While watching this movie my heart was saddened. I believe because of bad parenting these three girls didn’t have a chance to have a successful life. The girls had to live with parent that are abusive, alcoholic, on drugs most of their life. Also the environment each girl was from was a high crime rate and that can make serving in the project hard not to get caught up in the fast life when you don’t have parental supervision. Shangra who is 16yrs old, her first arrest was possession of drugs. At 16yrs old Shangra was selling crack cocaine on the streets. Shangra mother was addicted to drugs and she was homeless. Shangra had nothing but unconditional love for her mother regardless of her addiction. Shangra was living with her older sister …show more content…
That was hard for Shangra to do because she didn’t want her mother to be alone on the streets of San Francisco. Shangra felt it was her reasonability to take care of her mother and her means of providing was to sell drugs. When Shangra was offered the decision to live with her sister or go to a homeless shelter with her mom, she chose the homeless shelter because her sister wouldn’t allow her mom to move in with them. In year 2 Shangra was arrested for drug possession and she was in front of a judge and was told by the judge that she don’t pay attention to the sentencing and she don’t follow the curfews that are enforced. Shangra was released from jail to Walden House which is the only drug treatment program for girls. In year 3 Shangra had no contact with anyone form the outside. Group therapy has encouraged Shangra to maintain straight A’s in her high school classes. Shangra state’s how she feels her mind is free of worry of her mother problems, selling drugs and being homeless. Year 4 Shangra has turn 18years old and earned her GED and have completed the Walden House programs to become a successful …show more content…
Stephanie mom didn’t want Stephanie to live with her; Stephanie had to live with her grandmother. Stephanie was the youngest in the group of the three girls. Stephanie was only 13years old but living a life like she was 18years old. Stephanie allowed her boyfriend Herbert to abuse her and she believe because sometimes she started the fight it was ok for Herbert to give her a black eye. The advisor Lafeefah focused on a good point about Stephanie situation. Lafeefah states before Stephanie started coming to the center Hebert didn’t abuse her. Lafeefah states Herbert had a problem with Stephanie gaining her independence and doing better for herself and their son. Stephanie was weak when it came to Herbert. That is understandable because she is only 13years old. Stephanie is a little girl facing bad situations by having Herbert as a boyfriend. Stephanie got arrested with Herbert and they both used alias names. Year 3 Stephanie was working and taken care of her son, however Herbert still had control over her Stephanie. Stephanie didn’t want to face the courts because she didn’t want an early curfew and she didn’t want to stop smoking marijuana. Stephanie was advised to turn herself in to the courts. Year 4 Stephanie decided to take the advice and turn herself in. Stephanie states she now have a sense of relief and don’t have to worry about being arrest. Stephanie has enrolled in Jr. College which
Question 1: a) Donna Gamble is an Aboriginal woman who lives in her hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a former ward of the state and has spent a significant part of her youth inside juvenile correction centres. At a young age she started using drugs and alcohol as a form of escape and resorted to prostitution as a means of sustaining her habits. Donna has six children, all with the exception of the youngest two who were placed in the custody of child services. Donna has quit working as a prostitute and is currently on the road to recovery from years of addiction and abuse.
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
drugs and had be let off with a warming . She attended San Jose College then went
The film Mean Girls is about a young girl, Cady Heron, born and raised in Africa by her zoologist parents, who were also her homeschool teachers for sixteen years. When Cady moves to the United States, she enrolls in a public school for the first time. Here she realizes that high school students have the same hierarchy as the animals she observed in Africa. The lowest ranking group in this high school hierarchy is the outcasts, who also happen to be Cady’s first friends in the U.S. The highest on the high school food chain are the “plastics”. The “plastics”, are the most popular girls in school. The plastic’s notice Cady’s charming personality and stunning good looks and invite her to join their clique. In order to avenge her first friends,
The movie “Mean Girls” is based on a real story in high school social groups. Cady Heron was a new girl in high school. She has been homeschooled in Africa for her whole life, so she wanted to learn how people in school behave and socialize. It was difficult for Cady to adjust in the new school environment. Initially, Cady had difficulties finding a friend in the school. Her first day in school, she eats her meal in the restroom until she meets Janis and Damien. They encourage Cady to be a friend with one of the most popular group at school called the “Plastic”. Every girl in school envy them and with they would be a member of the group. Regina is the head of the group, and she does anything in her power to get what she wishes, and Gretchen and Karen are her followers. Most of the girls at school are obsessed with the idea of joining Regina’s group because they are royalty in the high school. Since Cady is a pretty girl, the Plastic group was threatened by her and wanted her to join them so that they can control her and the boys who pay attention to Cady. Cady joints them and they will succeed to changer her thoughts and actions. Consequently, she starts acting like them and hide her friendship with Janis and Damien who
Cyntoia is a 30 year old American, who was born on January 29,1988. When she was 16 years of age, she was sentenced to life in prison. When Cyntoia was 2 years old her biological mother, Georgina Mitchell, gave her up for adoption. When her mother was pregnant she continued to consume alcohol, which possibly resulted in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Georgina began using crack cocaine when Cyntoia was 8 months old, after that Cyntoia was given up to Ellenette Brown. Cyntoia, as you can tell, did not have much of a motherly figure until she was put with Ellenette Brown.Cyntoia had not had much sufficient stability in her life, by 2004 she was a runaway. When
Jeanette was nervous because she had not yet learned how to Sausalito. While at the dance Jeanette met up with a friend she knew as Kyle. The worst thing happened to Jeanette Sister Maria announced “Every sister grab a brother.” It was time to Sausalito. Jeanette was worried and knew if she went out on the dance floor she would be embarrassed and fail her adaptive dancing test. Jeanette could not remember the dance steps. As Jeanette began she was knocked down by Mirabella. At that moment Jeanette loved Mirabella for getting her out of an embarrassing moment. Jeanette turned her back on Mirabella and yelled at her telling her she had ruined the ball. Yes at this moment Mirabella became the scapegoat and had been used as the scapegoat. Mirabella was kicked out of the school.
On Saturday July 29th, 2017, I was able to catch one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a while, Girls Trip. I was able to view the movie with four of three of friends of mines at the Regal Moorestown Mall Stadium 12 & RPX, located in Moorestown, New Jersey. My experience started with the aromas of popcorn. I am one of those type who has to have popcorn with lots of butter while enjoying a movie. After I purchased my popcorn and bottled water I was ready to enjoy this night with my friends. However, I wasn’t the one who purchased the tickets so the seats choices where horrible. They were floor level, on the very far right and third row. Still trying to make the best out of it I reclined my see as far back as possible so my neck would bother me the during the movie. The theater was packed, mostly with women.
When it came time to pick a stage of development, I chose the stage of middle childhood. The movie that best depicted this stage of development to me was the 1991 movie “My Girl”. In this movie, you see a 11-year-old girl named Vada Sultenfuss going through a lot of psychosocial and cognitive changes in her life. She has grown up without her mother due to instant death when being born and she blames herself for her mother’s passing. Her dad is very absent in the upbringing of Vada, as he focuses most of his time and energy into his work as a mortician. Vada is surrounded by death due to the fact that they live in the house where her father constructs his business which is why her view on death is demented. When her dad becomes involved
The movie that I chose to do my analysis on, is Mean Girls because it is my all-time favorite movie. I watched it a million times, it never gets old and plus I know every single line in the movie. The main character Cady, played by Lindsay Lohan, exhibits how to go from being a nerd, popular, hated and rehabilitated all in one school year. It’s hilarious movie about high school but, it also covers many interpersonal concepts that we learned in class like: verbal communication, conflict and relationship dynamics. Before I provide my analysis, I’ll present my brief summary on the movie Mean Girls.
She wanted to leave, and file for welfare so her children could eat. The head of the house hold must apply for welfare. Only way she can receive welfare is if Francine separates from him. She said it would be impossible, because he would kill her if she tries too. When she tried to file for a complaint for attempted murder she was not able too.
"Cold, shiny, hard, PLASTIC," said by Janice referring to a group of girls in the movie Mean Girls. Mean Girls is about an innocent, home-schooled girl, Cady who moves from Africa to the United States. Cady thinks she knows all about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when she enters public high school and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teen girls deal with today. Cady goes from a great friend of two "outcasts", Janice and Damien to a superficial friend of the "plastics", a group of girls that talks about everyone behind their back and thinks everyone loves them. Adolescent egocentrism and relationships with peers are obviously present throughout the film. I also noticed self worth in relationships, parenting styles, and juvenile delinquency throughout Mean Girls.
Abnormal psychology may be somewhat rare to catch a glimpse of in public vicinity. However, in motion pictures, numerous upon numerous forms and subtype examples of abnormal psychological disorders are perceived. As for my film of choice I have selected Girl Interrupted. The 1999 picture with lead actress Winona Ryder who plays the role of Susanna Kaysen, a soon to be patient at an exclusive mental hospital with costar Angelina Jolie, who takes on the role of a maddened, wound up sociopath. Encased within the film, Susanna Kaysen displays the signs and symptoms of a woman with borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder abbreviated to BPD, is an illness regarding mental health that spawns a great deal of emotional unsteadiness and unpredictability and has the capability to trail off into other stressing mental and behavioral difficulties.
When people grow up in rough conditions it can be very difficult for them to turn their lives around for the better. There are countless stories of people growing up with a history of rape, assault and other various forms of abuse and it being very hard for them to turn their lives around. Alice Walker, the author of the novel The Color Purple, experienced many hardships in her life that she eventually overcame. Similarly, the protagonist in her novel, Celie, grew up with physical and mental abuse starting from a young age. She was raped by her Stepfather and even when she was placed in a marriage, the abuse did not stop.
The movie “Girl, Interrupted” is about a young woman named Susanna who attempts suicide and consequently checks in to a mental hospital called Claymore. When she gets there she’s diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. There she meets many people but mainly focuses on Lisa, a proud sociopath, and Daisy, an implied incest victim who seems to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Susanna leaves Claymore with Lisa to go see Daisy and after Daisy’s suicide she returns to Claymore where she is later released.