The Breakfast Club was a movie about five very different characters‚ Claire‚ Andrew‚ Brian‚ Allison‚ and John Bender. Claire was a popular girl‚ Andrew was a wrestler (jock)‚ Brian was intellectually gifted‚ Allison was a basket case‚ and John Bender was a rebel. On the outside they seem like very different people‚ in fact they were all socially opposite‚ but they also shared so much. As the movie starts out‚ the five teenagers are being punished with Saturday detention; their assignment for
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Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had their on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. I believe that communication played the biggest part in the movie. It shows the way that people from totally different backgrounds can communicate and even agree on issues. The various types of communication and behaviors within the film will be discussed. Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted‚ as well as described in relation to the examples
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Larry Ross: A Manager in His Own Words 1) Larry Ross (not his real name) was interviewed by writer Studs Terkel over 30 years ago. Do you think most managers in the 21st century would describe their jobs in the same way? I think most managers in the 21st century would describe their jobs in the same way which is manager is a difficult job. Over 30 years ago Larry Ross described the corporation as a jungle in where everybody had to be alert‚ even the CEO. “You’re thrown in on your own and you’re
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In The Breakfast Club‚ there is an overwhelming idea of the future. The students only think about one week in advance before their Saturday detention. They never thought about what their actions could do to their future. For example‚ Brian did not seem to grasp that because he was so ready to kill himself over one failed assignment. He was thinking in the now and not in the future. A noticeable moral of this film is: Parents should actually raise their children. In this film‚ all of the parents have
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The movie The Breakfast Club has many interesting characters. All of them pertaining to different groups in school with different personalities and lifestyles as well. There is a jock‚ a troublemaker‚ a spoiled girl‚ a nerd‚ and a basket case. Even though at the beginning they all feel a little uncomfortable being there‚ they eventually end up getting to know each other a little bit. Things that they end up finding out is that even though they’re all different they can all relate to each other because
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A “quintessential 80’s movie‚” The Breakfast Club is a film rich with psychological principles. This movie is about a group of high school teenagers filled with personal angst who spend a Saturday serving their detention sentences in the school library. Each teenager from a different clique‚ they didn’t expect to relate as much to each other as they thought. As they begin to get to know each other‚ the vengeful assistant principal Vernon starts to single out Bender‚ the rebel of the group of teenagers
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In Montana 1948 by Larry Watson David and his family find out that his uncle has been raping and sexually assaulting women from a local Native American reservation. Gail‚ David’s mother Gail is used by author to give a feminist perspective of the situation. Although not all feminist or people who believe in the social‚ political‚ and economic equality of the sexes are women the author chose Gail so that people could understand he is a feminist. Gail has to help her family make decisions about what
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The character John Bender in the Breakfast Club is one of the five representational teenagers of stereotypical cliques. He is depicted as the criminal‚ and reveals a past that correlates to that of many who maintain similar lifestyles and recreational choices that Bender exhibits. As displayed by many teenagers‚ behavioral habits typically correspond with the conditions in which they live. This common assumption is further accredited upon disclosure of Bender’s home life. The parenting style that
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Jerry Falwell vs. Larry Flynt: The First Amendment on Trial Robert A. Smolla For my presentation‚ I reported on the Falwell vs. Flynt lawsuit‚ which was based upon the extent to which Americans have freedom of expression. An important aspect of this case was the dissimilarity of the two men involved: Jerry Falwell and Larry Flynt. Jerry Falwell was an important religious leader of the time. He was a radio evangelist‚ leader of a religious group called the moral majority‚ and voted 2nd most
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The film we watched in class was The Breakfast Club. I had heard of this movie and seen some parts of it before‚ but never really sat and watched the movie‚ so it was a pleasure to observe and analyze the characters and how they developed. I chose to do the characterization of Allison‚ whose labeled as weird and different. Allison was a fascinating character to watch develop seeing that there are a lot of hidden things about her and her personality in the beginning of the movie. I found that she
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