Freedom Writers Foundation Essays

everyone and everywhere. Doctors, young children, and even teachers can be heroes. A teacher can be a role model, a source of support, and an inspiration. Erin Gruwell is an American teacher, an education activist, and the founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation. She changed countless lives, with a unique teaching method. Erin Gruwell was born on August 15, 1969, in California. Gruwell graduated from Bonita High School and the University of California. She later studied at California State University

the people of Panem . President Snow , the dictator who rules Panem , is not the kind of president the people would vote for however, they have no choice because there seems to be no voting or voice to be heard in Panem . The idea of democracy is gone, replaced by totalitarian fascism . Snow poisons those who challenge him . One source of power that we have discussed in class is dependency. According to Osland, Kolb, Rubin and Turner (2007), Dependancy is known as the more dependable people are on

Gruwell was born in Glendora, California to Stephen Douglass Gruwell. She decided to change her profession to a teacher because she believed educating students could make more of a difference. Her style of teaching led to the publication of “The Freedoms Writers Diary”. In 1998, after teaching for only four years, Gruwell left Wilson High School and became a Distinguished Teacher in Residence at California State University, Long Beach. For Mrs. Gruwell, she seems as if she is mostly a leader rather

When school teacher Erin Gruwell moves to Long Beach, California to teach at a school in a district that struggles with extreme racism, gang violence, and segregation, she is presented with extreme difficulties in circumstances where students are split in hatred by their race, have all been affected by gang violence, and fear for their lives every day. However, despite these dire circumstances, Gruwell helps the students understand each other and break down barriers of predisposed hate and discrimination

capable of more. Inviting Miep Gies, the lady who hid Anne Frank, to come from Germany to speak to her class, was their life changing moment. Gruwell had them type up their diaries to try to influence others, which later was published as The Freedom Writers Diary. Once they realized that their time with Mrs. Gruwell was coming to an end, they convinced her to get permission from the board to move up to junior year with them. Predicting that they would not allow her too, they actually granted her

Is Erin’s Teaching Useful for the Students? The Freedom Writers Diary is a true story which is amazing and shows courage, love and change. It was made up of journals that Erin Gruwell told her students to write in about the troubles of their past, present and future. It starts in the fall of 1994, in class room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell, the freshman teacher, met her first group of students who were called be “unteachable and at risk” 1. Students in

The importance of tolerance in “Freedom Writers” The movie Freedom Writers, which was released in 2007, it is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by the teacher Ms. Gruwell who wrote the story based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School. In the movie Freedom Writers, a teacher –Ms. Gruwell tried her best to reach out for the “unfit” students in classroom 203. The students in the class sit separately into racial groups. The students are intolerant because they grew up in an environment where

Symbolism is a notable feature in Catching Fire (2009) . Through symbolism , Suzanne Collins manages to paint Katniss as the ultimate embodiment of rebellion through transferring her into a mockingjay . " A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist"(92), as it is a result of the Capitol's usage of the japperjays which were sent to spy on the rebels. However, the japperjays failed in their mission so the Capitol left them to die ,but they managed to survive through mating to female

Freedom is the ability to do whatever one wants without restraint. Many people in our country take freedom for granted, while many suffer from the lack of freedom in other countries. Freedom is when you choose all of your actions, which is what was meant for everyone. Making choices of your own is how you learn and grow. When you are in a position without freedom, somebody withholds it. The withholder makes your choices and dictates what you can and can’t do. To do whatever you so desire makes you

“The Savior Trope and the Modern Meanings of Whiteness” by Name title argues that the cinema has always been cater toward an ideology of the white supremacy. Freedom Writers self-evidently appear as a majoritarian narrative by having Hilary Swank starring as Erin Gruwell who play as the enthusiastic young teacher who help change the lives for her students of color, but along the movie there is a subtle switch of importance from the teacher to these students as they struggle for changes. As it goes

Turning Fifteen on the Road to Freedom, by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, published January 8th 2015, in a historical memoir for young adults interested in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Blackmon Lowery turned fifteen during the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. She was the youngest person on the march, but not the youngest protester. Blackmon Lowery discusses the Civil Rights Movement through they eyes of the children who were involved. She uses her stories, PJ Loughran’s illustrations

“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.” In the play Teen Freedom Fighters many people are there to peacefully protest for the black people to be able to vote. When the start on the first day they go and get stopped by the police and they would not thet them go on. Even tho they got stopped the shown a tremendous amount of courage because after “Bloody Sunday” they went out again to stand up because they wanted equality. Courage is standing up for yourself and others

The play No Child. . . by Nilaja Sun is a play within a play that is about a group of students that go to a less fortunate school, these students in this particular tenth grade class are known for being the worst class in all of Malcolm X. high school. This class is assigned a teaching artist named Ms. Sun who will teach them a play called Our Country’s Good and many valuable life lessons. For the play, No Child. . . there can be little to one actor or actress or even up to seventeen different people

Freedom Writers Two quotes that present contrasting life philosophies are “Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group.” and “It’s all about color.” spoken by Mrs. Gruwell and Eva respectively. Gruwell’s quote shows that she is staunchly against racism and discrimination, and it impacts the story by helping to change the minds of the students to feel the same way. Her tone is passionate and powerful, which helps the students know she’s serious. Eva’s quote shows

certain characters seek freedom away from something or someone? The novel that will be used as an example is Washington Black by Esi Edugyan. The book is about a kid that was born into slavery whose name is Washington or Wash. His main goal in the book is to get away from the plantation he was born and forced to work at. Big Kit, Wash and Titch are the people that will be used as an argument as to why certain people seek out freedom. Big Kit was someone that sought out freedom her whole life, but could

Freedom: Drama about slavery or Musical inspired by Amazing Grace Set in 1856 Samuel Woodward (Cuba Downing, Jr.) is desperate to be a free man. He escapes with his family from the largest slave plantation in Virginia assisted by members of the Underground Railroad. The infamous slave hunter Plimpton (William Sadler) with his two-man posse are in hot pursuit and always one-step behind them on their quest to Canada and Freedom. As their capture appears eminent, Samuel starts losing his faith and

If you met someone so unexpectedly powerful that change some’s life? In the movie of “Freedom Writer”, two characters did not understand each other. Eva is dynamic character, Ms. Gruwell is static character. They face intolerance because of judging a character by its cover. The character Eva develop the theme by her skin color in the movie. At beginning, Eva facing racism, in the text, it said, “it is all about color, it is about people deciding what you deserve, about people wanting what they

Imagine getting up everyday before high school and preparing for war. For Melba Pattillo Beals this fear was a scary reality. In the beginning of “Warriors Don 't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock 's Central High” by Melba Pattillo Beals, she begins talking about what it’s like to come back to the haunted racist halls of Little Rock Central High School. This was a time when civil rights was a major issue and the color separation between white and black was about to be broken

The book that I chose to read for the first quarter is called “The Princess of Iowa”. This book was written by M. Molly Backes. I was really excited to read this book because it mentioned Iowa on the front cover. This book is about a teenage girl named Paige who is from Iowa. She is very popular and her life seems to be perfect. That all changes, when one day, she gets in a crash and her friends begin to treat her like an outsider. All of the sudden, her dreams of becoming homecoming queen change

“Funny how it works with white kids though. It’s dope to be black until it’s hard to be black” (Thomas, 11). The novel ‘The Hate U Give’ is written by Angie Thomas and is a story of a black girl named Starr who is between two worlds; the black community she lives in and the expensive prep school she attends. In the novel, Starr witnesses the death of her childhood friend Khalil, and she is on a mission to gain justice for Khalil’s death. For most of the journey, her friends and boyfriend from Williamson