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Project in english
The conflict of the movie freedom writers is to create change to many students that is having trouble in there life also it is for people to think positive and not negative. what this means is the teacher MS.G became the teacher and found out what was each student struggle and changed them and made each student unite and relate to each other. this action called freedom writer helped gain and start off a new society furthermore, the students who perceived school as they don't need it realized they did need it and it is important. this movie also changed the racism act and made African Americans and white people relate and connect with each other. what this whole paragraph demonstrates is there was alot of changing occurring.
Based on a true story, Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank), an English teacher, starts her first job in Los Angeles’ Woodrow Wilson High School where violence and gang warfare is rife following the L.A. Riots. Despite negative remarks from her superiors, Erin sets out to achieve her aim of helping the students fight the source of their battles in the classroom, before they end up in the courtroom where she would have encountered them if she had qualified as a lawyer. Erin fights for the kids’ respect, and tries to engage with them and the situations they face. In buying books they could relate to, like The Diary of Ann Frank, she gains their attention, breaking down the tribal barriers in the classroom, and improving their school grades. As depicted in the film, Erin Gruwell provided the students in her class with journals in which to tell their own stories, documenting what had, and was happening in their lives. Her students’ journey was so dramatic that Erin had the journals published as The Freedom Writers Diary: How a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them.
Writer and director Richard LaGravense states that, ‘Nothing in the script or in the film is made up – it’s either based on my
The conflict of the movie freedom writers is to create change to many students that is having trouble in there life also it is for people to think positive and not negative. what this means is the teacher MS.G became the teacher and found out what was each student struggle and changed them and made each student unite and relate to each other. this action called freedom writer helped gain and start off a new society furthermore, the students who perceived school as they don't need it realized they did need it and it is important. this movie also changed the racism act and made African Americans and white people relate and connect with each other. what this whole paragraph demonstrates is there was alot of changing occurring.
Based on a true story, Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank), an English teacher, starts her first job in Los Angeles’ Woodrow Wilson High School where violence and gang warfare is rife following the L.A. Riots. Despite negative remarks from her superiors, Erin sets out to achieve her aim of helping the students fight the source of their battles in the classroom, before they end up in the courtroom where she would have encountered them if she had qualified as a lawyer. Erin fights for the kids’ respect, and tries to engage with them and the situations they face. In buying books they could relate to, like The Diary of Ann Frank, she gains their attention, breaking down the tribal barriers in the classroom, and improving their school grades. As depicted in the film, Erin Gruwell provided the students in her class with journals in which to tell their own stories, documenting what had, and was happening in their lives. Her students’ journey was so dramatic that Erin had the journals published as The Freedom Writers Diary: How a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them.
Writer and director Richard LaGravense states that, ‘Nothing in the script or in the film is made up – it’s either based on my