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    ‘Richard La Gravense’s’ movie ‘Freedom Writer’ is based on a true story of a teacher and one hundred and fifty students of Woodro Wilson High School. This story is taken by the Eva’s diary‚ a true story of a girl‚ who suffers a lot in her life because of the racial riot. In the movie all the students are affected by the gang violence and racial tension in their life. This movie shows the effort of the teacher‚ who reconciles all the student in-spite of big racial wall. To erase the gap between the

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    groups‚ communities and the larger world" “A sense of belonging comes from the connections made with people‚ places‚ groups‚ communities and the larger world ‚ but are often made on an individual basis to begin with. The prescribed text “The Simple Gift “ by Herrick and a speech by Craig Ashby “A Getting of Wisdom” from the Sydney Morning Herald (2007) ‚ a related text will be the focus of this essay.” "The connection with a community often begins on an individual level. When Billy meets Ernie

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    have all explored how both understanding and the lack of understanding can impact on ones sense of belonging. "The Simple Gift"‚ a narrative poem by Stephen Herrick’s demonstrates elements of belonging‚ understanding and acceptance through the pain and suffering of rejection and homelessness faced by the characters Billy‚ Caitlin and Old Bill. Additionally in the film “Freedom Writers” Directed by Richard LaGravenese the concepts of belonging and understanding are brought out through Ms. Gruwell’s

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    The Simple Gift – Steven Herrick Chapter Summary Chapter 1: Champagne Billy Champagne Billy packing his school bag with his personal things and plans to run away from home. Billy takes his dads cigarettes and champagne. Kiss The Dog Billy is sitting on the veranda with his dog ‘Bunkbrain’. Billy wants to bring ‘Bunkbrain’ with him because he reckons no one “deserves to stay in this dump”. But bringing a dog would cause many inconveniences. Billy takes off. Longlands Road Billy walking

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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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    Book Report on the Freedom Writers Diary Ten years ago‚ The Freedom Writers Diary was published and soon became an international sensation. Today‚ more than one million people have read it‚ and they have even made it a motion picture starring Hilary Swank. As the freedom writers all graduated from high school and keep on advocating their deeds‚ the journey continues. Through the report I would like to divide them into four sections to discuss: origin‚ differentiation

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    The director 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

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    achieved before one can belong anywhere else. The protagonist‚ John Proctor‚ in The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ truly belongs only at time of death. His clear conscience provides him with a sense of self belonging before his hanging. Similarly I Freedom Writers‚ by Richard Lagravense‚ the Hispanic gang member‚ Eva‚ achieves a sense of personal identity and true belonging when she tells the truth in court. This allows her clear conscience to give her a sense of belonging to herself. “I’m not worth the

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    Belonging – The simple gift and Drifters An individual’s experience of belonging is invariably affected by their previous encounters with their environment and the people with whom they interact. This is clearly presented within the texts analysed. In the novel “The Simple Gift” by Steven Herrick the author successfully demonstrates the power of past experiences to both limit and enrich an individual’s sense of belonging to both their surroundings and influential people. Similarly in the poem

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    book to day dream and fantasize. We have the freedom to read any type of book we desire‚ and the freedom to read it whenever or wherever we like. The Freedom Writers Diary is a non-fiction. A book that tells the story of war‚ reality‚ and struggles of daily adolescents lives. It’s a book that teaches and educates students‚ parents‚ and teachers honestly and straightforward to understand a different world than what they may live in. The Freedom Writers Diary should be taught in schools because it

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