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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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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The Breakfast Club The "Breakfast Club" is a teen-comedy‚ released in 1985 and was directed and produced by John Hughes - who was best known for scripting or directing the most successful films of the 1980’s and 1990s‚ for example: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off‚ Sixteen Candles‚ the three Home Alone installments and 101 Dalmatians. This film also stars five of the most well-known actors and actresses of this time‚ who had starred in similar productions throughout the 1980’s. "The Breakfast Club"
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“Grease” v. “The Breakfast Club”: Finding Yourself The films “Grease” and “The Breakfast Club” feature the same strong theme: finding your identity. This theme is universal through many books‚ movies and even real life. The fact that these two films were filmed so far apart‚ “Grease” being filmed in 1959 and directed by Randal Kleiser and “The Breakfast Club” in 1985 directed by John Hughes‚ shows that this is a strong theme that sticks throughout the industry. These films have many characters
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Essay The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a story about five teenagers put in Saturday detention. Each character gives a face to most of the high school stereotypes. The brain‚ the athlete‚ the basket case‚ the princess and the criminal. Each are given their own seat and the instructions to sit for eight hours and write an essay on who they think they are. Each of them‚ having very strong personalities‚ will fight‚ cry‚ laugh and learn from each other‚ making friendships that would have
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in The Breakfast Club This film written and directed by John Hughes follows five students at Shermer High School in Shermer‚ Illinois as they report for Saturday detention in 1984. While not complete strangers‚ the five are all from different cliques‚ there’s John Bender "The Criminal‚" Claire "The Princess‚" Brian "The Brain‚" Andy "The Athlete‚" and Allison "The Basket Case." The school’s disciplinary teacher Mr. Vernon gives them all an assignment to write an essay about "who you think you are"
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Neima Prabhakar English 8 CP Period 2 5/19/05 A Misleading Exterior In the film‚ The Breakfast Club (1985)‚ John Bender‚ the slovenly rebel at Shermer High School in Chicago‚ is serving a Saturday detention with four very different students. Right from the beginning‚ Bender exhibits the qualities of a destructive and thoughtless criminal‚ i.e.‚ he taunts everyone else in order to hide his personal inadequacies. Whenever Bender is questioned by his peers about a personal issue‚ or whenever
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Various Ways to Prevent Group-think * Foster open climate for discussion ① Seating Arrangement Seating arrangement is important in creating an open atmosphere for discussion. Most organizations are hierarchical so that it is usually hard for subordinates to express their ideas directly to their heads. If members of an organization seat in orderly manner by their positions‚ there should be an invisible wall‚ which prevents from expressing their ideas. Thus‚ the climate is rather formal
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Breakfast Club Albert Bandura believed that direct reinforcement could not account for all types of learning. His theory added a social element‚ arguing that people can learn new information and behaviors by watching other people. Jonathon Bender is a rebellious‚ careless delinquent and Bandura’s theories can explain why his behavior is how it is. One example of Bender’s behavior was when he was in the library and the principle kept giving him Saturday schools. He kept asking if Bender was done
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Social Penetration Theory in The Breakfast Club The Social Penetration Theory‚ adapted by Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor‚ is based on the idea that people are layered like onions‚ (Griffin 133). These layers are made up by different things that hide an individual’s true self. One’s true self can include his or her hopes‚ fears‚ likes‚ dislikes‚ aspirations and other things that one thinks about. For individuals to become close‚ they must get past all of the facades and disclose their true
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