Remember The Titans Essay
Around the world, there is a struggle for equality between all people, that has been fought for a very long time. There is countless tales and examples from all over the world. Differences in peoples ideologies have caused conflicts between people for thousands of years, and as much as we like to say we've progressed since then there are still struggles being fought today. This essay will use examples from Boaz Yakins film Remember The Titans(2000). Which even though it's set in the 1970's the fact that it came out in the year 2000 shows that there were still relevant issues within the film 30 years after the events in the film. The film looks at racial struggles between African American and White Americans, as well as …show more content…
Yoast has accepted the position of Assistant head coach, hoping to stay and make sure “his boys” (the white kids) get looked after. Coach Boone uses a method, described by psychologist Gordon Allport as Intergroup Contact Theory, where forcing the kids to room with a member of the other race, where they learn about the other races, believing that the prejudices that either races have about each other can be removed by actually being together and exploring each others personal lives. So coach Boone makes all the players learn something new about every player of another race, before long most of the players start to learn that there really isn't much different about each others except their skin tones. Which before now, only a small hand full of players such as Ethan Suplee's Lewis Lastik, and Craig Kirkwood's “Rev” Harris, as well as the late arrival of Ronnie “Sunshine” Bass (Kip Pardue). It's not until where the unofficial leaders of both the white and black players Gerry Bertier (Ryan Hurst) Julius Campbell (Wood Harris) start to get along everyone else starts to follow suit, except for
Around the world, there is a struggle for equality between all people, that has been fought for a very long time. There is countless tales and examples from all over the world. Differences in peoples ideologies have caused conflicts between people for thousands of years, and as much as we like to say we've progressed since then there are still struggles being fought today. This essay will use examples from Boaz Yakins film Remember The Titans(2000). Which even though it's set in the 1970's the fact that it came out in the year 2000 shows that there were still relevant issues within the film 30 years after the events in the film. The film looks at racial struggles between African American and White Americans, as well as …show more content…
Yoast has accepted the position of Assistant head coach, hoping to stay and make sure “his boys” (the white kids) get looked after. Coach Boone uses a method, described by psychologist Gordon Allport as Intergroup Contact Theory, where forcing the kids to room with a member of the other race, where they learn about the other races, believing that the prejudices that either races have about each other can be removed by actually being together and exploring each others personal lives. So coach Boone makes all the players learn something new about every player of another race, before long most of the players start to learn that there really isn't much different about each others except their skin tones. Which before now, only a small hand full of players such as Ethan Suplee's Lewis Lastik, and Craig Kirkwood's “Rev” Harris, as well as the late arrival of Ronnie “Sunshine” Bass (Kip Pardue). It's not until where the unofficial leaders of both the white and black players Gerry Bertier (Ryan Hurst) Julius Campbell (Wood Harris) start to get along everyone else starts to follow suit, except for