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amazing movie makes viewers think about the film long after watching it and has an impact on the their life. Million Dollar Baby is a spectacular example of all these factors. Million Dollar Baby is a drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and it stars Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald, a poor boxer who is determined to become the very best that she can be. Million Dollar Baby is a perfect example of a drama film because it has a complex and engaging conflict, the characters are believable and…

Amelia Earhart is a well-known pilot mainly known for being the first woman to copilot and solo fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart flew all over the world trying to accomplish things that women and some men haven’t been able to do. Around the mid 1930 Amelia tried to do the impossible and disappeared while trying to accomplish it. (“Lorenzi”) Humans are fascinated by things they cannot explain because we can’t stand there is no end. Although she lived and exciting adventurous life, the end…

How was life as a female pilot in the 1920's-1930's? Amelia Earhart was a female pilot amid the 1930's. Taking a course in Red Cross Medical aid, Amelia enrolling as an attendant's associate at Spadina Military Healing center in Toronto, Canada, tending to injured warriors amid World War I. The next year, Amelia selected as a premedical understudy at Columbia College in New York. Presently, Amelia's folks demanded she move to California where they were living. Amelia Earhart was the most…

“Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” Amelia Earhart was a legendary American aviator who conquered the skies and set many records from 1922 to 1937, including being the first individual to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. In 1937 while attempting to successfully circumnavigate the globe, Earhart vanished and never reappeared. The United States enacted a massive hunt for her costing millions of dollars and spanning various continents to no avail. Eighty…

Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart with that name brings to mind a short haired woman wearing a leather jacket, and climbing into a airplane. We all know that she flew planes into the record books as a woman and as an aviator. Until she supposedly died somewhere close to Howland Island in the Pacific (Lorenzi 3). Was she a brave, skilled woman, or is she another fame seeking woman looking to be noticed? There are many reasons to believe that Amelia Earhart was a brave woman, who was a major…

The movie, The Freedom Writers, follows a teacher who unifies her classroom through literature. The class is made up of many teenagers of different races, most are even in a gang affiliated with their race. During this time period, in Long Beach, California there is a great deal of racial tension, including a gang war. It is a very dangerous place to be for everyone. In the beginning of the film, the students at Wilson High are very segregated in the classroom, sticking strictly to their racial…

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…

Many people have heard the name Amelia Earhart but, they do not know of all her amazing accomplishments. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean along with many other records and accomplishments..…….. Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, KS. She was born to Amelia Otis Earhart and Samuel Stanton Earhart. She had a younger sister Grace Muriel Earhart. As a child Amelia was a big tomboy and was interested in women being able to do the same as men. She…

perfect classroom you had in your head is not what you’re staring at in real life, but instead a self-segregating class filled with “at risk” students that have no desire to be there. This is exactly what happened to Erin Gruwell, played by actress Hilary Swank, the teacher who wrote The Freedom Writers Diary, which then inspired the film The Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers is set at Woodrow Wilson…

In the film Freedom Writers, a high school teacher, Erin Gruwell, helps her students overcome their violent environment. Her students, conditioned by gang violence and racial segregation, are reluctant to interact with one another and have a limited outlook on life. But, by having them write journals, she makes them set aside their differences and realise that there is more to life than what they have experienced throughout their short lives. Perceptual errors negatively affect the student’s…