The Emperor’s Club THESE ARE JUST SOME QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS YOU CAN THINK ABOUT AS YOU WATCH THE EMPEROR’S CLUB MOVIE in class --- 1. When we look at Mr. Hundert’s choice to change Bell’s grade: Specifically: we see Mr. H. fails to keep some of his obligations to clients from our list in Topic 7 of our course: Honesty‚ Competence‚ Fairness‚ Diligence‚ Confidentiality‚ Loyalty‚ and Do No Harm. Overall: is Mr. H. a virtuous person? Does he show some of the virtues on page 61 (Aristotle’s
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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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fun side and his touching side which is what i love about him. The Geek‚ Anthony Micheal Hall was Super Geek. I don’t think anyone can play a geek better. I mean that in a nice way. I love him in weird science‚ 16 candles and of corse Breakfest club. Who doesn’t love a geek. He is the funniest man alive I never did understand the janitor? What did he mean when he talked to th principal? Was he really Brian’s dad? I have seen this movie over 10 times and i still never get that part. Anyway
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In the New York Times Bestseller‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan uses symbolism and diction to portray to the audience that the main antagonistic force stems from language barriers. The novel focuses on Chinese women immigrants and their daughters. All of the mothers come to America with high expectations and aspirations for both their future daughters and themselves. The mother’s first language is Chinese but their daughters grew up speaking English this causes rifts in their relationships’ because
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and integrated into mainstream culture. However‚ especially with more recent waves of immigration‚ some pieces of their culture remain uniquely their own and sometimes cannot be directly translated into English and American culture. In The Joy Luck Club‚ the concept of “joy luck” remains untranslatable from mother to daughter‚ from Chinese culture to American. This is not because the words do not make sense in English‚ because they do‚ but simply because the daughters do not live the same lives their
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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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Lindo Jong is a member of the Joy Luck Club along with Suyuan Woo‚ An-mei Hsu‚ and Ying-ying St. Clair. Lindo Jong is a mother to three children‚ a divorcee‚ and a wife to a second husband. She grew up in China‚ and even though her children are American‚ she wants them to have some Chinese character also. Lindo’s character encompasses three major traits including cleverness‚ being controlling‚ and loving. When Lindo turned the age of two‚ she was engaged to marry Tyan-yu who was one year old at
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The changes between “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan and the movie are very subtle but they do change the relationships between the mothers and their daughters. There are many differences between the mothers and their daughters relationships for example Ying-Ying and Lena. In the book there is a huge major difference because they did not tell the story of the moon lady. ALthough there is a difference they both have the same affect that cause An-Mei to never be satisfied with a man her daughter is with
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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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Amy Tan portrays Lindo Jong‚ mother of Waverly Jong‚ as a brave‚ intelligent woman who uses her wit in order to get out of a restrained marriage. She shows an unwavering loyalty to her family as she sacrifices her‚ “life to keep [her] parents promise‚” (42). Lindo deals with the harassment from her in-laws‚ as well as the childlike nature of her husband. She eventually receives abuse from her own daughter when she doesn’t fit the expectations of both Waverly and the society. Even through all these
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