Text: Film Title: The Breakfast Club Director: John Hughes The breakfast club is an inspiring film directed by John Hughes about five different teen stereotypes a brain‚ an athlete‚ a basket case‚ a princess and a criminal. They break down barriers and realize they are much more alike then they all thought they would be. John Hughes uses the five different stereotypes as social barriers. However he breaks each one of these down showing how each one is the same through how they got themselves
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"Breakfast of Champions" In Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions‚ the narrator believes Americans are doing the best to live "like the characters in story books" (pg. 49). He believes that the problems our planet faces are a direct result of our individual desires to attain our story book perfect lives. Through this "colorful" and outrageous story of two white men‚ Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover‚ Vonnegut twists in some of his concerns and criticisms of the typical American life with humor and
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Eugene O’Neill has been a essential author in the life of the melodramatic genre. In contrast to other “pure” melodramatic authors like Boucicault‚ he has transcended the limitations of this dramatic form and has given it a new dimension. If we take into consideration the Greek conventions and the Aristotelian six elements to create a well-made play‚ we could affirm that Melodrama emphasizes every of those elements except for character‚ and so the main contribution that O’Neill made to this genre
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The lyrics made famous by Frank Sinatra and many others say‚ “Two drifters off to see the world. There’s such a lot of world to see.” This song “Moon River” was played in the movie version of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and in my opinion sums up Holly Golightly. In the original book version of Breakfast at Tiffany’s‚ Truman Capote uses Holly Golightly‚ a “lost soul” searching for her place to belong as a symbol that all anyone really wants in life is to find a place where they feel they belong.
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The Breakfast Club Reaction Paper The Breakfast Club is a 1985 film based on five students from entirely different social groups forced to spend an eight hour Saturday detention together for their own individual reasons. The five students were all given the same assignment‚ to write an essay about “who you think you are" and the acts they committed to end up in Saturday detention. As high school students of course they put off the assignment until the last minute and instead they passed the hours
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Stereotype/prejudice pg. 309 -Brian fundamental attribution error - Bender agression- displacement- pg. 360 - Andrew The Breakfast Club- Social Psychology The Breakfast Club is a dramatic film by John Hughes from 1985. The story takes place in the library at Shermer high school in Illinois. The movie records‚ five students from very different cliques as they spend an all day Saturday detention with one another under the supervision of a very forbidding principal. This movie is unique because it
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Chandler Bushnell Mrs. Beswick Dead & Breakfast March 6th 2013 Eggs with a side of Cyanide. Dusty Came down to breakfast at 7:15… Dusty Dropped dead at 7:45. The person who killed dusty could have been anyone of these people‚ they all had motive but only one of them was desperate enough to kill one of his closest friends. (7:20)The murderer must have been wearing gloves when he set the table again because he left traces of sodium‚ carbon‚ iron‚ and gold. When the Murderer saw
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Introduction Attention getting material Imagine yourself in close proximity with 4 strangers nothing like you. That’s what the characters’ in The Breakfast Club were faced with. Tie to audience For this specific setting a group of 5 eclectic students are forced into serving 9 hours of Saturday detention for whatever they had done wrong. In attendance is a “princess” (Claire Standish)‚ an “athlete” (Andrew Clark)‚ a “brain” (Brian Johnson)‚ a “criminal” (John Bender) and a “basket case” (Allison
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the film The Breakfast Club‚ written by John Hughes‚ that creates a more negative input on stereotyping. Berne’s uses a theory of basic human types as an example of a scientific subject made for nonscientists‚ where in the article he breaks down categories of people’s appearances to help them reflect on their own personalities. On the other hand‚ Hughes engages in a different theory of how to let people recognize stereotyping by giving a different perspective of it. In The Breakfast Club Berne’s
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us...In the simplest terms‚ in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...an athlete...a basket case...a princess...and a criminal...Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours‚ the Breakfast Club." The Breakfast Club is a story about five seemingly different students who have to spend their Saturday in school detention. They are each given an assignment to write an essay on who they think they are. Throughout the day‚ the students bond with one
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