Room 203: Here It Matters In Long Beach‚ California‚ a war is raging. You can’t always see it‚ but its soldiers know it’s there. You need to go and watch “Freedom Writers” right this instant. In this heartwarming movie‚ Hillary Swank plays quirky school teacher Erin Gruwell who‚ alongside her unsupportive husband (played by Patrick Dempsey) attempts to make history with her class of integration students‚ played by April Lee Hernández‚ Jaclyn Ngan‚ Armand Jones and many more. The movie plays for
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civilians from Pale on Sarajevo. Comparing to Zlata’s Diary with the book The Freedom Writers‚ both the books has wars in different issues but has similar consequences. Zlata’s Diary has a conflict between two countries which created the war. The Freedom Writers Diary has gang wars because of discrimination between races. Though these two books have wars on different issues‚ they both have similar consequences. In Freedom Writers Diary many students of Wilson High School has to lose their friends‚ families
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Popular culture is often characterised by feature films and television serials which target a broad audience in an effort to systematically convey social commentary through inviting the perception of the viewer to interpret representations of everyday roles. This concept is central to ’Reel to real: Popular culture and teacher identity’‚ in which Mitchell and Weber (1999) encourage their audience to challenge the status quo of the teacher role as commonly perceived by society. Particularly‚ the text
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Title- Freedom Writers Author- Richard LaGravenese (screenplay) Erin Gruwell (freedom writer’s author) Year of publication- The movie was released on March 2nd‚ 2007. Text type- Film Synopsis- Freedom writers is a true story from 1994 about a young‚ new English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School ( Erin Gruwell) who implemented a voluntary integration program for underprivileged‚ gang related kids. The integration has ruined the schools academic standing with many of the teachers
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Ally Shrader Movie Review: Freedom Writers Freedom Writers begins with Eva‚ a Hispanic just trying to get by in life‚ lay down the lifestyle they are used to. Hatred fills their streets and not even home is a safe haven. Hilary Swank assumes the role of Erin Gruwell who is a teacher new to Woodrow Wilson High. Woodrow Wilson High School was once one of the highest achieving high schools in the area yet with the new integration plans the test scores and achievement levels have dropped severely
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Simple Gift by Stephen Herrick which demonstrates elements of belonging and acceptance through the ’pain and suffering’ of rejection‚ ’homelessness’ and ’dealing with death’ by the characters Billy‚ Caitlin and Old Bill. Similarly in the movie “Freedom Writers”‚ it explores the ideas of taking control of one’s identity and accepting life’s simple pleasures. Firstly‚ in the novel ‘The Simple Gift’‚ Steven Herrick explores the idea taking control of one’s identity through numerous language techniques
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Freedom Writers is true story based movie showing racism and social disorder life in America. The movie starts showing racial tension and riots in the society among different ethnic minority groups fighting for their rights. In the beginning of the movie a childhood of a young girl Eva is shown who sees racial differences among people getting prestige and grace on how they physically appear. From an early age a negative thought is internalized into the young girl that “a girl can be crowned as a
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when you can make a new friend or find a soul mate. Throughout The Freedom Writers Diary we see there is major segregation that is insanely driving off of ethnicity‚ culture‚ and race. One group wants to be on a higher pedestal then the rest‚ and in order to achieve that the violence comes into mind and starts
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Project in english The conflict of the movie freedom writers is to create change to many students that is having trouble in there life also it is for people to think positive and not negative. what this means is the teacher MS.G became the teacher and found out what was each student struggle and changed them and made each student unite and relate to each other. this action called freedom writer helped gain and start off a new society furthermore‚ the students who perceived school as they don’t need
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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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