debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) at historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s‚ when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a pervasive fear for blacks. In the movie‚ the Wiley team eventually succeeds to the point where they are able to debate Harvard University. This was their 47th annual debate team.Based on a true story‚ the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel
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The Great Debaters offers a fictionalized and limited account of the exploits of the award-winning Wiley College debate team headed by Melvin B. Tolson‚ an African-American English professor‚ during the Depression years. Beyond his academic duties‚ Tolson was an accomplished poet‚ journalist and social activist. Before this film was produced‚ very little was generally known about Wiley‚ a small college with only 400 students‚ or its debating team. The team had a remarkable record‚ going 10 straight
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real consequences for cutting up in school. Every Sunday‚ there was no option‚ children had to go to Sunday school and Sunday morning worship service. The average cost of a home in May 1971 was $24‚000. There was a movie called “Sweet Sweetback” by Melvin Van Peebles that was playing during this time. This movie was about one Black man’s resistance against white authority. Romper Room was the top children’s television show and the Mike Douglass show was the top daytime talk show. The weather in Cleveland
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Esther Vander Ploeg Professor Shannon EN 100 22 September 2014 A review of The Great Debaters The Great Debaters which is an award winning film starring Henry Lowe (Nate Parker)‚ Samantha booke (Jurnee Smollett) Melvin B Tolson (Denzel Washington) James Farmer Jr. (Denzel Whitaker) is based on a true story of four brave courage’s “underdog debaters” and there remarkable coach from Wiley College (an all-black institution) In Marshall‚ Texas in the Jim crow of the south in the 1930’s.
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The Great Debaters is an intriguing film set in the 1930s about a professor that goes by the name of Melvin Tolson who teaches students from Wiley College‚ in Texas‚ the fundamentals of debating. During this day in age‚ if an African American didn’t “stay in their place” they would be ridiculed for such insane behavior. One can only imagine how difficult it must have been for them to get through a debate without caring if they had crossed the line on a touchy subject. But through it all this debate
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THE GREAT DEBATERS The Great Debaters (2007) - IMDb chronicles the journey of Professor Melvin Tolson (Denzel Washington)‚ a brilliant but volatile debate team coach who uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small African American college in the Deep South into a historically elite debate team. Summery Plot: Marshall‚ Texas‚ described by James Farmer‚ Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War‚" is home to Wiley College‚ where‚ in 1935-36‚ inspired by the
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Growing up in my generation has always had me wondering how different our lives would be if we had no internet. We rely on our cellphones and computers so much‚ are we really living? If we aren’t living‚ where does our happiness come in play? Melvin Kranzberg quotes: “Technology is neither good nor evil. The most we can say about it is this: It has come” (Kranzberg). Kranzberg is saying that there are advantages and disadvantages to having access to technology. We have the flexibility to learn anything
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into the glorious light.” The students‚ James Farmer‚ Jr who was only 14 years old‚ Henry Lowe‚ and Samantha Booke‚ learn to lead through civil discussions using their minds as weapons and not violence. Under the direction of English Professor Melvin B. Tolson‚ these three students become the Wiley College Debate Team of 1935-36. Professor Tolson sees their potential as individuals and as a team. Progress is made one victory at a time. Under the intense and encouraging guidance of Professor
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Classified History X by Melvin van Peebles thinking about how African Americans could be viewed in movies by younger generations. In the documentary Peebles‚ talks about that moment when he was 12 or 13 and he realizes that he feels shame coming out of the movie theater. This got me thinking back to all the times I would sit and watch movies as a kid. As my mother was a huge fan of the Turner classic movie station‚ I grew up watching movies such as Casablanca and Billy the kid. Most time I’d brush
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Balogun 1 Ajoke Balogun ENG4U Ms. Wilhelmina Amansec 14 September 2012 Response Journal on The Great Debaters Quotation: “When I was a child‚ I spoke as a child. I understood likea child‚ I thought as a child‚ but when I became a man‚ I put away childish ways.” Significance of the Quote This was said at the beginning of the movie ‘The Great Debaters’ by Professor Tolson to the incoming freshmen of Wiley College. The
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