The Blind Side Compare And Contrast

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To begin with the major difference in these two battles in the “Blind Side” the father of Michael and he tells Michael that the men in the story are just like football players.

In a football game and war the leader of a football game quarterback and the leader for war is the commander and they are very similar because in the movie the “Blind Side” Michael father explains that the quarterback made a mistake in the play and the commander of the army made a mistake in the plan for there attack.

In the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade the commander makes a mistake in the plan one of the men in the army were scared so most of them might have been scared but they did what they had to do for their country. Someone who is bigger than might

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