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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The character I picked from The Breakfast Club is Allison Reynolds. This character relates to me by how she is quiet and doesn’t speak much when she isn’t comfortable with the people around her‚ eventually she will become comfortable and show her true self. She is also like me by the way how she lies a lot‚ and how she does admit to lying later on. I lie sometimes‚ just not as much‚ plus my lies aren’t as bad as Allison’s. I can visualize myself‚ and some of my friends in Allison.I can visualize
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Oh what can you really learn in Saturday detention. The Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had there on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. I believe that communication played the biggest part in the movie. It shows the way that people from totally different backgrounds can communicate and even agree on issues. The various types of communication and behaviors within the film will be discussed. To begin with the film started out with
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The Breakfast Club is a simple but beautiful 1980’s movie about a group of teenagers that end up realizing they are all going through some tough situations. While The Breakfast Club was made for entertainment purposes‚ it can be a great learning tool. Just from studying the movie‚ a student can realize they should not judge a book by it’s cover. For a student-teacher‚ this movie is a great tool in observing what happens when teachers decide not to invest their time into their students. Analyzing
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In The Breakfast Club‚ there is an overwhelming idea of the future. The students only think about one week in advance before their Saturday detention. They never thought about what their actions could do to their future. For example‚ Brian did not seem to grasp that because he was so ready to kill himself over one failed assignment. He was thinking in the now and not in the future. A noticeable moral of this film is: Parents should actually raise their children. In this film‚ all of the parents have
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A “quintessential 80’s movie‚” The Breakfast Club is a film rich with psychological principles. This movie is about a group of high school teenagers filled with personal angst who spend a Saturday serving their detention sentences in the school library. Each teenager from a different clique‚ they didn’t expect to relate as much to each other as they thought. As they begin to get to know each other‚ the vengeful assistant principal Vernon starts to single out Bender‚ the rebel of the group of teenagers
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The Breakfast Club as a Healing Myth John Bender Anyone who has ever attended high school can instantly relate to the word “Bully”‚ whether its memories of being bullied by someone or being the bully yourself. Everyone knows to look out for him‚ but for the most part‚ once you have been picked to be the one being bullied‚ you might as well paint a bull’s-eye on your back. John Bender’s character does precisely that‚ he’s not exactly friendly with everyone else in the group‚ but his main target
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Question #1‚ Option b Roles are like “parts” we play in life‚ each with a set of expectations specific to that position (rules). In The Breakfast Club‚ Mr. Vernon has the role of the Principle. Naturally this means his “rules” include both the explicit (written out and specifically defined) ones such as managing the school’s staff‚ and creating and carrying out policies and procedures‚ and the implicit (implied) ones such as trying to guide his students down the right path and leading by example
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Tom Bergamo AP Psychology Mrs. Theis 9 February 2015 Breakfast Club Essay 1. The character Allison Reynolds in the film The Breakfast Club exhibits Piaget’s formal operational thinking. The formal operational begins at the age of 12 and continues into adulthood‚ this stage also involves abstract thinking and moral reasoning. Teenagers are able to understand concepts and ideas on a more thought provoking level‚ with an emotional connection. Allison exhibits abstract thinking as an artist
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Uncertainty reduction theory This theory comes to explain the uncertainty among people who communicate with each other and how different types of communication will help to reduce the uncertainty. As a starting point‚ the developers of this theory (Charles Berger and Richard Calabrese) stated that uncertainty is an unpleasant feeling‚ which people prefer to avoid as much as they can. Every person has been confronted with the feeling of uncertainty‚ rather if it was when arriving to new a destination
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