FREEDOM WRITERS We all have our own story to tell‚ the only question is…is it worth telling? The students in Woodrow Wilson Highschool under the class of Mrs. Gruwell were delinquents. They were part of gangs of every kind black‚ Latin and Cambodians. They were racist. They beat up people who aren’t in their gangs and they protect their own even if it isn’t worth protecting. My first conception of delinquents were that they will never change‚ they were born to be like that and nothing and no
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How Does It Feel to Be Different? Imaging a world where you have to fight to survive. A world where you could die when you step out your house. A world that is full of hatred and racism. Racism runs through the city’s blood‚ thus‚ led to a high amount of street and gang violence. A world where being in school is the same as being on the street. Gang wars can broke out anywhere at any time. Eva Benitez was raise in a neighborhood simply to that. Eva Benitez came from a family with a strong
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Film Application Paper The Freedom Writers Organization Development Seminar Two Prof. Williams Rebecca Shafer 1/17/2012 Film Application Paper: The Freedom Writers In the case of the Freedom Writers‚ the teacher was the Practitioner and the students were the team. When she first came into that situation the team was not a team they were disorganized and had no sense of teamwork. At the time the teacher/practitioner came into the classroom and was an outsider was not sure what exactly
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Freedom Writers Task 1: The Narrative Elements Characterisation Erin Gruwell- Erin Gruwell was a young English teacher in a school in Long Beach‚ California she is a passionate teacher who gives up at nothing to help and teach her students Eva and Sindy – They both hate each other as they come from different gangs‚ but when it comes down to it they are extremely similar and have been through the same sort of situations as shown in the scene where they are both are getting ready to go out. Setting
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In the Freedom writers‚ Eva Benitez was of one Ms. Gruwell students. Eva had a tough childhood growing up. She had to go through a lot‚ especially when she was a young girl. She will always remember the time when she saw her next door neighbor get shot for no apparent reason‚ just because of his race. Also a few minutes the cops took her father away‚ but they had no reason they just felt like arresting a Mexican. I think that by Eva seeing all of this at such a young age made her into a tough girl
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Freedom Writers Diary Movie Questions 1. Eva’s view of herself and her people is that their nationality is competing with other races because of the discrimination. When Eva is a child‚ she is taught by her father that she has to fight for her people. “An Aztec princess is chosen for her blood‚ to fight for her people‚ as Papi and his father fought‚ against those who say we are less than they are‚ who say we are not equal in beauty and in blessings”. 2. According to Eva her father is arrested for
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There is an obvious discrimination shown in the movie “Freedom Writers”‚ where everybody hates everybody and they got no choice but to live in a world full of pandemonium. Random cultural implications are shown in the movie. Where one has to accept his/her society since birth‚ or someone has to really join a gang to keep up and belong to a hood. In the case of the students in the movie‚ they are just simply hopeless and what they all just do is to keep raging flames in their hearts. Until one tough
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Freedom Writers SYNOPSIS FREEDOM WRITERS - 2nd March 2007 (Cert 12A) (Paramount) Starring: Hilary Swank‚ Scott Glenn‚ Imelda Staunton‚ Patrick Dempsey‚ Mario Directed By: Richard LaGravenese Freedom Writers is inspired by real teenagers and the diaries that they wrote after the LA riots. Two-time Academy Award®-winner Hilary Swank stars as Erin Gruwell‚ whose passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of Black‚ Latino and Asian gang members who hate her even more than each other
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year‚ in 1997‚ the Freedom Writers all went to Washington‚ D.C.‚ where they presented their diary to the United States Secretary of Education Richard Riley. During this trip they also honored the Freedom Riders by holding a peace march and prayer vigil at the Washington Monument for victims of intolerance. The Freedom Writers Diary has photos of this‚ and I can only imagine what a touching site this must have been. In 1998‚ their senior year‚ Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers won the Spirit of
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Freedom Writers “Freedom Writers” is one of movies about an idealistic but strong-willed teacher who transforms chaotic class of hardened inner city youths. The story focus where which also strongly rebukes racism and inner city gang activity‚ is not only emotionally powerful and intellectually stimulating; it is also uplifting and entertaining. The moral values of freedom writers are: • The students gained knowledge about the truth and the higher moral values‚ and then applied what they learned
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