There are many ways in which society as a whole can limit the chance of one person to develop to their full potential.
Society creates these non spoken rules/norms that people automatically abide by, for example:
- You can't wear your pyjamas down to the shops
- Never talking with your mouth open
- Never violate someones personal space
- Making eye contact when you talk
These are some of the ways that society expect you to act while out in public. But there are also many ways that society expect you to look, this is a big problem.
Girls are expected to be a size 10 and boys are supposed to be body builders but the time they turn 17. It is advertised through billboards and magazines which is causing young people to see those people as their role models.
Homeless people are often always seen as dirty, or drugged or even drunk, when that is the assumption that society places on people who live on the streets. Some choose to, some unfortunately do not. We place these stereotypes on people who we think that are below us, who do not dress like a normal person would. What about the celebrities who earn all their fame and fortune and chose not to do anything about it.
Keanu Reeves lives a normal life, he lives in a one story apartment. J.K Rowling donated her money to charity. Mark Zuckerberg walks around in jeans and thongs. If you didn't know who he was, you wouldn't think that he would ever be famous or a millionaire.
This is what is wrong with society, no one stops and wants to know who you are, what you do for a living. We are a shallow society that only cares for what is on the outside, never in the mind.
Media example: Mean Girls
By associating herself with The Plastics, Kady is expected to look, act and talk like them in order to fit in. By doing so she loses her own identity. She is influenced by her friends choices and becomes someone she isn't. This is a short example of when society denying the chances of someone having their own identity. No one can be different in the world of the Plastics. By the middle/end of the film, Kady has become a Plastic and she loses herself, this creates a problem with the people she first became friends with.
Mean Girls can also portray that school denies the chance of a person to reach their full potential socially but academically excel.
This is my thoughts on the English prompt with an example form Mean Girls.
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Homeless people are often always seen as dirty, or drugged or even drunk, when that is the assumption that society places on people who live on the streets. Some choose to, some unfortunately do not. We place these stereotypes on people who we think that are below us, who do not dress like a normal person would. What about the celebrities who earn all their fame and fortune and chose not to do anything about it.
Keanu Reeves lives a normal life, he lives in a one story apartment. J.K Rowling donated her money to charity. Mark Zuckerberg walks around in jeans and thongs. If you didn't know who he was, you wouldn't think that he would ever be famous or a millionaire.
This is what is wrong with society, no one stops and wants to know who you are, what you do for a living. We are a shallow society that only cares for what is on the outside, never in the mind.
By associating herself with The Plastics, Kady is expected to look, act and talk like them in order to fit in. By doing so she loses her own identity. She is influenced by her friends choices and becomes someone she isn't. This is a short example of when society denying the chances of someone having their own identity. No one can be different in the world of the Plastics. By the middle/end of the film, Kady has become a Plastic and she loses herself, this creates a problem with the people she first became friends with.
Mean Girls can also portray that school denies the chance of a person to reach their full potential socially but academically excel.
This is my thoughts on the English prompt with an example form Mean Girls.
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