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    Glory Glory is defined as being highly renowned‚ magnificent‚ or honored by excellent achievements. By definition‚ the 54th regime exhibited glory more than the rest of the Union army. These men were paid less‚ threatened with their lives‚ wrongfully treated‚ neglected of proper gear‚ and not allowed to reach their highest military rank‚ yet they still rose to every occasion to fight for the Union‚ to win their true freedom‚ and reunite a country that had kept the African-American people in the

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    Summary Of The Movie Glory

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    The movie Glory is about a story within a historical event‚ which is known as the civil war. It is about Africa Americans fighting for not only our country‚ but also their own respect. The movie is also about how whites acted towards Africa American people. Although the North was essentially fighting the war to abolish slavery they still did not see the African Americans as equal. There are several questions one must ask when reviewing this great film. The movie is very factional with what is going

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    Glory Road: Reaction Paper

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    BS ENTREPRENEURSHIP |MNGT 2 GARCIA‚ JAMES DARELL F. Prof. Alvin Bailon 16 September 2014 GLORY ROAD MIDTERM PAPER GLORY ROAD 1. How did the coach motivate his players? Identify theories of motivation being used. Basically‚ Don Haskins‚ the coach of the team used a lot of motivation to help his team achieved their goal which is to win the NCAA championship. For my own understanding Coach Don Haskins uses both theory X and theory Y since his team has different

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    through hardships and decide not to surrender‚ that is strength.¨ - Arnold Schwarzenegger. Surrender‚ Strength‚ Winning‚ and Struggle: Words that are not only associated with the quote above‚ but words that are synonymous with the motion picture Glory Road. Don Haskins‚ head coach of the Texas Western Basketball Team‚ recruits a majority of African-American student-athletes to his new division I group. Made up of mostly colored young men‚ Haskins experiences backlash from the local‚ basketball‚ and

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    Glory Movie Analysis

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    segregated units called The Bureau of Colored Troops. The measure lacked popular support and the U.S. Army did not begin recruiting black soldiers until 1863. One of the worst forms of discrimination was the pay differential. For example‚ in the movie in response to unequal pay‚ Shaw and the black troops of the 54th regiment decided not to accept any pay at all until they were treated and paid as equals. Despite Shaw’s protests to the War Department‚ the regiment did not receive the "white pay"

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    this an excellent‚ even extraordinary Road Movie to choose. This film is about a family’s journey from Albuquerque to California so the daughter can enter a beauty contest. The Road Movie has huge amounts of iconography‚ which include the desert/isolation setting‚ the automobile‚ the characters relationships are dysfunctional‚ the narrative elements are episodic in nature‚ and would normally involve a brush with the law at some point. Overall the Road Movie goes against the traditions and ideology

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    Glory Damon Jones African American History 150 The character Private Tripp in the movie Glory was a very important character in that he was sort of the focal point and he was the only one that always seemed to cause the problems. This character had experienced a lot of physical and mental abuse of being a slave and was just mad at the world. The reason he had such a bad chip on his shoulder was that he had to deal with being black and a slave. These two characteristics back during the Civil

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    Ever heard of the movie glory road? For class we had to watch a movie that was related to race. The movie that I chose to watch was Glory Road. Before I had to watch this movie‚ I have never heard of it before. Glory Road is about a new coach to the Texas Miners‚ and he decides to build a team based on the talent rather than the race. The conservative townsfolk balk at the new racially diverse lineup despite the fact that the team is winning all their games. When the team began to dominate the court

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    Glory. At first glance it may just seem like your average civil war movie; but Glory entails so much more. With emotional trauma and so much more‚ this film goes beyond the battlefield and into the personal lives of soldiers and generals; the story gives viewers an in-depth look at what really happened during the war. The film was influential and well-written; really conveying the thoughts of the people involved in the war during the time. Being both enthralling and emotional‚ Glory went above and

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    1. Glory the movie has many different types of genres which includes: drama‚ epic film‚ action film‚ costume drama‚ war film‚ period piece‚ and political drama. 2. The main characters is Glory are Matthew Broderick as Col. Robert Gould Shaw‚ Denzel Washington as Trip‚ and Morgan Freeman as John Rawlins.. these three chracters changed the movie dramatically making it easy for the viewers to feel the passion and pain going on throughout this movie. 3. The genre throughout the film flips back and

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