Goals

After reading my goals for the class that I set at the beginning of the year I believed I fulfilled them all. I said I wanted to learn about new cultures and I think I did do that because I now know of many new cultures. I also think I have a better understanding on how to communicate with people from other cultures. Another thing I think I did a really good job on was attending class, I said at the beginning that I didn’t want to miss many classes before the season started and I don’t think I missed many.

Freedom Writers

I thought this movie was a really good and interesting movie. I think the beginning of the movie was the best part because that was when all of the gang fighting and harassing was going on. I did not like this part because of that but because it really gave the viewer a good prospective of what life was like in that area. They show when gang members kill other gang members over race, gender, and other things too. I thought this was crazy how a person can shoot someone just because they belong to a different group or because they are not of the same race as them. Coming from a big city I knew this stuff happened but I never really saw it or heard of it around the city. In the movie the teachers’ dad seems to be really racist towards her students, but mostly the black ones. He says that they are not smart and she is wasting her time trying to teach them things. Since her dad is so racist I think he is not very open minded towards other people. One part of the movie I remember and thought was interesting was when the teacher asked about the holocaust. The only person who knew what the holocaust was was the white kid in the classroom. Right when she asked the question I knew that the only person who was going to know about the holocaust was going to be the white kid. Then she asked who has ever been shot at in the class and most of the black kids and Hispanic kids in the room raised their hands, but not the white kid. A person could clearly see the difference between the people in the classroom. I think this movie if a very educational movie that everyone should watch and it really tells a good story!