Freedom Writers‚ a film directed by Richard LaGravenese‚ is about a middle class woman‚ Erin Gruwell‚ who takes a job teaching in Long Beach‚ CA. She receives a class of very different people‚ with different nationalities‚ who share the same fight. She achieved helping with disadvantaged students‚ when no one else thought that they would amount up to anything. As the film progresses you see how the student’s lives change and how they turned into well thought of adults‚ thanks to the impact of their
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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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The main events depicted take place between 1994–1996‚ beginning with scenes from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Swank plays the role of Erin Gruwell‚ a new‚ excited school teacher who leaves the safety of her hometown‚ Newport Beach‚ to teach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach‚ a formerly high achieving school which has recently put an integration plan in place. Her enthusiasm is rapidly challenged when she realizes that her class are all "at-risk" high school students‚ also known as "unteachables"
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the average person would rather have safety over freedom doesn’t apply to contemporary society. People would rather have freedom over safety. People prefer freedom because with it‚ there can be progress in society. One of these progresses is the civil rights movement. Black leaders such as Martin Luther King jr. and people such as Rosa parks led the way for african americans to be treated as equals in society. This shows that people want freedom over safety because people fought for black equality
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Cry Freedom The opening sequence depicts a South African police raid on an illegal shanti-town. Quick cuts create a sense of chaos‚ panic and confusion as uniformed police bludgeon Africans who run in fear. Close up shots of a vicious barking police dog are juxtaposed against a terrified baby screaming in order to shock the responder. Other quick cuts reveal policeman raping women and assaulting black Africans who are not resisting. The following scene depicts a young woman listening to
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In Lynda Barry’s essay “The Sanctuary of School” she talks about how her school taught her how to “build a life preserver that she could carry home”. This statement at first glance seems extremely ambiguous but if you look at it carefully it is only slightly ambiguous While this statement is ambiguous I believe it means that school taught her how to find or make something good in her hectic life that helped make life worth living and that she was able to take her love of drawing home and even do
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Rain Man is a heartwarming film directed by Barry Levinson that tells the tale of two brothers reunited as adults that build a bond through a cross country that will last a lifetime. The two and half hour movie was created in 1988 that boasted a cast of Dustin Hoffman‚ Tom Cruise and Valeria Golino. The drama/comedy shows that everyone is special; sometimes you need to know that person to see it. Rain Man begins when Charlie Babbit learns his nonexistent father has passed away‚ he returns home to
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For my Forces of Nature essay‚ I’m choosing "Of Wolves and Men" by Barry Holstun Lopez. This short story is very descriptive‚ and filled with tons of figurative language making it easy to create vivid pictures in your imagination. Barry Holstun Lopez wrote incredibly well‚ making it seem your with the wolf as the story proceeds. I found myself very interested in the story‚ it wasn’t hard to read and kept me entertained. Even though the story had no dialogue and no human characters it was very enthralling
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CRY FREEDOM. 1‚ THE BEGINNING: Start at the East London and there is the newspaper editor Donald Woods is the newspaper‚ suddenly arrives and gives Ken Robertson five photos that giving out police beating blacks‚ Woods decided to see them in the first page of his newspaper even though he knows that this is illegal. In one of the photos you see an image of a black (Biko) is a revolutionary. Biko had not let out of a given area. Woods wrote a story on Biko say q is the head of a black consciousness
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Red‚ White‚ and Beer Pg534 Paragraph 1: Like‚ when I see those strongly pro-American Chrysler commercials‚ the ones where the winner of the Bruce Springsteen Sound-Alike Contest sings about how The Pride Is Back‚ the ones where Lee Iacocca himself comes striding out and practically challenges the president of Toyota to a Knife fight‚ I get this warm‚ pound feeling inside‚ the same kind of feeling I get whenever we hold routine naval maneuvers off the coast of Libya. Paragraph 2: What we are
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