Leadership Requirements Model

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A true leader provides purpose, direction, and motivation to individuals or groups and the Army’s Leadership Requirements Model defines what a leader must be, know and do. In an effort to see how leadership dynamics are portrayed in the movies, I chose to compare how the main character in “Remember the Titans” and “To Kill A Mockingbird” utilize the many aspects of the leadership model in dealing with racial strife.
The movie “Remember the Titans” is a true story about the desegregation of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria Virginia in 1971. Coupled with the school board’s forced integration policy, the revered institution of high school football is forever changed with the hiring of a black head football coach over the Virginia

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