1. According to Erikson According to the Erik Erikson‚ the "Breakfast Club"" adolescences are in the "Identity vs. Role Diffusion" Stage. During this period‚ teenagers seek to determine what is unique and distinctive about themselves. As they are in transition from childhood to adolescence‚ teens are trying to find themselves; "Who am I?" is the major question of the stage. Teens are trying to establish a sense of self‚ so they engage in a new type of behavior‚ roles or activities; they are very
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Claire Standish is one of the teenagers spending her weekend in detention in the movie‚ The Breakfast Club. Claire represents the “popular” clique. Claire is known as a princess; she is spoiled and gets what she wants. Even though Claire has money‚ friends‚ and gets what she wants‚ she is still unhappy. Claire feels like she is misunderstood. Claire comes off as being conceded‚ but says that she hates being that way. Towards the end of the film‚ as the group open up to one another Claire says she
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The Breakfast Club This paper is an analysis of five dissimilar teenagers representing a cross-section of middle class high school students in the suburbs. The students meet each other for the first time during a Saturday morning detention session. Each student arrived to the school by different means‚ which is a precursor to determining the type of individual each one is. The group is comprised of a "princess"‚ an "athlete”‚ a "brain"‚ a "criminal"‚ and a "basket case". These are the roles the
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One character in The Breakfast Club that most relates to me is Brian. We both want to keep our grades as high as we can‚ yet I am not the kind of person to join after school clubs unlike Brian did. Brian is classified as a nerd and proves to be cared about by his family unlike some other people that he his serving detention with. I can relate to this‚ although I don’t really classify myself as a nerd even though some people may. I can visualize myself as this character as he acts almost exactly like
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eating a good breakfast is one of those generation-tested mantras that have become lost on many these days. Teens opt for an extra 20 minutes of sleep‚ a shower or some facebook time instead of a good breakfast. Gordon (2010) showed studies about links between good nutrition and academic performance. She quoted J. Michael Murphy‚ Ed.D‚ school breakfast researcher for Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School‚ “what we find particularly exciting is that… [School breakfast] is a relatively
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Released in 1985 and directed by John Hughes ’ The Breakfast Club ’ is a film about teenagers that seem different on the surface but come to discover otherwise . When five students from different high school cliques are forced to spend their Saturday in detention‚ the brain‚ athlete‚ basket case‚ princess and the criminal together are faced with the question of who they think they are. The five characters put aside the ir dissimilarities in aid to survive the painful eight hour detention and in
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The Breakfast Club Chanetta McFerguson Childhood April 28‚ 2013 Melissa Harper The Breakfast Club Cliques are groups of people with mutual interests and goals‚ who spend a majority of their time with each other. They can be found at every high school. The Breakfast Club is a movie that brings five students belonging to different cliques together in an unfortunate situation-detention. At the beginning of the movie‚ these five students appear to be very different people who have nothing
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In The Breakfast Club‚ Claire and John are two of five students who have been detained in school on Saturday morning. Claire was here for skipping school to go shopping while John was here for pulling a false fire alarm. At the beginning of the movie‚ it’s easy to see that Clair and John have so many differences. During the journey of self-discovery‚ there are more and more similarities appear between Claire and John and they try to face these facts. From all‚ their families‚ their social life and
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s reveals a persistent theme of freedom and need to break confinement with a hidden unwarranted desire for stability. The desire for these things can cause individuals to act in unusual ways to protect the things they want the most. Holly craves this sense of freedom and independence while others attempt to form a more stabilized bond and environment with Holly‚ she refuses. The intense desire she feels for the necessity to be independent causes her to push people away and neglect
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Donald Eugene Gates‚ 30 year old African American‚ on July 20‚ 1981‚ was arrested for failing to appear in court on an unrelated case‚ giving up a hair sample as part of a processing procedure. On June 22‚ 1981‚ Catherine Schilling‚ a 21-year-old Georgetown University student‚ found raped and murdered in Rock Creek Park in Washington‚ D.C. Found nude and had been shot five times in the head. After a police informant‚ Gates was charged with the rape and murder. Gerald Mack Smith‚ Donald’s longtime
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