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The premise of both Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004) and Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008) is very similar: awkward girl moves to a new high school where she becomes popular. The construction of popularity in the films underlines a larger cultural understand of what popularity is. Both films create a similar narrative of what goes in to popularity: conventional attractiveness, whiteness, wealth. However, the films treatment of the actualities of being popular and the whether or not it’s a worthy

Gabrielle Law Dr. Savoy PSY 376-501 10 November 2017 Bella’s Development Young adults go through many changes during their adolescent developmental years, including cognitive, emotional, and social development. Isabella Swan, the main character of the movie Twilight, shows the audience a great visual representation of how she goes through emerging adulthood. Isabella, or Bella for short, is a teen girl in high school who just moved to a new city, Forks, Washington, with her father whom she had not

he could no longer make the is bucks from alcohol. This leads into Meyer Lansky. Lansky started up a gambling business, and tried to make the big bucks during rough times. Making money back then was pretty rough, and without a good background people were left in the lower class. Lansky and Siegel held significant influences within the Italian-American Mafia and the National Crime Syndicate. “Lansky and Siegel started the Bugs-Meyer Gang which was a scary Jewish gang, that was a bunch of contract killers

is in an uncertain position and instead of finding herself, she opts to escape from them. And in order for her to be safe and challenge the reality, she has to have a rescuer which is, Edward, a man. The author of the Twilight Saga books, Stephanie Meyer answered the critics that ‘’Bella is not a negative example of women empowerment. The foundation of feminism is this: being able to choose. Ultimately, its entirely up to Bella for what she does, therefore it does make her a feminist’’ (Ellis, 2014)

Deeper Into the Twilight Modern vampire interpretations are supposed to be relatable or desired, they are no longer supposed to be feared. Stephanie Meyer’s book series “Twilight” is one of the most popular teenage vampire interpretations. The vampire characters within the movie are metaphors for the teenager. It is common for teenagers to feel isolated from their surroundings and the people around them. The Cullen’s in the movie are automatically isolated from the rest of the town because they

Kristen Stewart or mostly known as “Bella” from the movie series Twilight is a movie actress who has had many controversy on the way she portrays herself throughout media and the eye of the public. In the September cover of Nylon, Stewart stated that she feels no need of identifying or labeling her sexuality. She has chosen, “to remain vague about her sexual orientation because she doesn’t feel she has the “perspective” to do otherwise.” Her appearance as the “awkward” vampire girl, which many of

What are vampires? How has our perceptions of vampires changed throughout centuries? Well there are many myths out in the whole world of vampires. Vampires are creatures that are dead yet still walk among the living; all vampires have fangs, they are afraid of the sunlight, they can shape-shift and they drink the blood of their victims. People say vampires are human corpses that return from the grave to harm living and others say they are not humans at all that vampires are supernatural, demonic

Expository Essay Mary Arnold For centuries, vampires have been depicted in various cultures and throughout literary history as both bloodsuckers and vampire lovers. A good example is they’ve been portrayed as both monsters, comedic villains, and romantic figures. The film industry has represented many incarnations of vampires on the big screen for decades. Let’s begin with the first vampire film, Nosferatu (monster), up to the latest vampire film, Twilight (lover). Along came, Nosferatu, an unofficial

Twilight, written by Stephenie Meyer was the first part of a four book series that begun in 2005. The story begins with a girl and a vampire falling in love, and was the first series in a while to bring vampires back into the lime light. The girl, Elisabeth "Bella" Swan and the vampire Edward Cullen, have a complicated love that although they are destined to be together, everything is working against them to do otherwise. Throughout the work of literature, although it is a modern day love story

“The Vampire Diaries Volume 1: The Awakening” is a book written by L.J. Smith and it conveys a girls love story, where she is stuck in a love triangle. The girl is named Elena Gilbert. She wants to love, however, she cannot decide whom to love. The story first begins when an attractive young man enters Elena’s same school, Fell’s Church. He is attracts many young women, however, he doesn’t care for them. His name was Stefan Salvatore. Elena was one of the many girls, who tried to capture Stefan’s