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    Negative Teachers

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    Although I do believe teachers are positive people and do many great things for 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…

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    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…

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    Train Go Sorry Analysis

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    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…

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    Mean Girls Film Analysis

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    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…

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    1. Counting By 7's takes place in various settings. One of the many settings is Willow Chance's “single-story, stucco house in a development at the end of San Joaquin Valley” where both Willow and her parents (Roberta and James Chance) lived, up until the accident. After the accident Willow is taken to another important setting which is a Nail Salon called “Happy Polish Nails” where Pattie Nguyen works. The third setting takes place at a Garage, near “Happy Polish Nails”. This is where Pattie,…

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    Erin Gruwell was able to break barriers in her classroom for her students in room 203. First, Ms. Gruwell had the students play a game of similarities where they stepped up to a piece of tape in the middle of the classroom when she gave statement of life experiences. Many of the students in Ms. Gruwell’s classroom experience loss of a family member, friend, etc., exposed to violence at a young age, was involved in criminal activates, and other life experiences of loss and grief. Ms. Gruwell…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    “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…

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