Tom Bergamo AP Psychology Mrs. Theis 9 February 2015 Breakfast Club Essay 1. The character Allison Reynolds in the film The Breakfast Club exhibits Piaget’s formal operational thinking. The formal operational begins at the age of 12 and continues into adulthood‚ this stage also involves abstract thinking and moral reasoning. Teenagers are able to understand concepts and ideas on a more thought provoking level‚ with an emotional connection. Allison exhibits abstract thinking as an artist
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John Bender ”the criminal” John Bender is sixteen years old‚ and has a father named Mr. Clark. John Bender is the main protagonist in the movie. He smokes cigarettes and marihuana. In the film‚ Bender learns that not everyone is out to “make him small”. In the beginning of the movie‚ Bender comes off as a very tough person‚ and none of the other kids does not know him at all. However‚ he changes in the end by learning to accept the others. He shows no respect towards anyone‚ especially the teachers
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The Breakfast Club; Overcoming Stereotypes Visually The central theme of this poster is overcoming stereotypes. 5 students spend their Saturday in detention. At first they all succumbed to their stereotypes but as time passed‚ they all got to know each other and realized that they’re not as different then they originally thought. The central theme/message of this movie is overcoming stereotypes and it becomes evident to viewers throughout the movie. This theme develops throughout the movie‚ starting
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Recently‚ we watched the movie‚ The Breakfast Club. The character I chose to write about is Andy. Andy is a wrestler. He wins a lot because of the patch on his jacket. The patch said state champion. He is the athlete of the story and the jock. He bullied other people below him because they weren’t as good as him. Andy stood up for the others in the beginning of the movie. John was picking on Claire and he stopped him. He stood up for others in the beginning of the movie. Towards the middle of
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Brian 1. Brian is a perfectionist when it comes to school. Only once has he got any grade under an “A”. Brian’s parents but a ton of pressure on Brian to perform exceptionally in school. 2. Brian is profiled as a nerd. After he got an “F” on a shop project he brought a gun into school to kill himself. However‚ the gun went off while in Brian’s locker so he was given a detention. 3. Brian shows a form of Denial in that when he got the bad grade he wasn’t able to accept it and was going
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Brian Johnson (Nerd) Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development Brian Johnson‚ as well as the rest of the characters from Hughes’ The Breakfast Club‚ can be categorized in more than one level/stage of Lawrence Kohlberg’s levels/stages of moral development. Many of the characters grow as people and can be seen at different levels of moral development throughout the film. For the purpose of this analysis‚ Brian will be categorized based on the general impressions and behaviors he expresses before
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As we continue watching “The Breakfast Club”‚ a specific character has caught my eye‚ her name is Clare. At the beginning of the movie she seemed so innocent‚ she has the impression that her life was perfect. On the contrary‚ as the film started to proceed we saw a deeper side of Clare. As she tried to play off Saturday school like it was nothing so she could keep her reputation‚ “Most popular girl in school” I feel as though Bender was the main reason she opened up. As if he was almost harassing
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David Silver in Twitter Meets the Breakfast Club‚ explains different ways how twitter and social media are great ways to keep in touch with classmates and students as a professor at a school. According to David Silver‚ he used to warn his students to “Be‚ Careful” in the mid 1990’s warning students what they put on the world wide web is public‚ until his mind set changed when he started a twitter assignment with a class on history of television cooking shows called “Green-Media” (498). David Silver’s
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The film The Breakfast Club demonstrates how the identity of a person can be influenced by conflict he or she has experienced in life. Andy is one of the characters that whose identity is influenced by the pressure from his friends and more from his father‚ because his father wants him to always win no matter what‚ but Andy doesn’t like that because he thinks his father only likes him because he always wins‚ he says that he wishes for himself to get injured so he wouldn’t have to play the sports
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Helen Ashworth September 30‚ 2009 English 111 – 16PR Essay 2 ATTITUDES REGARDING EDUCATION IN THE BREAKFAST CLUB I know I don’t have much to see on this paper today‚ but basically in my eyes this movie was not about education so much as it was about the individual students and how their lives were from day to day. There were five different types of students‚ all of which were unique in their own ways. There was the “jock”‚ who lived his life trying to
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