chicago they have to move back. Since it was her first time going to a mainstream school, it was really hard for her to adapt especially her age. It would also be her first time dealing with a lot of social rules that many teenage girls deal with today. Her first friends that she met at this new school are pretty much complete outcasts, Janice Ian Dyke and Damien, later on she finds herself crossing paths with the three most popular girls in the school called, The Plastics. Regina George who’s “The Queen Bee” of the group, leading this group of 3 girls, tries to make Cady be apart of this clique by introducing her to their crazy rules and luxury lifestyles. She told Janice and Damien that

Cady Heron is a 16 year old teenager who moved to a small town in Chicago where she also attended Northshore High School. She was homeschooled by her parents and they also stayed in Africa for about 12 years because of her parents job but since her mom got an offer in Chicago they have to move back. Since it was her first time going to a mainstream school, it was really hard for her to adapt especially her age. It would also be her first time dealing with a lot of social rules that many teenage girls deal with today. Her first friends that she met at this new school are pretty much complete outcasts, Janice Ian Dyke and Damien, later on she finds herself crossing paths with

Brittney Davis Photography is a photography studio that is located in Dallas, Texas. They are serving the City of Dallas and the surrounding metroplex area as well. Brittney Davis is a natural light photographer. Brittney Davis Photography specializes in children, family, and lifestyle newborn portraiture. Brittney Davis Photography takes photographs of the newborn at the comfort of their own home, capturing the newborn’s first moments in a meaningful way.

Do you desire an intelligent teen comedy with witty dialogue? Do you reminisce on being young without the burden of responsibilities? Do you enjoy revenge stories? Mean Girls is the answer for such a particular audience.

A little over halfway through the novel, Gossip Girl sends out a “blast” which accuses N, more commonly known as Nate Archibald, of buying marijuana in Central Park, as well as reporting that B, Blair Waldorf, was supposedly seen buying condoms and getting a Brazilian waxing. She ends the post by implicating that two other girls from their school are gaining too much weight (von Ziegesar 81-82). None of these events have been proven to be true, but New York teens take them and run with them, anyway. Rumors are spread, fights and scandals ensue, and the readers’ beloved characters, inevitably, get hurt. This brings back the common theme of drama that surrounds all of the girls and women in the “girl” titles mentioned earlier. Series like Gossip Girl and Gilmore Girls are so popular because they are so easily accessible to their audience: women. Every girl in the world has faced a scandal in her lifetime, true or not. It can cause serious emotional, sometimes even physical, trauma that may last years. Seeing characters like the ones in Cecily von Ziegesar’s world who are seemingly perfect on the outside face the same difficulties as other women adds complexity to their lives and allows them to be easily

The central relationship between Serena van der Woodsen and Dan Humphrey represents the contrast of different social classes due to the specific location they live in and the social standards that they are raised by. Dan is one of the main male leads of the show that commutes from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side for a better education and is not that good looking. Despite what is consider as his social class being his setback, Dan admires Serena, who is beautifully desired by all men and comes from a wealthy family. When Serena agrees to go out with Dan, the magic of overcoming class boundaries seems possible for the viewers. Until later in the show, when Serena and Dan break up right before high school graduation, the separation of these two characters displays the disparity in classes that cannot be overcome. However, the actual wealth and poverty of the whole state of New York in comparison to the rest of the United States is on whole different scale. Thus, the representation of the elite upper class in this show is fabricated to the limitation of two geographic locations within the state of New York. This fabrication can reflected to the cultural norms of how many people believe New York is the city lifestyle of wealth and

Gossip Girl, an American television drama, had six seasons, all told by the narrator Gossip Girl. Gossip Girl runs a highly popular blog that gives the Upper East Side adolescents little to no privacy. Serena van der Woodsen, one of the main characters, had just returned to Manhattan for high school classes at the Constance Billard School for Girls and St. Jude's School for Boys. Serena’s best friend Blair Waldorf is “queen bee” of the Constance Billard School for Girls, and throughout the seasons, Blair, Serena, and younger classmates fight for the “queen bee” status. Additionally, Gossip Girl features the poorer, aspiring writer Dan Humphrey, the “Golden Boy” Nate Archibald, the arrogant, womanizing Chuck Bass, Serena’s mom Lillian Bass,

Pretty Little Liars is a television show based on a set of novels that focuses on the lives of four teenage girls and the struggles that they face daily. After the murder of their cliques Queen Bee, Alison, each girl begins to get harassed and an anonymous bully threatens to expose all of their secrets. They are abused mentally after what seems like a never ending search to discover who the anonymous person that is harassing them is. The strong relationship that the girls maintain through their anxiety ridden high school career shows us that friendship can help to keep you strong. We will be looking specifically at Abnormal Behavior demonstrated throughout the girls high school days; Social identity theory demonstrated by

Ana Montes ENGL 0190 WP #2 Mrs. Ziegel Breaking Bad is an award winning crime drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. In the beginning of the series the main character, Walter White, teaches high school chemistry. When Walter started feeling sick and bleeding when coughing, he decided to go to the hospital and was later diagnosed with lung cancer. Without his friends and family’s knowledge he turns to selling crystallized methamphetamine with former student, Jesse Pinkman. He does this in order to financially support his family in the future after he dies.

18 year old Caucasian woman by the name of Susanna Kaysen was voluntarily admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital after an overdose of aspirin and alcohol. This young lady explained that she was not intentionally trying to harm herself, but was only trying to get rid of a headache.