I came home early on Friday, September 25th and decided to watch some television in the living room in order to unwind. Since most of my family was in different rooms, I ended up watching the Disney Channel domestic sitcom, Girl Meets World, by myself on the living room television set. Girl Meets World is a sequel made by Disney Channel to the popular 90’s domestic sitcom, Boy Meets World. The show focuses on Riley Matthews, the daughter of Cory and Topanga Matthews, the couple from Boy Meets World, as she makes her way through middle school and focuses on her adventures, hardship and her life as a teenager. As is the case in a domestic sitcom, the show usually focuses on the importance of family and friendship and other domestic values. This …show more content…
As the scene progresses, Maya resorts to playfully teasing Riley and invokes the word, “Rileytown.” Upon hearing that word, Riley begins to yell at Maya, leaving the viewer and Maya to wonder about the reason behind Riley’s outburst. The rest of the episode is dedicated to finding the reason behind Riley’s outburst. Since the show is told in the third person, the viewer finds out the reason behind Riley’s outbursts at Maya, at the same time Maya does. The limited third person narrative structure of the episode does a great job in portraying the fear and anxiety of having a cyberbully, by not having Riley outright tell her friends about the cyberbullying happening to her. She is intimidated and scared, as seen in her unwillingness to go to school and her anger when the word, Rileytown, is mentioned. As the episode continues and Riley’s outbursts get more and more intense towards Maya, Maya and the viewer watch as Riley becomes more angry and distant. As a nod to the realism of the program, the happy-go-lucky Riley bottles up her anger towards her cyberbully and takes it out on her friends. She is not forthcoming about her cyberbullying until Maya audibly tells her that she knows about it. From that point, the third-person narrative functions as an extension of Maya’s emotional state. From a medium shot, the viewer watches as Riley stands up, walks …show more content…
It’s an extremely emotional episode that is heightened by the show’s unconventional usage of third-person limited narrative structure and its overt use of direct address to demonstrate the effects of cyberbullying from an individual perspective. Overall, I really like this episode because it takes a heavy topic, like cyberbullying and makes it relatable to people of all ages. As a domestic sitcom, the show has an emotional core that resonates with me, especially with its emphasis on family and friendship. This emotional core is the main reason I like Girl Meets World, and the reason I will continue to watch episodes from this
This is indicated a lot throughout the play. Riley in the performance supported the fact that he was a very unsure person and very rarely had any certainty in his voice. However, the certainty was there when Riley was talking about the end of the world. Riley during the storm emitted the feeling of uncertainty but comes out the storm a better person. This is indicated by the way he stood. At first, he never stood securely and in a solid stance. He always made sure that he balanced his weight on either foot. Riley after the storm stood facing the audience straight on, in front of Elliot, with self-assurance. His voice also indicated no wavering and afraid. Through the use of manipulation of body and voice, it showed Riley’s journey from being insecure and unsure to being resilient through the duration of the storm to coming out the other side with confidence and passion. Elliot though demonstrates the resilience of youth through the use of her body and voice. Although, she does project that nerdiness about her but she is still socially accepted and doesn’t feel isolated as Riley. However, the way Elliot moves suggest the confidence is a mask or cloak, symbolizing that teenagers can be confident under a mask or cloak so society can’t identify them. Throughout the performance, Elliot does suggest that communication is vulnerable towards teenagers. This is suggested when Elliot follows Riley to gather
In conclusion, this show focuses on many aspects, particularly gender roles and sexism. Although this show could have more diverse characters, it focuses on male and female stereotypes very well. I appreciate that there are several strong female characters who aren’t afraid to stand up for themselves and perform typically masculine
In our modern world, sociology has a tremendous impact on our culture, mainly through the processes and decisions we make everyday. For movies and television shows especially, sociological references are incorporated throughout the storyline. A movie which includes many sociological examples is Mean Girls. Mean Girls is a movie based on the life of home-schooled teenage girl, Cady Heron, who moves to the United States from Africa and is placed in a public school for the first time. Cady finds herself in many uncomfortable scenarios and has to deal with the trials and tribulations pertaining to everyday high school issues. Her experiences involve interacting with high school cliques, such as ‘the plastics’, weird high school teachers, relationships,
"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.
... for your life. If a woman wants to be a housewife who focuses on raising her children or a career woman, it is her choice ultimately. If a man wants to be equally involved in his career and family, it should be his choice too. It should not matter what the gender stereotype is and this show helps women and men believe that the individual feeling is often more important than the typical societal belief.
I received a free copy of The Girl from Everywhere by … from Hot Key Books in exchange for an honest review, this has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.
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 Buffy the Vampire Slayer series is a very popular show that engages well with most youthful audiences, including teenagers and young adults. Teenagers are quickly captivated by the show’s great amount of comedy, adventure, and science fiction. Although it is remarkably entertaining, the show also teaches important life lessons pertaining to love, friendship, and family. In the episode “Hush” from the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the theme that through clear acts, one can develop clarity in relationships is presented.
There is truly a fine line between physical discipline and abuse, and many times in the black community, that line is crossed. This topic is centered on discussions found in both Brittney Cooper’s article published on The Salan entitled “The Racial Parenting Divide” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel “Between The World and Me” . Both parallel one another in the ideas exhibited in their pieces. The article written by Cooper confesses the often times TOO authoritative parenting style that black parents use to discipline their children while Between the World and Me gives a first hand acknowledgement of that. Coates’ life testimonials throughout Between the World and the examples given by Cooper in her article both serve as a prime example to the fine
In order to complete an analysis of a television show through six basic theoretical approaches, I chose to use the pilot episode of Gossip Girl due to its strong representation of class differences. In this episode, the interesting characters of the Upper East Side are introduced and viewers begin to get a sense of the lifestyles that they live. From the elite, to the middle class, issues and attitudes are established. All of the main characters attend an established private high school and seem to backstab each other as a form of entertainment. The main issues of this first episode are Serena sleeping with her best friend’s boyfriend, Lower class Dan’s infatuation with the upper class Serena, and Chuck being an overall bad person and predator
“Mean Girls” begins as Cady Heron moves back to the United States from Africa where her parents were animal experts. She has an awkward first week of school where she begins to crush on a boy named Aaron Samuels, meets Janice and Damian who show her around campus because no one really wanted to get to know her on a personal level. Janice and Ian begin to spill the dirty secrets of the school including “The Plastics” who are a superficial infamous group who put everyone down. “The Plastics” infiltrate an operation to make Cady one of them, but little do they know that it is all an act to show how fake they are, thanks to Janice Ian. Because Janice and Ian told Cady of all the bad that “The Plastics” hold, she had a schema that Regina George who is the leader of “The Plastics” and her crew, were bad people and that high school was all about popularity. The reason why Janice placed this schema was because she and Regina George used to be friends back in the day. Schemas can be bad or good, but in this case, it was quite bad. It was an act of vengeance. Although the schema may have made Janice and Damian despise “The Plastics,” it made Cady Heron want to be like them. Prejudice is found within “The Plastics” because they don’t just let anyone join their group, the gi...
In America women have gone through so many social norms that has affected them throughout a lifetime. Since then with the changes, mass media got involved in this type of movement. American culture shifted where women where becoming professionals in the work force, more independent and less likely to marry. As a result, television networks created a series of shows to expose and associate the female audience to the TV shows. From Charlies Angels to Sex in the City and for our present time Nashville show, incorporate feminism to be shown in the small screen, in every decade shows exhibited the 3 feminist movement waves. For instance, during the 90s the 3rd wave of feminism was represented through Television by revealing female sexuality
Girl Interrupted Review Cherie Pryor Denver College of Nursing Girl Interrupted is a film about a young woman, Susanna Kaysen, who voluntarily enters a psychiatric facility in Massachusetts. The purpose of this paper is to analyze a portrayal of psychiatric care in the 1960’s. The film is based on the memoirs of Susanna Kaysen and her experiences during an 18 month stay at a mental institution. During her visit, Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The film depicts psychiatric care, diagnoses, and treatments from a different era.
Everyone deserves an education, but for some in the developing world, especially girls, it is hard to even get into a classroom, due to the opposition from those who believe a girl 's place is in the home, not the classroom. The 2013 documentary Girl Rising by Richard E. Robbins states, “There are 33 million less girls in primary school worldwide than boys.” Girl Rising tells the stories of nine girls varying in ages throughout the developing world who only want to learn or where school saved their lives. Richard E. Robbins the director of the film, uses famous celebrities to tell these stories in hope to reach people all over the world in order to raise awareness and money to girls’ educations worldwide. Mr. Robbins film produces a concerned or worried tone throughout the documentary which intrigued the viewer to pay full attention to the film. Mr. Robbins uses lots of textual strategies in the form of statistics and interesting facts, as well as audio strategies such as the celebrity
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.