is useful in cohering a poorly organized group‚ especially a group of young high school students as in the movie‚ The Breakfast Club. The first stage of group development is the forming stage. Forming is when members get to know each other and find common ground‚ while the group leader provides structure‚ direction and ground rules. For example‚ in the movie‚ The Breakfast Club‚ the forming stage was the point at which students were forced into a group during detention‚ which provided structure
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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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Adolescent Development The Breakfast Club (1985)‚ displays many stereotypes of adolescents‚ which are more commonly referred to as irrational teenagers. The adolescents cannot help their behaviors‚ to an extent‚ as it is all biological. They are merely trying to figure out their identities‚ and need to experiment with their superiors in that time. Their hormone levels are changing‚ helping them transition from children to adults. Imaginary Audience As adolescents‚ the group in detention all have
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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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The movie Breakfast club by John Hughes‚ is a remarkable movie about five high school students from completely different social groups. They all have to go through a Saturday detention under Mr Richard Vernon the principal. The different social group includes “The rebel” John‚ “The princess” Claire‚ “The basket case” Allison‚ “The brainy” Brian and “The jock” Andrew. They are completely different people with different lifestyles and at the start of the movie they don’t get along but as they each
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Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had their 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. Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted‚ as well as described in relation to the examples
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For the following analysis‚ I will be discussing the movie Fight Club’s two main characters. They are "Jack" played by Edward Norton‚ and Tyler Durden played by Brad Pitt. However the twist to the movie turns out that Jack and Tyler are the same person and Tyler is Jack’s real name. Tyler the character is everything that Jack the character is not. The story narration is provided by the protagonist of "Fight Club‚" "Jack." The ambivalent protagonist‚ who only refers to himself as "Jack." An ambivalent
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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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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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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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