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 Stand & Deliver

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 * all 10 songs are in the player!

1. "Temper Temper" - Envy on the Coast __Scene__: When the high school teacher Jamie Escalante goes to the Collegeboard agents to complain about the test scores being canceled, the song will match perfectly.
 * Analysis**: The high school teacher, Jamie Escalante, lives a quiet life and tries to support his Hispanic community through teaching. He teaches at community centers to teach English and teaches the high school kids, even though he had a chance at a better paying job at a university Despite all the negative comments and attitudes he received at the high school board, he keeps his temper. Until the day when Collegeboard decides to raise their suspicion at the students' AP calculus scores. Then, he loses his cool and becomes "Mr. Temper."

2. "Swim" - Jack's Mannequin __Scene__: After the decision of Collegeboard to retest the high school students, the one and only AP Calculus class gathers in the class for a day to review material that should have been taught over the year.
 * Analysis**: Without no cause, the Collegeboard decides to retest the students because of the fact that the students are Hispanic and it was impossible for them to pass. However, the feelings that the students received from the retest is despair. The song would make a great soundtrack because it talks of swimming for one's dreams and not sinking; which the students successfully accomplished within the movie.

3. "The Girl" - City and Colour __Scene__: The high school couple have a fight because the guy was obnoxious out of frustration that his car had broken down and broke up with his girlfriend.
 * Analysis**: The guy did not mean to break up with his girlfriend. It was that when she criticized his car, he had been hot tempered and let his frustration out to his girlfriend. Later on, he returns to her house to express his love towards her. And the love song by City and Colour that says that "she" is the greatest gift that he has ever had in his life.

4. "Sleeping Sickness" - City and Colour __Scene__: Jamie Escalante, the high school teacher, asks the board of director that if she believes in the students or not. And indirectly, she expresses her opinion that she believes that students must have cheated in order to pass the exam.
 * Analysis**: One night, Mr. Escalante was dying of joy because all of the students had met up to his expectations. Then, just the night after, he receives the news that Collegeboard is going to retest the students. Overnight, his dream and hopes of Hispanic students going to college had vanished into thin air. The song conveys the same feelings that Mr. Escalante feels to its listeners.

5. "What About Now" - Daughtry __Scene__: The board of director of the high school along with the teachers are having a discussion about the current situation of the school. Their school might be the first one in history of southern California to be discredited because of the quality of the students. And when Mr. Escalante, out of concern, tries to help by suggesting making the courses harder and expecting more from the students, it is coldly turned down.
 * Analysis**: The concern of the teaching staff and the board is, "what about now?" They had no real solution to the problem they were facing. They all believed that the students' scores will not improve overnight and feared of being closed down. Daughtry sings of the despair that he felt at the time and questions that same. Is it too late? Or is the time right? The answer in the movie was, "the time is right."

6. "Reach Out and Touch [Somebody's Hand]" - Diana Ross & The Supremes __Scene__: Jamie Escalante goes back home after receiving the news of the retest and cries because he has done the students that he love nothing and only gave them false hope. Then, next to him, his wife reassures him that he did the right thing.
 * Analysis**: Jamie Escalante had reached out to people that nobody extends their hand. Although the song is based upon a hippie background, it fits well with the movie. The kids were being left behind by the advancing community because nobody believed that they can do anything. But Jamie Escalante's trust in the students that they will meet up to his expectations held true and he reached out and touched somebody's hand.

7. "Evil Deeds" - Eminem __Scene__: Called the "net head," he is the typical jock of the school. But, inside, he truly has the passion for studying.
 * Analysis**: Although because of his image at school and outwardly appearance, Net Head looks like a bad kid, he really isn't. And Jamie Escalante sees the motivation within Net Head and provides him with the necessary materials for the study. "Evil Deeds," by Eminem speaks of a child that did not know what he was doing and met God at a time too late. It is the same situation with Net Head, only that he met his "God" a little earlier than the person described in the song and was able to pass the AP Calculus exam.

8. "Stress" - Justice __Scene__: The students are gathered in a classroom for the investigation of suspected plagiarism.
 * Analysis**: The environment of the classroom is that of stress. The students had not cheated on their AP Calculus exam. Everybody knows that. Yet, they were sitting there being investigated for a crime that they never committed. Since such was the case, the song "Stress" by Justice will fit perfectly as the song contains no lyrics but only sounds that resemble stress.

9. "The Good Kind" - The Wreckers __Scene__: When Jamie Escalante cries after he realizes that he had failed the kids.
 * Analysis**: Although the song is about passionate love, the love between the high school students and Mr. Escalante can also be used. Jamie Escalante had asked them to "run away together" and the students did, only to go to a dead end. And they cried over the results as they realized that the society do not want them to advanced. The tears that the students shed were not "the good kind."

10. "High Road" - Fort Minor __Scene__: Accused of forgery, Jamie Escalante decides to retest.
 * Analysis**: Because of his trust towards his students, he decides to take the "high road" like Fort Minor speaks of within the song and retake the test. His belief in his students that they can pass again and that they never cheated in the first place allowed him to do so. Fort Minor believed in himself that the album would be successful and it was.