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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When I was in upper elementary school‚ I read Kurt Vonnegut novels. My favorite was Breakfast of Champions. In it‚ a failure of a science-fiction author named Kilgore Trout with only three fans in the known universe was said to have written a story: Now It Can Be Told. In it‚ not a single person but one human had free will; everyone else was an unthinking machine. Now‚ I sit on the bus‚ next to an obnoxious seventh-grader who wouldn’t stop talking about his friend from an old school who does rather
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Yanni Thomas 4 December 2013 Professor Stanley COMM 1375-60 Mis-en-scene and Cinematography 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
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Persuasive Speech Formal Outline INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: (Chews gum) Is this annoying you? Do you want me to stop? What if I told you that this pass-time‚ can actually make you a better student? Topic Revelation Statement: In the next few minutes‚ I will testify three astounding benefits why you should start chewing gum everyday! Significance Statement: We all seek to improve something about ourselves and chewing gum is going to do just that. According to wrigley.com updated in 2012
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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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Tanning Bed Industry and the Tobacco Industry: Ethical Sisters? PHL/323 December 17‚ 2012 Edward Peet The Tanning Bed Industry and the Tobacco Industry: Ethical Sisters? The tanning industry and has a service to provide for monetary compensation. The industry and shop owners have an interest to protect. Their livelihood‚ loans to repay‚ franchise agreements to honor‚ human resource obligations to pay‚ and taxes to pay. The industry association and tanning business networks have a plan to further
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Tsing Yi Hotel Business Plan Business plan outline: 1.0 Executive Summary Objectives Keys to Success Mission 2.0 Company Summary Company Ownership Start-up summary 3.0 Services 4.0 Market Analysis Summary SWOT: Strength‚ Weakness‚ Opportunities‚ Threats Market Segmentation Service Business Analysis 5.0 Strategy and Implementation Summary Competitive Edge Marketing Strategy Sales Strategy Sales Forecast 6.0 Web Plan Summary Website Marketing Strategy Development
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Breakfast is the most essential meal. "It breaks the long overnight fast‚ helping you wake up and get going." (Hark‚ L. Deen‚ D. 2007‚ pg 14). Most importantly eating breakfast helps you to stop feeling hungry later and therefore you will be more alert at school or work as you have consumed energy in food kilojoules to concentrate. There have been numerous studies conducted over the past years‚ many concluding that breakfast is important for adolescents. Bad habits are extremely hard to break‚ for
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Effects of Watching TV before Bed on Sleep Quality Matthew Spector Palomar College Abstract There is plenty of research on whether or not watching television has an effect on the effectiveness of sleep. However‚ there is contradicting research‚ so the results are inconclusive. In order to study the effects of TV on sleep‚ I watched TV for half an hour before bed for a week straight‚ and recorded how tired I felt in the morning. I then recorded how I felt in the
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Coach Marketing Plan June 2010 – June 2012 BUS 620: Final Group Project March 8‚ 2010 *Executive Summary *- The focus of our 2 year marketing campaign is the building of the Coach line of handbags. The typical market focus of the handbag business for Coach is geared towards middle class women who have an interest in quality handbags and don’t who mind paying a little more for the quality and prestige of Coach products. While a Coach handbag is certainly a niche item‚ we feel there
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