Boone County

Remember the Titans (September 2000) is a movie that will forever be known as a great. It’s not just a basic movie about football, it’s much more than that. It’s a movie that proves that even though times get rough, it’s possible to overcome it. This movie shows various forms of sociological issues in Alexandria. Discrimination is very evident throughout the entire movie. The white community does not want anything to do with the black community nor do they want to be around them. They do…

Alexandria, Virginia. However, it’s much more than just a movie. In this film, it shows how T.C. Williams High School succumbs to integration and the racial issues and tension that follow with it. The movie focuses on African American coach Herman Boone and the difficulties of leading a football team comprising of members of both races. As the movie goes on, the bonds between football players develop into friendship despite their race and their individual upbringing of racism or racial…

Although their thoughts regarding racism are the same the way they confront racism is different. Coach Boone and Katherine are similar because they’re playing roles that face similar situations. Coach Boone had become the first African American coach in football history. He fought for his spot as the Head coach when he was being discriminated from all angles. He made the team unite and changed societies…

The movie puts in perspective the struggles that African Americans faced living within white communities. However Coach Boones (Denzel Washington) house was not the only racial discrimination that were happening. Some of them were at the very being of the movie when fights were breaking out on in the streets, in the school, and during the being of football practice. There…

The film Remember the Titans is a film written by Gregory Allen Howard, directed by Boaz Yakin, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film was set in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. The film is about a high school football team. However, it's much more than that. Remember the Titans is about the struggle to succeed, not just as a football team, but also succeed in making and keeping a friendship, despite the circumstances. The team struggled for many reasons the main one being race, but also…

After discussing both the social cognitive theory and the cultivation theory in class, the opportunity was presented to choose a film that represented either the portrayal of social groups or violence in the media. For this assignment, I will be disucussing one of my all time favorites, Remember the Titans, and the repesentation of social groups in this film. The film takes place during the era of segregation and racial discrimination in our country. The men and women at TC Williams High…

White school combine to form a new school called T.C. Williams. The main social issues that occur in the film are racism, discrimination, and prejudice. Boone vs Board of Education is also an important related conflict in the film. In the movie the main lesson they portray, is that Remember The Titans teaches us that we can set aside…

When NFL Long Snapper Jon Dorenbos got traded to the Saints, he had to undergo a physical. This physical results showed that Dorenbos had to have emergency heart surgery after experiencing an aortic aneurysm. Jon had gained popularity after competing on America’s Got Talent and coming in third place. Dorenbos is put on the non-football injury list, which may result in him returning to the Philadelphia Eagles if the trade is canceled. Jon Dorenbos was the Long Snapper for the Philadelphia Eagles…

different way, the reason for the differences could be contributed to the lives they have lead, or it could be their nature, either way, both were great men and lead a great team. Coach Herman Boone’s leadership style is the authoritarian style. Coach Boone lead with an iron fist, he believed that anything other would be lying to the team and setting them up for failure and doing so would be his failure of which he could not, would not accept. Whereas Coach Bill Yoast used a transformational…

Scene 1 : Coach Carter arrival (9:00m) The new coach of the Richmond basketball team made his arrival in front of the players who totally lack of discipline and have a arrogant behaviour. Ken Carter replaces a coach nearing retirement and was visibly overtaken by events. This former coach failed into managing the teenagers due to a lack of authority to deal with players who had decided to do what they want. Mister Carter will first attempt to inculcate moral values in his group of players.…