Erin Brockovich

The movie, Freedom Writers, created in 2007, and directed by Richard LaGravenese, is an exceptional movie about a class at Woodrow Wilson High School that was involved in gang violence in the early 90’s. The class’s teacher, Erin Gruwell, changes their lives and shows them that life is not all about gangs. Additionally, she has her class write in journals that later on get published into a book; the class titles the book, Freedom Writers. Throughout the film, LaGravenese does a superb job of displaying

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

Woodrow Wilson High School. With the help of first-time teacher Erin Gruwell, who is portrayed through actress Hilary Swank, the class of misfits and outcasts discover life in a new light, and they learn to join together as one against the world instead of many (“Freedom Writers”). The touching story sends the message that anything is achievable if one has the right mindset and determination for it, no matter one’s race or situation. Erin Gruwell has earned a job teaching English for the first time

the narrator of the film, a Mexican-American girl named Eva. It shows how racism and gang violence has shaped her life, with her father being arrested for a crime he didn’t commit and being shot at and beat up among the various examples. We then meet Erin Gruwell, an enthusiastic young teacher, whose class is comprised of Eva and other “at risk” teens. Gruwell has difficulty getting through to her students, who self-segregate into racial groups within the classroom. Many students stop attending class

was directed by Richard LaGravensee (Dargis). The motion picture gives viewers a look into Erin Gruwell’s freshman and sophomore English classes at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Gruwell, a new teacher, is hired to teach an incredibly diverse class consisting of blacks, Asians, and Latinos, many of whom are involved or have been influenced by the gang war occurring in their area. Erin soon realizes that she is not going to be able to simply teach the children in her class, she

In a world of people driven by sports, I anticipate pursuing the life behind the athletes. I intend, as I near graduation from High School, to pursue a career in Sports Media. This may involve a leap of faith, some would say, to pursue such a career in a male-dominated system. Ordinarily, I can change this outlook on such a life. In the world of sports, I present the idea of women having a say. The problem with our society is an overabundance of what has always been, and what, as many continue

Erin Gruwell is a first-year English teacher. She was given a tough freshmen english class to teach. The students in the class were all in gangs, coming from similar walks of life as each other, but not knowing or understanding what other students were going through. The students had such a hate for each other that Erin Gruwell was having a difficult time getting the students to pay attention to the english lesson she was presenting. Her husband and father told her to suffer through the year

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

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

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