...Jack Fischer Comp 1 Jason Tillis April 19, 2013 Breakfast Club The plot follows five students at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention. (Fun fact about the high school where the movie was filmed, its called Maine North High School, it is a public four-year high school located in Northbrook, Illinois, that’s the high school my father attended for all four years of schooling). The five teens that show up for Saturday detention are all different in many ways. The first, of the teens is Bender a trouble making punk rock kid who likes to give everyone a hard time. The second is Andrew a wrestler jock who doesn’t like to take crap from anyone. Third, is Brian a nerdy kid just trying to fit in with the rest of the group. Fourth, is Claire the popular rich princess that has to have her way and puts herself on a pedestal. Lastly, is Allison the weird girl who doesn’t talk much. They all think they are totally different and in completely different social groups, and at the start of the movie they are right. Bender the troublemaker is messing with everyone including the principle and all the kids don’t understand why he is doing this. All the kids seem to start to get over the fact that Bender will be doing this the whole time. The movie starts to progress when they seek out of the library and are disobeying Mr. Vernon’s rules. All the kids have there fun, but when the movie really starts to get down to its true purpose...
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...one-liners and also wrote quite a few life lessons into his films. That spurs the question — what other films from the 1980s include valuable life lessons? Yes, the ’80s are the butt of all decade jokes, but where would America be without those crucial 10 years of big ugly hair, heavy eye makeup and leg warmers? No matter the fashion, people were still people in the ’80s, and there’s always something to be gleaned from the past. We’ll examine life lessons taught to us by several films from the ’80s; “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Back to the Future,” “Heathers” and (how could we not?) “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Unknown-3 You never know what kind of friends you’ll make in detention. Photo from IMDb. “The Breakfast Club:” One of the most important lessons in “The Breakfast Club” is to not judge someone based on first impressions. Did anyone honestly expect a beauty queen and a rebel to fall for each other? How about a jock and a basket case? “The Breakfast Club” does a great job of showing how a group of kids with completely different personalities would not only speak and relate to one another, but also come to respect each other. Everyone is guilty of passing judgment every now and then, and it...
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...Set on a Saturday morning of 1984 at Shermer High School, five students are present to serve their detention in the school library. Although they are not unfamiliar with one another, their outwards persona has led them in separate paths until this day. Their views of each other are limited and much easier to describe with high school stereotype-like categories. ‘The Athlete’ Andrew Clark, ‘The Basket Case’ Allison Reynolds, ‘The Princess’ Claire Standish, ‘The Brain’ Brian Johnson and ‘The Criminal’ John Bender. The characters that are similar to myself in ‘The Breakfast Club’ are Allison and Brian while the character least like myself would be John. I’ve noticed that I share numerous stereotypes associated with the most introverted characters out of the cast and I wasn’t surprised when Allison and Brian stood out to me personally. A character that I relate to is Allison Reynolds. She is labelled as ‘The Basket Case’ due to her questionable actions/comments. For a person with such a quiet demeanor, whenever Allison experiences occasional outbursts, her bold interjections are viewed as exceedingly uncharacteristic of her. She yearns for attention due to being neglected by her parents, compulsively lies and does not know how to handle social situations appropriately. Her artistic...
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...What was the task(s) of the Breakfast Club? Did they succeed or fail in performing their task(s)? Evaluate their group performance of the task(s). Their tasks were to write a essay no less than 1,000 words describing who they are, think about why they are in detention, and not to talk, sleep, or move while they are there. They succeeded in performing their tasks but not by the way their instructor wanted them to. They came together and opened up with each others feelings. Identify and analyze informal role emergence in the Breakfast Club. Is there role status? Role conflict? Role Reversal? Role Fixation? Provide examples of character behavior to support your answer. Andrew shows role reversal when he opens up during “group therapy” with his...
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...The movie The Breakfast Club has five main characters in it, I will be doing John Bender. John Bender is, in my opinion, the main character of the whole movie. He first comes off as a person that doesn't care about anything or anybody. Multiple times throughout the movie he is told that he doesn't matter and that he will end up in jail. John Bender’s first scene is him walking into the school nearly getting hit by a car as he jaywalks across the street. When he gets into the library he makes another character, Brian, get out of his seat so he can sit there. At the begging I personally though he was the bully that nobody liked. I ended up being right, but only at the begging. He immediately begins to develop into a whole different character...
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...Film Analysis Paper: The Breakfast Club “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others”. -Anthony Robbins All living beings are, in one way or another, drawn towards each other. We, as humans, strive to “communicate” with individuals who are in our environment. Communication is literally defined as: “the sending and receiving of verbal and nonverbal messages between two or more people”. When pondering on what film I should base my essay on, many factors came in to place; such as, “How many different types of communication are taking place? What is the predominant type of communication? And how many characters are communicating at the same time? After much thought, I decided on the world-famous cult-classic, The Breakfast Club. The setting for the film is Sherman High School; Sherman Illinois on a Saturday morning. Five very different students gather to serve their sentence of Saturday school under the careful hawk-like watch of the school’s vice principle Mr. Vernon. They are classified as a jock, a princess, a brain, a basket case, and a criminal. After arriving and selectively taking seats in the library, they are assigned an essay of, “no less than a thousand words, describing who [they] think [they] are.” After a short time the students completely ignore the assignment and begin interacting with one another. As time...
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...1980s teen movies The brat pack is a nickname given to young actors who appeared together in teen movies in the 1980s. The cast members of two specific films released in 1985, The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. The members were Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. These movies reflected teenage life in America during the 80s because teens wanted to be like them. Some of these films are targeted at adults as well as teenagers. Teen films have been part of the cinema industry for decades since the 1950s. The actors themselves were known to dislike the label. Many of their careers peaked in the middle of the 1980s but declined afterwards for various reasons. However, the films they starred in together are frequently referenced in popular culture and are regarded as some of the most influential of their time. 1980s music In the early 1980s, Michael Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. In 1982 Jackson combined his interests in songwriting and film when he contributed the song "Someone In the Dark" to the storybook for the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The song, with Quincy Jones as its producer, won a Grammy for Best Recording for Children for 1983. Even more success came after the release of Thriller in late 1982. The album earned Jackson seven more Grammys and eight American Music Awards, including the Award of Merit, the youngest artist to win it. “Thriller" was...
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...the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club. In this movie, if your 1980’s pop culture memories have been fogged over by the passage of time, is about a group of students who are sentenced to Saturday detention “to ponder the error of (their) ways” because of misdeeds during the school week, and end up (spoiler alert) with a better understanding of themselves and each other. In other words in can be inferred that they found themselves, and during the Saturday detention, assisted others in finding themselves. I’m in no way implying that and entire Introduction to Liberal Studies class can be taught by locking students in a library for nine hours on a Saturday. With all Hollywood productions you need to suspend some of your disbelief. The question that I will answer is: What does Liberal Studies mean to you? I will touch on question two, which was to explain my goal for this program, but I feel it does not apply to me as I am graduating now. I instead will explain what Liberal Studies will mean to me going forward. An outstanding Professor at University once introduced me a notion, and I believe that I have grasped the concept he so elegantly explained. To be a successful leader is to allow others to find their voice. That leader will inspire and connect with his team on a spiritual, mental, emotional and physical level, and inspire others to find their voice. Getting back to the movie mentioned above. The question asked of the “breakfast club” students was to write a...
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...The Breakfast Club In the movie The Breakfast Club it depicts the different types of social groups in high school by using five teenagers as the main characters. It explores the different pressures put on teenagers to fit in their groups, as well as the expectations from parents and authority figures. The five teenagers start to realize that although they all have different social groups they are more similar than different. The movie is based on five students stuck in detention together. The students pass the hours by talking, arguing, and, at one point, smoking marijuana. As the day goes on the students begin to open up to each other. The students realize that even with their differences, they face similar pressures and complications in their lives. They all feel pressures from all aspects of their lives from who they can befriend, grades, social status, strained relationships with their parents. Two of the main characters are Clair and Allison. Clair who is from the popular group is going through something most teens experience in high school, pressure from her friends. She is a virgin and feels she should be doing what all her other friends are doing. It’s sad to see how in high school the pressures of being sexually active are so high. She is also going through family problems. Her parents are divorced and are using her to get back at each other during arguments. Allison is the quietest student except for her occasional outburst and seems to be a compulsive liar....
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...24765_KELLOGGS 8/3/07 08:45 Page 1 www.thetimes100.co.uk Using aims and objectives to create a business strategy CURRICULUM TOPICS • Aims and objectives • Branding • Positioning • Communication Introduction When preparing a strategy for success, a business needs to be clear about what it wants to achieve. It needs to know how it is going to turn its desires into reality in the face of intense competition. Setting clear and specific aims and objectives is vital for a business to compete. However, a business must also be aware of why it is different to others in the same market. This case study looks at the combination of these elements and shows how Kellogg prepared a successful strategy by setting aims and objectives linked to its unique brand. One of the most powerful tools that organisations use is branding. A brand is a name, design, symbol or major feature that helps to identify one or more products from a business or organisation. The reason that branding is powerful is that the moment a consumer recognises a brand, the brand itself instantly provides a lot of information to that consumer. This helps them to make quicker and better decisions about what products or services to buy. Managing a brand is part of a process called product positioning. The positioning of a product is a process where the various attributes and qualities of a brand are emphasised to consumers. When consumers see the brand, they distinguish the brand from other...
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...Masked Desires Actor parade around in fictitious demeanors in order to perform their given part. Comparatively, athletic jocks create false identities to fulfill their role as kings in the socially constructed hierarchy system of high school. In the iconic 80’s film, The Breakfast Club, John Hughes investigate the correlation between standardized stereotypes and internalized struggles through the Saturday detention of five students at the fictional Shermer High School. Andrew Clark, on of the students serving detention, is the typical jock stereotype. His physical prowess and mentality undeniably affirm his respective social standing. However, while Andrew is the king of the social order, he is unable to dictate his own actions, let alone...
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...What are the kinds of parenting styles that are portrayed in The Breakfast Club? Fortunately, John Hughes was able to implement most of the styles and assign them to every character in the motion picture. Some of the characters share the same style of parenting, but some differ. In this essay, all of the parenting styles and what character(s) it fits will be discussed. The characters are as follows: Brian Johnson, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, John Bender, and Allison Reynolds. The parenting styles are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglectful/uninvolved. Firstly, I will include short descriptions of the characters in the movie to give insight to the reason for the parenting styles. Brian Johnson is considered the brain. He...
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...Teen films may characterize the female adolescents by having their personalities and story-lines directly reflect the film setting’s era and culture. In comparing Mean Girls (2004), Clueless (1995), and The Breakfast Club (1985), together, these films demonstrate and exemplify how the film industry has been influenced and altered by time, culture, and society in their portrayal of teenaged girls over the past 30 years. The Breakfast Club (1985) is a cinematic view on the struggles of adolescence wherein five troubled teenagers with adversely differing personalities spend a Saturday in detention and eventually grow to confess their fears and secrets and find their true selves outside their segregated stereotypes. Claire Standish is a spoiled,...
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...The Breakfast ClubFive teenagers who don't' know each other spend a Saturday in detention at the suburban school library. At first they squirm, fret and pick on each other. Then after sampling some marijuana, a real encounter session gets underway. The stresses and strains of adolescence have turned their inner lives into a minefield of disappointment, anger and despair. The catalyst of the group is Bender (Judd Nelson), a rebellious working-class punk who seethes with rage and attacks his peers with sarcasm. A cigar burn on his arm is a sign of the abuse he receives at home. Andrew (Emilio Estevez) is a Varsity letterman in wrestling. He's spent most of his youth trying to measure up to his father's machismo image of him. This entails winning in athletic competition and preying upon weaker peers. He and Bender clash. Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) is an unhappy honors student who wishes he could be accepted as a person and not valued just as a brain. Upset over a poor grade in shop, Brian has contemplated suicide rather than live with the ire of his disappointed parents. Allison (Ally Sheedy) is the eccentric of the group. "My home life is unsatisfactory," she confides. Living in her own fantasy world, Allison can't really tell the difference between the truth and the lies she fabricates. These teenagers don't like or respect their parents very much. One asks: "My God, are we gonna be like our parents?" Another in the group replies: "When you grow up, your heart dies." But the...
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...Hannah McKown SOC 1113 The Breakfast Club Assignment In the movie, you instantly notice the differences between all of the students with their personal appearances and different likes. They all come from different cliques, different homes, and different lives. They are drove away by many differences. Most of the differences were personal opinions, which they never agreed on. A big similarity almost all of them had was marijuana. The kids do not social outside of detention due to the fact they are our part of different groups. Claire is very prim and proper; meanwhile Allison Reynolds is very quiet and not as fashionable as Claire. Andrew and Bender have many struggles in the beginning, which causes a somewhat strain at the beginning of the movie. Bender has no respect towards authority, he does what he wants to do and then will face the consequences. I believe many teenagers are very hateful towards authority due to the non-authority they have in their own family. At the beginning of the movie, you notice how Bender talks about how he is treated and mimics his cruel father. As the sit in the circle and talk about their families, you start to notice a trend in all of them. They are some what strained by their families actions. As much as everyone was completely different in the movie, at one scene at the end Claire take’s Allison and does her make up, as you can see it starts to go back to the whole changing what is different to what is popular or in. I attended a very large...
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