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Agents of Socialization within Freedom Writers 1. Within Freedom Writers, majority of Ms.Gruwells’ students are involved with gangs. These students join a gang because they feel they are protecting their families, and in doing so, they put themselves in danger. They sacrifice important life factors, such as education, in order to stay apart of the gang. Despite knowing that gang life is dangerous and difficult to move away from, the students take pride in dying for their gang and see themselves…

Every student in world has a problem that they have to face in life. But, are these issues the same ones that students have to face in the movie Freedom Writers? The students in Freedom Writers have to face life as if they are in a war. Everyday each student walks out of there house wondering if they are going to live. One major problem that the students face is other races hurting them. Each student in that class has a certain group of people that they stay with and those people are their same…

In The Freedom Writers directed by Richard LaGravenese, Eva is able to “go against her people” because of what she has learned in school and through her experiences, as well as through the relationships she has made. Mrs. Gruwell assigns Eva two books in school including Durango Street and The Diary of Anne Frank including violence and gangs. She can relate to them and gains the understanding of the Holocaust with the Nazis killing many innocent Jews to “protect their own people” just because…

The power of multilingual writers can convince a reader to have a different view of academic discourse. The alternative discourse helps the writers to recognize the variety of roles in the academic contexts that are limited to monolingual writers. Multilingual writers are given a variety of benefits like job opportunities and self confidence. Nowadays, multilingual speakers have a higher chance of getting a job than monolingual speakers. The more languages we speak, the high the chances are to…

How I've improved as a writer Over the term and through this course I have improved certainly improved as a writer. One of the most helpful assignments we did was the revision of paper one which allowed me to see my mistakes, fix them and see first hand how these little changes can make a big difference on your end mark. Specifically, on the first assignment, most of the mistakes I had made were simple grammatical errors including forgetting to properly capitalize the first letter after a…

to tell readers: “For many writers, getting started is the hardest part” (Wyrick 3). Writers often keep journals to keep track of ideas and inspirations. There is a process that writers use to choose a subject. Sometimes a writer needs to find a happy place, a space where the writer feels most comfortable, to find the essay's main subject. It is important that the writer should have knowledge of the topic and wants to communicate these ideas clearly to the reader. Writers use different…

doing so. The average portrayal of a writer is a person who creates written works, such as books, scripts, magazines, and…

Reflection My development as a writer and the development of this piece was impacted by the exploration of the writer’s notebook, the learning outcomes of this course and what I have learned about writing from others. The Writer’s Notebook At first, I struggled with allowing myself to dig deep into the writer’s notebook. When I read the writing invitations the first week, I found myself just responding to it like a prompt or the reflective papers I spend so much time writing in my graduate…

her essay “Revision strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” which all writers are classified into two types of writers, student writers and experienced writers. She gives each a set of characteristics used to classify writers. She explains that student writers always feel the need for constant revision and when they revise they mostly use methods such as deletion, substitution, addition and reordering. Conversely, experienced writers envision their readers and use a first…

People always say that artists of any kind are crazy to follow their dreams. The same goes for writers. Everybody always says that the chances you’ll even get published are slim to none. However, it’s novelists like C. S. Lewis, Rick Riordan, Kristin Cashore, and J. K. Rowling that show that it is possible to write as a career. They made it. Why can’t we? Inspirational writers like them keep the business alive and flourishing. According to Nick Morgan, from Forbes magazine, “between 600,000 and…