Breakfast of Champions

Movies in My Life: The Breakfast Club What defines a person? Is it how smart they are? Their beauty and popularity? Or maybe even their athletic ability? After watching John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club, I have come to learn that defining a person is not as easy as many people believe. It is not as simple as examining their sense of style or who they choose to be friends with. This brilliant film leaves its audience to think twice about judging other people who might not be as different…

In the John Hughes’ 1984 film, The Breakfast Club, there were a lot underlying social issues that are very relatable to teens in high school of that age range. The early 80’s film was centered around five teens who have in some way been stereotyped by not only their peers but also by their parents and other authority figures. The main theme for the film is to overcome stereotypes and develop a voice for one’s self. As we as self-confidence and self-acceptance. At the end of the film each…

Page 1 Once upon a time in a kitchen not so far away, there lived in a small cottage made of milk and honey and all things yummy, Patty Pancake, Mommy Muffin and Daddy Doughnut. Page 2 Patty Pancake was so excited to begin her first day of school at Maple Syrup elementary. Telling Mommy Muffin and Daddy Doughnut about all of the friends she would meet. Page 3 Mrs. Danish, her teacher introduced Patty Pancake to her new classmates. “Good morning class, a new student has joined us today. Please…

family-owned hotels are a business that family members establish and operate together and pass on to the next generation so on and so forth. Moreover, bed and breakfast (B&B), service apartment and Airbnb, in my opinion, they are kind of private small family owned that offers an overnight room with limited facilities, service, and breakfast as well. In another key word, from my point of view, globalization is an international trend of markets and products spread globally through technology. It…

The Movie, “The Breakfast Club” by John Hughes and the short story “The Bicycle” written by Jillian Horton share many similarities in regards to, rebellion, living dreams through others, and characters throughout both stories. It’s important to discuss these two different stories because of the effect they can have on an influential person, regardless of being about two totally distinct stories from two very different times. In both “The Breakfast Club” and “The Bicycle” there is a strong…

Thus, adding to our algebraic impressions for a more complete perception. Additionally, it allows us to correct errors in the bias stereotyping interpersonal communications we generally have with others. A good example of this is the movie The Breakfast Club, in which five people take a journey though interpersonal communication beginning with their formed perceptions of each other being challenged by checking those perceptions, and finally correcting errors to improve their perceptions of each…

seventeen-year-old, who has a business person mindset and the kind, generous, but dotty landlady. Dahl expertly sets up the scene for his audience, where Billy Weaver is searching for a place to stay the night. Billy Weaver notices this BED AND BREAKFAST sign, which causes him to take a peek through a house’s window to view a room with a fire burning in the hearth that appears comfortable with an equipped piano, plump armchairs, and…

In 1961, the classic film Breakfast at Tiffany’s hit cinemas across the nation. Loosely based on the Truman Capote novel of the same name, Tiffany’s starred Audrey Hepburn in what was widely considered to be her defining role, the unorthodox, free-spirited socialite Holly Golightly. Bud Fraker was hired to document the film via photography, during which he snapped a film portrait of Hepburn as Golightly, in her chignon updo, trademark little black dress, with an overlong cigarette holder in hand…

Roald Dahl was a short story writer, a poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. One of his books was called “The Landlady”. In his story, it talks about a lady around forty-five to fifty years old, living in a house by herself until someone came around. She seems too nice at first but later on in the story when the main character, Billy, comes around and stays with her, you will find out why the landlady usually never gets guests to stay at her house. In this story, “The Landlady,” Billy Weaver…

When asked which character I most identify with in the 1980’s film, The Breakfast Club, I can only think of one character that comes to mind -- Brian Johnson. Brian Johnson is portrayed by Anthony Michael Hall in the movie. The Breakfast Club is about a group of students that go to detention on a Saturday morning. At first, they don’t like each other but, in the end, they do like each other. The reason they liked each other by the end of the day is because they got really got to know each…