Sista Girl Analysis

People think they can tell others identity or personality just by looking at them. People judge others all the time, one cant really help an impulse idea about the person. The reality is there is more to a persons identity than what people can see. We question how identity is amped everyday. Some believe it is influenced by personal choices; other believe it is by culture. There are obviously many different things that go into forming a persons identity. In my opinion culture is one of the most influential things that going into shaping a persons identity. This argument can be enforced in the articles “Who You Callin a Bitch” by Queen Latifah, Julian Dibbell’s “Alter Egos” and Mrigaa Sethi’s “Facebook:Editing Myself”

I am reading “The Bass, the river, and Sheila Mant” by W. D. Wetherell. The story is about a thirteen year old boy that has a big crush on this seventeen year old girl named Sheila Mant, and he is trying to get enough guts to ask her out. In this journal I will be questioning

“Girl” is a short story in which the author, Jamaica Kincaid, unofficially presents the stereotypes of girls in the mid 1900s. Kincaid includes two major characters in the story “Girl”, they are the mother and the girl. Although the daughter only asks two questions in this story, she is the major character. The mother feels like her daughter is going in the wrong direction and not making the best decisions in her life. The whole story is basically the mother telling her daughter what affects her decisions will have in the future. The mother believes that because her daughter isn’t sitting, talking, cleaning, walking or singing correctly it will lead her to a path of destruction. “Girl” is a reflection of female sexuality, the power of family, and how family can help overcome future dangers.

The film 4 Little Girls (1997) Directed by Spike Lee shows in detail the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that occurred on September 15th, 1963. Dr. King comment on the event stating that it is “one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity". The movie was entirely made nearly 30 years later, but still gives us an investigative feel while explaining how Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise still lived their lives day to day. Through the use of eye witness, family members, and friends we are given a detailed analysis of the event and the aftermath while juxtaposing church desecrations from the mid 1990’s. and institutional racism. 4 Little Girls was also well received by critics and truly a test for an experienced filmmaker.

In Pleasant Ridge High School’s production of this play, Margo Daley was played by sophomore Maura McClendon, Sarge Abbott was played by Matt Churchill, Hope Halliday was played by Emily Cole, Duncan O’Toole was played by Conner McClendon, Mary Beth Lumpkin was played by Desirae Shackleford, and Tamara Logan was played by Isabelle Lanter. Outside of the council, Hal Webster was played by Duncan Currie, Lamar Bentorres was played by Cameron Kilgore, Zoey Marcus was played by Clarrissa Dusil-Sweet, Opal Bell was played by Savanna Essary, Theodora Van Horne was played by Nicole Patrick, Budgie

In the film ‘Her’, directed by Spike Jonze, the main protagonist,Theodore Twombly conveys the idea of alienation via technology and its possible effects, due to his depression via his divorce and his easy going relationship with an artificial intelligence operating system named Samantha. The idea of alienation and technology and its possible effects on human relationships is conveyed via the quote, “Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt.” Theodore recently experienced is his divorce depression, and therefore becomes vulnerable, anti-social from society and isolated himself, by spending time with the artificial intelligence

Weldon Kees’ “For My Daughter” is based on a man’s predictions about the hardships that his daughter might go through in her life. Kees uses tone and imagery to describe how this man sees a painful future for his daughter filled with sorrow and hopelessness, the forthcoming of her death. By looking at the poet’s diction I believe the speaker (the man) can imagine or feel the pain and suffering that his daughter would go through. He uses this imagery to convey what the speaker’s bitter tone.

Picture this: An early Saturday morning that consists of a steady flowing summer breeze that caresses the curtains as it dances into the bedroom of a young girl. The young girl that this room belongs to sits on her bed Indian style (or Native American Style, to be politically correct), listening to her beloved iPod. She’s probably listening to Aerosmith -- her favorite band -- or her guilty pleasure song “Hollaback Girl” by No Doubt lead singer, Gwen Stefani. These aren’t her only musical interests; she has hundreds of favorites. Alice Cooper, Ludacris, Bad Company, Korn, Beastie Boys: the list continues on.

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.

A woman of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is a woman that understands the importance of her education. It is an essential human virtue and sign of freedom and because of this she firmly encourages the necessity to thrive to others. This woman also realizes the severity of unity. Women must build bridges in order to encourage, inspire and uplift one another. The struggle…the plight…the fight of women, especially women of color, is undeniable. Women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. are built for a work such as this. The pursuit of a post secondary education by women is as crucial now as it has ever been. A woman of this illustrious organization works to close the gap and preserve the passion that belongs in the life of college. Ultimately,

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

Two sociological theories that may be used to analyze the lives of the girls presented in the documentary, Gangsta Girls, are the differential association theory and the labeling theory. Edwin Sutherland came up with the differential association theory sometime in the late 1930s. His hypothesis proposes that we learn to be deviant through or associations with deviant peers. Essentially, this theory is self-explanatory as it suggests that basically peer pressure can enable you to perform acts that are considered deviant in nature. This factor of peer pressure is what acts as a catalyst for you to exhibit deviant behavior. An example of this could be your friend telling you to cut class with them. Since they’ve done it before, you may feel more

The Smartest Girl in the World, set in the spacious bedroom of a modern-day, lower class cityscape apartment, tells the story of vivacious third-grader Lizzy Martinez, who works to save the relationship between her and her chronically-ill brother, Leo, and the sibling’s idealistic plan to help their family. The performance, albeit child-oriented, is able to speak to all the members of the audience and teaches that one should put those they love before everything else - a simple, yet understated lesson about the value of family. The beginning of the play describes the special bond between Leo and Lizzy, where the siblings become super heroes and adventurers and the everyday materials found in their bedroom are used as supplies for fantastical

Her label as a tomboy is a necessity for survival, unlike Frankie Adams who like Capitola is orphaned on her birthday. Frankie is on the cusp of adolescence and is completely isolated from everyone including her peers and family. She feels incredibly lonely and is searching for a place in a world that is filled with daily confusion. Frankie feels as though she is “a member of nothing” the summer she is twelve. “Her hair had been cut like a boy’s” and her father deems that is it necessary that she start sleeping in her own bed.