Confirming Pages M I N I C AS E 1 Michael Phelps: Strategizing for Gold MICHAEL PHELPS‚ nicknamed MP‚ won an unprecedented eight gold medals at the Beijing Summer Olympics‚ and while doing so set seven new world records. Eight short days in August 2008 changed Olympic history and Michael Phelps’s life forever‚ making MP one of the greatest athletes of all time. Immediately after the event‚ The Wall Street Journal reported that Phelps would be likely to turn the eight gold medals into a cash-flow
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homeless‚ male‚ African-American teenager Michael Oher (Big Mike) who is taken in by the Tuohy family. Michael grew up never knowing who his father was and his mother wasn’t anything but a drug addict who he was taken away from when he was a child. Michael had very little education but had preformed strong in “protective instincts” which is later on used to help motivate his football skills and eventually shape his football career. The Tuohy’s provided Michael not only with a home and a kind loving
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left on the clock. Once Muggsy Bogues received the ball‚ Michael Jordan backed off of him on defense and said‚ “Shoot it‚ you f’ing midget.” Bogues’s shot was completely off causing the Charlotte Hornets to be eliminated from the NBA playoffs. The following year‚ Muggsy Bogues announced his retirement and his coach believed that one play ruined his whole career since his jump shot never recovered. Not to mention‚ Muggsy Bogues stars in Michael Jordan’s movie‚ which appears to be unusual because Jordan
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Nature Versus Nurture Michael Lewis has at least two themes in The Blind Side besides merely telling a good football story. Behind the disguise of his biography‚ he is putting emphasis on the fact that nurture overpowers nature and the ability to persevere. By emphasizing Michael Oher’s uncertainty of what he wanted to do in the beginning of the book‚ he discreetly attributes this to Oher’s mentality developed while living in the Hurt Village projects. And in using the results of his Aptitude
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LISANDA ICART ENG 112‚ 044 PROF. BAKER 9/19/12 COMPARING AND CONTRASTING TWO PERSPECTIVES: MICHAEL MOORE AND MALCOLM X According to Michael Moore‚ a vast majority of social problems can be resolved by common sense. Which means highly paid elites; consultants and lobbyist do not necessarily add value to the general population (Moore 128-145). These excerpts come under various subtitles such as ‘Idiot Nation” and ‘Stupid white
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to you to express how I feel. I struggled a lot and I use to be a quiet and shy boy‚ but now I am a confident and free spirited person and you and your wife have given me reason to believe again. Thankyou From Michael Oher Discuss what your character learnt: In the movie‚ Michael Oher’s character capabilities change majorly.
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The Blind Side The blind side is a semi-biographical drama written by Michael Lewis‚ it is an inspirational real life story about a black 17 year old boy Michael born in the ghetto of Memphis in America. At the age of three‚ he was sent to various foster homes because he dint know who is father was and his mother was an alcoholic and a sex worker who did not have sufficient money to take care of her sixteen children. Michael ran away from his foster home because his foster mother wanted him out
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Discuss in relation to the behaviour of Michael Oher in the film.’ Some settings we encounter in our lives are both familiar and dangerous to us. John Lee Hancock shows this particularly well through the character of Michael Oher in ‘The Blind Side’. Settings such as the Touhy house‚ the Christian school and the suburb of Hurt Village‚ where Michael’s mother lives‚ serve as examples of these contradictory places. Briarcrest Christian School is a place where Michael originally feels threatened‚ but
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This is the societal reading of Bowling for Columbine‚ which is a narrative documentary directed by Michael Moore‚ and mainly talking about the shooting rampage in America‚ which the film focus on the Columbine campus event and the fear among American. Michael Moore is a famous film maker in America‚ who is politically very liberal. He is a “darling of the liberal left” and the “target of scorn from the conservative right”. His style of filmmaking has been considered a ‘revolutionary style’ of documentary
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the protagonist Michael Oher faces countless challenges and difficulties and attempts to address them. As the film progresses‚ the director continuously exposes the viewer to Michael’s character along with the predicaments he faces. When coming to confront these challenges doing so alone may be tiresome which is why a loved by your side makes it easier. How you choose to tackle the situation as well as how you react to it can deeply shape who you are as a person. Who you
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