The Breakfast Club Chanetta McFerguson Childhood April 28‚ 2013 Melissa Harper The Breakfast Club Cliques are groups of people with mutual interests and goals‚ who spend a majority of their time with each other. They can be found at every high school. The Breakfast Club is a movie that brings five students belonging to different cliques together in an unfortunate situation-detention. At the beginning of the movie‚ these five students appear to be very different people who have nothing
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The Breakfast Club – Analysis Essay This past weekend I set out to accomplish this extra credit assignment. I viewed the task as just another mediocre film from the 80’s to watch for school. However‚ I can now say that I am utterly delighted to have viewed the Breakfast Club. This film eloquently covered every serious topic that a high school student has ever pondered: sex‚ social stratification‚ tobacco use‚ parental frustration‚ marijuana and even suicide. The film begins by an unlikely group
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Comparing Perks of Being a Wallflower and Breakfast Club. In this essay‚ I will be comparing John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club published in 1985 with Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower of 1999. The Breakfast club aims to highlight what went on in high schools as well as the larger society at the time‚ by using five unique stereotypes. In the movie‚ there was the jock: trying to live up to his dad’s and friends’ expectations; the brain‚ expected to be super-smart; the princess‚ who always
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self-disclosure theory is a tenacity revelation of particular info to other individual (Howard‚ 2011). Disclosure might consist of allocation both high-risk and low-risk info as well as individual involvements thoughts and assertiveness‚ approaches and principles‚ historical realities and life stories‚ and even forthcoming expectations‚ visions‚ goals‚ and aims. In sharing data about yourself‚ you make decisions about what to share and using whom to share it. In the concessions scene in The Breakfast Club
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Whether groups are formed for social or task oriented purposes‚ the ability to produce and maintain a sense of affiliation‚ peer support and collaboration is important for overall group functioning. The cohesion of a social group is produced through the establishment of a set of group norms‚ which are later defined as a guide for conduct accepted within a group of individuals. However‚ in order for a group to perform and produce results‚ the team leader should guide his/her team through the proper
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The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is an all American teen film that was introduced to the world in 1985. Even though this film is a couple of decades old‚ the storyline still fits in with most adolescence’s lives today. The film takes place in a high school library‚ where we are introduced to our five main characters in the movie. They are all in Saturday detention because they broke school rules‚ and they are not happy at all about being there. All of the students are from different cliques
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“Even though the John Hughes film The Breakfast Club was made in 1985 it still has relevance for modern for modern Australian audiences” To what extent do you agree? ...and these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They’re quite aware of what they’re going through... – David Bowie David Bowie’s words above introduce the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club; they suggest the central themes explored about teenage issues
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Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory highlights one stage that is relevant and demonstrated in the 1985 movie‚ The Breakfast Club. Identity vs. Role Diffusion‚ or also known as‚ Stage 5‚ is the foundation for the characters and plot of this movie. To begin with‚ the plot of the movie deals with a group of adolescents dealing with stereotypes and finding their identities. At the beginning of the movie‚ the teens are in “fragile” and “detrimental-like” stages. They do not really know who they are‚
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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 individual
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Social Trends Assignment Movie Analysis of “The Breakfast Club” The features of Generation-Xers were efficiently showed in this movie. For most Generation-Xers they were lack of sense of safety and social identity‚ they were dissatisfied with the government because a lack of trust in leadership‚ which caused their misleading personality trait. When they watch The Breakfast Club they have to have the same sense of this movie. In the United States only a small part of people had taken drug
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