...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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...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 Club is a cult classic from the eighties about five teenagers from all different stereotypes, who have to serve Saturday detention together. As each character evolves and learns more about their own self, the audience changes and grows as well, because everyone can relate to someone in The Breakfast Club. One of these relatable characters is John Bender and he is labeled a criminal. Of all the characters, the stereotypical rebel is the one with whom I can relate to the most. Like John, I had a bad attitude and was sarcastic, but unlike him, I was a good student academically. John Bender and I both had an attitude problem. He could care less about anything, clashed with authority, and looked down on the “popular crowd.” I absolutely...
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...“The Breakfast Club” Review Made by ivanbolt Teenage movie about mature problems. Saturday has always been the day of relaxation and having fun. But not for characters of “The Breakfast Club”, who ought to spend their day off to attend a Saturday detention for each of their mischief, and write an essay “Who you think you are?”. Along with the fact, that this group is so ill-assorted, you can’t even get how they all appeared to be in the same place, the Shermer High School library. This small mixed group consists of jock Andrew (Emilio Estevaz), who is insane about sports; nerdy Brian (Antony Michael Hall), whose aim is to get straight A’s at any cost; princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), who conceitedly trying to prove that she does not belong to the company; kook Alison (Ally Sheedy), that surprise everyone by her outstanding acting; and rebellious criminal John Bender (Judd Nelson), that demonstrates indifference and toughness. The movie, written and directed by genius of teen comedies John Hughes and produced with the help of Ned Tanen, represents a perfect mix of a joyful comedy and profound drama. To begin with, the situation represented in the film is quite realistic, except for the fact that such different people gathered together in the same place and at the same time. However, the viewer can consider that as a miraculous coincidence, which often happens in real life. Still, clear representation of youth problems, their behaviour and attitude to each other does...
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...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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...The movie deals with the cognitive, psychosocial, physical, and moral development of the characters throughout the film. The Breakfast Club is about people, personality types, human behavior, strengths and vulnerabilities. It is about stereotypes and breaking them down. It’s about prejudice and gaining greater understanding through communication. It’s about rebellion, and also about teamwork. Every character in the film contributed something unique in society which allowed them to learn something new about themselves and about others. The Breakfast Club is a norm in today society because many people go through the major developmental themes of that these characters experienced and many teenagers can relate to their stories. The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club, created in 1985, contained a wide variety of behavior cues and stereotypes. Five teenagers Claire, Andrew, Bender, Brian, and, Allison were from different social groups, didn’t know each other , and had to spend a Saturday in detention at the suburban school library. They were resistant on getting to know one another at the beginning but eventually let in. The stresses and strains of adolescence turned their inner lives into a minefield of disappointment, anger and despair. The movie used elements from many of the principle theories of personality development, which helped to better understand who these characters are and who they are likely to become in the future. The character I was most intrigued with...
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...“The Breakfast Club” The movie, “The Breakfast Club”, is a heartwarming story of 5 stereotypical teens that end up together for an entire day of Saturday detention. These students, the brain, the princess, the athlete, the criminal, and the basket case all come together and find friendships that they never knew could exist. In the beginning they all stayed to themselves because they thought they were all so different that they could never get along. Throughout the day, “the criminal” pushed everyone to his or her limits and brought out who they were as people. These not so different teens found that they all faced the same kind of issues and that they all were alike in some ways. They broke down the stereotype barriers of their high school society and accepted themselves as people they wanted to be. The whole movie is based around the attitude changes of these impressionable teens. In the movie the teens deal with stereotypes working against them. Each of them believes that the others have certain traits that are unappealing when the others are actually a lot like them. The stereotypes make it hard for them to change their attitudes about the others with them. Of course they believed that if you were a pretty popular girl that you didn’t have any problems and that if you were a successful athlete it was because you wanted to and that you were very cocky and conceited. Their time together showed how wrong those stereotypes can be and that they deal with problems like the rest...
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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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...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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