Stephanie Geno Mrs.Kinyon Great Debaters Essay 6 March 2013 The Great Debaters Based on a true story‚ the movie The Great Debaters is about a four person debate team at the historically Black‚ Wiley College in Marshall‚ TX. This team made up of one girl‚ Samantha Booke‚ and three young men‚ James Farmer Jr.‚ Henry Lowe‚ and Hamilton Burgess. They travel all over to compete against the top Black colleges in the country and are also the first African American college to compete against a White
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Alicea Terry Speech 102 Professor Saunders The Great Debaters: Thesis Paper Due: July 22nd 2008 The Miss Education of the African –American: Past‚ Present‚ and Future From the beginning‚ Whites’ in America have exploited Negros’. “Upon landing in Africa‚ White Americans were welcomed and given a feast (James W. Loewen)”. Whites Americans played on the greed of tribal chiefs’ Africans traded their own people into slavery for goods. When the true nature of the White American was realized
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The Great Debaters Melvin B. Tolson is the kind of educator who truly did recognize the remarkable powers of knowledge his students possessed. “The Great Debaters” is based on a true story about an outspoken Wiley College professor who boldly challenged the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the 1930s. Melvin B. Tolson who is the coach of the Wiley College debate team in east Texas molded his students into a formidable team to create change. Tolson recognizes that his young debate students possess
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Featured film 127 Hours and the Communication Within it Interpersonal communication November 20‚ 2012 Featured film 127 Hours and the Communication Within it 127 Hours is a movie about a true story of a man’s struggle to stay alive. This movie depicts that of mostly interpersonal communication‚ with some oral communication and a small amount of nonverbal communication. The Wall Street Journal says‚ “The story is one of survival through almost unthinkable self-mutilation‚ but the subject
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Based on a true story‚ the plot revolves around the efforts of 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
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In the movie‚ The Great Debaters‚ one debate coach tries to place his debate team on the same performance level of white students in the American south. This movie takes place in the 1930’s when Jim Crow Laws were still common. Throughout the movie‚ we recognize personality types‚ understand the motivation and the critical thinking skills that each character possesses. Hamilton Burgess‚ Henry Lowe‚ Samantha Booke‚ and James Farmer Jr. are the four debaters we learn about in this movie. Although
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The Great Debaters was directed by Denzel Washington and produced by Oprah Winfrey. Throughout their exceptional careers‚ Denzel and Oprah have starred in a number of roles that has inspired people and raised awareness to the important events that was witnessed in the past. Looking back on this‚ it can be inferred that they created this film in order to showcase the many problems that was occurring in our country at the time and to help inspire people by showing them that you can achieve anything
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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 The Great Debaters‚ directed by Denzel Washington‚ is an inspirational movie about a specific debate team overcoming racism in the segregated South. It is based off of the debate team of Wiley College‚ a small religious black school in East Texas‚ during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Under the guidance of their coach Melvin Tolson‚ the team kept prevailing week after week against every single opponent. They started competing with other black schools but eventually worked
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The movie “The Great Debaters” has a huge impact on African American students. This movie was based on the 1930s when colleges were segregated. Forest Whitaker was a preacher in the Methodist church. In the beginning of the movie he gave a speech. He preaches‚ “I believe we are the most privileged people in America because we have the most important job in America‚ the education of our young people”. These young people he speaks of are the young African American students. Our leaders are the most
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