Diversity in Stand and Deliver

In the film Stand and Deliver, we see the lives of a class full of Mexican American Students, who's teacher does his best to influence each of them to take the SAT and get into a good college, which leads to only about 15-20 kids left in the class, all struggling with gangs, families, work, and each other. Edward James Olmo plays a teacher who see's the lives of each of his student every single day, from gang rivalry fights during school, to physical abuse from events at home and relations of children leading to misconduct between students. The diversity throughout the film in both men and women of Latino race grew to influence many Mexican Americans. The connection of the families, gangs, struggle with school in both the young men and women played a major role of what people actually thought how hard Mexican Americans worked, and created a sense of role of men and women not just in this race but other cultures affected by it. Edward James Olmo did a fantastic job in showing the diversity of both men and women growing to be better in the Mexican Culture rising to expectations and rising to what men and women are meant to do regardless of what anyone else says.

In some events in the movie, we follow a young man named Angel Guzman who is in a gang and his members are in the same class as Edward James Olmo's class which is meant to last for only those who wish to succeed and grow in the program, but eventually he catches onto the members and drops them leading to Angel to leave his gang and his members creating much trouble for him and his reasons to even try to get out of the gang and get a better future. The diversity young Mexican men of being forced into gangs due to the environment is what keeps stereotypical assumptions of all races, creating hope and proof that anyone can change and greater themselves from what there is thought and assumed of them in the world, diversity in men and women will end and there is living poof of it today as many will excel in themselves to change and create a better tomorrow for those who are waiting to change,