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Freedom Writers Discrimination

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The story about Freedom Writers happens in Woodrow Wilson School, which locates in Long Beach, California . The government takes measures like integration program in order to reduce discrimination and help the young teenager to get a better education, moreover, to lower the crime rate. It’s a good intention, but the actual situation is different. They don’t know that the school is like the city. The problem those colored students have in Long Beach also is meet in the school. They change the rule, but nobody knows how to respect and understand these young boys and girls.

According to Eva’s words in the film, it all comes down what you look like in Long Beach. If you are Latino or Asian or Black you could get blasted any time when you walk out your door . The discrimination against colored people is in everywhere, also in Woodrow Wilson School. At the same time, the colored people came from different ethnic group also have discrimination against each other. Because of that, Eva’s father was taken …show more content…

Ms.Gruewell used the example of Nazi to educate the students what discrimination is. Through letting student play line game and write diary, Ms.Gruewell help her students know the similarity among them and ease their discrimination to each other, teach them how to respect other people. Ms.Gruewell buys the books Anne Dairy for them and brings them to the museum. When they see the pictures of the innocent Jewish children who were killed in the World War 2, they know how horrible the discrimination is. Compared with Ms.Gruewell, the teacher give up understanding these bad students. They unwilling lend the books in school library to those kids and they didn’t care whether they want to study or not. It can be seen that those students can fall in love with study. They are not stupid, just because nobody wants to give them a chance to

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