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    Theme Of Boy's Life

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    Imagine if you were stuck in a classroom behind metal rimmed windows just thinking, what’s going to happen once you finally get out. There are so many ways to show your freedom you could run free, you could live your life as you wanted. In the story “Boy’s Life” the author Robert McCammon portrays the theme of freedom through the use of plot and perspective, while in the story “Emancipation” the author Kate Chopit discusses the same theme of freedom through suspense and perspective. Freedom can be

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    Room 203 Theme Essay

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    The theme of freedom writers is learning to accept yourself and others for who they are. Marcus was a boy who didn’t care about school, he was in a gang and thought that your social statues depended on the color of your skin. He slowly started to realize that school was important, especially when he read Anne Frank because he realized that bad stuff has been happing over the years, his generation wasn’t the first to experience this. Room 203 was sort of like the Jews, they are scared to leave their

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    Room 203 By David Gruwell

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    of Ms. Erin Gruwell’s class in Room 203. Each of these students has their own story to tell about the overcoming of life-long struggles that they face, and ultimately, through the help of Erin Gruwell, become friends. Their development as people and their realisation that their lives are not as different as they first think, blossoms into mutual respect that can be found only in Room 203. Fundraisers, activities and class discussions help the students understand and respect each other. Erin Gruwell

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    Freedom Writers Thesis

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    poignant film based on the book, The Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell and her students from Room 203. I really like how the movie captures the stories of the people from Room 203. The film also shows the different perspective of the stories written by the students, it help theviewers undertsnad the problems that they were facing at the moment. Furthermore, the narration of Eva Hernandez story in the film gave a powerful impact to me. The role of Erin Gruwell was given justisce by the acting of Hillary

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    Whether it be popular culture such as television shows or movies or real life scenarios society always finds work structure to be a captivating and dare I say entertaining. Melville’s account of Wall Street is an interesting one that explores characters that have some similar characteristics to modern day office settings. This paper will explore the different personalities described in “Bartleby the Scrivener”, discover how that relates to modern culture, and conclude with why people find it captivating

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    The Freedom Writers Diary Essay The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell and her students show many great examples of the vast importance of tolerance. This novel is about one teacher who taught her students tolerance and knowledge. This novel even shares how to support tolerance and diversity. Tolerance is important to have in this world because without tolerance, there can be no peace The Freedom Writers Diary shows how the students learn tolerance. In Diary 36, the student writes “’Why should

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    barriers. The film Freedom Writers tells a story about at-risk freshmen students who live in toxic environments and a gang-ridden neighborhood while attending an inner-city school with racial tension on the rise. They meet their new English teacher, Erin Gruwell, who helps turn their mindset around showing them what solace there can be in picking up a pencil and writing about their hardships in a notebook. What makes this movie even more powerful is that it is based on a true story that took place

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    Freedom writers is about a group of high school kids who attend a class with a teacher who is teaching her first class of english. This individuals are somewhat of trouble makers, they are all gang affiliated, they all are different. All the students are brought up to stand and protect their own. However this teacher doesn’t understand what is going on in their personal lives and tries to intervene and get them to communicate with each other. Little does she know she’s in for a big surprise. The

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    Freedom Writers

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    Freedom writers Question 1. Why are the students so unwilling to associate with anyone outside their ethnic/racial groups? Where does this intolerance come from? The students are so unwilling to associate with each other because they’re not used to getting along with the other group of people. Their used to having to run or shoot at the other ethnic/racial groups. This intolerance comes from growing up in hostile environments towards the other ethnic/racial groups. 2. What would you

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    “The Freedom Writers” Literal level: Who: Erin Gruwell/Ms. G, Steve Gruwell, Scot Casey, Margaret Campbell, and the Freedom Writers What: The Freedom Writers (from the diaries of the students of Room 203) Where: Long beach and Los angeles, California When: 1992-1995 Interpretative level: Erin Gruwell is a young new excited teacher at one of the hardest school Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. At first, Erin is having problem about her new students and

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