...On September 5, 1995 in Beijing China, Hilary Clinton delivered her speech Women’s Rights are Human Rights at the United Nations fourth world conference on women. While giving her speech Clinton spoke forcefully and passionately to a room full of men and women. Clinton made sure to speak from experience and emotion, and that’s how she connected with her audience. In her speech she targeted the government and organizations who don't stand up for their grandmothers, moms, sisters, daughters, and cousins. She even targeted the females, she said, issues women and girls face are ignored and unresolved. Their unresolved and ignored because they are being silenced. Her overall goal of presenting this speech was to state that equally and respect for women throughout the world. She wanted to bring everyone together to support this issue. Hilary Clinton convinces her audience that women’s rights are human rights, through the use of trials and other women’s...
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...Throughout time, women have been abused, oppressed, and thought of as a lesser being. Even today, women are mistreated around the world. From getting the right to vote to Hilary Clinton being the first female presidential candidate, women have been making huge leaps and bounds towards equality. Although these achievements are great, women still have a long road to equality. We are all so different, but experience many of the same struggles. I feel as though these interviews showcase the differences as well as the similarities between generations of women. My first interview is “Penny”. Penny is 19 years old, single, and has no children. She is currently attending college and has lived in Ohio for the majority of her life. When she was younger,...
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...[Author’s Name] [Instructor’s Name] [Course title] [Date] Freedom Writers- Movie Review “Freedom Writers" has a great advantage over all those other idealistic and somewhat naïve teachers who come to inner city schools and initially face setbacks but persevere and eventually gain the students' interest and teach them to achieve far beyond the expectations of society movies. Hilary Swank who stars as Erin Gruwell is an idealistic and somewhat naive new teacher who wears pearls and too-short skirts and is convinced she can help her low-achieving inner-city students. These kids though "kids" is the wrong word considering the advanced age of most of the actors live the worst lives possible in America. Every single one in the class of high school freshmen had a friend who has been killed, and most know more than one. Every single one (except the white kid) has been shot at. None of them (except the white kid) has ever heard of the Holocaust. The popular movie, Freedom Writers, is based on the true story of a Long Beach (CA) teacher who mentors a group of students following the LA riots of 1990. The teacher, Erin Gruwell, finds herself hated by her ethnically diverse "gangbanging" students (LaGravenese). Through writing, both Gruwell and her students work through one of the most tumultuous times of racial tension in the United States since the 1960s (Gruwell). In other words, the movie is indulging in a little hard-knock overkill. Every one of these 14-year-olds has been shot...
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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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...• What is the motivation that drives internalism? We have an epistemic obligation to form belifs responsibly and this obligation can only be filled if we can jusify our beliefs. Not only should we have good reasons to hold a particular belief, but we should know what those reasons are. We should know not only that we know, but we should know why we know. • What is the motivation behind externalism? This accors with our basic intuitions concerning most our beliefs. Most people do not always know why they believe as they do but they still believe they are rational in believing as they do. Many beliefs we hold are not capable of being justified from an internalist perspective. The reliability of our memories. Our senses are providing an accurate representation of the world. • How does externalism answer the question of quality control? • How does this presentation suggests bringing internalism and externalism together? There are some beliefs that we are warranted in holding which we do not seem to be able to justify: memories and senses are reliable. We have an epistemic duty to withhold affirming some beliefs without sufficient evidence: discovery for cancer, life on other planets. Both internalism and externalism are necessary. Externalism can incorporate internalism (but not vice versa) Read and take notes of chapter 7 of How Do You Know?...
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...Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Kansas. She was a nurse’s aide in World War I, where “she developed a strong admiration for aviators, spending much of her free time watching the Royal Flying Corps practicing at the airfield nearby” (“Amelia Earhart"). In 1920, she went on a ten minute plane ride in Long Beach and decided she wanted to learn how to fly (“Amelia Earhart"). She wanted to be “the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic” (Grossman). Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, her flying partner, set out on June 1, 1937, to accomplish that goal. By June 29, approximately 22,000 miles of their trip had been completed when they stopped in New Guinea for repairs (“Amelia Earhart"). They were supposed to land on Howland Island to refuel the plane about 2,556 miles after starting the final 7,000 miles of their journey, but they could not find the island because of some problems they were experiencing (“Amelia Earhart"). Many theories have been created since Earhart and Fred Noonan went missing while trying to find Howland Island, but the two biggest and most known theories talk about them crashing in the Pacific Ocean or having an emergency landing on a different island and trying to live there before dying. The first and most common theory about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance is that she crashed her plane into the Pacific Ocean and died (Hanes). The “crash-and-sink theory” (Hanes) is the most believed and reasonable theory to researchers and all of her fans (“5 Theories”)...
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...Making a Difference Freedom Writers was a controversial movie based on a true story. Watching this movie it was clear that it was not 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...
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...Itzel Lazcano General Psychology Professor Anna- Marie Rudek Spinos !7 November 2015 Discovering Self-Identity As we grow older and become more aware of the social world, we often find ourselves learning and changing different preferences. Often times, this includes small quirks such as different foods we might have enjoyed at some point but grew out of or deeper insights such as self-discovery and learning what we stand for in life and tough situations. The complexity of this experience may vary for different people and is often a harder concept to fully grasp for ourselves but leads to shaping who we are and what differentiates us as human beings. To demonstrate, sexual orientation and gender identification has been a complicated journey for some to overcome. In the movie, Boys Don’t Cry, Brandon Teena struggles with these notions since he is biologically a female but would rather identify as a male. Teena undergoes a self makeover and ultimately changes her name into Brandon Teena from Teena Brandon. Although there are a variety of factors that attribute to his decision, including living in a small town with virtually nothing to do and no room for growth as well as having a carefree attitude full of law breaking and making poor choices, he ultimately just identifies as a male and is interested in women. In the film Brandon meets a woman, Lana, he begins to feel attracted to and who he deceives until one day he is discovered after he has been arrested and is put...
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...Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly, Amelia Earhart is the person that inspires me because she tried so hard to fly and achieve her goal. She was born in Atchison Kansas on July 24. She wanted to fly so much she asked her father to investigate the price for flying lessons, later to find out that local pilots charge $1,000 to teach a student to fly. The price did not stop Amelia she really wanted to fly and she did she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928. (Shore pg. 37-38) Amelia was very determined, she was also very successful she wanted to fly and she did, she was not only the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean she was also the first to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. Mainland....
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...Yanli Jin 09/13/2012 Assignment #1 Wake up, Media! If you asked my six-year-old cousin about her idea on marriage, she would tell you that the guy she is going to marry should have a nice car and be able to buy her every single Barbie she wants. We’d like to make fun with her adult-like behaviors and of course are not very serious about what she is really saying. However, children don’t tell lies. What she has said reflects a devaluation of marriage in Chinese society. Marriage should be a pure love match; however, it has somehow become an artifice of gaining wealth. Through the tabloid culture, such as the Chinese reality televisions dating show “If You’re the One”, our moral judgment has been imperceptibly influenced because of media’s lack of social responsibilities. Does wealth really place a better role in a relationship than happiness? The answer is definitely negative. We have a long history of arguing what marriage really means to human beings. “In most culture of the past, marriage wasn’t about the happiness of two individuals – it was a political and economic arrangement between two families. Marriage was a way of consolidating wealth, merging resources, forgoing political alliances, and even concluding peace treaties” (Cherlin, Andrew). As time pass by, the rise of individualism changes our view of marriage. We expect the fairness and pleasure in our marriages. It is a huge advancement in human right progress. In China, however, people...
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...McDaniel ENG 225 Jonathan Beller August 15, 2011 P.S. I Love You 2 An Analysis of P.S. I Love You The 2007 film, P.S. I Love You, is a film about learning to let go and move on with your life after the death of a spouse. The Film stars Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby and Gerard Butler, 300. It also stars Lisa Kudrow as Denise, Gina Gershon as Sharon, James Marsters as John, Kathy Bates as Patricia (Holly's mom), Nellie McKay as Ciara (Holly's sister), Harry Connick Jr. as Daniel, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as William. This paper will critique the film, 'P.S. I Love You,' through textual and formal analysis focusing on the following elements.. Storytelling, Acting, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Style and Directing, Societal Impact, Genre, and Film Criticism and Analysis. By examining the films technical elements, you can gain a better understanding of the director's vision of the film. P.S. I Love You is a 2007 American drama directed by Richard LaGavenese. The screenplay by LaGavenese and Steven Rogers is based on the 2004 novel P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern. This film was shot on locations in New York City and county Wicklow, Ireland.(Imdb.com) In this film, P.S. I Love You, Hilary Swank plays Holly, an American who marries an Irishman,Gerry (played by Gerard Butler). Gerry is Holly's soul mate, the love of her life. A few weeks shy of her 30th birthday Gerry dies from a brain tumor. Holly feels so lost without Gerry that for weeks she...
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...J M May 20, 2012 Film Application Paper “Freedom Writers” “Freedom Writers” is your typical story of one naive teacher sent to change the lives of what society views as under privileged kids with little or no hope for true success based on social stigmas, race, and assumptions. This movie addresses what we have many key factors addressed in this week’s lesson. It illustrates that not only businesses are faced with these types of issues, but any environment that follows a detailed system structure of organization. Through the movie, we are faced with the five stages of organizational development found on page 88 of out text. After being faced with the problem concerning the students pre-conceived notion of failure, the character played by Hillary Swank, now must anticipate the need for change. In this circumstance, she would be considered the practitioner, and the students the clients. This brings us to stage two. At this point she must develop a relationship in order to institute change. Our text outlines that the next stage is to start the diagnostic process, in this instance I consider stage two and three to be a two-part process. In order for the teacher (Mrs. G) to develop that relationship, she must diagnose how to do that. She does this by simply asking, or collecting data. Mrs. G is surprised to find out many smaller, more personal issues that are detrimental to the overall problem within her class. What is also surprising is that many of the issues...
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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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...Have you ever heard of Amelia Earhart? The earliest time I had ever become aware of her is in elementary school because I had read a biography of her life. Recently, my mother has shown me a video concerning a new conspiracy theory of how she disappeared. I became interested in Amelia because she had been a female pilot and not a great deal of women did that in her time considering that it was thought of to be a “man’s sport.” I admire her for reasons such as, she was one of the few women that honestly took the challenge of stepping out of their comfort zone to accomplish such a thing that most individuals only thought was for men, flying. Amelia Earhart influenced many people, not just by flying, but by how she was one of the women to do something only men did; she influenced women, children from broken homes, and pilots in the generations to come. Amelia Earhart influenced women all over the country. According to Fleming, “She encouraged women to be brave no matter the situation” (49). “She was influential in breaking boundaries for women” (Ransom). I believe that she was influential for the start of breaking boundaries because she didn’t care what others thought of her; she just went out and did what she needed to do and what she loved to do. Most people form her legacy around her aviation and and mysterious disappearance, but she also heavily contributed to post-suffrage women’s equality, which also made her a historically significant figure (Flight Paths). She believed in...
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...The Adventures of Amelia Earhart Could you imagine being the most well known female aviator to this day? That is what Amelia Earhart is known for. She never imagined that she would be capable of accomplishing the achievements that she would soon set her heart to. Earhart learned from a young age that she loved to fly; The seat of a plane was her second home. She was extremely adventurous, and well known for her courage. while she developed a love for flying, she completed a plethora of solo, and accompanied flights. Amelia Earhart had always been known for being adventurous. She loved going on adventures by herself and making new discoveries (Briand xi). She was smart, and could do work that most grown men were not able to do (Briand xv). Seeing planes was never enough for her; she wanted to fly and break aviation records (Briand xi). She was curious about everything she saw (Briand xi). At the Iowa State Fair, Earhart saw her first plane at the age of ten years old, though she was unsure at the time about how she felt about the large flying machines (Bartunek 1). She had no idea that this would not be the only time she would see a plane (Bartunek 1). She was continuously open to new ideas and would soon discover her passion. Earhart did not believe that she would enjoy flying, though her passion for adventure came through along to show her the experiences that she would soon grow to love. She was constantly attempting to break new records as early as 1922, with her newly...
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