Introduction The purpose of this essay is to describe an analysis of the film “Freedom Writers” in regards to the breadth area of Social/Civic. The film “Freedom Writers” is based on the area of Long Beach‚ CA‚ was released in early 2007‚ and directed by Richard LaGravenese. The film is about a young teacher who inspired her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance‚ apply themselves‚ and pursue education beyond high school (IMDB‚ n.d.). The film expresses the lives of students in the early
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Ur Saldana Professor Dozier English 1010 23 September 2008 Ms. G and I What life holds for us is determined by how much we are willing to sacrifice. In the movie Freedom Writers‚ Ms. G is the main character. Her way of viewing life gives hope to the people surrounding her. In this essay‚ I am going to compare her willingness to sacrifice with the sacrifice I was once asked to make. Ms. G dedicated herself to teaching a difficult group of students. California had integrated the school system
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Freedom Writer Report Association Teacher used the racist drawing from one of her students and uses the opportune to teach them about the Holocaust showing them they are not alone on losing love ones in wars due racist action and also show them how wars affect others around them. This was very good illustration of functional connection between two or more elements. Emotional History She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries
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An Inspiring and Meaningful Movie Freedom Writers Freedom Writers is a drama movie based on the book “The Freedom Writers Diary” written by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell. The movie was first released on January 5th 2007 in the USA‚ and on May 18th 2007 in Norway. The director of the movie is Richard LaGravenese and the screenwriters are the Freedom Writers‚ Erin Gruwell and Richard LaGravenese. The Music is made by Mark Isham‚ will.i.am‚ Talib Kweli and other various artists. The main
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The film Freedom Writers tells a tale of a high school class that broke a cycle of violence and failure in their inner city school. This film is based around the race riots during the early 1990s in Los Angeles. In this film‚ the school is divided by race and clearly
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In every war there is an enemy (Freedom Writers 2007) Marcus‚ much the same as some of the other students in Ms. Gruwells’ class‚ had a harsh past. When Marcus was a young boy‚ his friend Clive found a gun and they felt that they could finally protect themselves from gang members and bullies. Shockingly‚ Marcus friend Clive wounded up inadvertently shooting himself. Marcus being frightened like any other kid would be just sat right there and stayed with his friend until the police showed up. When
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stem from a change in one’s perspective on life. Positive changes in characters after defeating adversity is evident in the film “Freedom Writers” (2007) directed by Richard LaGravenese. Through various camera techniques and the characterisation of Eva‚ LaGravenese explores the dangers and results of gang violence while living in America during the 1990s. “Freedom Writers” highlights the challenges one must experience in order to change their values. These challenges are evident through a montage
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Nang Kho 11/04/2011 "FREEDOM WRITER" Movie Summary The Freedom Writer Diary is based on a true story of an English teacher Erin Gruwell and her first teaching in Long Beach‚ CA. She was working with students other teachers calls them "unteachable." The teachers there was being stereotypical and believe the students in room 203 didn’t have a chance to graduate. The students were convinced that they had nothing to learn from a white woman who had never experience firsthand violence‚ discrimination
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The movie “The Freedom Writers” is based on the true story of Erin Gruwell’s English classes at Wilson High‚ an integrated school with students of all racial and cultural backgrounds. As a new teacher she is given the lowest achieving students. For safety and belonging most of these students belong to racial gangs and bring this social concept into the class by sitting in racial arrangements. Their morals and self concept are defined by these gangs‚ as shown by Eva’s statement of “we protect our
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Summary of the Freedom Writers The movie “Freedom Writers” was about Erin Gruwell‚ a young teacher who accepted a position teaching freshman and sophomore English at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach‚ California. Mrs. Gruwell dramatically transformed a chaotic class of hardened inner city youths. This class was consisted of African Americans‚ Latinos‚ Asians‚ Juvenile Delinquents‚ gang members‚ one Caucasian‚ and underprivileged students from poor neighborhoods. At first‚ it was difficult
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