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    Have you ever been judged by your looks or how you act? Has anyone ever put you in a specific category ? In The breakfast Club a group of high school students get an 8 hour detention where they learn more about each other and find their inner Self. The breakfast club was created after a group of kids got a Saturday detention in a cafeteria. Each character has their own stereotype, Allison is the weird one that doesn't care what anyone thinks, John is the big bully or the jock, he seems like he's

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    The film, “The Breakfast Club”, demonstrates the sociological topics such as socialization, culture, stereotypes, education, family, deviance, socio-economic status, and cliques. Five students have somehow ended up in Saturday detention for a total of nine hours. These individuals have nothing in common. As high school students, they are each stereotyped differently and placed into cliques. Claire is the princess, Andrew is the athlete, Brian is the brain, John is the criminal, and Allison is the

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    The Breakfast Club – Movie Review “They only met once, but it changed their lives forever.” The Breakfast Club is a film written, produced and directed by John Hughes that was released in 1985 about High School stereotyping and Self Discovery in which a handful of common stereotypical unhappy high school students that are given an in school suspension at their local school “Sherman High” (Which is based in Chicago) from 8am in the morning until 4pm in the afternoon on a Saturday for them

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    In the movie, The Breakfast Club, there are five characters that are to go to school on a Saturday, to serve a detention. While getting to know one another, each student has a different personality. Also, they discover that each and every one of them belong to “classified” group. For example, like the personalities in the movie, there might be athletic, girly, smart, odd, or trouble-making cliques that go through a school. As time passes by in detention, they manage to accept each other's’ differences

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    The Breakfast Club Almost 150 years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., expressed the following sage but sad observation in his book "The Professor at the Breakfast Table": Society is always trying in some way or other to grind us down to a single flat surface. Unfortunately, this is still true today. Last week I saw the movie "The Breakfast Club" written and directed by John Hughes which expressed a similar theme. Fortunately, youth of every age "are quite aware of what they are going through" and

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    The film The Breakfast Club illustrate how a person’s identity can be influenced by conflict he or she has experienced in life. First, John Bender was one of the character in the film that demonstrate his life experience. John life at home is hard and tuff for him. His dad abuse with cigarette burns of his arms and the violent that he is with other teachers. For example, during detention he showed were the scare that his father gave him. Demonstrate the way his father talks to him and his mother

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    Developmental Project: The Breakfast Club Advanced Childhood & Adolescent Psychology Synopsis The Breakfast Club is an inspiring tale of five adolescents: Brian, Andrew, Claire, John Bender, and Allison, from diverse backgrounds that unite over a course of eight grueling hours in mandatory Saturday detention. These five individuals come from different social groups and a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are present, but in the end they discover that they are more

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    One of John Hughes’ many classic 1980s hit films, The Breakfast Club begins by labelling the main characters: Andrew Clark is “the athlete”, Brian Johnson is “the brain” (his name is an anagram for brain), Allison Reynolds is “the basket case”, Claire Standish is “the princess”, and John Bender is “the criminal”. These labels identify the roles the students play throughout high school career and with these roles come associated stereotypes and status. These labels, stereotypes, and status make the

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    1 Ethan Wynne English 101 Sam Lackey October 2, 2014 The Breakfast Club and Teen Identity The movie The Breakfast Club takes viewers on a comedic tour of the ups and downs of adolescence. The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes, focuses on the events that unfold between five very different high school students during a Saturday detention. Even though the movie was shot in the 1980 's the characters portrayal is still relatable in a way to a lot of people today. Director John Hughes takes us

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    The breakfast club essay I think the breakfast club is a good movie and I choose claire standish because I think out of all of them we have the most alike and we also have a lot of differences. I also picked her because she was the most interesting to me. The first thing we have in common is that she wears makeup and I wears makeup as well. She was 16 in the movie and im almost 16. She also talks to alot of people and I do to. We are also similar because she gets mad over people spreading rumors

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