My Favorite Movie That I Have Chosen For This Report Is Called Freedom Writers

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

“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.”

The movie I chose was Easy A because there are many psychological concepts this movie that relate to real-life events and it covers many theories we learned about in this class. Easy A was released in 2010 and directed by Will Gluck. It’s about a teenage girl named Olive who accidentally admits to her friend Rhi that she was having sexual relations with boys. She felt pressured into lying since her friend had already engaged in sexual acts with her boyfriend. A rumor then spread and many people in the school then ignored Olive because they thought what she did was an immoral act, but the guys started giving her more attention. I feel that this applies to many

In the 1920s, when movies were a brand new concept, people went to see the pictures in order to escape from their lives. In these movies, everything worked out in the end and they depicted happy, perfect lives. As the Depression raged on, movies were a distraction from the wear and tear of normal life. With the movie Freedom Writers, however, that is not the case. Freedom Writers tells the impossibly true story of a first-year teacher, Erin Gruwell, and the difficulties she faced in her classroom of supposed hopeless cases. In Long Beach, California, her students dealt with gang violence, drugs, and racism in their everyday lives. They lived in constant fear. The movie emphasizes how Gruwell wrestles with the public school system, motivates her students to learn, and changes their lives in the process. Directed by Richard LaGravenese, it came out in 2007 with stars such as Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, and April Hernandez gracing the screen (IMDb). In contrast to the early movies, Freedom Writers deals with issues that are still a problem today, such as a focus on the majority instead of helping students who need extra assistance or encouragement.

The film that I chose to write about is a Paramount Pictures presentation titled Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan and also featuring a handful of Saturday Night Live cast members, including Tina Fey the author of this picture. The reason behind choosing this film is because it has a unique style of introducing characters, transitioning between scenes, and various tools to help spice up the film. Being one of my personal favorites, Mean Girls is a comedy about a home schooled teenage girl who enters high school for the first time. She tries to figure herself out by where she can fit in and who she needs to become friends with.

My movie is Mean Girls. I have probably watched this movie more times than I would like to admit. This is a great movies because any high school girl can relate to it. Mean Girls is about a teenaged girl names Cady that movies from Africa after being homeschooled for all theses years, and she goes to a public school and eventually ends up part of “the plastics” and completely changes from who she was. (Waters 2004) This movie really hits close to home being a teenage girl at one point. Mean girls has a lot to do with adolescence development such as: peer pressure, self-esteem, moral identity and observational learning.

This movie opened my eyes and help me to gain a sociological perspective into the high schools in America. I was able to notice all of the different norms, values, and types of cultures that make up high school. While teenagers in high school have their own type of culture there are also many subcultures that make up the school. An example of a time in which the audience sees these subcultures is when the

I had the opportunity to watch a movie for The American Sixties class, and discuss the issues that was raised in the movie with my fellow classmates. For the movie review, my friends and I chose to watch The Stepford wives (1975). The reason why we chose this movie was because The Stepford wives was about wives who lives in a small suburb where the women happily do the housework and to please their husband. Since we were all females and all education majors we thought it was going to be interesting to watch this movie.

The PBS documentary Freedom Riders paints a harsh picture of what the freedom riders had to endure during their journey from Washington, D.C to New Orleans in an effort to oppose and challenge those in the South who violated the segregation laws. Prior to watching the film I felt I knew quite a bit about the civil rights movement; I have come to realize that the civil rights movement was and still is so much more than I originally believed. The African American population was treated inhumanely, and met with resistance at every effort to achieve equality. Although African Americans were entitled to separate but equal facilities, that simply was not the case. The freedom riders set out to send a message to the whites in the South but their

From the course list of movies I have chosen the movie about Antowne Fisher. Because, from my view the movie identify some of the particular concepts in the family dynamic that was portrayed in the movie. The movie of Antowne Fisher is center around a young black man who mother has given birth to him in prison taken away and place in foster care into an abusive family. Antowne Fisher experience verbally, sexually, and physically abuse while growing up as a child in foster care which contribute to his anger management problem.

The movie that I have chosen is Cinderella to relate back to politics. The movie is about how Cinderella finds her prince but first, there is the backstory as to why her life is so terrible. As a young girl, her mother dies and her father remarries a woman who already has two children. After her father unexpectedly dies you see how rude and evil her stepmother Lady Tremaine and stepsisters really are. They make Cinderella do everything from cleaning the house to cooking their meals. They do not treat her as if she is a part of the family, they treat her like she is the hired help. Her stepmother dictates what Cinderella can and cannot do and what every she says goes, which why I have decided to relate it back to transformational leadership

The movie I selected for this assignment was Gran Torino. The main issue addressed in the film is racism, but it also addresses gang culture and religion. The film showed how the relationship between the Hmong family and a conservative racist American gradually developed. The film greatly portrayed a strong contrast between the Hmong family and the all-American family. The Hmong family placed lots of emphasis on tradition by maintaining strong cultural ties to their homeland customs, along with family values, food, cultural celebrations, and religion.

A perfect example of a movie that demonstrates how poverty and feelings of oppression affect school violence is “Freedom Writers.” In this movie a 23 year old teacher named Erin Gruwell (Hilary swank) takes on the challenge of teaching at a school full of students brought up in gangs. These students had been written off by their school as hopeless cases but she tried to change that and get through to them by buying them new books such as Anne Frank and believing in them.

Have you ever watched the thrilling movie, Taken? It is a thrilling action movie about a character named Bryan Mills who is trying to reconnect with his daughter after his divorce with his wife. Bryan, who was a former government agent, had allowed his marriage to end because of his double life as an agent. On his daughter’s seventeenth birthday, she wanted to go to Paris, France. Being that she was underage, she could not go without her dad’s signature.

The movie that I choose to see and write a Review on was the movie Race. This movie is based on the story of Jesse Owens the Olympic Athlete who won 4 medals during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin during the time of the Nazi movement with Hitler. The reason I chose to review this movie and see this movie was because it was a historical movie and these types of movies always seem to hold my interest more.