Analysis Of Woodrow Wilson High School

The movie “Freedom Writers” is based on a true story. Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell plays an inspirational teacher at Wilson High School. She is ready to take on the teaching world as she steps inside Wilson High School for her first day. Her class, varied with teenagers of different ethnic backgrounds, wants nothing more than to just get through the day. African Americans, Latinos, Asians, gang members, and much more are from poor neighborhoods, that all share a similar hatred for each other. On the first day of teaching she is very scared and unsure, but she knows she has to stop the racism in the class as well as their attitude towards life. Despite her students' persistent refusal to participate

It demonstrates that even without juridical discrimination; hate speech, lowered expectations, and dismissive behavior can have devastating effects on achievement. Black members of the blue-eyed group forcefully remind whites that they undergo similar stresses, not just for a few hours in a controlled experiment, but every day of their lives. Although these concepts are food for thought… they are merely preludes to the main course. The most important lesson to be learned here is that just one person can make a difference.       Next we join a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in Kansas City - blacks, Hispanics, whites, women and men.

Since the inception of human civilization there have been countless cultures and societies which have helped shape the current world today as we know it. The modern human race dates back more than 200,000 years and in that time frame many cultures have risen to great virtue and success only to deteriorate or cease to exist altogether. First before examining one of these cultures we must know what culture truly means. The Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Culture Center defines culture as a “dynamic social system,” containing the beliefs, behaviors, values and norms of a “specific organization, group, society or other collectivity” learned, shared, internalized, and changeable by all members of the society (Watson, 2010). In

Culture is the most basic cause of a person’s wants and behaviour. Growing up, children learn basic values, perception and wants from the family and other important groups.

Inequalities in skin color at Wilson were very prevalent. This wasn’t because of the teacher, but the world around them. Each different color segregated themselves to “keep with their own.” The differences like this kept the students at Wilson from reaching their potential. When

How to minimize the hurts of non-white children once their belief on the theory of a society is fair and equality is completely collapsed when the reality is happening in the opposite. In the reading “Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color” Mildred Boveda, an assistant education professor at Arizona State University, said: “I will admit that it sometimes felt risky to tackle these difficult conversations, but this [research] underscores why we cannot equivocate when it comes to preparing our children to face injustices.” I agree with her opinion. Because finding the proper solutions to fully empower and equipping the best knowledge that can help children cope better is not easy, but it is the responsibility of the family, the school, and society. The three elements need to act and work together in an effort to dare to speak about the truths mentioned above.

Throughout most of the movie, one teacher struggles against a schools administrators and teachers in order to teach her own students the power of education. While the administration has no faith in her students (all considered minorities) or her, she is determined to break the racial barrier the school has so willing put up. With life changing ideas and great motivation, she begins to change the lives of each and every one of her students. However, before she succeeded, she often failed. Administration denied the students more difficult reading material in order to ensure that they wouldn’t progress past a fifth grade reading level; deprived of educational opportunities because of race, deprived of a basic human right because of

The means to an end. To end resolve disputes of the time the League of Nations was formed by none other than Woodrow wilson. The leading nations of the world decided that the best way to prevent another war from occurring was to form an alliance of nations that would serve as an overseeing the world from another war. Despite the leader of the United States Wilson believed that the U.S. should stay neutral and continue in their way of isolationism. Wilson put forth this idea with nothing to gain from it, he wanted to unite the nations. With his passionate words Wilson wanted a governing figure that would be of one mind, one heart to stop aggression amongst one another, and stay out foreign affairs.

As teachers, we operate in a world of assumptions about the communities that we work in, the students that we serve, and ourselves. Most of us live in a world where the assumptions remain a hidden subtext in our lives, as something that dictates how we interact with others but yet does not actually come to the surface. Because we are not critically aware of these forces, we assume that this is the way that things are supposed to be, never asking if this is working to oppress other people. Unfortunately, because teachers are not critically aware of the damages that these assumptions, in the form of biases and privilege, can cause to students, they allow a cycle of oppression to continue when do not fit into the ‘perfect student’ ideal. When

Jane Elliot’s, “A class divided”, exhibited a daring lesson being taught to an all-white class about the struggles people who are discriminated face through a firsthand experience. Through the use of vivid demonstrations and expression of wording, Jane Elliot made a powerful stance establishing how discrimination is not okay and affects people’s capability to succeed.

“Among the elements of social and cultural structure, two are important for our purposes. These are analytically separable although they merge imperceptibly in concrete situations. The first consists of culturally defined goals, purposes, and interests … The second phase of the social structure defines, regulates, and controls the acceptable modes of achieving these goals." (Merton 672,673)

People should show respect to each other although they are different races. Several years ago in America, many black people in schools were often discriminated against and ostracized. Known from the film Freedom Writers, those at-risk students all lived pretty tough life due to their color of skin. On the one hand, these students in the class were split up based on race. During school, most of them were treated unfairly by teachers. On the other hand, these students did not show respect to Ms. Gruwell——their new teacher, because she is a white people. Students always late for class and they did not care about what Ms. Gruwell

Fundamental beliefs surrounding the very idea of culture separate the cross-cultural and sociocultural approach, which may seem to suggest incompatibility. Sociocultural psychological understanding of culture is that it employs a “mutually constitutive” or “cyclic model”. (Eom & Kim, 2014) The idea of culture in the sociocultural model is that culture influences people on a

The concept of culture is something that defines many aspects of one’s life. From physical objects to different ways of thinking, culture adds significance to human life and makes groups of people distinct from one another. Culture is essentially a group of people who come together with similar interests and points of view. According to the Center for Advanced Language Acquisition of the University of Minnesota, “culture is defined as the shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs, and affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization.” From a more sociological perspective, culture is a way in which people come together in order to fulfill their needs. These shared patterns and ideas identify the members of a culture group while also distinguishing those of another group.” Culture is one of the things that sets the United States apart from the rest of the world. Not that the rest of the world is not cultural, but the circumstance here is different. Many people of different cultural backroads come to this country in search of a better life. As a consequence, the United States has become a place where many cultures merge together like a colossal pot soup.

The Cambridge English Dictionary (2017) defines culture by the way of life of a particular people, as shown in their ordinary behavior and habits, their attitudes toward each other, and their moral and religious beliefs: On the other hand culture is defined by Schein (2016) as the concept of structural stability, depth, breadth, and patterning or integration that results from the fact that culture is formulated by learned behaviors endorsed by a group of individuals as excepted norms and standards. Depending on the lenses from which an individual experiences culture, culture can be interpreted differently from conventional meanings; therefore, for the purposes of this paper, cultural is inclusive