Dangerous Minds “The mind is a powerful tool” is a quote that is taught to scholars from all over the world. Teachers attempt to educate their students in the subject they have dedicated majority of their college experience studying‚ and expect them to absorb that knowledge to be further sophisticated. In John M. Smith’s 1995 film Dangerous Minds‚ Louanne Johnson is presented with a teaching position to an academy class at an inner-city high school. Eager to begin her teaching career and unaware
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Dangerous Minds In chapter 4‚ Freire begins to discuss freedom. Although he believes that it should have some limits‚ he wants us‚ as teachers‚ to give our students all the freedom they need. Watching the movie Dangerous Minds made me question where one draws the line and if we even have that choice over our students. In this movie we see how these students in her Academy class are "bright‚ challenging" students who actually turn out to be rowdy and disrespectful inner-city kids. These students
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Bread" for Ms. Johnson due to her appearance and apparent lack of authority. So the next day she returns in that classroom with a leather jacket and teaching them karate. The students show some interest in such activities‚ but immediately show violent reaction when she tries to teach them. Ms. Johnson is so desperate to reach the students. So she devise classroom exercises that will get their interest like making them explain of what she read but using themes and language that appeal to those sullen teenagers
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LouAnne Johnson‚ a retired U.S. Marine‚ applies for a teaching job at Parkmont High School in California‚ and is surprised and pleased to be offered the position with immediate effect. Turning up the next day to begin teaching‚ however‚ she finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough‚ sullen teenagers‚ all from lower-class and underprivileged backgrounds‚ involved in gang warfare and drug pushing‚ flatly refusing to engage with anything. They immediately coin the nickname "White Bread" for
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Guide questions for the reaction paper (Schizophrenia- A Beautiful Mind Movie) 1. signs and symptoms of schizophrenia 2. specific type of schizo shown in the movie 3. the cause of schizophrenia for the main character 4. how it was diagnosed 5. how it was treated 6. the moral lesson of the movie 7. weak and strong points of the movie 8. role of the PT for patients with schizo 9. ideas from the movie that you agree or strongly disagree 10. recommendations about the movie and many other
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AB2DA A Beautiful Mind (Reaction) Based on what I have watched from the movie of A Beautiful Mind‚ which is a biography based on the true life story of a math prodigy‚ John Forbes Nash Jr.‚ the movie is a brilliant and touching portrayal of the destruction of the mind by ‘Schizophrenia’‚ paranoia‚ and the effect of ostracism. These psychological concepts and conditions are clearly shown by
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Dangerous Minds Accommodating Diversity in an Educational Setting In writing a review of a narrative in pop culture that includes a significant illustration of diversity in a school community‚ I chose Dangerous Minds by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Bruckheimer‚ 1995). The film Dangerous Minds is based on the autobiography My Posse Don’t Do Homework by former U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson‚ who took a teaching position at Carlmont High School in Belmont‚ California‚ where most of the students
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Since I’ve chosen to major in psychology‚ I’ve chosen to do my paper on something that pertains to my major. In this case the mental disorder schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severely disabilitating disease that has stricken the lives of almost two million people in the United States alone (Keefe 20). Since this disease is so devastating the majority of people that suffer from it either live on the streets or in mental institutions. In fact‚ forty percent of the beds in American mental hospitals
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A BEAUTIFUL MIND (Reaction Paper) As I watched the movie‚ a lot of questions and clarifications comes in mymind. The movie was so tricky and full of twist which is really hard to understand yet as the movie goes on‚ my questions and clarifications are slowly answered and cleared. At first my impression was how intelligent John Nash was‚ as most people who suffer from mental illness. The feeling of sorrow came over me ‚ as I watched him struggle with the feelings of loneliness and depression
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Running head: Dreams: The Movies of Our Minds Dreams: The Movies of Our Minds Dreams: The Movies of Our Minds According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ dreams are a series of images‚ ideas‚ or feelings that are going through your head while sleeping. Dreams can be very clear or very blurry‚ depending on how your brain perceives the image (Cherry‚ 2011). Humans spend about six years of their life dreaming (“Dream Facts and Tidbits
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