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Freedom Writers: Sociological Issues There are many films out in the industry that focus on detailing the works of everyday life. Those whose main message is to give us a more forward understanding in the society we as a nation live in. After going through a few, I narrowed it down to one film in particular that touches on many sociological issues we face every day to this day. Freedom Writers, a film influenced on true events, was released in January of 2007 under the production companies 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. She had also witnessed her dad being arrested. Erin Gruwell is a teacher at Wilson high school she…

Freedom Writers Freedom Writers was a very touching movie about the different gang lives people have to go through every day. It shows what minorities in the hood have to experience day after day to survive. These kids have little care of their education because they have to grind day after day on the streets to even survive. Nothing in these kids life is given to them for free they have to work so hard to get what they want. When they get a new teacher they all disrespect her at first. All of…

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…

Therefore, since America holds it to a high standard we are funded by our local taxpayers. Education and funding is probably one of the most taxed things in America. As seen in Freedom Writers, which takes place in a urban area in Los Angeles, Mrs. Erin Gruwell did not have the proper funding to give the proper education to her freshman students. The resources that she needed was not provided to her even if they did have some resources. If teachers come to work to teach, then why cant they get…

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…

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 more involved with school and to work hard in life. Erin demotes her everything to the students in order for them to…

Many concepts of socialization are found throughout films which allow these concepts to be further demonstrated and studied. In the film Mean Girls, the main character Cady Heron is an individual who has been home schooled her entire life until her junior year of high school. Her expectations of high school are met with a harsh reality of the underlying social concepts of the other students. Cady is essentially in two different cliques which allows her to have alternate identities, and as a…

room 203. Erin Gruwell, the teacher of room 203, expects teaching to be a piece of cake, but on her first day she realizes it would be anything but. Her students are hostile towards each other and intentionally separate themselves by ethnicity, because they view themselves as different from one another. The determination of the movie gives viewers an empowerment to overcome any obstacle. Watching the students rise to their true potential encourages the viewer to handle any difficult…

students, I do understand not all teachers have the same enthusiasm. I chose to talk about “Freedom Writers”, this movie is based off of a true story and the teacher (Erin Gruwell) does many great things for her students. For instance, she inspires them, uses many teaching strategies and goes above and beyond to ensure her students success. Erin Gruwell inspires her students to realize there is more to life than gangs and they all of them has the option to graduate and go to college. She does…