Akaash Nayak MBC-08 UPenn 7-8-12 Character Analysis for The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game: MICHAEL OHER African-American Michael Oher’s story started when he ran away from home‚ escaping his drug-crazy mother who was fighting her own battle of maintaining a husband-less family and retaining money for drugs‚ food‚ and other “necessities.” Although he kept poor grades up until the year he graduated from high school‚ Oher showed an aptitude in sports from an early age. This would play a major
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A Critical Review of The Blind Side “A person’s self-concept is shaped by his/her communication with significant others.” Self-concept is how a person has the knowledge of oneself. According to the Social Issues Reference(n.d.)‚ self concept is the accumulation of the knowledge about the self‚ such as beliefs regarding personality traits‚ physical characteristics‚ abilities‚ values‚ goals and roles. Self-concept is knowledge about how someone define themselves‚ either the similarity or
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Film Analysis Psychology 280 Social-Psychological Analysis of the Blind Side The Blind Side depicts the story of Michael Oher‚ a seventeen year old African American homeless boy from a broken home‚ taken in by Leigh Anne Tuohy‚ a wife and mom of two living in a well to-do neighborhood. Repeatedly running away from the group home after group home‚ he was placed in after he was taken from him drug addicted mother‚ he happens to run into the exceedingly accepting family. Only after the catholic
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Strangers. To Leaders. To Family. Many times during high school and college professors tend to ask‚ “Who do you see as a leader and why?”‚ and the majority of the students refer to a parent or a close family member. Michael from the movie The Blind Side did not have a parent or close family member to view as a leader. Being a poor‚ homeless‚ teenage African-American‚ Michael Oher had a good heart that Leigh Anne saw since the first day she met him. Leigh wanted to make a difference on Michael’s
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Blind Side (healthy family relationships) What makes a healthy family? Well in the movie " The Blinde Side" it depicts the importance of family‚ and what parents need to do in order to raise a happy‚ healthy family. Leah Anne Touhy a mother of the memphis family took strong effort in changing Michael Oher‚ a troublesome kid’s life for the better. Leah brought Michael into the family as one of their own. Leah then saw that Michael Oher‚ was born into a family of 12‚ was held back 2 years in elementary
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Discrimination is the unjustified judgment or mistreatment of an individual(s). People who fall victim to discrimination fall under three broad categories. Those categories include race‚ gender and sex‚ but doesn’t exclude less apparent forms of discrimination. It’s wrong to pass judgment on persons based on appearance‚ differences‚ or because of any characteristics out of their control. Prejudging people is an unfair and ignorant act which can make a person feel unwanted. Therefore‚ blindfolding
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Through my experience and what I believe to be a victim of race and religion discrimination by applying for a job at two of the local family owned businesses. In my defense‚ it is my assumption that the two local businesses that I applied for did not hire because of either race or religion. At each business I went to the store and applied in person. My first encounterment was at a Thai restaurant‚ I was with my friend who also applied with me at the same time because we went to the restaurant together
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Race discrimination is the social problem that happens in America until now. This is not a new case‚ white people feels they are the perfect race and humble the other race. In 2000s this matter is not really show up ‚ the fact is‚ American president is the person with black skin. The help is the movie that covers about race discrimination‚ this film apply the setting in 1960s and capture discrimination between white people and black . The story wrapped with conflicts that the characters dominated
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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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Biological Factors • Grades: Poor‚ teacher’s would give Mike D’s to “hand him off” to the next teacher. Psychological Factors • Mike tends to have childhood flash back’s when he is in a bad place. • When younger his mother told him to close his eyes every time she would do something bad; crack pipe. • Protective Instincts • Father passed‚ but did not have an ID on him- could not be identified right away. No involved in Mike’s life. Mike would like his license so he has something to carry
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