involvement in activities‚ drug and alcohol use‚ academic result‚ job characteristics‚ mental changes‚ family demographics‚ and learning ability. Each member of the wave 6 portion of the study was asked to choose a character from the movie the Breakfast Club in which they recognized characteristics from their own lives: the Princess‚ the Jock‚ the Basket Case‚ the Nerd‚ or the Criminal. They were told to base their choice on personality rather than the character’s
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Recently‚ we watched the movie‚ The Breakfast Club. The character I chose to write about is Andy. Andy is a wrestler. He wins a lot because of the patch on his jacket. The patch said state champion. He is the athlete of the story and the jock. He bullied other people below him because they weren’t as good as him. Andy stood up for the others in the beginning of the movie. John was picking on Claire and he stopped him. He stood up for others in the beginning of the movie. Towards the middle of
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Brian 1. Brian is a perfectionist when it comes to school. Only once has he got any grade under an “A”. Brian’s parents but a ton of pressure on Brian to perform exceptionally in school. 2. Brian is profiled as a nerd. After he got an “F” on a shop project he brought a gun into school to kill himself. However‚ the gun went off while in Brian’s locker so he was given a detention. 3. Brian shows a form of Denial in that when he got the bad grade he wasn’t able to accept it and was going
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David Silver in Twitter Meets the Breakfast Club‚ explains different ways how twitter and social media are great ways to keep in touch with classmates and students as a professor at a school. According to David Silver‚ he used to warn his students to “Be‚ Careful” in the mid 1990’s warning students what they put on the world wide web is public‚ until his mind set changed when he started a twitter assignment with a class on history of television cooking shows called “Green-Media” (498). David Silver’s
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Helen Ashworth September 30‚ 2009 English 111 – 16PR Essay 2 ATTITUDES REGARDING EDUCATION IN THE BREAKFAST CLUB I know I don’t have much to see on this paper today‚ but basically in my eyes this movie was not about education so much as it was about the individual students and how their lives were from day to day. There were five different types of students‚ all of which were unique in their own ways. There was the “jock”‚ who lived his life trying to
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5. “Goal-Oriented” Franklin hydrates dry DNA and draws it into a mucoid strand as fine as spider’s silk‚ in which the DNA molecules align in a way suitable for X ray crystallography. She gets her first good photographs. Wilkins is impressed but Franklin will not communicate with him; he has to get what information he can from her technician Raymond Gosling. Franklin brusquely rejects Wilkins’s speculations about the helical structure of DNA. “You may be guessing right‚ and you may not. You won’t
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The Breakfast Club The "Breakfast Club" is a teen-comedy‚ released in 1985 and was directed and produced by John Hughes - who was best known for scripting or directing the most successful films of the 1980’s and 1990s‚ for example: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off‚ Sixteen Candles‚ the three Home Alone installments and 101 Dalmatians. This film also stars five of the most well-known actors and actresses of this time‚ who had starred in similar productions throughout the 1980’s. "The Breakfast Club"
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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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“Grease” v. “The Breakfast Club”: Finding Yourself The films “Grease” and “The Breakfast Club” feature the same strong theme: finding your identity. This theme is universal through many books‚ movies and even real life. The fact that these two films were filmed so far apart‚ “Grease” being filmed in 1959 and directed by Randal Kleiser and “The Breakfast Club” in 1985 directed by John Hughes‚ shows that this is a strong theme that sticks throughout the industry. These films have many characters
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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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