The Blind Side: Making All the Right Calls When asked to think of an inspirational drama in recent years‚ one movie comes to mind projecting lives of people that follow their dreams from a under privileged lifestyle to a well known role model. An inspiring movie has to give the audience that unique sense where they themselves have a different outlook on life. That outlook hits them right in the heart where some people leave the movie theaters with tears of joy in their eyes. In John Hancock’s “The
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John L. Hancock’s film titled The Blind Side depicts a struggle of a homeless boy becoming an All-American football player in a dense white society. Depicting the challenges that a kid had to face before he became the famous player. Michael Oher‚ (the main character) had more obstacles in his life than any other person from the Tuohy family had ever faced. Even with all of those challenges he had faced‚ the determination leads Michael to change his life for the better. Even though Michael had an
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Color Blind I’ve been privileged enough to grow up color blind‚ and so has the younger generation in my family. That’s what happens when your great-great grandmother is white on your mother’s side‚ and great grandfather is Cherokee Indian on your father’s side. It has been said that if you have one percent of black blood in you‚ you were considered black. Due to the generational gap my father’s birth certificate says Colored‚ my mothers says Negro‚ and mine says African American. When I was asked
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Literary Elements 1 The movie that I chose to write about is the Blind Side. What I think this movie is really about is‚ exactly what I watched. The movie is a true story about a real life event. It was about a white family taking in a homeless black boy that goes to the same school as her children. She feels very sorry for him‚ when she sees him walking in the pouring down rain in shorts and a tee shirt. She wants to help him and give him a better life. At first she has him sleeping
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Film Analysis Psychology 280 Social-Psychological Analysis of the Blind Side The Blind Side depicts the story of Michael Oher‚ a seventeen year old African American homeless boy from a broken home‚ taken in by Leigh Anne Tuohy‚ a wife and mom of two living in a well to-do neighborhood. Repeatedly running away from the group home after group home‚ he was placed in after he was taken from him drug addicted mother‚ he happens to run into the exceedingly accepting family. Only after the catholic
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The Blind side The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock was a visual text about a teenage boy named Michael. Based on a true story Michael‚ nicknamed Big Mike has grown up in a poor and broken family and goes to a public school where no one really cares about him. Growing up this way has left Big Mike emotionally deprived and lonely. Thanks to his Friend’s dad Michael gets the opportunity to go to a private school on a scholarship. Suddenly he has teachers that care about him and while his
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prototypical left tackle‚ Oher’s six-foot-five‚ 330-pound frame would have been pretty close to their model. And yet the fact that he was even still at high school was‚ in itself‚ nothing short of a miracle. The focal point of Michael Lewis’s The Blind Side is the story of Oher’s transition from a teenager so neglected by society that the Memphis school board can’t really account for his academic record to an eighteen-year-old college recruit with the potential for earning millions when he hits the
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TJ Dougherty ENG101 Argument essay “Justice” in America Every day people are convicted of crimes they did not commit. It has been a long time since the trials of the Scottsboro Boys or George Whitmore‚ but our justice system has not changed. People of foreign race and lower social status receive different treatment in the justice system. These victims are often wrongfully accused‚ or even abused by the ones paid to protect them. The United States justice system gives unfair treatment and
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THE BLIND SIDE HUMAN SERVICES SENIOR LEADERSHIP MATTHEW HOOGVELD PERIOD 1-2. 1. After a late night Thanksgiving school play‚ Leigh Anne notices Michael walking on the road‚ shivering in the cold; when she learns he intends to spend the night huddled outside the school gym‚ she offers him a place to sleep at her house. The next morning‚ when she sees Michael leaving‚ she asks him to spend the holiday with her family. Slowly‚ Michael becomes a member of the Tuohy family‚ even as Leigh Anne’s
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THE BLIND SIDE Movie Review ‘The Blind Side’ is the real life story about Micheal Oher‚ an Afro-American football player and his struggles from being an abandoned kid growing up in a foster home to a NFL (National Football League) player after being adopted by the family‚ the Touhys‚ who were white skinned Americans. What makes ‘The Blind Side’ such a compelling story is the fact that it tells the true life story of a boy with little or no prospects. It is a film about human relationships‚ the
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