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Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean. She aspired many young women and girls to not give up and to follow their dreams. I think she is an amazing role model for young adults everywhere. Even through her rough childhood and all the criticism she got she stayed strong and happy. She was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas to Amelia (Amy) Otis and Edwin Earhart. She lived with her grandparents with her sister Muriel until she was 12. Amelia was born into an…

Many people know Amelia Earhart as the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lets really get to know the real Amelia Earhart. She was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She graduated from High School in Chicago. She then attended Ogontz School in Rydal, Pa., and Columbia University. In 1918 she became a nurses aid in a military hospital. In 1921 she started to learn how to fly in California.She then took up exhibition aviation as a hobby in the 1920’s.(Encyclopedia…

Amelia Earhart one of many famous women in history. Why you ask? She is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and she set many other records, for example she wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences. She was very known across the world. Earhart was so different than any other girl; with her sister they would do the craziest things and do them together. She even had a very interesting childhood. Amelia Mary Earhart, daughter of German American Samuel Stanton Earhart…

In the film Freedom Writers, a high school teacher, Erin Gruwell, helps her students overcome their violent environment. Her students, conditioned by gang violence and racial segregation, are reluctant to interact with one another and have a limited outlook on life. But, by having them write journals, she makes them set aside their differences and realise that there is more to life than what they have experienced throughout their short lives. Perceptual errors negatively affect the student’s…

Throughout the novel Looking for Alibrandi written by Melina Marchetta reflects on several issues that Josie Alibrandi faces during her final year at school. The issues she encounters are social, family problems and falling in love for the first time. Josephine confronts social issues by facing racism and cultural differences. She develops family relationships by meeting her dad and further expands her relationship with her Nonna Katia. Josephine falls involve for the first time and faces many…

“Things do not change; we change”(Henry Thoreau). This quote relates to transcendentalism because in the movie Dead Poets Society each character goes through a change that changes them for the better. The movie Dead Poets Society is about a group of students who have a teacher who is different from the teachers at their boarding school. Mr. Keating uses different methods to teach his students. All the boy’s face a lot of pressure from their parents. Then one day the come across the Dead Poets…

Name: Raquel Dewald Book: The Freedom Writers Diary Author: The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell Genre: Nonfiction SPOILER WARNING The Freedom Writers Diary Report Plot Summary: Mrs. Gruwell is a new english teacher at Wilson High School. The school is located in a town with a bad reputation for gangsters. When she was a Student teacher, she found a racist caricature of a “bad” Student, Sharaud. She claims this was the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust, but no one knows what the Holocaust…

“Boys Don’t Cry” was written by Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen and is based on the true story of Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena was born Teena Brandon, in Lincoln Nebraska. He is a transgender male and none of his family or people from his home town understand. In the opening scene Brandon is going on a date. Things go very well and when he takes the girl home they kiss. Unfortunately, some guys find out and chase Brandon back to his cousin’s house shouting obscenities, threatening him, and…

Freedom writers main focus is based on a young white female teacher that goes to a school that is having problems with students that have a big diversity from each other from different lifestyles down to their color of their skin but through out time things start to work out better as each student finds out that they aint so different after all. The intended message from the movie is basically no matter where you come from we a have similar problems in our lives that we face each day and we…

The movie Freedom Writers was by far the most phenomenal movie I’ve watched in years. It’s a crime and biography movie about students who were born in the projects and were part of various gangs. The students who attended Woodrow Wilson High School was thought to have little to no potential solely because they neither knew how to read or write. Since the students had such a tough background teachers quit on the group of students because they felt it was useless. As a new teacher comes along (Ms…