“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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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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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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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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Small Team and Group Paper COM100 Small Team and Group Paper “Together Everyone Achieves More… That’s what TEAM means‚ so let’s work it out together!” These were my words to my first successful venture into the network marketing and direct sales arena and although I did not have a clue about how I or my team would become a success in this business‚ we sat down in my overpriced apartment and decided that failure was no longer an option. This paper is focused on the small team experiences that
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The group work process for the small group presentation and the ITN presentation has gone well so far. We all get along and have not had any problems communicating with each other. Everyone answers texts promptly about when we are meeting and figuring out a time that works best for us all. When our group has meet over the last few weeks‚ we went over some of the sources we found talked about how we could fit them into our presentation. Also‚ we have established a timeline for when we will have will
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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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Small Groups Established Churches: Challenge and Hope for The Future Small Groups and Established Churches Challenge and Hope for the Future ABOUT THE AUTHOR John W. Ellas is director of the Center for Church Growth in Houston‚ Texas‚ which helps churches to learn and apply effective methods for spiritual and numerical growth. For the past twenty years John has helped congregations through church training services‚ books‚ and a quarterly magazine. The American Society for Church Growth recently
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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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One of the effective ways to minimize the poor communication among each other consists of the capability of self-disclosure. The 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
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