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    very easy to relate to a character in a movie or just the story in general. The struggles the characters go through are often very relatable to most people and usually have something to do with the struggles going on in the world at that time. Freedom Writers is a movie about high school students who do not know if they will live to see the next day thanks to gang violence, their teacher hopes to bring them…

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    they deal with the topics of race, class and economic status, such dose the book Twilight Los Angeles. There was one movie that I thought relatively quickly where you can see all of these topics come in to play and that movie was the 2007 film Freedom Writers. There…

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    students and the educational system to be stereotyped. The stereotypes can often affect the students ' education. In the movie, Freedom Writers, teachers and administration have given up on students that they perceive as “trouble,” except Mrs. Gruwell. She wants to prove regardless of stereotypes, everyone can still learn and have the same opportunity in education. Freedom Writers explores the stereotypes that the American education is built on the idea that schools will never change their…

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    In the Freedom Writers, the setting took place in a two sided city where there were people living in ghettos and people living an average or wealthy life. The students that went to the school who were from the ghettos were automatically despised because of where they came from and basically labeled as dumb. Everyone was part of a gang based off their ethnic group and where they lived. They shared no bond with each other because of their differences and they made no effort to try unite. They…

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    Tomaka 's class some time ago called, "The Freedom Writers". It 's about a teacher named Erin Gruwell, who works at a school plagued with gang activity, racial discrimination, and violence. Because of which, the school faculty decided to give up on their students and let them fall down the wrong paths…

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    education to be successful in life. In the films, Dangerous Mind, Freedom Writers, and Walkout all the urban schools portray inequality and for some people racism. In the films, Dangerous mind and freedom writer students faced challenges with their…

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    Introduction. The film Freedom Writers does a good example of how to motivate and convince others about a social conduct and nice ways of expressing , feeling in community with others and recognizing that an action is wrong. This was done by a teacher, Mrs Gruwell, that started in the school with little knowledge about that. People don't liked how her "wasted" her time in something so supportive to a population of students that really needed it, and in the end, it was an excellent job. But how…

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    Everyone was imitated by each other, which caused them to form their own groups and fight against one another to prove who is superior. The students in this movie, like people today, rely on those influences to judge others by what they see. Freedom Writers is about Mrs. Gruwell, a freshman and sophomore english teacher, who taught a class that had a good mix of different races. With this diversity of students, there was a lot of conflict and violence. Throughout the year, Mrs. Gruwell helped…

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    movies make reading and watching them ten times better. Sometimes books that are made into movies can leave some important details out, but The Freedom Writers is one of the most portrayed movies. The Freedom Writers is one of those books made into a movie. The Freedom Writers book was written by Erin Gruwell and published in 1999. The movie “Freedom Writers” was produced in 2007 by Richard LaGravenese and starred Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, and Imelda Staunton; these people made an…

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    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, Imelda Staunton, and Patrick Dempsey (“Freedom Writers”). Based on the 1999 novel The Freedom Writers Diary, the book’s movie incarnation does an excellent job of portraying issues relevant to thousands of high school…

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