Mrs. Gruwell, an extraordinary teacher, saw potential in her students when no one else did. She was able to guide them towards better decisions and bring them together. However, although it is a seemingly daunting and impossible task, Ms. Gruwell's teaching methods can be applied to all teachers and classrooms and are not impossible; his intervention can be effectively implemented by any teacher. Realistic conflict theory and social identity theory are applied to describe the various conflicts in Ms. Gruwell's classroom and how she overcame these conflicts with multiple exercises and great concern for the well-being of her students. Freedom Writers (2009), set in the 1990s at Woodrow Wilson High School, follows Ms. Gruwell, a new teacher, and her class: room 203. Her class, a seemingly troubled group, are all involved in different gangs based around ethnic origin; this results in poor academic performance and a lack of concern for schooling, as well as acts of violence between students. By ensuring student well-being and implementing different and interactive exercises in class, students begin to work together and form a new social group within that class; a theory that is accepted inside and outside of Room 203. Realistic Conflict Theory (RCT) occurs when competition between scarce resources and limited territories arises, usually within minority groups ( Taylor, lecture notes). It is an “economic theory of intergroup behavior that assumes three central assumptions about human behavior” (Taylor, 1994). All three hypotheses of RCT posit that people are ultimately selfish beings and will always attempt to maximize their own rewards before thinking of others, this incompatible group integration...... middle of paper .... .. intervention at Freedom Writers. By implementing numerous social activities that forced the class to work together and build relationships, she successfully implemented the RCT. Additionally, by giving students journals to properly express themselves, as well as genuinely caring about their well-being, Ms. Gruwell enabled them to develop a more positive image of themselves, thereby implementing with successful SIT. These methods could be applied by any other teacher. Ms. Gruwell worked hard to make her students realize that there was no benefit in stereotyping each other based on their ethnicity. However, she could have gone further and tried to make the rest of the school understand that there was no point in stereotyping her students; particularly his fellow professors, who despised Room 203 and stereotyped them as "stupid" and "violent" students, until the end of the film..