(Jesse Eisenberg)‚ the introverted Martin Blythe (Paul Dano)‚ and the studious Deepak Mehta (Rishi Mehta)‚ all of whom are incredibly intelligent. He inspires all of them to study hard in order to become one of the three contestants for The Emperor’s Club and be crowned "Mr. Julius Caesar"‚ a competition which pits the top three students of his class in a contest where they will be asked questions regarding the Classics. Blythe also mentions proudly that his father was once a "Mr. Julius Caesar"‚ as
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The Breakfast club (1985) is a comedy-drama film directed and written by John Hughes. The plot revolves around 5 high school students‚ each part of a different stereotype; Judd Nelson plays Bender the ‘criminal’‚ Claire the ‘princess’ is portrayed by Molly Ringwald‚ Emilio Estevez takes on the role of Andrew the ‘athlete’‚ Anthony Michael Hall plays the ‘brain’ Brian Johnson and Ally Sheedy is Allison the ‘basket case’. The film starts with the students being stuck in Saturday detention together
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An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich their feelings of belonging and acceptance‚ however feelings of insecurity can lead to isolation and rejection limiting the experience of belonging. The concept of belonging is feeling connected to another individual‚ group‚ place or object that evokes positive emotions within oneself. In contrast‚ not belonging leads to feelings of alienation due to a lack of understanding‚ separation or when forced to embrace unfamiliarity
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Summary The novel The Dante Club‚ written by Matthew Pearl‚ begins with John Kurtz‚ Chief of the Boston police‚ investigating a murder that occurred in 1865. The man murdered was Artemus Prescott Healey‚ who was the highest official of the Massachusetts courts. Healey’s body was found naked and covered with insects and maggots on a sandy beach next to his property. His chambermaid insisted that he was still alive when she found him days later‚ and that he cried out before dying. Then Pearl introduces
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Interpersonal Communication April 3rd‚ 2013 The Breakfast Club The Breakfast club quickly begins to define each character into their stereotypical roles within the first few minutes of the movie. Within the first few minutes you will begin to notice that Alison is one who craves the attention of other and is kind of the weird one out‚ Bender gets the stereotype that he is some smooth guy that is a rebel‚ Claire is the popular girl that everyone is high school longs to look like and tries to
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On November 4‚ 1970 in California‚ a social worker discovered a thirteen-year-old was kept in isolation all her life. The girl was named Genie in order to protect her identity. When Genie was found‚ she could not speak or walk. She was tied to a potty chair with no one to talk to. Not only did she display unhuman characteristics but she was also abused. When Genie made noise‚ her father would beat her and she rarely spoke to her mother and brother. The few times her father spoke to her was to bark
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True Isolation The definition of isolation is –being without company. We will learn that isolation is a very bad thing. How it can lead to misfortune and tragedy. When people think Frankenstein they think horror and terror. Really it is neither of those. The real terror is a monster that is abandoned by his creator and society and left in a world of loneliness and rejection. Mary Shelley is not your typical horror story author‚ but the events in her life lead her to bring many
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A Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation In order to explain how this article “A Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation” tells us about socialization‚ we should first understand the term socialization. At birth humans are born with a “blank slate” or in Latin it’s called tabula rasa. Then as early as the age of two years old‚ socialization has begun to fill this “blank slate.” “The term socialization is the lifelong process of social interaction in which the individual acquires a social
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The Emperor’s Club is a film that addresses many moral and social aspects that are central to contemporary society’s moral controversy. Can morals be properly instilled in a young person outside of religion? Can our future decisions be predicted based on our current character? Can our current character even be changed or molded? Can morals be learned through studying the classics? The Emperors Club’s main characters are Mr. Hundert a teacher of classics at a prestigious preparatory school‚ and
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Breakfast Club is a movie that brings together 5 students‚ all belonging to 5 cliques that can be found in any school‚ the Jocks‚ the Brains‚ the Criminals‚ The Princesses (the girls who own the school) and the Basket-cases. At the beginning of the movie‚ these 5 seemingly very different people had nothing to say to each other‚ but throughout the movie the sanctions of each clique become less and less relevant and they find that they themselves have formed their own clique (the Breakfast Club) with
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