Freedom Writers Assignment The character I’ve chosen is Eva Benitez ‚ is a 18 year teenage Mexican American girl short wave hair ‚ tan skin wears red lipstick and hoop earrings has that tomboyish look . Life changes during her childhood. The first day of school for Eva she was waiting for her dad to take her to school ‚ when it turn out to be the day she saw a friend die right in front of her eyes . Eva’s
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Brought Together By Education Segregation has been a problem for quite some time‚ and it has trickled down from generation to generation‚ influencing younger and younger children every day. The problems the teenagers were facing in this book‚ The Freedom Writers Diary‚ were simply because of the segregation they were either taught or learned from the people around them. With the help of Ms. Gruwell‚ these teenagers became more open-minded about their peers and realized they needed an education. “You
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Everybody has evil in them. No matter how nice‚ pleasant‚ or sweet that person is; everyone carries evil inside. Whether they show it or psychology know they are evil‚ is up to them. In the “possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson‚ Miss Strangeworth has that evil in her and it is expressed through her age‚ education‚ and personal ambition. First‚ in the physiology section the reader can learn that Miss Strangeworth acts the way she does because of her old age. In the short story‚ Miss Strangeworth
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This emotionally powerful and intellectually stimulating; motivational and entertaining move‚ whichdramatically executed real life scenes‚captured the attention of many‚ was acted out by ‘150’ students (teens) of room 203of theWoodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach‚ Los Angeles‚ California 1992; directed under the stewardship of an inexperienced fresh-faced‚ idealistic twenty-three year oldteacher Erin Gruwellbetter known as (Ms. ‘G’). Room 203 students were a diverse group of racially
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Midterm Check-In For the TV show analysis‚ I chose the show Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and completed the first season. The first season of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer begins with Buffy Summers‚ a troubled teenager‚ moving from her hometown of L.A. to the town of Sunnydale‚ California. Buffy must start at a new high school as a sophomore after burning down the gym of her previous school. Although Buffy is described as a troubled teen‚ she seems relatively normal. The traumas she has faced do not stem
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Standard 2 Explicit evidence: (Located throughout whole book) “You will never be nothing” is a something that students always repeated in their minds until they met Mrs. G. Books changed their lives. Education changed their lives. These students choose to create the life they wanted. They did this by pushing their paste behind including‚ chaos‚ suffering‚ and death. Mrs. Gruwell believed that those were not strong foundations for a good life. Instead these students lead their lives with sacrifices
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have served their time‚ are leaving for home. I now have to make the final decision of either re-enlisting or leaving. I have thought long and hard‚ but I have decided to re-enlist‚ because healthy soldiers are needed‚ I still want to fight for my freedom‚ and because I want to support the inspiring General Washington. I am one of the lucky soldiers who are
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How free does religious freedom really make us? Nothing comes without a burden and unrestricted religious freedom comes with a very large one. Religion is should not go against human rights‚ but work with them. It is when religion becomes extreme that the debate begins. Unrestricted religious freedom should not be protected if it goes against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ and strong ethical and moral tenets‚ especially when Religion end up using tactics such as terrorism‚ unethical religious
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In the movie‚ Freedom Writers‚ students at Wilson High School are self divided into several distinct classes based on ethnicity‚ financial status‚ and popularity. Students are likely unable to break free of their social groups because of previous history and the overemphasis of the racial differences in gangs. The intolerance of other ethnic groups comes from the impact of observing the actions of generations who lived during racial segregation and the Civil Right’s movement. These older generations
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between “The god of small things” and “Freedom writers” Watching Freedom writers was‚ for me‚ an educative experience; since I work as a teacher. I have always believed that teachers have a huge influence on students‚ they (or should I say we?) have even the power to change our lives forever; that´s why they are-or should be- so important In both stories there are underdog(s). I can see clearly the similarities between Estha and the white boy from “Freedom writers”. Both are not part of the group (in
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