Hilary Putnam

As I was sitting on the couch over the past weekend, I decided to search for a good move on Netflix. As I began my search through the drama options I ran across the movie “Freedom Writers.” I was introduced to this movie during my freshman year at Prairie View A&M. It was a boring weekend on campus, and none of my friends were leaving to go back to their home towns so we decided to go to the theater on campus, that particular day they were playing “Freedom Writers,” and since none of us had ever…

Writers, released on January 5, 2007, many conflicts occur in Long Beach, California (“Freedom 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…

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…

To my passionate readers, recently, I read the inspirational biography Winged Legend: Story of Amelia Earhart by John Burke, which recounts Amelia Earhart's daring life story. Amelia was a fearless aviation pioneer who set countless height, speed and distance records. She lived at a time when women were considered to be inferior to men. Women had limited jobs and their talents were greatly underestimated. However, Amelia broke down these barriers and proved to the world that women were as…

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…

Name Emily Johnson Date 4/17/18 Name of Influential Person Amelia Mary Earhart “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” Amelia Mary Earhart was the inspiration to women all around the world, she defeated the disbelief and the people who didn’t believe she could do anything as well as any man. She took a risk and she let herself soar picking up the world with her.(Amelia Earhart, The Legend of the Lost Aviator by Shelley Tanaka and Illustrated by David Craig, 2008). She proved to the malicious…

Amelia Earhart was a female pioneer and pilot. She did many things to prove that to be true, and they are Amelia always looking for achievement, she persevered to achieve her goals, and she had many long term goals that she set to be able to achieve more for herself. Firstly, Amelia Earhart was always looking for achievement as a part of why she was a female pioneer. Earhart kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about successful women in predominantly male-oriented fields, including film…

Amelia Earhart  "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." Amelia Earhart said and believed this wholeheartedly. She didn't have time to think of effective ways to do things, she had too many records to set and dreams to accomplish. Because of this she became famous.  Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. In her young life, Amelia climbed trees, collected bugs, and hunted rats with a .22 rifle. She lived with her grandparents up to the age of 12,…

The rain poured down on the town of Atchison, Kansas on July, 24th, 1897. Lightning cracked and thunder shook the house where Amy Earhart laid. As she held her newborn baby girl, I wonder if Amy Earhart knew right then, that her baby will become the first women to cross the atlantic by herself. Does she know her daughter will inspire others to join aviation. Perhaps Amy Earhart named her Amelia because it means work. DId she know how much work it would take for Amelia to break free of the chains…

Movies like Soul Surfer, The Help, and Cinderella Man are empowering movies. Among that list of films is The Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese, was produced in 2007 (IMDb). The movie is a true story about a teacher who invests herself into the class of 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…