The movie the Blind Side chronicles the true events in the life of Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher. The movie opens with historical footage of one of the defining moments in football when quarterback Joe Theismann suffered a career ending sack by Lawrence Taylor. Though this resulted in the demise of Joe Theismann’s career‚ it catapulted the position of offensive tackle in to one of the highest paid positions in football. Contextually‚ the blind side as it relates to football is the
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The Blind Side 1. The blind side 2. Michael Lewis 3. 2009‚ 2006 by Michael Lewis 4. 339 There are always stories of random acts of kindness and how one of the people is benefitted in the situation. Love‚ risk and Friendship can go a very long way in changing some bodies’ life so drastically that the whole world knows and saves some bodies life. This is a story of how the love and kindness of one family leads to one of the most memorable and heartwarming sport stories I have ever heard. The story
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Speech on Sport brings out the best in people. I think that sport brings out the best in people through four main reasons‚ It teaches important life skills and discipline‚ Builds unity and provides escape from other difficuilties.This helps shape the individual as a person and helps them be the best they can be. 1 Leadersip Sports teaches leadership. Leadership is necessary and important in our culture. Sports train people to be leaders‚ whether as sports stars or as leaders in their communities
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featured Michael Oher‚ an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Raven of the NFL. For most of his childhood life‚ 17 year old Oher has been in foster care with different families yet runs away every time he was placed in a new home. His life change when his friend’s father asks Burt Cotton‚ coach of Wingate Christian School‚ to help his son and Mike enrol. Impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism‚ Cotton gets him admitted despite his abysmal academic record. At his new school‚ Oher was befriended
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Composition I November‚ 13 2014 The Blind Side Sport movies have a long‚ troubled history of well-meaning white paternalism‚ with poor black athletes finding success through white charity. But The Blind Side‚ based on Michael Lewis’ non-fiction book is one of the best. As Michael Oher‚ played by Quinton Aaron‚ is struggling with everything in his life‚ he gets taken in by the Tuohys‚ a loving‚ Christian family. The Blind Side is a sports movie that’s not really even about sports. It’s a football movie
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Sport brings out the best in people I propose this motion. Sport definitely brings out the best in people because it keeps you fit and healthy. Everyone needs to exercise to stay fit and healthy. There is numerous ways to exercise sports‚ walking and going to the gym. Things as simple as going for a 10 minute walk can help. Exercise is very important as many people are sitting down at school or at work and they need to get exercise. Another thing is that most people travel everywhere by car
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families do and provide the structure and family Michael has been longing for in his life. He gets his grades up with a tutor named Miss Sue Ann who has the confidence in him that she knows he has within and brings it out in him. Through trials and a few difficult times they make it through like a true family‚ not a family just helping an African American boy. There are tears of joy and sorrow as the Tuohy family realizes all that they have and that Michael did not have and come to find that there is
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going to comment on the aspects of costumes‚settings and dialogue The Blind Side is a movie about the struggles of Michael Oher and the story of how he is taken in by the Tuohy family. Michael came from Hurt village a bad part of town where he was taken away from his mother. When the Tuohy family took him in the gave him a home and an education at high school and later college. Michael took up football in high school and was later talked to by college football teams until he made his final college
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Peter Shelton Film Case Study of The Blind Side The Blind Side was based on the life of Michael Oher a teenage African American boy whose mother was battling drug and alcohol addictions‚ in the projects of Memphis Tennessee. Mike as he is know in the movie was in foster care several times and always ran away to his Mother‚ thinking that no one could ever love him the way his Mother could‚ even with her ongoing addiction. Mike often slept at his fathers friends home‚ but even he could not give
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African American boy named Michael who lives in a bad section of the city. Michael is slow at learning and keeps to himself for the most part. At school he comes across another boy in school named S.J. Tuohy‚ who is quite a bit younger but tries to talk to Michael. After S.J.’s mom‚ Leigh Ann Tuohy‚ hears of Michael and finds out he doesn’t really have a place to call home‚ she invites him to stay with their family. Everyone in the family eventually gets attached to Michael and invites him to live with
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