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    hip-hop were “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!),” by the Beastie Boys (Berman 1119) and “The Message,” by Grandmaster Flash (Berman 684). Music and movies in the 1980s has helped shape the entertainment industry today. Artists still use techniques from the 1980s to shape the music around present-day society, and some of the 1980s artists are still recording music. The movies have also shaped today’s society, especially with releases of a fourth Indiana Jones movie and the upcoming Star Wars:

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    A little over a hundred years ago film was first invented, at the time movies were small videos of stories told on tiny screens. Filmmakers used simple methods to capture and tell the narrative they wanted to, movies lacked complexity and were difficult to do much with. But as time went on and technology improved so did film, soon images in a movie were much more detailed, sound was able to be captured, and full color movies were introduced. Despite this film only began to take shape into what we

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    school experience of each adolescent. The Breakfast Club follows five different teenagers throughout the course of a day as they are forced to endure detention on a Saturday. Each character symbolizes a classic adolescent prototype: the athlete, the basket case, the brain, the criminal, and the princess. At first, the adolescents separate themselves and make judgments and assumptions about each other based on the stereotype they each characterize. As the film develops, the characters start to move past

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    Throughout high school, I challenged myself by taking multiple AP and Honors courses each year. While it was gratifying to succeed in the higher-level classes, some of the courses did not end up being a great fit for me, but I always pushed through until the end of the year and strived to complete the course with grace. The ups and downs in each class taught me my strengths and weaknesses as a student – for example, fast paced Math and Science courses aren’t my forte, but I love to be involved in

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    stereotypical lives of five high-school seniors. Kaylee O’Dwyer talks about the truth behind this popular film, “American Teen.” 'American Teen,' directed by Nanette Burstein, is a documentary film set in a small town in Indiana. The film follows the lives of five high-school teenagers through their final year of high-school in a way that hasn’t been perceived since ‘The Breakfast Club’. The film over-exaggerates the problems, demands and complications the modern generations are facing today by combining

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    had a handful of films that become timeless classics which have a profound impact on our popular culture. The 1980s was a decade that released several classics, including The Breakfast Club, Ghostbusters, and Back to the Future among many others. One of the greatest pieces of cinema from the 1980s is The Princess Bride. This film is an adaptation of William Goldman’s novel and is directed by Rob Reiner. Goldman and Reiner made several brilliant cinematic choices while making the film. These choices

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    Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. The film was released on June 11, 1986. It stared the likes of Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller), Alan Ruck (Cameron Frye). Mia Sara (Sloane Peterson), Jeffrey Jones (Ed Rooney), and Jennifer Grey (Jeanie Bueller). Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is about a high school senior, Ferris Bueller, that pretends to be sick to get a day off from school. He convinces his friend, Cameron Frye, to join him. They devise a plan to get Ferris’

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    Breakfast Club History

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    grew in popularity. Films began to address World War II for the first time on screen. The 1980s started to deal with relatable child or teen issues in their lives. The Breakfast Club, made in the 1980s, is a movie about a bunch of teenagers who are involved in completely different social groups, get stuck in detention together. This movie helped teens of the era feel like they were not alone in all of the high school drama. In the 1990s, crime dramas became popular amongst film. Frank Capra was a

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    The Breakfast Club “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.” This is a quote from one of the main characters from this film. This film is an older one and came out in the year, 1985. It centers around five high school students who spend their Saturday in detention. Each of the five students signifies a stereo type, that are displayed in schools. The characters are John who is known as the criminal, Claire as the princess, Andrew known as the athlete or jock

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    Scientist used DNA codons to code message into DNA strands and today scientist can code HD movies into DNA codons. To do so scientist used a powerful new gene editing technique (known as Crispr) to slip the sequence of the DNA molecules that represented the entirety of the film into the genome of a common gut bacteria, named E. coli. The entire film was preserved and intact (Kolata, 2017). The limitations of storing DNA is limitless compared to hard-drives as DNA is universal because DNA is found in every

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