The Freedom Writers Diary

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    The lessons the Freedom Writers absorb in Ms. Gruwell’s class motivate them to end the violence in their communities and around the world, affecting their views on its mundane presence in their lives. Although they were aware of the injustices happening around them previously, the implications of those events and what they could personally do to prevent them, in addition to global similarities, were not concepts the Writers had divined. Through their newfound experiences, however, this changed

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    The movie and the book called Freedom Writers talk mostly about the same story. They have similarities, but also have differences. The story talks about the cruel misfortunes in students lives everyday. It mentions how students are drug addicts, living in fear everyday, gangsters, get abused, and another things people go through. This story takes place in Los Angeles, Ca where Erin Gruwell is going to teach at Wilson High School. She is a new teacher at this school and ready to change these students

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    “The Freedom Writers Diary” By: The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell Genre: Nonfiction Plot summary: The first pages include a forward by Zlata Filipovic. She is a survivor from the war in Sarajevo, and many call her the “modern day Anne Frank”. She talks about how the writers have affected her life, and how they are an inspiration to many around the world. The students entries consist of how they do not believe that Mrs. Gruwell will make it in their school. The students are deemed unteachable

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    The Freedom Writer's Argument The freedom writers diary is a beautiful piece of writing written by a group of young teenagers struggling with finding themselves. Many argue that the award winning book “The freedom writers diary”written by the freedom writers themselves should be strictly for those of mature audiences.That the book should not be allowed for reading till a certain age limit. The freedom writers diary is based on a group of exciting students who have experienced unfortunate events

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    Classical High School in the movie Freedom Writers. In this 2007 film, this high school in Los Angeles, California has adopted a new racial integration plan. A new, young, enthusiastic female teacher starts at the school in hopes of making a change at the school. Her class of interracial students are deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their learning and in their future. In the film, Freedom Writers, director Richard LaGravenese kept

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    say is that human behavior has always seemed interesting to me and that is probably why I made the decision to go down the psychology career pathway. I believe that choosing this career is much like how the Freedom Writers chose to beat stereotypes in the book The Freedom Writers Diary. I can compare my

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    Both ¨The Diary of Anne Frank¨ and ¨Freedom Writers¨ illustrate the point that the more time you spend with someone the more you get to know who they really are. ¨The Freedom Writers¨ tells the tale of a teacher that is hired into a gang ridden school split and divided among the students. Mrs. Gruwell, the teacher, has a class full of kids who do not care about school and have their own problems out of school. Because of this Mrs. Gruwell feels the duty to help these kids and try and distract them

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    Freedom Writers is a case study of traditional authority, deviance, race, and class because it shows how customs recognize authority figures, how some practiced behaviors differ from society, and the differences between classes. Freedom Writers is a movie created from the sociological perspectives of a community that is covered in social inequality. The systematic study of human social behavior is conveyed in the story of this group of teens, who are taught to fend for their own ethnicity. Unfortunately

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    The Freedom Writers Compare and Contrast Arguement The Freedom Writers was an extraordinary book with holdings of the students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach that were in Erin Gruwell’s class. In January 5, 2007, the film about the Freedom Writers had came out and was a quick rave for everyone. Even though it was a great movie there was many differences between both of them. Not everything had changed and the plot is still there even though it wasn’t exactly the same. Between the

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    Ms. Gruwell changed her students’ lives because she found books that related to their experiences. In the book The Freedom Writers Diary, Ms. Gruwell was given a group of sure-to-drop-out kids, students that no one else wanted and turned them into successful adults. They made better decisions and grew into a family in their four years together. All the students and even Ms. Gruwell grew to be more accepting and intelligent people. When Ms. Gruwell walked into her classroom, it was like a warzone

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