Watched Remember The Titans: Management In Film

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Mequlito Q. Ragin
Management in Film (MGMT215-150A-15
10/13/2015
Watched Remember The Titans Remember The Titans is a movie based back in the 1970’s, during the time of heavy racism in a small town of Virginia. The Jim Crow laws were still a very big part of their everyday life. There are many complex feelings during this movie. For this discussion board we want to focus our attention on the unity the coach wanted to provide during the training camp.
1. “Doc”, the new head coach took his team to a football camp. He made each and every player get to know everyone on the team that is of the other race. When they met each other it had to be one-on-one. One of the white players was asking to a black player, “Do you have a daddy? Does he at

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