Freedom Writers

The theory allows us to understand and change the social inequalities that exist in society. In the film, Freedom Writers, it shows the journey of a young teacher as she attempts to inspire a group of students who are considered to be "at-risk" students who come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Each of them is dealing with discrimination from their peers and…

The Freedom Writers The Freedom Writers took place in Long Beach, California in 1984. One 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.…

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…

Surrounded by guns, drug deals, and unstable households leaves lost and undetermined kids. In this compelling movie, Freedom Writers the main Character Erin Gruwell(Hilary Swank) sees potential in grieving students when everyone else has lost hope in them. Long Beach, California is central for violence, drugs, and alcohol. For these students all they have known is love through gangs and rough households. Underneath the tough constructed attitude lies innocent kids who have lost faith in…

Name: Raquel Dewald Book: The Freedom Writers Diary Author: The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell Genre: Nonfiction SPOILER WARNING The Freedom Writers Diary Report Plot Summary: Mrs. Gruwell is a new english teacher at Wilson High School. The school is located in a town with a bad reputation for gangsters. When she was a Student teacher, she found a racist caricature of a “bad” Student, Sharaud. She claims this was the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust, but no one knows what the Holocaust…

Nobody Left to Hate and Freedom Writers Cognitive psychology focuses on studying how the environment a person lives in affects his or her behavior. In the mid 1950s, researchers started looking into external factors rather than internal processes to explain why people act a certain way. Cognitive research revolutionized and become the dominant approach in psychology by the late 1970-1980s. Then, many people started creating strategies to influence people’s behavior to change. In 1990, Erin…

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 both Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and the diaries of the Freedom Writers, the definition of equality is established as all people, regardless of race or other characteristics, having the same rights. King’s letter primarily addresses the segregation of blacks from whites in the 1950’s and 1960’s, while the Freedom Writers’ diaries discuss various discriminations and injustices faced in the 1990’s. Despite the two texts being from different eras, they portray the 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…