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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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    Have you ever been told you can't do something? Have you ever felt like the future holds no hope for you? That's how most of the students in The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell feel. Their whole lives have been nothing but teachers giving up on them, and even family not caring whether they reach anything. Most of them thought they would not even graduate high school. That is, until, Ms. Gruwell shows up. What she gives these students is growth from being people who don't

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    While I was firstly reading “The Freedom Writers’ Diary,” by Erin Gruwell, I was expecting the book to be tedious and humdrum. The story is set to happen in a classroom – Room 203 – at Wilson High School, located in California; and as we all know, high school is a place where we learn and communicate on a daily basis. However, I was given a total shock and impressed after I fully comprehend the context of this book. The book is formatted as a collection of diaries, written by different students from

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    The Freedom Writers Diary was published in 1999, the book brings insight to all the struggles the teenagers at Wilson High School had to face and had gone through. Soon after the Freedom Writers movie came out in the year of 2007, the film gives viewers a better understanding on how the students came to making their own book. The book and the movie have very unique differences. But I strongly believe the film is much better than the book. When I had finished watching the film, I thought it was great

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    Freedom Writers, a movie based on the book “The Freedom Writers Diary” by teacher Erin Gruwell, is a dramatic movie written and directed by Richard LaGravenese starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton and Patrick Dempsey. Freedom writer’s main purpose is to provide quality lessons that could benefit viewers and deliver some of the insights on living a better life. The whole story takes place at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in the Eastside neighborhood of Long Beach, California

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    In the book, The Freedom Writers Diary, the students came from violent backgrounds and neighborhoods. Because they attended a school with many privileged people, they were looked down on as drug users or gang members who were destined to die or become nonentities. Many of their teachers thought that because they grew up around drugs and violence, they were lost causes and would never change. Through the students’ efforts and other people’s help, they proved the close-minded people wrong and ended

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    Singer-Holden “The Freedom Writers Diary” by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell Genre:Nonfiction Plot Summary: “The Freedom Writers Diary” is about what happened in the years of Mrs.Gruwell teaching the kids nobody wanted and were considered dumb and were in the middle of gang violence. Mrs.Gruwell didn’t get much supplies because of who she taught and had to work a second job in a hotel to get what she wanted for them and it payed off. She got books like “Anne Frank: The Diary Of a Young Girl”

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    Freedom Writers Diary “Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.” ― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary Erin Gruwell is the author of the book The Freedom Writers Diary, it was published by Random House in 1999. The book described Erin Gruwells first year as an English school teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. It featured her trials and difficulties within her “unteachable” class. Gruwell

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    I have read many interesting diaries while reading “The Freedom Writers Diary”, but the diary that stuck to me the most was diary number 127.I am going to give advice to the teenager that wrote this diary.This diary has made me think twice and not one other diary in the book has made me do that.This diary is about how a young teen recently realizes that she was lesbian after her best friend tells her that she loved her.Once I kept reading I read she wasn’t excited to be lesbian because she thought

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    Together By Education Segregation has been a problem for quite some time, and it has trickled down from generation to generation, influencing younger and younger children every day. The problems the teenagers were facing in this book, The Freedom Writers Diary, were simply because of the segregation they were either taught or learned from the people around them. With the help of Ms. Gruwell, these teenagers became more open-minded about their peers and realized they needed an education. “You can’t

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