The Breakfast Club By John Hughes

In the Breakfast Club, there are many cognitive advancements that are conveyed. The biggest cognitive advancements that takes place throughout the film are abstract thought, hypothetical thought and multidimensional thought. The movie centers on the essay that the students need to write, “Who do you think you are.” This question requires the group of students to think about their experiences, formulate ideas, acknowledge their knowledge, awareness and reflect on their experiences. The film illustrates how the adolescents thinking changes from concrete thinking- judging their peers and their own lives, to abstract thinking- viewing similarities between the characters and understanding the differences in their lives while showing empathy.

This book critique is on the book, “The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a modern delicacy.” by Sasha Issenberg. This is a Fact based book about the sudden explosion of the availability of Sushi and Tuna to the world. The book takes you through the changes in the economies and cultures on display. The book follows several key people and events in the story of the globalization of Sushi. Several years ago Sushi restaurants were tough to find in a suburb or in the Midwest. Sushi was historically associated with the very wealthy and affluent people of America, however in Japan it was a staple as easily locatable as a hotdog in New

Food can partially shape a person's cultural identity. Geeta Kothari explores the cultural nuances between American and Indian food in the essay, “If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?” She expresses this through the symbolism of food, growing up and living between two different cultures. Kothari begins her story as a nine-year-old child curiously wanting to eat the same foods as American children: tuna salad sandwiches and hot dogs. She does not have the guidance from her mother regarding American food and culture. Kothari’s mom curbs the curiosity by reluctantly letting her daughter indulge in a can of tuna fish. Kothari describes the open can of tuna fish as “pink and shiny, like an internal organ” and she wondered if it was botulism (947). The way

“If You Are What You Eat Then What Am I?”, by Geeta Kothari, The author explains wha tuna looks and smells like to them. The author uses tuna as a symbol of culture because they’re not from the U.S. and tuna is very strange to them as she says “There is so much my parents don’t know.”

Released in 1985, The Breakfast Club depicts five high school students from Illinois as they spend a Saturday together in detention. Prior to their arrival, John Bender, Claire Standish, Andy Clark, Brian Johnson, and Allison Reynolds had not met, nor would they have associated with one another on a typical day in high school. After spending nine hours together, however, the group of vastly different adolescents break down emotional barriers, manage to build a sense of intimacy, and some establish dating relationships by the day’s end (Hughes et al., 1985). The film illustrated a rather realistic portrait of adolescence in several topical domains.

The Breakfast Club was an extraordinary film that dealt with teenagers in detention. Although it looked like a regular movie, it had deep meanings involved with it. The movie showcases a circle of teens who are completely different from each other. At first they didn’t interact with one another, but as the movie goes on they begin to become close friends. The Breakfast Club does a great job at exemplifying the dynamics of a group in society because there are so many associations of people who interact with each other even if the interests are completely different. The characters in the movie move from an out group to an in group because they all felt like outsiders towards each other, but as time was going on in detention they were starting to really like each other. They became an in group towards the end of the movie because they made their own grouping, which they referred to it as “The Breakfast Club”.

2001. Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City. American Anthropologist Volume 103 (1): 76-95. Jstor, www.jstor.org, November 22, 2010.

As the sun had risen for yet another day of life, Hiroshima, Japan was attacked by the Americans with the usage of the first atomic bomb in human history. The results were devastating, ashes of all types of living and nonliving objects, a ruined city and thousands of injured victims. John Hersey, an American writer and journalist, took these alarming events and wrote a book, with the responsibility of remaining an unbiased narrator. Creating a grand controversy on whether or not, Hersey effectively pursued a flat style of writing throughout the creation of his Pulitzer Prize Winning book. Hersey, set up his novel in the perspective that the attack from the Americans to Japanese was an inhumane act. Throughout the development of this book, Hersey lost the title of a neutral narrator as he biased the hibakushas, atomic bomb survivors, demonstrating sympathy, favoritism and compassion through his writing.

This paper is why everyone should watch The Breakfast Club. It tells a story of four teenagers battling with rebellion, drama, and love. Most critics will argue that it is not realistic, and no teenager is like that. However, The Breakfast Club written by John Hughes made teens everywhere relate to at least one of these characters. This movie is a dramatic comedy that will make someone laugh, cry, and angry all brought together in one amazing film.

The outsiders is about boys being stereotyped as people called greasers, And a kid named ponyboy is the second youngest. Harry potter is a book about a boy who lived through a terrible killing genocide by a feared wizard named Voldemort or Tom Riddle. Flowers for algernon, Or FFA is a book about a guy with a mind disablity, his IQ was very low for a grown man. All of these characters, Ponyboy, Harry Potter and Charlie Gordon all struggled to have the world accept them and it was very hard for them to fit in.

The 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi by the American director David Gelb is about an 85-year old sushi master named Jiro Ono and his Michelin 3-star rated restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro in a Tokyo subway station. Like many films about food, Jiro Dreams of Sushi shows artfully arranged and delicious-looking sushi with a tasteful background of classical music. Naturally, after watching a movie about sushi, anyone would want to make a reservation and book a flight to Japan. However, there is more to this documentary than the food alone. The story of Jiro 's quest to perfect the craft of making sushi and presenting it in his restaurant for the

In Edward Yang’s filmYi Yi (2000), the audience witnesses the Jian family over the span of about a year and can be marked by three events: a wedding, a birthday, and a funeral. These events are built with traditions and social functions, and are meant to be a gathering of family and friends around tables, sharing in food and memories. We can potentially understand the table is a metaphor of life, as it represents in a direct and exacting way both membership in a group and the relationships defined within that group. How then, can we understand a film such as Yi Yi, which centres around the gatherings of a wedding, birthday, and funeral, but makes little effort to show the food, consumption of food, or even the successful gathering of the family without bickering or trauma? Through understanding the lack of on-screen food, but with a film still focused on food-based events, we can look at what food in Yi Yi signifies in a larger thematic scale. In what follows I will explore three ways of understanding the consumption and absence of food in Yi Yi, namely, food as function, food as language, and food as perspective.

Speaking of the director Wes Anderson, do you know what is his highest grossing film? Since the release of ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ in 2014, it has captivated millions of viewers around the world, making it an award-winning film. ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ recounts the adventures of Monsieur Gustave, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. A story that involves a theft and the recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, also the battle for an enormous family fortune. Furthermore, through the clever use of mise-en-scene, cinematography and semiotics; thus, Wes Anderson was able to explore numerous themes and issues, which include loyalty, respect

One example of pop culture in America is McDonald’s, or more specifically, McDonaldization. This term is able to encompass the many well-liked fast food places present and recognized globally. With the fast-paced society Americans are placed in, they often tend to eat at these fast food restaurants, without even noticing it. As a result of the convenience places like McDonald’s provide, people may not even be aware of how this cultural aspect influences our decision. In fact, from a functionalist perspective, these forms of culture help people meet their biological needs. In this case, this need is eating, and may ultimately be a part of holding society together. This is especially visible in social events or gatherings, where food is a central aspect. However, there can also be negative aspects of culture. From the conflict perspective, pop culture can produce negative stereotypes. In the case of McDonald’s, that negative stereotype can be obesity. Even in other parts of the world, people view McDonald’s as the cause of weight

“ I trace my hands along the red walls of the restaurant which was outlined with gold lines. Even the table, my family was seated around, was elaborate ; it had characters carved into it. As I was looking around the whole place, I realized we were the only non-Japanese people here. I was fascinated in the foreign language they’re speaking so to kill time, I tried to guess what they were talking about. One couple caught me staring at them so I quickly turned away. I glanced up on a waitress carrying food. I prayed to God to let it be the food we ordered. I celebrated quietly when she stopped at our table. My mouth dropped when I saw the plates. The smiling waitress carried mouth-watering arrangements of sushi, chicken teriyaki, and at least four bowls of fried rice. I chuckled when she said, “I’ll be back