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Stand And Deliver Movie Analysis
Areli Garcia
02/22/2013
Hist. 121
Movie Critique

Stand and Deliver is the movie I chose because I want to learn about latinos and how they are qualified in their education in America and because I want to learn about how much a person can succeed when their surroundings aren’t the safest to their life and future. I’ve seen many occasions where latino’s intelligence has been put down to the floor because of their culture, their background, and/or even the barrio they are from and aren’t given the support that they need. Reputation seems to matter a lot in American history. The way you represent yourself, the way you dress, or even the place you come from impacts many latinos studies in America. Stand and Deliver is a great example of this
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They also have the capacity to level themselves up from the low expectations society has put on the people with certain customs, traditions, and different barrios. Stand and Deliver the title says it all standing up and delivering what has been put into your hands. This movies shows to us Latinos and American education.

The American public school system could be improved in many places, as everyone knows­ and too often the public schools are places where instead of learning how to respect others and learn to think, teenagers learn how to victimize and/or terrorize others(survive victimization and living fear) and encounter the fact that being smart isn’t “cool.” There is no place where the crisis is more acute than in

the inner­city schools of the major cities. Schools that barely earn the title, school.

Stand and Deliver is a movie filmed back in 1980’s in East Los Angeles, California in Garfield
High School. Garfield High School is a school on the verge of being decertified by the school district due to the poor academic results of the students. This school is very well corrupted by the
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This doesn’t only apply to these students in Stand and Deliver but world wise. We seen it happen, we see it happening now. It only happens because of the language we speak and because of the color of

our skin. But even the discrimination that is being made just as with the students in Garfield High School stood up for themselves and proved many wrong with their hard work. There are many immigrants in
America being successful and proving that anything can be done when one is determine to be a success in life. You either sit down and don’t deliver or stand up and deliver what you have.

The lesson that can be taken out of this movie is that appearances and reputation shouldn’t matter in America because the intelligence is carried inside and inside the brain. This only shows that future generations will be more specifically criticized or pointed out for their looks. That will damage the future. Now in present day we see many teenage girls coming out pregnant. But that’s showing

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