Analysis Sheet For Other Related Texts * Name of text: Freedom Writers (2006) Film * The composer of the text: Richard Lagravense Write a brief description of the text‚ mentioning its purpose‚ audience and giving a brief summary of the content: Set in Long Beach California the film ‘Freedom Writers’ is about a young beginning teacher who is soon challenged by a group of Black‚ Latino and Asian gang members who have extreme hate for the new teacher‚ Erin Gruwell. Over time Erin
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Book Report on the Freedom Writers Diary Ten years ago‚ The Freedom Writers Diary was published and soon became an international sensation. Today‚ more than one million people have read it‚ and they have even made it a motion picture starring Hilary Swank. As the freedom writers all graduated from high school and keep on advocating their deeds‚ the journey continues. Through the report I would like to divide them into four sections to discuss: origin‚ differentiation
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6 SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY Kant also distinguishes three kinds of free- dom: freedom of choice‚ or free will; freedom as self-regulation‚ or autonomy; and freedom as civil liberty. Freedom of choice is a natural property of all human beings‚ and refers to the fact that human conduct is not wholly determined by animal impulses. Autonomy is the capacity of a subject to legislate and abide by ethical impera- tives of his own making. Civil liberty
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The director Richard LaGravenese made the movie The Freedom Writers in 2007 and based it off the novel The Freedom Writers Diary with Erin Gruwell and 150 other students published in 1999. Richard LaGravenese wanted to bring the book alive to utilize that everyone struggles in the world. He wanted to bring some similarities and some contrast from both the movie and the novel. One thing Richard LaGravenese did well was adding in the Holocausts scenes from the novel into the movie. He showed the
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The Great Concept of American Freedom Early America was a place for anyone to live their life the way that they wanted‚ as it is now‚ but back then this was a new concept. Much of this idea comes from the freedoms obtained by living here. Many other countries in the world had many freedoms‚ but not as numerous as they were in America shortly after the country was founded. Americans during the late 1700’s and early 1800’s embraced their freedoms and became leaders and expanders‚ and what we now consider
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book to day dream and fantasize. We have the freedom to read any type of book we desire‚ and the freedom to read it whenever or wherever we like. The Freedom Writers Diary is a non-fiction. A book that tells the story of war‚ reality‚ and struggles of daily adolescents lives. It’s a book that teaches and educates students‚ parents‚ and teachers honestly and straightforward to understand a different world than what they may live in. The Freedom Writers Diary should be taught in schools because it
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A deeper perspective on the “good teacher” myth Movies make up part of the dominant discourse reflecting and at the same time affecting society (Farhi‚ 1999). The mythical portrayal of the good teacher in Freedom Writers supports the idea that urban schools are in need of a “good teacher” (who is portrayed as being perfect) to save the unruly children in this locale from their limited and culturally inferior worlds. The students are expected to cultivate new academic skills and cultural values with
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movies and books have been produced in order to inform the people of the hardships of discrimination. One movie in particular‚ “Freedom Writers”‚ has helped people to empathize with those affected by racism and discrimination. The message of overcoming adversity in “Freedom Writers” strongly relates to the real-life social issues in the world today. The movie “Freedom Writers” is an amazing story of students
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and criticizing others‚ it’s about learning to accept and respect others for who are of a different race‚ ethnicity‚ and culture aside from what you are because you never know when you can make a new friend or find a soul mate. Throughout The Freedom Writers Diary we see there is major segregation that is insanely driving off of ethnicity‚ culture‚ and race. One group wants to be on a higher pedestal then the rest‚ and in order to achieve that the violence comes into mind and starts
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Freedom Writers Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) is a first-time teacher who wants to make a difference. She has little idea of what she’s getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach‚ California. Her students are divided along racial lines and have few aspirations beyond basic survival. When Erin discovers how much of their lives are blighted by racial prejudice‚ she introduces them to books like ’The Diary of Anne Frank’ and begins
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