As much as I can say‚ it was interesting‚ as a member of one of the minorities that make up the population of the United States‚ to watch *** movie‚ Freedom Writers. In fact‚ this movie delivers a great message to those who take the risk to watch a controversial movie that criticizes our society and how we treat others‚ mainly because they (those we critice) look different that usn . In fact‚ this risk we take cannot be compared to the risks the people shown in this movie take. First of all‚ Jaime
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Adversity- Something to Appreciate or Despise? BANG! A gun is fired from down the hall‚ and one can hear the panicked screams of children and adults alike. There is a shooter in the school. You only have a minute at most before the shooter makes his way down to your classroom. It’s too late for a lockdown. Children are crying and you can’t calm them down. You feel like wailing and crawling under your desk like the child in the corner is doing‚ but you can’t. You’re the adult in this situation and
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The United States of America was founded on the concept that all men are created equal; however‚ it has taken us until the last fifty years to make significant strides toward equality for many minority groups. Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation‚ African Americans in Southern states still inhabited a vastly unequal world of disenfranchisement‚ segregation and various forms of oppression‚ including race-inspired violence (www.history.com‚ 2015). In 1960‚ the black Americans made
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During WWII‚ many people‚ specifically Jewish individuals‚ suffered under Germany’s oppression; many of those people decided to either actively or passively resist. Those who chose to actively resist would use violence to avoid ignominy from dying in a gas chamber. On the other hand‚ those who passively resisted would attempt to maintain their dignity by surviving the many hardships they were presented with. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Resistance During the Holocaust”‚ it explains how individuals
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Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.The family was apprehended in 1944‚ and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies‚ who gave it to Anne’s father‚ Otto Frank‚ the family’s only known survivor‚ just after the war was over. The diary has since been published in more than 60
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sent to the barracks again. Later on‚ we hear that most of the group died. Anne died of typhus in March 1945 along with her sister‚ Margot. Later‚ Otto Frank gets home after the camp is liberated by the british force. He finds Anne’s diary from Miep Gies. He knows Anne wanted to be a writer or a journalist so he publishes Anne’s diary in dutch‚ but now it’s sold all over the
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Particular experiences and events that cause relationships to become more or less intimate. The most powerful turning point in the film is when the class finished The Diary of Anne Frank. The class was so empowered by the novel that they wanted to meet Miep Gies (the lady who allowed the Franks to hide in her basement.) This experience gave all of Mrs. Gruwell’s class hope to be better individuals and make better life choices. Another positive turning point in the film is when Mrs. Gruwell did everything
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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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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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Anne Frank” by‚ Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett‚ is the importance of courage and hope in a negative situation. The reader sees examples of both of these in the thoughts and actions of the characters‚ more specifically: Mr. Frank‚ Mr. Kraler and Miep‚ and Anne Frank. The authors express hope through Mr. Frank when they write‚ “... The air raids are getting worse. They come over day and night. The noise is terrifying. Pim [Mr. Frank] says it should be music to our ears. The more planes the sooner
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