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The movie Freedom Writers was by far the most phenomenal movie I’ve watched in years. It’s a crime and biography movie about students who were born in the projects and were part of various gangs. The students who attended Woodrow Wilson High School was thought to have little to no potential solely because they neither knew how to read or write. Since the students had such a tough background teachers quit on the group of students because they felt it was useless. As a new teacher comes along (Ms…

Freedom writers main focus is based on a young white female teacher that goes to a school that is having problems with students that have a big diversity from each other from different lifestyles down to their color of their skin but through out time things start to work out better as each student finds out that they aint so different after all. The intended message from the movie is basically no matter where you come from we a have similar problems in our lives that we face each day and we…

In the film Freedom Writers, a high school teacher, Erin Gruwell, helps her students overcome their violent environment. Her students, conditioned by gang violence and racial segregation, are reluctant to interact with one another and have a limited outlook on life. But, by having them write journals, she makes them set aside their differences and realise that there is more to life than what they have experienced throughout their short lives. Perceptual errors negatively affect the student’s…

Freedom Writers, a story filled with the truth and violence, where gang violence and racial tension was everywhere. Between gang wars and dealing with physical abuse from their family; each Freedom Writer had their own horrible background. Left in a world where you only protect your “own,” one teacher brought her class together as a family. One teacher, who gave hope to a whole class that society had given up on. Freedom Writers started out with a bunch of stubborn, know-it-all ninth…

The theory allows us to understand and change the social inequalities that exist in society. In the film, Freedom Writers, it shows the journey of a young teacher as she attempts to inspire a group of students who are considered to be "at-risk" students who come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Each of them is dealing with discrimination from their peers and educational…

The Freedom Writers The Freedom Writers took place in Long Beach, California in 1984. One of the main settings was at Wilson High School and Erins home, which was located in Long Beach, California. In the film Freedom Writers there were many wonder characters such as: Eva Benitez Erin Gruwell, Scot Casey, Steve Gruwell, Margaret Campbell, and Marcus. Eva was a student at Wilson high school. She lives in Long Beach, California, When Eva was little she had witnessed someone being murdered.…

First of all freedom writers is a movie and a book based on a true story.Ms.Gruwell was a teacher from wilson high school.Gruwell gave 150 Students dairies to write about their lives.In these dairies,talks about gang violence,abuse,the legal system and about their personal lives./In freedom writers there is a difference between the book and the film in perspective ways. For me it looks like the movie shows the life around Ms.Gruwell. In the book they don't really talk about her life, living…

Surrounded by guns, drug deals, and unstable households leaves lost and undetermined kids. In this compelling movie, Freedom Writers the main Character Erin Gruwell(Hilary Swank) sees potential in grieving students when everyone else has lost hope in them. Long Beach, California is central for violence, drugs, and alcohol. For these students all they have known is love through gangs and rough households. Underneath the tough constructed attitude lies innocent kids who have lost faith in…

Name: Raquel Dewald Book: The Freedom Writers Diary Author: The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell Genre: Nonfiction SPOILER WARNING The Freedom Writers Diary Report Plot Summary: Mrs. Gruwell is a new english teacher at Wilson High School. The school is located in a town with a bad reputation for gangsters. When she was a Student teacher, she found a racist caricature of a “bad” Student, Sharaud. She claims this was the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust, but no one knows what the Holocaust…

Nobody Left to Hate and Freedom Writers Cognitive psychology focuses on studying how the environment a person lives in affects his or her behavior. In the mid 1950s, researchers started looking into external factors rather than internal processes to explain why people act a certain way. Cognitive research revolutionized and become the dominant approach in psychology by the late 1970-1980s. Then, many people started creating strategies to influence people’s behavior to change. In 1990, Erin…