Freedom Writers Space And Proxemics

The film Crips and Bloods has similar parallels to the film Freedom Writers. Specifically, Freedom Writers explains the dynamics of gang rivalry and how that rivalry, together with racial tensions, transformed a once top -performing high school to one of the most under -performing high schools in the country. Most notable is Erin Gruwell, a newly hired teacher, and her willingness to teach and educate a class that has been labeled as delinquent and not worth wasting resources on. It is important to note that the majority of Ms. Gruwell’s students were either a member of gang themselves, or participated in some form of gang warfare. Many of the kids from the film stressed the importance of “protecting their own” which meant that they had to

“Freedom Writers” is a powerful film that is based on a true story about a teacher named Erin Gruwell, who struggles to connect with her students to make them believe that they can succeed in life, and to show them that their lives, experiences, and knowledge is valuable, all while attempting to unify them and to overcome racial segregation and gang violence that is part of their daily lives. Gruwell focuses on introducing the concepts of discipline and obedience in her classroom. She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries, in which they talk about their experiences of being abused, seeing their friends die, and being evicted; Gruwell refers to the composition books as “The Freedom Writers Diary.”

Eva’s soliloquy- “you can’t go against you own people, your own blood.” - Symbolism of conformity.

Personal space. Space between people indicates interest or intimacy between people. Personal space can be split in to four areas:

In this paper I will explore how the project makes us think about the way we occupy space, how language can affect thought, and how challenging these social norms cause a disorientation that can be productive in challenging power and discourse.

There are very minimal rhetorical tools in the article. There is some metaphor at the beginning of the article where Jen Lemos adds to the topic censorship. “Adding to the continuous struggle for free speech on the internet in the Untied stats, the fight against censorship has spread to all parts of the world”. Jen Lemos uses the following words fight and struggle.

Censorship on television in the United States has been an issue ever since the television was invented. The public holds a variety of stances on the topic, and no matter what law is ever passed regarding censorship, it will never suit the needs of everyone. Some believe that censorship violates individual rights in the law, and others believe that censorship should be available through members in the family, not the government. On the other hand, some people strive to maintain government regulation of censorship. Television censorship is significant because it holds the future of our country. If channels continue to be censored, our rights will be violated. If not, then the future generations may change

According to Doreen Massey, Space is “a complex web of relations of domination and subordination, of solidarity and cooperation” (Massey 1993, p.81, cited in Neely and Sumura 2011). This definition allows one to see the incorporation of the ‘power over’, how a person will have the ‘power over’ someone (domination) and therefor that someone will be subordinate. As well as the contrast between

The concept of space is a topic that confuses many people. When people are asked, what the concept of space is they tend to come up with numerous answers. People say space is something that is seen as a place that exist outside of Earth. While, this is true there are also more definitions of space that many individuals don’t know about. Space can also include the distance between objects, people etc. and the interactions that happened between them. In the article, “The Power of Place and Space,” it talks about how “space has an effect on interaction and that this effect is most clearly expressed as a function of distance” (Sack 327). In the movie, “Ender’s Game,” directed by Gavin Hood, the main character Ender, played by Asa Butterfield, is seen living in an institutionalized space. The institution prepares the students there for a future alien invasion throughout the movie, as Ender progresses through the ranks of the institution, he slowly dismantles the blind loyalty he had in this institutionalized space. This internal space directly affects his external space and how he interacts with the people around him while he is aboard the institutionalized space.

The topic I found interesting was the meaning of space in the stories we’ve read. What is it and how do we explain it? This is useful because when it comes to understanding the meaning of space there isn’t just only one way of doing so. Were able to discover this through the different author 's stories, and poems we’ve read. The stories that I will look into for this paper are “Passing” by Nella Larsen and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In both the stories the character 's use these open spaces to hide in and conceal the things important to them.

The society that we live in defines what is believed to be the “correct” way to view physical space between those around us. In particular, America has specific contexts demonstrating how much space should be occupied between two people. A large space generally occurs between two strangers because in societal terms the lack of space between others indicates how much trust we exhibit with the other person. Similarly, a small space occurs between a friend or significant other and indicates the comfort he or she feels with each other. Furthermore, gender roles, which our society has created, dictate these rules and provide a basis of how we are to act. For example, women are expected to stand very close to each other because they are considered to be emotional beings that provide affection towards one another. Whereas, men are considered unemotional and therefore are expected to not prefer to be in contact with each other. In the reading, “Encounters

Through the dismantling of society through the extreme use of space Pre WW2, ghettos and the relocation of Jews created a social stripping of societal acceptance of practical stripping of space. In reflection on how space is used or not used in society creating greater division of people can be seen with the appealing of HUD assistance to thousands of families. In addition to the repeal of HUD the dismantling of services like Obama care is another example of space manipulation to the point of increasing philological stress. I am startled and frankly scared how space and production of propaganda through eh means to alter and cowers people thinking. Such examples of mind manipulation control has also just unfolded today January 28, 2017, when the first 11 Middle Eastern people were placed in prison after coming to JFK

For this assignment I visited the University of Central Florida campus, Seminole State College Lake Mary campus, and the Altamonte Mall for approximately one to two hours so that I may have a relatively large enough sample size as to avoid any major outliers as well as inconsistencies. Base on a rather literal interpretation of the distance zones as described by Hall, I have observed the most represented zone to be the Personal Distance zone and the least represented to be Public Distance. A simplistic list from most represented to least represented goes as followed: Person Distance, Intimate Distance, Social Distance, and lastly Public Distance. Personal Distance was the most common because it was the zone reserved for family and friends; and the majority of people that I observed traveled in packs of three of more. Groups of three or more typically meant the individuals were friends or perhaps members of a larger group as some of them had matching attire. From what I could determine, they maintained a constant 18 inches to four feet more often than not with the occasional bumping into one another.

Free expression is an allusion. In America, the right of this freedom is tainted and untrue. When an event happens that is morally wrong and is tried to be expressed through media, if that media outlet does not benefit from it, it will not be posted. For example, when Trump was running for president his PR team took control of what was posted about him. What was in the news was not his misogynistic remarks about women, or about how he called all Republicans stupid and would believe every word he said, but it was about how he would “Make America great again.” As a consequence, our news has become biased and does not deliver the truth. Similarly, this is seen in North Korea. North Koreas newspapers are controlled by the government and what is

Many people formed this personal space by placing luggage around them, extending a body part, or using a companion to consume space. Most people stood at least a half an arm’s distance away from each other, but if this distance felt threatened people were sure to express nonverbal and sometime verbal behaviors.