Freedom Writers

Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, written by Leah Hager Cohen, is a biography of the author who has a relationship with Lexington School for the Deaf and a portrait of two deaf students (Sofia and James) throughout their time at the school. She switches her delivery, telling her family’s story and the stories of the two teenagers to narrate the truth about the deaf world. The book sheds light on the deaf school in New York, the stories of the two students, deaf culture, and various…

Introduction In the film, “Mean Girls”, a young girl named Cady Harson enters the American School system after being home-schooled in Africa. For the first day of school, she finds herself overwhelmed with fear being surrounded by so many teenagers in the school. She was introduced as a new student to the many different social groups, but she was especially introduced as one of the Plastics. The plot begins when Cady decides to take down the group’s leader, Regina George, in order to sabotage…

Frank from “The Diary of Anne Frank” and Eva Benitez from “Freedom Writers” have much in common even though they may have lived half a century apart from each other. Both of these people were powerful young women who found ways to overcome their situation, though it may be difficult when others are not doing the right thing. Their triumphs show that anyone can make it through a tough situation. “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Freedom Writers” both emphasize that tragic situations can change…

Freedom Writers portrays how people from different backgrounds can forget about their differences for a purpose that is bigger than all of them. The are united by their similar pasts of lost family members and friends. Gang violence has created a divide in their lives and caused a large amount of emotional pain. In Freedom Writers, students from all ethnicities are incorporated, and show the process of their division and coming together. This movie shows the racism in our past. It can also be…

Throughout the novel Looking for Alibrandi written by Melina Marchetta reflects on several issues that Josie Alibrandi faces during her final year at school. The issues she encounters are social, family problems and falling in love for the first time. Josephine confronts social issues by facing racism and cultural differences. She develops family relationships by meeting her dad and further expands her relationship with her Nonna Katia. Josephine falls involve for the first time and faces many…

“Things do not change; we change”(Henry Thoreau). This quote relates to transcendentalism because in the movie Dead Poets Society each character goes through a change that changes them for the better. The movie Dead Poets Society is about a group of students who have a teacher who is different from the teachers at their boarding school. Mr. Keating uses different methods to teach his students. All the boy’s face a lot of pressure from their parents. Then one day the come across the Dead Poets…

between students and teachers are Freedom Writers and Precious Knowledge. The Hollywood produced movie, Freedom Writers, illustrate the diversity and partitioned setting of a typical urban schooling system. The schools are filled with at-risk teenagers who are deemed incapable of learning. Going down their current path, these students are on their way of dropping out of school. Erin Gruwell, a new incoming teacher, inspires her students to take an interest…

obvious for us that the student’s attitude towards education is there big problem to make progress. In all of the three films Dangerous Minds, Freedom Writers and Walkout the schools are racially discriminate, they let the student’s look like they are lacy, violent and so on, because no one beliefs in them to have a successful life. The movies Freedom Writers and Dangerous Minds have something in common, in both of them students have problems with their attitude and behavior in and outside the…

Freedom Writers The Old and the New Methods of Education There is a movie called Freedom writers talking about the old and the new methods of education. Time is changing, the methods of education is changing too. The movie shows the big difference between the old and the new methods of education . Though The new and the old methods of education have their own uses, the new methods which contain a lot of things such as respect, love, comprehension are better than the old ones and so on. We need…

There are some differences between what the movie talks about and what the book talks about of the story “The Freedom Writers.” Me personally i think that the movie is better because i am seeing it with my own eyes. I can visually understand it. Personally i like to watch movies better than reading books so that might be why i like the movie more. I don’t really have patience for reading a book, i’d rather watch a movie, it’s more interesting to me. One of the differences that the movie has is…