"The Freedom Writers" In the movie “The Freedom Writers” Mrs. Gruwell (Hillary Swank) plays a role of a dedicated teacher who did all she could to help her students. Mrs. Gruwell was faced with a big challenge when a group of freshmen students showed her nothing but disrespect which made it hard for her to communicate and understand them. While she taught she learned different strategies to get them to participate in class activities. The students in the class were highly racial and only talked
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Freedom Writers‚ Changing Perspective The natural and reoccurring aspect of life‚ change‚ is one that has positive outcomes and cannot be reversed. The outcome of how change affects a person can be modified due to extrinsic factors of people or place. The inevitability of change can be daunting or reassuring for a person‚ depending on the way it is embraced. Humans change their perceptions of the world due to what they are subject to. Ones extrinsic factors and how they see the world is constantly
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I absolutely loved this project and experience overall. We got the idea for this project after seeing the movie‚ "Freedom Writers". I went with three of my four other teammates to see it for our first paper and when we walked out‚ the three of us couldn’t shut up about how much we loved and were inspired by the movie. On the way back from the movie‚ we got the idea to do a spin off of the movie for our project. The whole way home from the theater we were coming up with ideas for our upcoming
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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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achieved before one can belong anywhere else. The protagonist‚ John Proctor‚ in The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ truly belongs only at time of death. His clear conscience provides him with a sense of self belonging before his hanging. Similarly I Freedom Writers‚ by Richard Lagravense‚ the Hispanic gang member‚ Eva‚ achieves a sense of personal identity and true belonging when she tells the truth in court. This allows her clear conscience to give her a sense of belonging to herself. “I’m not worth the
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The film‚ Freedom Writers‚ directed by Richard LaGravenese captured the lives of underrepresented and at risk students whom lived in Long Beach‚ California‚ that were born into gang life and didn’t see their lives past than age eighteen. Erin Gruwell was a passionate young teacher keen on social change. Wanting to make a difference‚ she decided to teach at the newly voluntarily integrated Woodrow Wilson High School. The movie’s portrayal of stereotypes was emphasized through its technical aspects
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Jonas‚ the main character in The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ is a very strong person‚ which allows him to go farther in life then the people that surround him. Throughout Jonas’s life he has known nothing but "sameness". He lives in a Utopian community where there are no choices and everyone in his world has their lives laid out for them. But‚ Jonas is given the job of "Receiver of Memory". He alone knows the truths of the world‚ a world with colors‚ pain‚ and choices. What he does with these truths
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Rhetorical Analysis: Freedom Writers The movie “Freedom Writers” is based on a true story. Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell plays an inspirational teacher at Wilson High School. She is ready to take on the teaching world as she steps inside Wilson High School for her first day. Her class‚ varied with teenagers of different ethnic backgrounds‚ wants nothing more than to just get through the day. African Americans‚ Latinos‚ Asians‚ gang members‚ and much more are from poor neighborhoods‚ that all share
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Freedom Writers Assignment The character I’ve chosen is Eva Benitez ‚ is a 18 year teenage Mexican American girl short wave hair ‚ tan skin wears red lipstick and hoop earrings has that tomboyish look . Life changes during her childhood. The first day of school for Eva she was waiting for her dad to take her to school ‚ when it turn out to be the day she saw a friend die right in front of her eyes . Eva’s
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In the tragedy Antigone the main characters‚ Creon who is the king of Thebes and Antigone who is the daughter of the deceased king Oedipus‚ are fighting over Creon’s decision not to bury one of Antigone’s brothers Polyneices because he felt that he was a trader to his city but he was going to still bury her other brother Eteocles even though they died by the sword of each others hand in war over Thebes. Antigone chooses to disobey the law that Creon has set saying that nobody can bury Polyneices
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