evident in J.C Burke’s The Story of Tom Brennan‚ a novel that is based on one family’s tragedy and how individuals grow when they are taken out of their comfort zones and venture into new worlds. Similarly‚ this is also seen in J.L Hancock’s film The Blind Side‚ a film based on a homeless and traumatised teenager who developed into an exceptional football player and well-educated student. This speech will show how the texts depict the themes of fear‚ friendship and the motif of darkness. I will show how
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matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” This quote is stating if an individual is slower than others it should not matter because he/she is working hard to become successful even if it takes him/her longer than others. The movie The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock is an inspiration for individuals who are struggling in poverty but can change their lives around with the right support and resources. To begin‚ this movie is a based on a true story. It is about an African American
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here.” “For wanting a quality education.” “An education denied him by the poor quality of schools he’s attended.” “I tell you most kids of his background wouldn’t come within 200 miles of this place.” quoted by Coach Burt Cotton from the movie The Blind Side. I believe this inspirational movie is the perfect model of the theme of social inequality. What is social inequality? Social inequality is defined as the unequal opportunities of an individual due to his or her status in society. I believe this
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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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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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------------------------------------------------- Looking at Mise-en-scéne ------------------------------------------------- The Blind Side Kirstin Kuball Abstract Looking at everything onscreen and noticing why John Lee Hancock placed it in the way he did. What does he want the viewer to see and take away from the film? What is the purpose and how does it change the meanings? Themes in the film are black & white and wealth & poverty. Mise-en-scéne‚ a French term used to describe
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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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The Text I have chosen was Into the Wild and The Blind Side they are both films. The encounters that both Michael Oher and Christopher McCandless met on their journeys made dramatic changes on both Michael and Christopher. The main unexpected journey that Michael O’her had was that he had encountered success despite of his background. The main unexpected journey that Christopher McCandless had was starvation. In Sean Peen’s 2007 film Into the Wild he elaborated the unexpected encounter that Christopher
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The Blind Side I have decided to write my paper on the character Michael Oher‚ from the movie The Blind Side. It is based on a true story of the offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL. Michael basically raised himself. He was taken from his mother at age seven because she was a frequent drug abuser. He was placed in several different foster homes but he always ran away. Because of Michael’s massive size‚ he was referred to as “Big Mike”. By the age of 17‚ he found himself sleeping
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