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    FREEDOM WRITER QUESTIONAIRE 1. What are three status symbols found in the movie? - Erin’s pearls symbolize the wealth of her father‚ being as they were a gift from him. - Erin’s wedding ring symbolizes that she is married. - The tattoos on the Holocaust survivor’s arms symbolize their status as Jew. 2. Which character(s) experienced role conflict? Give an example - Although Eva and Erin both experienced role conflict‚ I feel that Erin had more of an obvious conflict.

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    Summary of the Freedom Writers The movieFreedom 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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    Freedom Writers Reflection Paper Now that you have finished viewing the film‚ you will do the following: You are going to compose a thoughtful reflection paper. This paper will incorporate the following items; you may include them in whatever order you prefer. Reflection Items: Simply respond to the film as a whole on an “emotional” level. What did you feel and think as the movie played? What emotions came to life? Did the film evoke memories or situations you could relate to?

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    Freedom Writers By: Maya Mohan Freedom writers is a book consisting of the diary entries of a classroom of a troubled youth from the inner cities struggling just to make it through each day. A courageous and kind-hearted teacher‚ Ms. Erin Gruwell took on the class as a first year teacher at Woodrow Wilson High school in Long Beach‚ California. She pushed past the students’ reputations‚ lack of funds and non supportive co-workers to help these kids achieve something many of them thought they’d never

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    Rhetorical Analysis: Freedom Writers The movieFreedom Writers” is based on a true story. Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell plays an inspirational teacher at Wilson High School. She is ready to take on the teaching world as she steps inside Wilson High School for her first day. Her class‚ varied with teenagers of different ethnic backgrounds‚ wants nothing more than to just get through the day. African Americans‚ Latinos‚ Asians‚ gang members‚ and much more are from poor neighborhoods‚ that all share

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    Richard LaGravenese made the movie The Freedom Writers in 2007 and based it off the novel The Freedom Writers Diary with Erin Gruwell and 150 other students published in 1999. Richard LaGravenese wanted to bring the book alive to utilize that everyone struggles in the world. He wanted to bring some similarities and some contrast from both the movie and the novel. One thing Richard LaGravenese did well was adding in the Holocausts scenes from the novel into the movie. He showed the kids perspective

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    Summarizing; freedom writers. The moviefreedom writers” begins with a teacher named Erin Gruwell who had moved to long beach California to work at Widrow Wilson high school (once known as a highly respected school). On her first day she realizes her students are considered to be ‘un-teachable’ (at risk for not graduating). She also realizes the significance in color and background when a gang fight breaks out in the middle of the courtyard. A week later‚ a small group of her students were involved

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    This paper is going to analyze the sociological perspectives put on women during the civil rights era‚ by using the movie The Help to give examples. There are many themes evident in this movie‚ such as‚ gender socialization‚ counter framing/ social deviance and sexualization. During the civil rights era‚ when this movie took place‚ white women were seen as the homemakers. They were expected to get married‚ have babies‚ be involved in social events and supervise “the help”. In no means were they

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    Analysis Sheet For Other Related Texts * Name of text: Freedom Writers (2006) Film * The composer of the text: Richard Lagravense Write a brief description of the text‚ mentioning its purpose‚ audience and giving a brief summary of the content: Set in Long Beach California the film ‘Freedom Writers’ is about a young beginning teacher who is soon challenged by a group of Black‚ Latino and Asian gang members who have extreme hate for the new teacher‚ Erin Gruwell. Over time Erin

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    For this assignment I chose to watch Freedom Writers. This is a heartfelt movie about a teacher named Erin Gruwell who finds a way to unify her disadvantaged‚ racially divided students and to improve their grasp of academics‚ partly by having them keep journals about their violent‚ troubled lives. The main diversity issue in this movie is cultural‚ ethnic‚ and racial tensions. According to Storti (1999)‚ “Culture is the shared assumptions‚ values‚ and beliefs of a group of people which result in

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