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    The Breakfast Club is a movie about five teenagers from different social groups that are spending a Saturday together in detention. Each of the five teenagers represents a different stereotype of high school students, you have the athlete, the nerd, the basket case, the criminal, and the princess. At the very beginning of the movie it is clear that they do not get along and want nothing to do with each other. They are given an assignment to write about why they received detention and who they…

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    I believe that when you’re viewed in a certain perspective you start to only fit in that one perspective and the longer you’re in it, the harder it is to break free from it. I think that in the movie “The Breakfast Club” directed by John Hughes in 1992, portrays it very well. The group of kids that are in detention are John, the criminal, Brian, the brain, Claire, the princess, Andrew, the jock, and the basket case, Allison. (Hughes.1992) The plot of the movie is that a group of kids are in…

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    “You see us as you want to see us… brain, athlete, basket-case, princess, and a criminal.” This is one of the first and last sentences of the movie The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes, and it is the most powerful sentence of the entire movie. This is not a sentence about one of the students, it is a sentence about the principal. These words, written by a student during detention speaks volume about the entire dynamic of the school. The principal of Shermer High School is Mr. Richard…

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    Fight Club Analysis

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    narrator’s apartment blows up, and he remains homeless. Having no one else to call, he calls Tyler, and Tyler takes him to the bar to buy him drinks. The narrator needs a place to stay, and Tyler tells him to “cut the foreplay and just ask” (Fight Club). Later on throughout the scene, the viewer finds out that the narrator must fight Tyler to live with him. This scene parallels a person losing their virginity. Both of the men have never been in a fight before, and Tyler is confident and ready to…

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    Breakfast Club Themes

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    Director John Hughes utilises his film, The Breakfast Club, to explore several teenage themes through the use of film techniques. Hughes explores the way that teenagers are affected by pressure from their parents and peers, and furthermore explores the creation and destruction of stereotypes in a school environment. The film follows five protagonists through an experience that displays these themes clearly to audiences. Throughout the film, each character is faced with different pressures from…

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    The movie The Breakfast Club may be just a film to some but to sociologists it can be looked at from interesting perspectives. Three main ones stand out specifically: Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism, and Conflict Theory. Functionalism looks at the different parts of society and how they all depend on each other to make a society work. Next is Symbolic Interactionism, which focuses on how symbols and words shape people into who they are and how they depending on their interpretation on…

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    Sam's Club Vs Costco

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    Sam’s Club is a membership warehouse club in the retail industry that purchases products in large quantities and sells to the customers at a low price (Corporate Sam's Club, 2018, p. 1). There is not much time spent on displays as the items are brought in and kept on pallets into the warehouse, offering a laid-back shopping experience. By not hiring labor to stock and restock the shelves, the costs are reduced. Founder Sam Walton believed the store should be the representatives of the…

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    Breakfast Club Stereotypes

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    The Breakfast Club This movie is about a day of Saturday detention and group of teenagers fitting in your typical high school stereotypes. It was brilliantly written with teenagers in mind. They could identify with each character and their portrayed stereo type. They all had at least one thing in common and that was that they didn’t get along with their parents. This is realistic for who really got or gets along with their parents in high school. You are in the process of finding yourself and…

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    Case Study: Sam's Club

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    Organization Background I have chosen Sam's Club for my research. Today, Sam's Club needs to be the most significant participation club on the planet for our individuals. The association has developed to offer programs or business to people and little organizations, as well as for families and regular living. Rather than stocking each thing in each accessible brand, vendors of Sam's Club do task for individuals, keeping correct products and purchase those products in huge amounts, going on the…

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    In society, the teenager is seen as the embodiment of rebellion, and this generality extends into works such as Persepolis and Fight Club, whose main protagonists are teenage rebels. In both novels, each protagonist conforms with their societal standards, “accept(ing) (the demands of society) patiently, though (s)he may have protested inwardly, but in that (s)he remained silent (s)he was more concerned with his/her own immediate interests than as yet aware of his/her own rights” (Camus 14).…

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