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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Thirteen Days to Midnight Patrick Carman Carman‚ Patrick. Thirteen Days to Midnight. New York: Little‚ Brown and Company‚ 2010. Ha Chette Book Group Patrick Carman is a well known author in the mystery genre. He also has spearheaded many author outreach programs. My book is about this 16 year old boy’s life. His name is Jacob Feilding. He goes to Holy Cross High School. He was adopted around his 14th birthday by Mr. Feilding. One day while he and his adopted dad are driving to the coast they
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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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There are similarities and differences between the historical account of Paul Revere’s ride and the poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” Both texts talked about the British coming by sea to the colony. However‚ the people who saw the lanterns signals were different. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used history to make an interesting poem about Paul Revere’s ride‚ but altered historical facts such as the people who saw the lanterns to make Paul Revere look more heroic. In the historical account‚ the
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The Freedom of Pakistan and India Plan of the Investigation: In this essay‚ I chose to further investigate the freedom of Pakistan and India. On August 14‚ 1947‚ there was the birth of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The very next day India had won its freedom from colonial rule lasting three hundred fifty years. The partition of India‚ following World War II‚ is the most tragic political event to affect India in its history. The partition divided Hindus and Muslims‚ who had lived together
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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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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is known simply as “The Book” to Savannahians. John Berendt’s mostly nonfiction novel provides an in-depth look at a southern city and its inhabitants‚ loosely centered around a murder and subsequent trials which occurred in Savannah during the 1980’s. The New York Times Book Review declared “Mr. Berendt’s writing is elegant and wickedly funny‚ and his eye for telling details is superb.... [this] might be the first true crime book that makes the reader want
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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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“Cry Freedom”: Chapter 1: Summary: Donald Woods is an editor of the Daily Dispatch‚ a journal in East London‚ South Africa. One morning he gets news of a police raid in the black township Crossroads which lies in Cape Town. He also gets photos of the raid and he decides to print them although the government doesn´t allow to print such photos. Woods doesn´t believe the demand of the black people but he is trained as a lawyer and doesn´t like police brutality against black people. So he also writes
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Foreign Language Elective Preferences of High School Students of St. Scholastica’s Academy Marikina _____________________________________________ A Research Paper Presented to The Faculty of High School Department St. Scholastica’s Academy Marikina ___________________________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English 4 ___________________________________________________ Submitted by 08 Micah Buela 10 Maikee Capati 13 Pauline Chan 18 Melissa Despojo
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