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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Ryan Powers Dr. Benita Dilley CATA 235: Small Group Communication March 21‚ 2006 Book: Janis‚ Irving L. Groupthink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin‚ 1982 Executive Summary: In this book Janis writes about the group phenomena known as groupthink. He breaks down the some of the reasons why groupthink occurs and gives theories‚ implications‚ and applications of groupthink. Also‚ he connects his findings on groupthink to political fiascoes and demonstrates that groupthink is the leading cause behind these mishaps
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and sat. Fat. Using the charts in your notebook from Lesson 04.02 and the Protein Chart from this lesson‚ analyze each food in the following breakfasts and then choose the healthiest option to be prepared for you today at Club Web. Give at least five reasons to support your choice. If you would like to add a food‚ be sure to tell why. A good breakfast would consist of a plate of Eggs with ham on the side with a cup of coffee that contains skim milk. The eggs are a good source of Vitamin A. The
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Doctor-Smalls Health Promotion Program Before School Breakfast Club GOALS • To promote health and wholeness by providing a healthy breakfast for students during the school week. • Only healthy choices will be made available thus promoting good nutrition and healthy eating choices. • Students will be shown the link between eating a healthy breakfast and improving grades and test scores. • Students who cannot afford to pay for breakfast will be covered under the free/reduced lunch program.
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Dear Mr Hughes‚ I am writing to you tell you about my opinions of your movie‚ The Breakfast Club. It is a movie classic which most people will see at least once in their lives. What makes The Breakfast Club so special is that the film was very different from almost every movie released at the time. It’s a movie made to target teenagers and the problems they go though. It directly talks about communication gaps‚ teen isolation‚ and the angst that teens experience during the years that function as
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