...and memorize certain dates, events and people that have tremendous significance to a country, nation or even community. If you view it this way, you are missing the whole point of history. There is more to the objectivity of history. The very essence of history is that it leaves a trace of emotion by these so called significant events in one’s and/or other people’s lives – much like what Erin did in the movie, Freedom Writers. Erin is one of the rare kind of teachers that teach you more than what the curriculum offers. More than just a teacher-student relationship, she has offered and developed friendship, trust and hope for the students of Room 203 and more importantly, bridged the gap among her students that has been constraining their way of interacting with each another. Erin’s first encounter with her class did not seem to be what she expected at all. There were no signs of respect for anyone in the room as the students formed cliques, isolated themselves from those who belonged to another race or gang and continued chitchatting despite the presence of their teacher. Nevertheless, Erin put up with this kind of attitude from her students and strived to teach them the best way she could – through innovation. She planned field trips, inspiring talks by Holocaust survivors, Anne Frank’s guardian, She realized that to be able to teach her students, she must first understand who they are and what they are going through to be able to get her point across. She started it with the...
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...Psychoanalysis of characters When people think of psychoanalysis, usually one name comes to mind. This would be Sigmund Freud. Freud, along with Carl G. Jung and Alfred Adler, has impacted the history of psychoanalysis. Further, he has influenced the lives of the men and women during the early 1900s. In critical theory today: a user friendly guide, Tyson explains the critical theories of psychoanalysis and Marxism. It’s all about the studies of human behaviors for example, human mind, especially inner experiences, thoughts, feelings, emotions, fantasies, and dreams. I have chosen one book and a movie. In a book, it talks about James, who is a main character of the story. He was really confused about his identity because he was a black and his mother was a white. In a movies, they showed the racism and differences create between students in their childhood. Both of these based on true stories. I would compare these character with Marxism and Freud’s theory. A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother is the autobiography of James McBride. It is also a tribute to his mother. It starts of the narrator James’s mother Ruth, who describes her early life with her family. She was born in Polish Orthodox Jewish family that was immigrant to United States. She had a repressed childhood in Virginia. She was sexually abused as a child from her father. In critical theory today: a user friendly guide, Tyson defines Fear of abandonment—“the unshakable belief that our friends and loved ones...
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...Freedom Writers Diary Review The movie “Freedom Writers” is a true story about a white teacher trying to make a difference in a room crammed with black, Latino and Asian high school freshmen. It is defiantly a challenge, especially for a first time teacher. Hillary Swank is the main actress and she plays Erin Gruwell, a 23-year-old teacher in 1994 assigned to teach freshman and softmore English at Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif. By the time Erin steps into her classroom, two years after the riots for integration, the school had changed greatly. This film portrays teachers in two ways, one way is the set in their way teacher and the other is willing to do whatever they can to make students succeed. In the beginning of the movie Mrs. Gruwell said “God by the time you’re defending a kid in a court room the battle is already lost, I think the real fighting should happen here in the class rooms.” In her statement she is foreshadowing two things, one is the real fights that happen in her class, and the other is what she does to help these students succeed. She later said “I know I have a lot to learn as a teacher but I’m a really good student….and I really want to be here!” This is a great statement by her and proves she could be an excellent teacher. Threw out the movie she did learn a lot, and applied what she learned. Mrs. Gruwell had a rough start. The kids wouldn’t respect her, they were fighting in the room, and there were gang problems brought into her class. At...
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...customers. At last, the company had to pay for what it had done: $333 million to victims. Definitely employees would be greatly affected, because they may lose their jobs if the company goes bankruptcy due to lawsuits and damages. They could have stopped this but they remained silent. As for residents in Hinkley, the polluted water ruined their lives. The epidemic swept the whole community even the young children failed to escape from this. I found a handful of ethical issues in Erin Brockovich. To begin with, there was an issue of bribery. PG&E tried to buy houses which located in that contaminated land, and give house owners a good deal. It offered $250,000 to Jensen to her house. Clearly they knew why they offered so generously and what they did was wrong, but they did that anyway. Therefore, it is an ethical decision. Besides, an issue of whistle blowing also was shown in this movie. Eventually a brave employee who was in charge of destroying documents about the water problem in PG&E told Erin a lot of information about what exactly happened. This is an ethical decision, as that employee did the right thing. Finally, an issue of honesty and integrity was involved in the movie. The company lied to local residents, and even told doctors to lie that the their diseases had nothing to do with the water problem. This is also an ethical decision, because the company knew this was absolutely wrong. If I were the manager of PG&E, I would firstly stop supplying poisonous...
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...conceivably permits himself to be subjected to expert behavior infringement through the demonstrations of his workers. From a Teleological viewpoint, the results were moral as the result was effective as profited the reason as it were. 2. Erin shares in some oppressive or threatening conduct while in her office. She routinely spooks the legitimate aide at the law office. She additionally utilizes some foul dialect and yelling, which made somewhat of a threatening situation at work. According to the Deontological viewpoint, this conduct of Erin is not dishonest as her hardheaded conduct is her unimportant identity as she needs her way through and does not need any issues while she works. Her aim is not to make issues, rather to simply complete her work. Be that as it may, from an Utilitarian point of view her conduct is untrustworthy as it makes superfluous inconvenience and a threatening and beset conduct at work. 3. Erin's clothing standard and clothing is improper as per the convention of her workplace. According to the Deontological point of view, her method for dressing is not unscrupulous since her aim is not to over-appear or make anyone "uncomfortable". She dresses the way she does, simply because that is how she is. 4. Erin harassers her manager keeping in mind the end goal to land a position as his secretary in his law office. So as to gain as a profession, she constrains her way through the law office effectively and lands the position of his secretary. So from...
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...Erin Brockovich is a public figure who is related to my discourse community, criminal law paralegals. She became a public figure when she helped build a case against a gas and electric company in California in 1993 for contaminating local residents drinking water. The case was settled in 1996 for 333 million dollars. She was a law clerk during the settlement and got $133.6 million dollars of the settlement plus a 2.5 million dollar bonus. Her work in this lawsuit was shown in the movie “Erin Brockovich”. This film led to Brockovich’s fame. This lawsuit was also the biggest settlement that was ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit in American history. She did this despite her lack of a legal education. After this lawsuit, she went on to participate...
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...Together We Stand Letter Outline Heydi Maldonado – Paz Edgar Serrano HUM/114 August 04, 2011 Randy Stinnett Outline: Together we stand letter I. Introduction: Several children and adults in our community have been developing extensive and similar illnesses. This is not clearly a case of genetics; this is a problem that started since the development planning and execution of our community The purpose of this letter is to let the people know what is happening in our community and create conscious to step up and unite in a fight for justice. “An informed citizen is the only true repository of the American will.” Thomas Jefferson (Official Website of Erin Brockovich, 2010). II Body Paragraph #1 A. Due to the unsafe chemical disposal the town’s water has been contaminated with chromium 6. * Health effects to the public: cancer, cramps, or paralysis and may also damage the respiration tract. * Upon termination chromium acid is formed, which decomposes the organs. * Wastewater is being flushed into our water every day. III Body Paragraph #2 B. Company’s unsafe chemical-disposal. * The company has been practicing unsafe disposal for twenty plus years. * Keeping it a secret from the community. * How could this have happened? IV Body Paragraph # 3 C. Action that needs to be taken. * Minimize the amount of...
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...Teacher Evaluation In the “Freedom Writers,” a teacher was needed to teach freshmen English at Woodrow Wilson High School and Erin Gruwell took on that challenge. As it turned out, it was nothing like what she imagined it to be. There was racial segregation in the classroom and all her students had problems outside and inside of school. That however, did not stop her from being passionate about her job. She used new techniques to help her students become interested in the class while learning and made many sacrifices for those kids which no other teacher was willing to do. Although everyone thought the kids in room 203 were the “unteachables”, Mrs. Gruwell used her own ways to educate them and made a huge impact to those students’ lives including her three of her most difficult students: Eva, Jamal, and Marcus. When the bell rang for class, Mrs. Gruwell’s expectations went down the drain as most of her students came in her class late and the ones that showed up displayed disrespect and no interest for school. Even though her students were not what she expected them to be, she found a way to interest them into learning using her own unique ways. She entertained them in many ways such as music, and using music lyrics to teach instead of poetry that bored the whole class. She made the class time fun by having many activities and gave each of the students their own journals to write in and share about their everyday lives. Since the school was not willing to give students books...
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...A large problem facing Erin Gruwell in Freedom Writers (2007) was although an integrated school system was considered a good thing at this point in history, the integraton created some issues. Society was not looking at the individuals in each school and examining how this sudden integration of different cultures would affect those involved. By suddenly uprooting so many students and drastically changing their environment, many teens were effectd in an adverse manner and had no desire to participate in school or continue their education. Erin Gruwell became the sole pathfinder practitioner for these troubled teens (Brown, 2011, p. 91). She challenged authority within the school system and fought to create a better teaching environment. Another problem facing these students was the school administrations “white” view of teaching. The other teachers did not take the time or care enough to make the curriculum something the students could relate to. These inner city kids were surrounded by violence, racism, abuse and no home life or positive influences in their lives. Each student felt alone and that no one understood their life or story, they took some refuge and made friends with in their own cultures and gangs that were separated by race. The school administrators were more concerned with getting students through the school system then truly educating them or inspiring them to improve their lives. Since there was not trust between the students and teachers there was...
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...Ryan Vandervalk Erin Brockovich Newspaper Article The film Erin Brockovich, is about a single mother who swears like a sailor. She is struck by a car after another unsuccessful job interview. Her lawyer Ed Masry feels confident that he will be able to get her money in a settlement, but is not able to as the ill mannered Erin loses her temper while the court is in session. Erin demands that Ed hires her to work for the firm since she is desperate for money, and he obliges to do so only after protesting quite a bit. While at work, Erin comes across some suspicious activity on some real estate documents for residents of a small blue collar town called Hinkley. Erin launches her own investigation and discovers that the evil corporation PG&E has poisoned their water with hexavalent chromium. There are six different types of chromium, some of which can even be healthy for the human body. Hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), is a carcinogen which is extremely unhealthy to come in contact with. Anyway, the sinister corporation lied to the residents of Hinkley about which type of chromium they put in the water. The lower class residents of Hinkley are tricked into thinking that the Chromium in the water was actually healthy for them. Many of the residents had cancer, tumors and other life threatening illnesses. The only reason they told the families about the chromium was so they could trick them into thinking it was healthy! PG&E again demonstrates their malevolent behavior by hiring...
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...Preface: The Warrior Series: Sad to say, I have read a few of them when I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s because it’s what they would send me in care packages along with other goodies I liked. But that was another time and story in my life I care to put behind me. So, it has been expressed to me in the past that the ending to the first series was a little weak and I agree. The whole Tigerstar getting batted aside by some little wiener cat from Twolegplace rather than getting his ASS handed to him by Firestar was kind of lame in their eyes. Neither one liked it when a new “Bad Guy” shows up right at the last second and tries to take the place of a long standing relationship with a hated arch enemy, like you’re supposed to be afraid of this guy all of the sudden. Nope. The original Warriors series, released from 2003 to 2004, consists of six books, Into the Fire: Fire and Ice: Forest of Secrets: Rising Storm: A Dangerous Path and The Darkest Hour. Since The Darkest Hour is the last book I read in Iraq, I had to go to the library on Camp Pendleton to look over the book one more time before I started this. The top section in Italic is straight from the final battle in the 6th book, The Darkest Hour, which is my starting point for what you will read below. Anyway, not a great bit of writing on my part, especially the abrupt ending, but according to both my daughter’s, they thought it was a good attempt & agreed that if the story ended the way I put...
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...Freedom Writers When she realizes that her students are living in their own personal wars, she takes the Diary of Anne Frank, Romeo and Juliet (another gangster story) to read in class. She notices that her school is segregated by race and color. So, she divides her class with a colored tape taped to the middle of the floor, and she says, “ were going to play a game, o.k.?” This activity helps them realize that they are all fighting the same battles, and are living their lives very much in common. “You’re going to have fun I promise.” Look you can work on those workbooks til the bell rings or you can play a game.” This is called the line game, I’m going to ask you a question, if that question applies to you, you step on to the line then step back away for the next question. Easy right? First q How many of you have the new Snoop Dog album? Everyone steps up to the line. How many of you have seen Boys in the Hood? Again everyone steps up to the line. How many of you live in the projects? Most of them go up to the line. How many of you know someone, a friend or relative, who was or is in juvenile hall or jail? Everyone steps up to the line. How many of you have been in juvenile hall or jail for any length of time? How many of you know where to get drugs right now? How many of you know someone in a gang? All of them step up to the line. How many of you are gang members? Noone goes up to the line, but their lying. Stand on the line if you’ve lost a friend to gang...
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...going to be your average story about a teacher and her students, but instead it was much more than what was anticipated. It was hard not to be moved by the stories of each student and the difference this teacher was able to make in their lives. This story of a young, fairly inexperienced teacher named Erin Gruwell shows just what one person can accomplish when one cares as much as Erin did. She had to deal with much adversity while attempting to teach at-risk students who were dealing with their own every day battles. Erin gives her students a chance to share their own story by giving them each a notebook to write in about their life. The story of each student is brought to life through what they share on the pages of their own notebook. And this is how the title of the story, Freedom Writers was incorporated. Erin also learns, through a joke made on another student in the class, that they have never heard or know anything about the Holocaust. Erin is completely surprised and saddened to learn of their ignorance about such a horrific time in our world. After learning that her students were unaware of the atrocities of the Holocaust, Erin makes it her mission to make certain that her students learn what happened during World War II. After reading The Story of Anne Frank and visiting a Holocaust museum, the students realize that like them, others have suffered greatly. It was not easy to watch this movie at times as pictures and stories from...
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...Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother with 3 kids and divorced from her 2 husbands. She is desperate to find a job, but is having no luck; this losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully convinced her lawyer (Ed Masry) to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners that soon changes when she was organizing some paper regarding real estate cases, a certain file that seem suspicious and begins to investigate to a real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. During Erin’s examination of the local water records and interview with residents ill from exposure to poisonous chromium confirm Erin's suspicions, what she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. Both Ed and Erin must make great sacrifices in their lives, as the legal costs spread Ed very thin, and the round-the-clock work takes Erin out of touch with both her boyfriend and her kids. Erin's kids resent the lack of attention from her, and her attempts to explain the merits of what she is doing to her eldest son are futile but, one day her eldest son happens across one of the many documents pertaining to the PG&E case. He reads of a child his...
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