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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There is an obvious discrimination shown in the movie “Freedom Writers”‚ where everybody hates everybody and they got no choice but to live in a world full of pandemonium. Random cultural implications are shown in the movie. Where one has to accept his/her society since birth‚ or someone has to really join a gang to keep up and belong to a hood. In the case of the students in the movie‚ they are just simply hopeless and what they all just do is to keep raging flames in their hearts. Until one tough
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and interesting‚ especially after I knew that his so-called friends had stolen the family’s money. I was curious to know how they solved the problem‚ and I was engaged with the family problems and life. Diaz was telling the story in a way that made me wonder what would happen next. Moreover‚ Diaz wrote the story as he was orally telling the story. He used questions such as “so what happen?”‚”Right‚” and “where the hell did I get these ideas?”. Also‚ he used a kind of informal language. For example
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In her work “The Inspired Writer Vs. the Real Writer”‚ by Sara Allen is about two different type of writers‚ the inspired writers and the real writers. The inspired writers are the kind of people who don’t have a problem writing essay‚ or anything that has to do with written in general. They are very confident about their work. On the other hand‚ real writers are people who seem to have writers block way too often. This writers seem to also have trouble in handing in papers without looking over
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The Great Divide University of California-Berkley geographer and author Michael Johns argues in his novel‚ The City of Mexico in the Age of Diaz‚ that the central Zocalo of Mexico City does more than geographically segregate the East from the West‚ but Mexico’s national mentality as well. During the years of Diaz’s democratic façade‚ the upper classes thrived upon plantation exports‚ feudalist economics and the iron fist of Diaz’s rurales while struggling to maintain European social likeness
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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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Mexican President Porfirio Diaz‚ a dictator‚ ruled Mexico for almost 35 years‚ begun in 1876 and ended in 1911. Under his control‚ Mexican became modernized as it improved its diplomatic affairs with foreigners. In addition‚ the country experienced peace‚ economic‚ and industry growth. However that covers only one side of the coin as Mexican lower class‚ consisting of mestizos and Indian peasants‚ was faced with poverty. Likewise‚ the middle class sought for a democracy while the upper class wanted
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Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz writes: In spite of this difference‚ many people believe we Hispanics could have become as successful as the European immigrants. So why haven’t we? For one thing‚ by the time Hispanics grew in numbers in the United States‚ the economy was no longer labor-intensive. Hispanics have lacked not “a strong back and a willingness to work‚” but the opportunity to capitalize on them. Then‚ unlike the European immigrants who went west and were able to buy land‚ Hispanics arrived here
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At the end of the play‚ Malcolm describes Macbeth as a ‘butcher’.To what extent do you agree that this is an accurate assessment of Macbeth’s character? Macbeth Coursework By Nick horton Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Macbeth’ concludes with the slain protagonist declared a ‘butcher’. The term Butcher has connotations of brutality and savagery‚ comparing Macbeth’s bloodthirsty deeds to those of a ruthless and indiscriminate murderer. Over the course of the play‚ we witness Macbeth turn from a loyal
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Running Head: BECOMING A TEACHER Becoming a Teacher Donna Grand Canyon University EDU310: Exploring Education as a Profession Professor Jeff December 4‚ 2011 Becoming a teacher means much more to me then just a paycheck or just another job I have to go to everyday. I want to make the difference in a student’s life‚ I want them to feel as if they can achieve the world and that each and everyone of them are important in one way or another. My vocation or calling to become a teacher
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