Amanda Young

drug-free. However, she is not a hero in this movie, maybe even far from it. She starts out as an outlaw hero that murders in order to survive. Then she transforms into a villain when she becomes Jigsaw’s assistant and does not abide by the rules of his game by not giving the victims the chance to live. She is this type of villain because she doesn’t have a backstory that makes her sympathetic to the audience. In “No Sympathy for the Devil”, the author argues that in Dexter, the television show, he became sympathetic when the audience saw his backstory (Havrilesky 466). Amanda does not have a compelling backstory and simply wants to torture people. When Kramer gives her the freedom to be in charge of one of his “games” she makes it so no one can survive it. What motivates her to participate in the “games” is to please Kramer, she sincerely believes that Kramer healed her, “It works. It's real. He helped me” (Amanda, Saw VI). However, she also does it to satisfy her own sick desire to torture people the way she was tortured. A struggle within herself is to try to please Kramer while also trying to fulfill her own desires to hurt people while trying not to get caught by the police or having Kramer disapprove of her…

Both of these women are very strong characters. A Streetcar Named Desire is entirely focused on Blanche and her delusions. Towards the end of The Glass Menagerie, Amanda reverts back to being the most popular girl in Blue Mountain. She is also assuming that the gentleman caller will take on look at Laura and want to marry her, thus securing Amanda and Laura’s future. Both of these women characters are very strong. Since Williams’ sister Rose and mother were the only women with whom he had a…

Traditionally, femininity is associated with a particular set of personality traits and behaviours, which are deemed acceptable for women to perform by the most influential institutions of the dominant culture. The teen makeover movie is a visual medium that reinforces these expectations through the types of female characters they present. Gender stereotypes reveal a distinct correlation between performances of idealized femininity and the distribution of female power in their high school…

Mean Girls is a film, which premiered in 2004 with starred major actress: Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Lindsay Lohan. The film begins with a sixteen-year-old girl named Cady Heron who just moved to Evanston, Illinois from a twelve year research trip in Africa with her parents. Cady begins her first day of public school, since she was homeschooled, and she meets a group of three girls who are very popular and they are known as the Plastics: Regina the Queen Bee of…

acceptance and validation in this completely new environment. She pursued friends, and instead stole the alpha crown of teenage society. Cady unknowingly remakes herself in Regina 's image, becoming spiteful, superficial, and abandons Janis and Damian for the the queenbee status. As her social status rises, her math grades drop. Being queen consumed Cady, and calculus didn’t seem as interesting and important as having Aaron come to her party. “I had learned to control everyone”. Using the same…

Media, in the forms of photography, film, and writing are similar in that they often reveal a particular message, or comment on a societal aspect. For some, these messages may be underlying, while in others, they are evident and transparent. This idea helps distinguishes differences in media. Photography is widely open for interpretation. In the case of Errol Morris’ “Will the Real Hooded Man Please Stand Up?” the lack of context and textual clues make it hard to discern what was true or what…

are at it again, and this time Amanda Bynes is the target of bullying from social media. https://pagesix.com/2017/10/01/amanda-bynes-looks-different-in-rare-outing/ Amanda Laura Bynes, 31, stepped out for errands over the weekend in Los Angeles. Photographers managed to capture pictures of Amanda at Kroger subsidiary, Ralphs grocery chain. According to New York's Page Six, the former "troubled" actress appeared healthy as she went about her shopping jaunt. The "All That" star, accompanied by…

Many young people receive a significant volume of pressure to live up to their families ' expectations. Additionally several parent expectations can damage a child 's self-confidence, self-image, and mentality. Even if the parent means well, children can perceive their good intentions in a different manner. As a Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez felt pressure from his mom and other family members to shield his dark skin from the sun, he speaks on his insecurities in Complexion. Rodriguez…

until it is too late. The feeling holden gets when he sees obscenities written on the wall in a place where children are reenforce his idea that young children need to continue to mature slowly. While Holden is walking through the halls of his sisters school, he came across few choice words. Holden tells that “(He) saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody 'd written ‘Fuck you’ on the wall.”(201) Holden follows up the remark with the fact that “It drove (him) damn near crazy.”(201) Our…

For this reason, research is very crucial, especially when it relates to children and young people. It requires that various concerns relating to consent, ethics as well as the methodology of dissemination be in the best interest of children and the young people. There is a significant impact originating from the influence and nature of variations in the relationships that exist between those being researched and researchers in the process of investigation. Thus, it is crucial to understand the…