In Erin Gruwell’s The Freedom Writers Diary, Ms. Gruwell, a teacher, helps change students for the better. Ms. Gruwell starts her new job at Wilson High School. Her new co-workers start to judge her for that class she is assigned to. She is assigned to teach delinquent students because they are failing and other teachers refuse to teach them. However, Ms. Gruwell is determined to teach her students new information. The reason why she is so determined is because only a few know about everything in
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the stories of “Anne Frank” and “Freedom Writers,” there were many people who had to make these almost impossible decisions. In “Anne Frank” the people helping the Franks had to make these choices. Likewise in “Freedom writers” Eva had to make a similar choice. Each of these characters had to make hard choices that could get them killed. Both characters in the stories are a great example of how you should do what's right even when its hard too. In “Freedom Writers” Eva sees her boyfriend shoot someone
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designed to be easy to use and to help generate good writing habits for beginning arugmengive writers. Specifically, Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates they offer are sophisticated thinking and writing templates, in which take a lot of practice, and use in order to master. As the authors themselves put it, “the immediate goal of this book is to help you become a better writer, at a deeper level it invites you to become a certain type of person: a critical, intelligent
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children and be a housewife. However, a writer by the name of Kate Chopin was a voice for women all the over the world. Two of her most famous writings are “The Storm”, and “Story of an Hour”. Within these two writings, she discussed issues that many other women writers would have avoided. Another writer who was famous for his portrayal of gritty topics was Ernest Hemingway. One of his most memorable writding is titled “Hills like White Elephants”. These writers were able to write about challenging
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interesting points can be discovered. Although the exact period in which Shakespeare’s plays began to resonate in the Arab world is not certain, it is noted that in the early 19th century, poets and writers began to study and translate his plays (Litvin, Hamlet's Arab Journey,p17). The way in which writers such as Sulayman Al-Bassam have altered aspects of Shakespeare’s plays to make critiques and observations about their own culture bring to light just how important the plays are on a world stage.
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addressing a group of women seeking employment in a workforce predominant by men. Woolf explains the struggle all women writers face, and that is to break out of the conventions society has for women: being pure, and graceful, and without a mind of their own. Woolf claims that in order for a woman to be a writer one must overcome a few obstacles that are inflicted upon women writers. One obstacle in her success is “The Angel in the House.” This angel represents the ideal woman. Thus, the angel is
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Anne Lamott is a successful writer, having authored six books and countless reviews in the magazine California. This means Lamott is very qualified to write about first drafts, shitty ones in particular, in her essay titled “Shitty First Drafts”. Lamott begins by debunking the common belief among non-writers that writers instinctively and effortlessly “[write] fully formed passages as fast as a court reporter” or even know what they are going to write about before they begin. In fact, Lamott claims
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writing skills too. As the authors took me to their worlds, I became so engrossed in their writing that I tried to imagine myself a writer. The books are spread across different timelines, so it was easy for me to reach into the social, political and economic conditions that existed during the writing of the books. Mary Wollstonecraft struck me as a very perceptive writer. Writing in an era that was male centered, she brings out some of the cultural politics that existed at the time. Her writing style
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Are Writers Born or Made? The novel On writing A memoir of the Craft written by Stephen King gives rise to a great question. Are great authors born or made? According to Stephen King,” I don’t believe writers can be made, either by circumstance or self-will (although I did believe those things once” (King 18). The author is suggesting that a writer is born with the ability to be a good writer and it is through learned behaviors that these “talents are strengthened and sharpened.” (King 18). I
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First my 12th grade teacher Mrs. Diaz allowed me to have unlimited freedom, in her class. I remember her assigning the class a project where, everyone get to create their own story, you named the characters, you get the choose your own story line, think outside of the box. I remember it vividly I wrote my story about an 18 year boy named Chris who is from Los Angeles California who had anger issues, no one was able to understand he’s lifestyle. The things that mattered to him the most were his friends
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