The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club has a few characters‚ whom are portrayed with different personalities. There is Andrew Clark‚ the athlete; Claire Standish‚ the princess; Allison Reynolds‚ the lonely girl; Brian Johnson‚ the nerd; and John Bender‚ the criminal. Each one has unique characteristics‚ that set them apart from each other. My personal favorite out the entire bunch‚ would be John Bender‚ the criminal. Bender has a different attire‚ then the rest of the adolescents. He wears plenty
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the heart of this story are the struggles we have experienced‚ the people we have associated ourselves with‚ and the lessons we have learnt along the way. Such can be said about my own life‚ and the lives of the characters from the Breakfast Club. The characters from the Breakfast Club that I feel most represent me are: Claire Standish (The Princess)‚ and Brian Johnson (The Brian)‚ and the one I feel least represents me is John Bender (The Criminal). Claire Standish is in my opinion a sophisticated
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Summary For the news assignment‚ I viewed the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. This aired on Tuesday‚ March 28‚ 2017 at 5:30 p.m. I am going to describe the top news story presented at the beginning of the segment. This story is about sexually abused female Olympic gymnasts. Two female gymnasts come forward to Congress and plead their story about their coach in the Olympics sexually abusing them in their hotel rooms when they were just teens. The women are much older now‚ but still come forth
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In the Evening Hawk‚ Robert Penn Warren makes extensive use of figurative language‚ imagery‚ and symbolism to describe a foreboding scene that calls attention to the passage of time. He uses simile and the symbol of the Evening Hawk to convey a scene in which he suggests that man is being judged. Warren calls attention to the slow‚ grim passage of time with simile‚ suggesting that “history [drips] into darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.” Were there “no wind‚” he says‚ we might
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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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Waverly and Lindo Jong In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Waverly and Lindo Jong experience conflict because of their cultural upbringing. Lindo experienced a wealthy Chinese childhood while Waverly experienced a Chinese-Western childhood. These cultural differences causes conflict between Waverly and Lindo. Waverly finds Lindo’s Chinese ways outdated. One point of a healthy Chinese parent and child relationship includes the parent showing high levels of concern. Waverly does not like
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"Hospital Evening" and "Monday" by Gwen Harwood are two poems that explore the hardship of immigrants in Australia. Written in the late 20th century after the "White Australia Policy" was abolished and thousands of immigrants landed on Australian shores‚ the poems revolve around Krote‚ a German music teacher‚ who has migrated to Australia and his struggles with racism and the harshness of the Australian environment. The poems negative construction of Australian people acts as a critique of the Australian
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“That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner is a good example of a great emotional turmoil transferred directly to the readers through the words of a narrator who does not seem to grasp the severity of the turmoil. It is a story of an African American laundress who lives in the fear of her common-law husband Jesus who suspects her of carrying a white man’s child in her womb and seems hell bent on killing her. Many critics refer to "That Evening Sun" as one of the finest examples of narrative point of
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Musical evening No‚ I haven’t been to a musical (lately). But Friday "my" choir and I had an appointment with‚ well‚ the rest of the population here‚ really. The local choirs (5) and whoever else who wanted to come along‚ were gathered to sing. The choirs had 2-3 songs each in between‚ but the rest was pure singalong (not karaoke..). Before going I felt as if I was a hundred years old‚ because that’s what I expected the average age of the people attending to be - but no such thing. Admittedly
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An evening on the beach Night was falling. The setting sun’s red rays lit up the sky above the western horizon. I could see an oil tanker making its way across the sea just on the horizon. Soon the sun disappeared below the horizon and the sky turned dark but my two friends and I sat on the beach gazing at the place where the sun went down. Sunsets are mesmerizing as we discovered. Only when the mosquitoes started coming in great number were we brought back to reality. We picked ourselves
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