...Mean Girls is an iconic movie that hit theaters in 2004 and is referenced all around the world. The movie is placed in a cliché high school setting where a new girl joins the “popular clique” to secretly scheme behind their backs and ruin their control over the school. She had never been to public school before and was putting her best foot forward to fit in. This is a prime example of a typical teenage crisis, which is fitting in while maintaining your true character and labeling fake friends during the teenage years of life. The search for friendship begins around the age of thirteen because this is age of middle school. Middle school is usually the easiest years of being a teenager due to the fact that everyone is new to the school so they act normal. However, everyone eventually adjusts to the new environment along with the responsibilities and the competition to make friends begins. The...
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...Relationships in Middle Childhood Friendships in middle childhood… -Provide information about the world -Provide emotional support -Facilitates the development of emotion understanding and emotion regulation -Are a training ground for communicating and interacting with others -Foster intellectual growth by increasing range in experiences Stages of Friendship (Damon and Hart 1988) Stage 1: (4-7) Basing friendship on others’ behaviors Stage 2: (8-10) Basing friendship on trust Stage 3: (11-15) Basing friendship on psychological closeness What role does popularity have in friendships? More popular children: -tend to form friendships with more popular individuals -have more friends and interact with greater number of children -tend to form cliques What personal characteristics lead to popularity? -Social competence: the collection of social skills that permit individuals to perform successfully in social settings -overall popular children are friendly, open and cooperative -Social problem-solving: the use of strategies for solving social conflicts in ways that are satisfactory both to oneself and to others. *Social problem- 1.Find and identify relevant social cues- 2.Interpret and evaluate the social cues- 3.determine possible problem-solving responses- 4.Evaluate responses and their probable consequences Social Problem-Solving Abilities Popular children: -better at interpreting others’ behavior accurately -possess a wider inventory of...
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...Tziporah Nockenofsky, 337655518 The Meaning of Meanness: Popularity, Competition, and Conflict among Junior High School Girls Don E. Merten In this qualitative research paper, Merten examines the sociocultural construct of meanness, more specifically how competition for popularity influenced a group of girls in junior high to be blatantly mean to one another. The goal is to understand why meanness was considered acceptable and didn’t threaten the girls’ popularity and perhaps more importantly, to understand the mixture of social and cultural factors that exist behind this cluster of behaviors. Merten approaches the issue of meanness not because of a deficiency in existing field research but in order to focus on the relationship between competition for popularity and meanness. The clique he researched had become so embroiled in their mean spirited behaviors, they acquired a reputation of being the meanest girls in the school. Merten concentrates on analyzing the complicated factors that led to such a social reality. In earlier research of competition and its effects on human relationships, researchers worked from the suspicion that women were by nature less competitive than men. Females were found to prefer to use verbal strategies to diffuse personal conflict rather than confront any open competition. Eventually it...
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...Popular Popular, by Maya Van Wagenen is about geeky girl in middle school who discovers the secret to confidence. Maya and her father find a 1950s popularity guide, which Maya uses to try and get to the top of the popularity ladder at her school. She goes through many challenges but manages to pull through and learn multiple things. She finds out what her fellow classmates believe what popular really means. Maya also gets to meet many people she would have not spoken to before. Popular changed Maya's life. This book is great for teaching students that popularity is more than looks, hair, clothes, or even possessions. Popular tells us that we should be comfortable in our own skin and it only takes confidence and kindness for others to like...
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...Young children in preschool learn the basic physical, cognitive, and emotional skills through scaffolding, the assistance required in order to finish a task. This is the building block to set the children off to a right start in order for them to be successful in elementary school. As children enter the middle childhood, many physical, cognitive, and emotional skills advance and develop from young childhood. Advances that elementary school children experience are literacy, cognitive, gender identification, and relationships. When children reach the age to start their school education, their vocabulary, grammar, and understanding of language grow substantially as they learn to read and develop pragmatics. While young children in preschool also...
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...Analysis of Students’ Performance in Junior Secondary School Mathematics Examination in Bayelsa State of Nigeria The finding of this study showed that students’ performance in 2006 JSS Mathematics test was high. Comparing the hypothetical pass mark of 20.00 with the students’ mean score of 28.59 this indicated that the students performed very well. This result is in agreement with Linn (1965), Anderson (1942) and Akpan (1989) who reported that if an examiner has a favourable attitude towards a particular subject, then this will reflect in his performance in that subject. This is to say that since mathematics has been made compulsory and a pre-requisite for admission into the senior secondary, hence the students have developed a favourable attitude towards the subject resulting in their high performance. On whether performance is influenced by sex, the result showed that male students obtained higher mean score than the females with the calculated t-value significant. This result is in line with those of Fememe and Sherman (1977), Grambs (1972), Comber and Keeves (1973), Tyler (1961), Fin et al. (1979) and Maccoby and Jacklin (1975) who all observed that in nearly all cases reported, males outscored females in mathematics tests. On whether the location of a school influences performance in mathematics tests, the result showed that students from rural schools against all odds performed higher than those from urban schools. Though this result is supported by those of Simmelkjaer...
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...earlier than most people would think, stretching all the way back to the middle ages where many outdoor workers wore hooded capes in order to protect themselves from harsh weather conditions, these were often called ‘chaperones’. They were also frequent in early Christian Monasticism, the greater majority of the devotees to the Christian faith at this time sported robes that had large hoods attached to them. These are different examples of how far back we have been attaching hoods to our clothing for varied reasons, it is clear however that before the 20th century the main reasons for wearing a hood were associated with the weather; e.g. peasantry working outdoors. The trend of hoods acting as a worker’s...
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...What Made Fast Food So Popular In the old days people used to eat healthy home cooked meals together as a family. However things have changed, today we can see that people prefer to eat outside their home and order from fast food restaurants, and this is due to the huge increase in popularity of fast food restaurants. Today people try to save as much time as possible due to the necessity to cope with numerous tasks within a limited amount of time. In the majority of cases modern people have busy work schedules and don’t have enough time to cook a meal. The fast food industry is more popular than ever but is it because fast food restaurants made themselves popular? The American lifestyle has changed and these changes have caused the fast food industry to grow in popularity because of its convenience, it’s inexpensive and the need to eat healthy is not a priority. One of the main reasons why fast food restaurants happen to be so popular is the change in life-style. The American lifestyle has changed greatly over the last few decades, people have demanding work schedules with long hours, children come late from school so parents are left with very little time to think about what to make for dinner. It is difficult for them to divide their time between their job and their responsibilities at home like cooking or finding time to prepare their food. This is why they rather go outside to eat instead of spending time on preparing a meal. Now many families have two household...
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...Tattoos While the oldest known tattoo was on an iceman found on the Italian-Austrian border with carbon-dating showing the iceman to be 5,200 years old (Lineberry, 2007) for many years, here in America, tattoos were only popular with sailors, soldiers, Marines, bikers and occasionally the rebellious teenager. Why were tattoos only popular with these few? Social taboos looked down on those with tattoos. However, through tattoos a person can show self expression, be self creative, and be identified with a certain belief or interest through the art, design or message. It is for these simple reasons their popularity over the last twenty years has grown at an incredible rate, and people of all ages, sexes, ethnic groups, and social classes have begun to get tattoos. Self expression is one reason tattoos have become so popular due to the fact that an individual can make an expressive statement that will speak forever by getting a tattoo. Many young people find this as a way to express their anger or sadness. Tattoos have a way of speaking for an individual when that person doesn’t want to say anything. It is very important that the individual knows for sure that they want a tattoo. Unless taken off by a doctor in a very costly and painful procedure, the tattoo is permanent (Maloney-Hawkins, 2004). It used to be that adults would say that getting a tattoo was a teenager’s way of being rebellious. Now, the adults are getting tattoos, also. Some of the most popular tattoos...
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...Woodlands Academy High Schools most popular girl, Dylan has it all. Popularity, friends, designer everything, the grades and a hot boyfriend but none of that matters to her as much as winning blossom queen. Josh on the other hand is a film geek and decides to make a film about popularity in order to win a spot on a Hollywood film camp. After saving Dylan’s purse submerged in water, Josh offer Dylan a spot in his film and what better publicity for blossom queen is there than to star in a movie? Both Dylan and Josh come from two completely different social groups and Josh is convinced that there is no way there is more to Dylan than meets the eye, but that’s where he is wrong. Josh learns that popularity is more complicated than he thought. High...
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...understand these experiences shape my current beliefs and will affect my identity as a counselor. Therefore I must address these experiences and deal with them emotionally. As I relive these moments I will correlate my development with the research of the following theorist: Piaget, Erikson, and Seltzer. By showing correlation of my development with their theories I will prove many of experiences as an adolescence were typical of an American teenager. Looking into the mirror I was frustrated. Why isn’t my hair pretty? Other girls wear their hair straight. Why did mine always have to be braided? Why couldn’t I have a relaxer to smooth out my curls? I shook my head in frustration and began to look for the hot comb. On my first day of middle school I was going to look pretty like everyone else. I was going to have my hair straight and laid to the side. My mother usually kept the hot comb under the kitchen sink along with the straightening grease and heat tester cloth. All these tools would help me achieve my sleek look. I carefully turned on an eye of the stove, placed the hot comb on the eye and waited. When I saw smoke arise from the comb, I took the comb off and placed it on the white cloth. If the cloth turned brown it was to hot. If it made no mark it was ready for my tresses. On this...
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...Elections of all types are held throughout the world every year, some big, some small. During middle school and high school annual elections are held for class president and his or her cabinet. School elections contain no real politics but school boy politics. Where often the race comes down to a popularity contest. Hopeful candidates pay for gimmicks such as stickers, baked goods, magnets, and signs to sway votes in his or her direction. Behind the scenes nasty rumors are spread regarding fellow candidates and scandals often arise. All of this for a figure head position of no power. The race for the presidency of the United States possess startling similarities to that of a popularity contest in middle school. This is evident in one presidential candidate Donald Trump. Donald Trump was born in 1946, in Queens Island New York, the child of Frederick and Mary Trump. He attended New York Military Academy and later attended Fordham...
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...friends. He ran a Tai Chi class in the morning, and started a tie-dye Club. Finally he was the most popular kid in school because he was planning the Halloween Dance, and everyone was helping him to prepare thing for it, such as DJ’s and food. During the first chapters in the novel, Cap was partnered up with Zach Powers, someone who ended up bullying him. Zach and his group of...
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...Bullying in today’s society is a large problem throughout schools, sports, and just about anywhere else you find yourself. Growing up in a small town in Missouri everyone knew each other and it seemed like bullying was not a problem. As I moved on to middle school from elementary I moved to Broomfield, Colorado. Broomfield was a much larger town than my previous residency in Kearney, Missouri. I knew no one, but it was quick to realize the difference between students to stay away from, and the students who one day I was able to call my friends. The population of my middle school was anywhere from one-thousand students to fifteen-hundred. It was very large and you could walk across school seeing a new face in the halls every day. There was a group of students however that everyone knew. The bullies stood out like a sore thumb. Day after day tormenting the sixth graders, and they were able to find a fresh one to pick on just about every week. I played sports growing up, and I was able to establish a “popularity”, if that is what it should be called, and wasn’t one of the chosen to be a victim. I felt victimized as being a bystander even though I wasn’t the one getting put...
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... Tweets are publicly visible by default; however, senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers.[8] All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries.[9] While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. The website is based in San Francisco, California. Twitter also has servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas; and Boston, Massachusetts. Since its creation in March 2006, and its launch in July 2006, by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 190 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day.[clarification needed][10] It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".[11] Tween Brands (NYSE: TWB) operates retail stores that sell clothing to "tweens", girls between the ages of 7 and 14. TWB's stores sell clothing, jewelry, backpacks, purses, and other accessories.[1] The Limited Too was TWB's first chain, with 586 stores open in the U.S. at the end of the first quarter of 2008, and it is aimed at an older, fashion-conscious group that will pay more for clothes than the younger girls that shop at Justice.[2] Justice was launched in 2004, operating 281 stores at the end of Q1 FY08.[3]...
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