Belonging is knowing who you are‚ through trials and struggles that you will be familiar with yourself and can understand the reasons for your uniqueness. Belonging is not only about being accepted into a circle‚ but earning that place. Not just a member‚ but a leader. “No man is an island”‚ yet despite the most basic human need to belong‚ many chose to be alone. A sense of belonging is integrated through several different contexts and aspects of each individual’s everyday life. Three texts in which
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Freedom Writers Reflection Paper Now that you have finished viewing the film‚ you will do the following: You are going to compose a thoughtful reflection paper. This paper will incorporate the following items; you may include them in whatever order you prefer. Reflection Items: Simply respond to the film as a whole on an “emotional” level. What did you feel and think as the movie played? What emotions came to life? Did the film evoke memories or situations you could relate to?
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Three Choices In Life In everyday life situations we are arisen with problems that may challenge us. Reacting to these challenges‚ people take many different routes. How we respond to these bumps in the road is what defines us as individuals. In Freedom Writers we can see how the students face difficulties in their lives and in school; and how they choose to react to those challenges. The students of the film Freedom Writers choose to respond to challenge in three different ways; they give up
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Every journey involves challenges and choices. Challenges and choices are a part of every journey. They are significant factors to the end of many journeys. ‘Lord of the Flies’‚ a novel by William Golding‚ and the film ‘Freedom Writers’‚ directed by Richard LaGravenese‚ are texts which both involve these aspects of journeys and convey them to the audience in a number of ways. These journeys‚ like most others‚ involve challenges and choices which help overcome them. Challenges or distractions need
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Midterm Check-In For the TV show analysis‚ I chose the show Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and completed the first season. The first season of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer begins with Buffy Summers‚ a troubled teenager‚ moving from her hometown of L.A. to the town of Sunnydale‚ California. Buffy must start at a new high school as a sophomore after burning down the gym of her previous school. Although Buffy is described as a troubled teen‚ she seems relatively normal. The traumas she has faced do not stem
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Freedom Writers Diaries – Their Story‚ Their Words‚ Their Future One of the main concerns that Erin Gruwell would face was teaching a group of kids that the school system process having an integrated school was a good thing in front of board members that had issues at that certain time in history. The school system did not look at how this integration with mixed cultures would affect everyone involved. This system would suddenly take them out of their own element and put them with mixed cultures
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SYNOPSIS Louanne Johnson is an ex-marine‚ hired as a teacher in a high-school in a poor area of the city. She has recently separated from her husband. Her friend‚ also teacher in the school‚ got the temporary job for her. But while earning her credentials at a Northern California high school‚ she is assigned to a group of students who change her life forever and she changes theirs too. Although each of her charges exhibits a seemingly impenetrable facade‚ these kids are desperate to connect
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Everyone has a story to tell‚ a story either based on their life experiences‚ a story to educate listeners‚ or just simply a story to entertain others. Ms. Elisha Greenwell from Oakland‚ California‚ has a story to share that includes a little variety of all three‚ but she is doing it in a unique way by allowing African-Americans to celebrate who they are and where they come from as a culture of people. As the founder and organizer of Oakland’s First Annual Black Joy Pride‚ Greenwell wanted to tell
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Amelia Earhart‚ someone you think you know plenty enough about. But I promise you will find plenty more about this amazing woman that you probably don’t know. Amelia Earhart is the daughter of Samuel Stanton and Amelia Earhart and was born on July 24‚ 1897 in Kansas and went to school at Ogontz high school. Then went to Columbia University. Neta Snook and Amelia found one another and Neta taught Amelia how to fly. Amelia caught on quick. She was soon flying on her own and flying like a man would
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“It’s all about color‚ it’s about people deciding what you deserve‚ about people wanting what they don’t deserve. About whites thinking they own this world no matter what‚ you see‚ I hate white people.” Wow! This is one of the most powerful and emotion-filled quotes that was said in the movie Freedom Writers. The movie is about a Caucasian high school teacher named Erin Gruwell that gets a job at a California public school and gets the challenge of teaching a group of kids that are deemed “unteachable
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