The Clique series

“Pretties” is the second book in the “Uglies” series written by Scott Westerfeld. The book starts back off when Tally, the main character, has just had the operation to turn pretty. She has a party to go to and must pick out her costume. She decided to go as a Smokie because she had to look “Bubbly” enough to get into the Crims. The Crims where a clique in New Pretty Town, they were the kids who pulled tricks and pulled stunts. After her and Shay, Shay is her best friend, pick out their costumes

Danielle Peterson HDEV180 (Section 02 6418) 4/30/15 Gossip Girl Series The adolescent years are a tough struggle for any young adult experiencing body changes, mood swings, and social issues and when mass media places even more pressure on teens to dress or act in a particular way it only adds additional stress and anxiety. Most teenagers’ want to be part of the in-crowd and some will do whatever it takes to climb to the top to be accepted or “cool”. The high society adolescents in Gossip Girl

decide to befriend Cady, Cady is convinced by Janis and Damien to spy on the Plastics while pretending to be their friend. When Regina George, the leader of the clique, betrays Cady by kissing the boy Cady likes, the trio enforces a plot for revenge, by slowly dismantling Regina’s social life. However, the longer Cady is inside the clique, the further she adopts their personality traits, and pushes away her true friends. Through this transformation, Cady becomes more so like the clique’s leader, Regina

everyone into their different groups and cliques. The north was more industrialized and didn’t really need slaves. But the south was around about 80% farmland so the south needed slaves to profit from their massive amounts of land.

Veronica Roth uses a combination of dystopian societies and teenage protagonists in her writing to mirror today's society. Her Divergent series and Carve the Mark series both follow the same idea. It is through the eyes of the young female protagonist who teams up with her friends to take down an authoritarianism government. In Divergent the dystopian world is defined by a faction system--a system in which everyone is split into separate groups based on personality. Members of one of the factions

The Rwandan genocide was a series of innocent murders occurring between the ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi and these unrealistic dispossessions of murders were facilitated and carried out by the Belgians. Prior to the Rwandan genocide, there were three commonly recognized ethnic groups known as the Hutus, Tutsis, and Twas, however the Hutus and Tutsis had some similarities and social differences. The Hutu “compromised 84-90 percent of Rwanda’s population before the genocide, Tutsis were

Brandon L. Locklear Deana Johnson ENG1050 July 9, 2012 Dismissing your own individual opinions to reach group consensus, now that’s negative peer pressure! Peer pressure will always be a problem and can affect anyone. I say that because no matter where you’re from or who you are, peer pressure is lurking about. Anytime you’re pressured to do something and your conscience is telling you not to do it, and you follow through with the task anyway, that is dismissing your opinion just to please other

the Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling, is an effective example of a character. Although she may not have a direct role throughout all of the books and films, the influence she brought forth among the other characters and the plot explain why Ginny Weasley fits the description of the definition character. J.K. Rowling uses Ginny to aide Harry Potter in several tasks regarding Voldemort, building up the character as the books and movies progressed. Early on in the series, Ginny was known

Being in middle school it was hard to keep friends as most would come and go caused by unexpected series of events. Most of the time, girls would always talk bad about each other or treat each other like the other doesn’t have feelings. I was the girl who would always be treated like I wasn’t important to a group or clique, and I wasn’t the only one. Id see my “friends” talk down to another girl within my so called group of friends and it wasn’t a nice situation. One day, she stood up for herself

should be. At first glance, the theatrical trailer for Mean Girls fulfills all clichés the ‘high school’ or ‘teen girl’ genre. Our protagonist, Cady, is the new girl school, who’s been homeschool her entire life. Her new nerdy friends explain all the cliques of the school to her, including an introduction to each member of the most popular group. It even sets up the stereotypical main