Kayla's Stereotypes

You may very well know Zendaya from Disney shows like Shake it up and K.C undercover. If you have seen both shows you can tell there's a big difference she's older and knows more about the world. The world can be cruel and you need someone who can stand up to it. She's a great example because she can take the hate and instead of firing back with hate. She's tried and ignores it. She's an optimist because it's been rough. For example, she has a role in spider-man movie. They only know what she did, not what she did as she said you have to break down those walls and re-make a stronger and better one. If you don't think that says optimism, then tell what does. She's determined to not only enjoy her life but, also welcome other people and tries

Stereotype; a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. In the realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, and in the short story, “Geeks Bearing Gifts”, written by Ron Koertge, stereotypes are defied by ordinary people. In The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Darry Curtis face many struggles throughout their lives. Their town in separated into two: the rich and dangerous Socs, and the quiet, tough Greasers. For them, living dangerously is a reality. As a result of their lifestyle, Johnny has become fearful and Darry is considered the toughest man in the gang. In “Geeks Bearing Gifts” aspiring journalist, Renee, interviews her fellow classmates who are classified as “outcasts.” After meeting several students, she realizes her assumptions were incorrect about them. After reading both of these stories, the reader learns that our thoughts about others often revolve around stereotypes and assumptions, but most of these ideas that we have about other people are proven wrong.

My family and I have been through a lot together, we’ve been through everything that a family should not have to go through but here I stand, in one piece. Without the help of my fellow family members, I don’t know how I would have coped. But I have come out of the whole situation older, wiser and much more

In a powerful experiment we were able to see through the eyes of a kindergarten children prejudice dynamics. In a famous experience by Jane Elliot she separated her class between blue-eyed and brown-eyed students. Professor Elliot had separated her students by making one eye group inferior to the other making them have certain benefits and better treatment than the other group of students. Eventually, the students were switched the following day. This experiment have showed this group of kindergarten students how colors and discrimination affected the minority population. After this successful experiment with the kindergarten student’s professor Jane Elliot had done many other experiments using adults using the a similar technique blue-eyed

Jumping into a burning building is one of the things that the boys from the “Greaser Gang” would do for each other. When the main character, Ponyboy, jumps into a burning church to save children from the flames, his two gang members and family, Johnny and Dally, jump in after him to help get the children out and ensure that he can get out. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton shows two main themes. These themes show many examples of stereotyping could lead to misjudgment of people and to be loyal to the people around you, especially the ones close to you.

“Shut up, I’m crying.” I can hear her from across the cafeteria. This girl is the most annoying thing in the entire world. She literally only missed one point and she’s crying about it. Newsflash, it's not the end of the world. She does this all the time, it makes me want to strangle her! I can’t believe that someone hasn’t done it yet. She fits almost every stereotype at one time. Carrie is the perfect girl for the first five minutes of a horror movie. Little Miss Perfect Carrie, never got below a hundred until today.

Jessie Owens, who was a famous African American sprinter, fought back against Hitler’s racial stereotypes of Blacks by winning four gold medals and becoming one of the worlds most successful athletes. Owens challenged Nazi ideology that African Americans were inferior because he used his skill to win four gold medals, which disproved the idea that African Americans were unsuccessful athletes. The biggest blow to Nazi ideology about African Americans was that the German crowd treated Jessie Owens as a hero whereby they chanted and cheered his name whenever he entered the arena, which was reported to embarrass Hitler. In addition, Andre Kabos who was a Jewish-Hungarian fencer almost gave up his fencing career due to anti-Jewish propaganda in Hungary and was pressured by Jewish organizations to boycott the German games. However, Kabos chose to have one last run and performed in the 1936 Berlin games where he had his best performance ever and used his Jewish pride to strengthen his motivation to beat a German fencer and won a Gold medal in fencing. Kabos completely destroyed the Nazi ideology that Jews were the inferior race because not only did he win a gold medal, but he single handily beat a bloody German! Later during the Holocaust, Kabos was forced into a labour camp where he died, but to his grave he must have died with Jewish pride because he defeated a German right in front of Hitler’s eye’s.

We have all seen them in TV shows, movies, and music videos from the day. Greasers were heavily stereotyped gang members in the 40s and 50s that were known for their greased hair, switchblades, and leather jackets. How many of those are inaccurate, for greasers are not the only group that have been wrongfully stereotyped. One fictional greaser that has been stereotyped is Ponyboy, the fourteen year old narrator and main character of the popular novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Ponyboy is wrongfully stereotyped to be dumb, rough, and a criminal as are the rest of the greasers.

There are many different types of literacy genres, a very popular one that everyone abides to is gossiping. Everyone does it rather they realize it or not. Although everyone says, gossiping is a crime in our society, people still do it. One very famous movie everyone is aware for gossiping is, Mean Girls. In Mean Girls everyone in the High School has a clique. You either belong or you don’t. Throughout the movie you can identify the different types of groups the students have developed. “The Plastics” have made a burn book, which is basically gossiping and bullying the students and even the teachers in a pretty pink decorated book. After the book was shown to basically the whole school, everyone hated the plastics, they continued to ignore

The television show She’s Gotta Have It, is a show on Netflix based on the movie from 1986. In season 1 episode 10 “#Nolas Choice (3 Da Hard Way)”, the main character Nola invite three men; Greer, Jamie, and Mars to a Thanksgiving dinner. None of the men know that the other men have been invited to dinner, so they each think they are having a solo dinner with the lovely Nola Darling. Nola invites each of them there because she is sleeping with all three of them and she wants them to finally meet each other.

The movie Mean Girls is rated PG-13. It was published in 2004 and is a teen and comedy film. Mean Girls is about a teenage girl named Cady who was homeschooled in Africa and recently moves to Illinois. She decides to go to highschool and becomes a part of a group of girls called the “mean girls”. They are a popular group who tend to fit their name.

Do filmmakers depict teenage girls as the only bullies? A film, Mean Girls, is one of the many movies that have misconstrued teenage bullying. Mean Girls is about three white-upper class, popular girls that bully a lower class “nice” girl. Other films, such as A Cinderella Story, and Bring it On have added fuel to the fire. Filmmakers portray bullying by stereotyping, and giving a false representation of bullying.

We all see stereotyping in real life everywhere we go. Muslims are terrorists, and blondes are dumb; and they’re not always true. Believe it or not most of the blonde people I know are smarter than me. We see a lot of stereotyping in the book ‘The Outsiders’. The outsiders have two groups or gangs. The Socs and the Greasers. The greasers are know as the ‘gang’ or the ‘bad boys’ and the socs are known as the ‘popular group’ they wear madras shirts and drive corviars and mustangs. Everybody loves them however little do they know, they are the bad kids. The torture the greasers and jump them. I know that some of The Greasers also jump some little kids and pick up girls but nothing compared to The Socs. The Socs get away with almost anything because the police always let them off the hook, but not with The Greasers. That’s the problem that everyone thinks that The Socs and The Greasers are completely different but what if a Soc and a Greaser meet any completely tear down all stereotypes?

During the elections, Queen Emma faced much criticism in the islands for her gender, background, and character. In a letter written by Curtis Jere Lyons, he says on the native bulletin, the words “We do not wish to see the petticoat putting on breeches (or inside of the breeches)” were written above the Queen’s proclamation . By referring to clothes and dress, these words were attacking Queen Emma’s gender. Whoever wrote it did not want to see a woman as ruling monarch. In addition, an article published in The Chicago Tribune in 1874 speaking about the elections states, “The popularity… is purely personal, as she has no hereditary rank and little force of character”. Claiming that Queen Emma’s popularity in the elections was “purely personal” erases

In the teen comedy Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, the protagonist (Cady Heron) is welcomed into the stereotypical high school setting after being raised in Africa for all of her educational path. Cady, never being in a public-school setting, comes across the Plastics: Regina George (unspoken leader), Gretchen Wieners (gossip queen), and Karen Smith (the stupid, clueless one), who are at the top of the social pyramid. Befriended by the girls, Cady is left to decide whether or not she belongs in this clique or if her place exists in a different one. Throughout the film satirist and comedic scenes are used to show the different sexist lenses and stereotypes that women are viewed with.