Freedom Writers Foundation

The opening scene in the Chameleon a case study by John Gray and Associates takes place at a school board meeting. Residents from across the community materialized in record numbers to discuss the issue of bilingual education at the local high school. Recently, at school, some students labeled a few teachers and administrators as prejudicial and supporters of discriminatory practices when Mexican American's and Vietnamese students were not tabbed to participate on the cheerleader team. As a…

means. Eva: It's a sign of respect... for you. All of Ms. Gruwell students show respect her because she was the only person every in there life to support them and show that education is the key to be succeed in life. IN the Yosso text and the freedom writers there where some kind of support that help the children’s out in order to succeed. With anyone support you then you can be successful in live all you need is support, and it prove in both the text and the film that they bet the school…

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…

This report is on the movie Freedom Writers, made in 2007 by Richard LaGravenese. As found in All Readers Freedom Writers summary by Guru Naila, a young 23 year old teacher at the Wilson High School is faced by diversity in her class, managing the diverse racial group from different backgrounds. Her students include Asian, Hispanic, African American, juvenile delinquents, and poor students. The students face many conflicts among each other, disliking and stereotyping each other based on…

In 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr Jane Elliot a third-grade teacher performed an experiment with her students about racism. In the video, fourteen years later her former students who were in her third-grade class come back and watch the video to watch how she taught them about discrimination in a distinctive way. This experiment was conducted in two days on her third-grade students. In her experiment, she on one day made one group of her students the blue eyes superior…

Many people say that a person’s Hebrew name is her true essence and that if a person’s name is biblical, she has a piece of that person’s neshamah in her. My Hebrew name is Miriam, deriving from Moshe Rabeinu’s sister. During the Jewish Exodus from Egypt the Jewish nation had reached the Red Sea and were seemingly trapped by water in front of them as a horde of enraged Egyptians hunted down the fugitives. The only person who had enough faith to continue on with the journey was Nachshon ben…

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 youthful generation’s minds fluctuate with the ideas of success and achievement. Many find themselves in difficult situations that hinder them from believing that success can be found in the palm of their hands. The movie, Freedom Writers, provides an inspiration view into the lives of troubled high school students fighting for success and for survival. The motivational movie should be presented as part of the curriculum of Slippery Rock’s Critical Writing course. The film exhibits ideas of…

As a student, I have always asked myself the same question in every grade, “Why does my English suck?” In school, I was the student that would just get by with C’s and barely grasp the concepts that I’ve been taught. I could not understand why I wasn’t good in English, but it was my first language. Then I realized that I wasn’t great in English because I disliked reading, and that was one significant way of learning it. Eventually, I found myself in a classroom full of students who can barely…

Different races goes through different struggles every day no matter what the situation is or what the circumstances may be, and the stories like those told in, A Child Called It, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Freedom Writers explains the reason for that. In most societies blacks and whites see racial issues differently, and the different types of struggles they go through. There are numerous social aspects that boys/girls struggle with just because they are black, white, or Hispanic. As I read…