Mean Girls: The Reality Of Highschool

photo. With bright smiles on our faces, I was looking forward to the next stage of my life: highschool. As I stepped out of the car, my dad remained there as he watched his son start his highschool career. I walked in the doors for the first time as a highschooler. A rush of excitement and a sliver of nervousness hit me. People of all ages are walking past me. Grown men a head taller than me and attractive girls that did not know that I existed were everywhere. One of my childhood friends came by me

An array of pictures of young girls with anorexia pop up when users search, “Thinspiration”, (a combination of the words, thin and inspiration), on the search bar of these media platforms. The images range from high fashion models that appear unhealthily thin, as well as girls smiling in pictures they take of themselves, wearing nothing but underwear so you can see each bone unnaturally protruding from their sunken skin. Along with these photos there are written posts, hashtagged as “meanspo”, which

which leads them to abusing alcohol and getting in major trouble. In “An Ounce of Cure”, the main character is a teenage girl who gets her heartbroken by a guy at her high school. She is super upset and depressed about it, even though it was a silly little fling. She is ignorant about what it

From start to finish the film "to save a life" presents the viewer with a multitude morality concepts that are depicted by the main character Jake Taylor. The setting of the movie “To save a life” takes place in a highschool and follows Jake Taylor a popular basketball player with questionable morals. Jake Taylor is the childhood friend of Roger Dawson and begins to distance himself from Roger due to feeling embarrassed by Rodger. The major rift between their friendship occurs when Jake encounters

zero. I am not talking about a biography or a memoir. No,I mean a full on novel depicting your entire life, including events that haven’t even happened yet? Birthdays, Christmases, anniversaries, and yes even death.I know, I know, you probably think I’m crazy. But, believe me, keep reading and you will see how I am not delusional. I am just unlucky enough to be the pawn in someone else’s game of life. I have always been an average girl. Never stood out, was never the head cheerleader or valedictorian

Imagine a situation where one is walking down an empty street and a woman gives one a glance and begins running, or one is told to leave a public restaurant simply because of the family one was born into. This is the reality for two African-American authors in the 20th century. Over the history of the United States minorities have faced a numerous amounts of racism. The types of racism that was expressed to these minorities has evolved as time went on. Two authors decided to write about their experiences

“Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt”, an article by Jean Kilbourne bitterly rags on sex in advertisement. It goes into detail to describe how companies have become increasingly more likely to sell sex in advertisements for products that, in reality, are entirely unrelated. Kilbourne focuses primarily on how this is harmful to society- especially women and children and how they are viewed by men, though men may also be targeted if not nearly as frequently. In a similar article called “Taking a Bite Out

They played outside at all hours of the night and they got into more trouble with each other and less with the law. Growing up I had always heard my dad’s stories of wandering around the small town with his friends getting into fights and meeting girls. Somehow now day’s things have changed but remain the same. For instance, we often act like boys fighting at a young age is just stupid or even “childish” but to a boy these fights are often almost something he will need to for the rest of his life

Through the beginning to the middle of November, I read the book Reality Boy by A.S. King. Reality Boy is about Gerald Faust, a kid in highschool who had his whole childhood screwed up because he was on reality TV. His mom thought he was retarded, his sister constantly beats him up, and the whole world laughed in amusement as they watched him take craps everywhere. The book was interesting because he started out as a kid known as “The Crapper” and he was able to turn his life around for the better

“Rome, Paris, London. Maybe I could stay for more than a semester and not come back until graduation.” Reality is Grace Collier is just a highschool girl that wanted to have a fun night with her friends at a party drinking. This party consisted of her four main friends and others but in particular, Zac being god’s gift to laurel Point and Grace’s ex boyfriend from just a couple days of dating. Miranda was one of Grace’s best friend but she liked Zac. Lindsey was also Grace’s best friend. Finally