Wilson Classical High School

options I ran across the movie “Freedom Writers.” I was introduced to this movie during my freshman year at Prairie View A&M. It was a boring weekend on campus, and none of my friends were leaving to go back to their home towns so we decided to go to the theater on campus, that particular day they were playing “Freedom Writers,” and since none of us had ever watched it we decided to stay. Even though this is not my favorite film, it is on my must see list of recommended movies and since I knew my analysis paper was due soon I decided that this would be the perfect movie to analyze. “Freedom Writers” is based upon a true story about an idealistic young Caucasian English teacher named Erin Gruwell, who takes a teaching job at Woodrow Wilson high school located in the inner city of Los Angeles California. Her enthusiasm is quickly tested when she realizes that her class was full of troubled youth known as the “unteachables” who were not interested and as eager to learn as she envisioned. Even though she knew it would be a hard, Erin still rose to the challenge to give the students a positive experience that would later reconstruct their lives. However, she did not realize that her life too would…

rough households. Underneath the tough constructed attitude lies innocent kids who have lost faith in themselves. Erin Gruwell enters Long Beach school district, which is close to Los Angeles and gets a taste of her students lifestyle. She is a white teacher entering a black, Latino, and Asian community. Although she is not intimidated by them, they seem…

Imagine, as an impressionable high school student, that your teachers do not care about your education or your well-being because of a label: “at-risk” or “unteachable”. This is an issue that many students have faced, and a few outstanding individual teachers have attempted to erase this label for the progression of these students’ lives. Freedom Writers, a movie that heavily involves this problem in education, is a 2007 movie directed by Richard LaGravenese and stars Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn,…

Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. In the beginning of the film, it showed violence between the law enforcement and protestors. A protestor was holding up a sign that said “No Justice. No Peace.” in Los Angeles, California in 1992. The film continued to show facts such as over 120 murders in Long Beach in the months following the Rodney King riots and gang violence and racial tension reach an all-time high. This story was from diaries of students of Room 203 at…

Biraj Joshi P.1 School Dress Code? School across the U.S need dress codes because it is very effective. Schools productivity and safety has increased. Dress codes make schools and learning less distracting and no one gets judged or discriminated. Schools uniforms are mostly less expensive than regular clothing and its time-saving. Schools productivity has increased and so did its safety. As a result of school uniforms past decade with school dress code, there were fewer disruptions,…

In the movie Freedom Writers, released on January 5, 2007, many conflicts occur in Long Beach, California (“Freedom Writers”). Freedom Writers was directed by Richard LaGravenese. Erin Gruwell, played by Hilary Swank, is a new teacher to Woodrow Wilson Classical High School and is completely unprepared for the classroom (“Freedom Writers”). Hilary Swank adapts to the students and puts them first with all their problems in life. While trying to gain their respect, she tries to get the students…

RAA Rough Draft The assurance of safety is always appreciated whether it’s at home, school, or public places. There are always uncertainties whether a specific place can be considered as safe. In an article written by Roxane Gay, she argues the difficulty of finding a space that can be confidently labeled as safe. To strengthen her argument, she uses examples of her personal experience in relation to safety, recent events in campuses, the feministic output of safe space within the LGBT…

When sharing rhythm, people feel more at ease with each other. Such rhythms can be mundane for example in the activities we do every day: bringing the kids to school, walking the dog, being in the same train to work, putting out the garbage and more. These mundane rhythms are at the heart of sustaining everyday life and shaping trust, for example, the local policeman who passes by the school every day so that parents can easily approach him generates trust. The opposite, not sharing rhythm while…

Josh Robinson Mr. Lee Intro to Cinema 9 June 2016 Director Robert Zemeckis Robert Zemeckis has directed many films ranging in genres. His films include Cast Away, Back to the Future, Annie, A Christmas Carol, Forrest Gump, and Flight. Zemeckis has earned a reputation as a “tech-savvy auteur whose work has explored special effects and digital magic” (Ressner 2013). Zemeckis grew up in a working-class family with little, to no money, in the south side of Chicago. He grew up watching television…

I heard that there are different formats of essays so I expect to learn all of them and use it accordingly. Similarly, I assume that presentations are common in any subjects. I anticipate in learning the different ways to effectively deliver messages to the audience. Another style of writing I would likely use is team collaboration. I personally expect a lot of fun with team assignments because there were not much of them during my high school years. I would enjoy sharing ideas and arguing…