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    Limiting Freedom of Speech

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    TOBY TANDRA ENG 101 ESSAY #1: FINAL DRAFT 10/04/2013 Limiting Freedom of Endless Opportunities In the past few days‚ I ’ve been reading an interesting essay by Jill McCorkle titled "Cuss Time". The main purpose of this essay is to convey the idea that nowadays‚ society desperately needs freedom of speech in which some people‚ especially children‚ they do not get because of its limitation rules. Moreover‚ another important point that McCorkle also discusses is our ideological belief’s tendencies

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    Sexual Freedom in Media

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    Editor‚ Everyday people are subjected to some type of unwritten restraint because of ethics or censorship in their daily lives. This oppressive way of life represents how we have grown up and what we have been taught by generations before us. Freedom is achieved through the fight for liberties and rights‚ and in today’s generation‚ censorship is an ever-growing restriction and constraint put on society‚ primarily with the usage of a natural occurrence‚ sex. If we want a truthful and honest society

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    Freedom Writers Analysis

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    Freedom Writers Director: Richard LaGravenese Brief outline of story: The storyline of the movie takes place between 1992-1995. Beginning with scenes from the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Hilary Swank plays the role of Erin Gruwell‚ a new‚ excited schoolteacher 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 had an integration program put in place. Her enthusiasm is quickly challenged

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    Rights and Freedoms is a controversial approach to protecting the rights of citizens. Section 2 outlines the fundamental rights and freedoms of all peoples in society‚ in an attempt to ensure the protection of all civil liberties. However‚ in many cases‚ these freedoms can act as loopholes‚ clearing offenders of the hate crimes they continue to commit‚ posing a threat to the livelihood of minority communities in Canada. (Dickinson‚146) <br> <br>2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: <br>(a)

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    Freedom Writers Diversity

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    For this assignment I chose to watch Freedom Writers. This is a heartfelt movie about a teacher named Erin Gruwell who finds a way to unify her disadvantaged‚ racially divided students and to improve their grasp of academics‚ partly by having them keep journals about their violent‚ troubled lives. The main diversity issue in this movie is cultural‚ ethnic‚ and racial tensions. According to Storti (1999)‚ “Culture is the shared assumptions‚ values‚ and beliefs of a group of people which result in

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    freedom writers

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    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 Essay

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    Freedom Writers Essay In the movie‚ The Freedom Writers Mrs. Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank) plays a role of a dedicated teacher who did all she could‚ to help her students learn to respect themselves and each other. She has little idea of what she’s getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach‚ California. Her students were divided along racial lines and had few aspirations beyond basic survival. Mrs. Gruwell was faced with a big challenge

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    Student Name Rahul kumar das _______________ Class Section __Eng 032__________________ Reading Module #1 On Your Own This activity in Reading Module 1 gives you two reading passages to practice applying the Active Reading Strategies you have learned. Directions: Complete the activity by reading each passage and answering the questions. Do not forget to spell check and proofread your work. When you have completed this activity‚ please upload it to the Dropbox for this week. Reading

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    works at US summer camps Many young people from Europe go to the USA to work in a summer camp‚ e.g. as instructors‚ carers or maintenance workers. What do you think they can learn from such an experience? A summer camp is a program for children‚ to do sports and get education during summer. A summer camp is an alternative to spending the summer home. Summer camps are most common in the US‚ but are found almost all over the world. The Young Europeans go to the US to work at the summer camps. They

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    American Dream Vs Freedom

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    Freedom is an extremely common word in today’s vernacular. However‚ as common as the word seems to be‚ it is difficult to agree on a solid definition. The Miriam-Webster Dictionary defines freedom as‚ “the quality or state of being free: as the absence of necessity‚ coercion‚ or constraint in choice or action”. Still‚ there is much more to freedom than this definition suggests. The United States of America has more freedom than many other countries in the world. Americans are free to celebrate whichever

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