Coach Carter

The Coach Carter movie was based on real event of the 1998-1999 basketball season of the Richmond High School, California. The high school is part of the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) that is located a crime-ridden area and socioeconomically disadvantaged community. The school’s academic performance was extremely poor and held such a high dropout rate record. Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) was a successful sporting goods local store owner who accepts a low-paying job to coach the Oilers basketball team at Richmond High School. Carter himself had attended at Richmond High School and was one of outstanding athletes who held several school records. Carter made the national headlines during Richmond High School’s an undefeated season and the actions of the team’s coach locking out the players from practicing or playing games until they improved their academic performance. Carter witnessed the disrespectful and violence manners of the…

Famous and strict basketball coach Ken Carter is one of the most respected coaches known in college basketball history. Kenny Ray Carter was born on February 13, 1959, and throughout his life, he was an American business owner, education activist, and former high school basketball coach. Carter attended San Francisco State College and George Fox University. A movie was made to honor his famed basketball coaching career. In the movie "Coach Carter" Samuel L. Jackson instilled maturity,…

new coach takes over for the boys’ basketball team, the Oilers. Coach Ken Carter is very serious about this new job and he takes on the responsibility of this team with only four wins on their previous season. He holds the boys to a very high standard: they have to sign a contract that states that they will get above a 2.3 GPA, they will get progress reports from their teachers, and they must respect the coach…

It’s What Lies in Our Hearts Sportsmanship, leadership, communication and determination are a few valuable characteristics you will see in a successful team. Cockiness, attitude, arrogance and abandonation of the team, are deplorable characteristics seen in many inferior teams. In the movie Coach Carter, cockiness, attitude, arrogance and abandonation are traits the members of the team show but, no matter how hard or long it takes, Ken Carter wants to prove to them that if they are able to…

Coach Carter: Coach Carter (Ken Carter) took up a job that was offered to him at his old high school at Richmond High. After careful thinking and talking with his wife, he takes up the job in order to try to help the underprivileged individuals in the neighborhood improve themselves. His main goal was to lead and motivate his student-athletes on the basketball team. From the minute he takes over the team, he gives the athletes a contract that they can sign if they wish to play for the team,…

The film begins with Ken Carter, a former star player at Richmond High School and now a successful business owner, comes back to his old high school and takes the job as a new basketball coach. He requires all his players and their parents to sign contracts to play. The contracts include terms like maintaining a 2.3 GPA, attending and sitting in the front row of all classes, obeying a dress code on game days, etc. Some of the boys leave. He trains the others and turns the team to an undefeatable…

Coach Carter, this movie changed my life and opened my eyes into the macro perspective in how the film displays positive and negative changes in social and technological changes. I will convey how Coach Carter transformed many uneducated, poor, unpassionate high school basketball losers into not only winners, but passionate educated men of society. Coach Carter takes over as head basketball coach at Richmond high school, where he graduated and was the all-time leading scorer and assist maker.…

600 personal response The miss-representation the first meeting between the Richmond basketball team, and their new coach. One of the students shows attitude to the coach and treats him like a man of his own age as he talks disrespectfully, eventually the student attempts to punch the coach, and the coach blocks the punch and pushes the student into the wall. This scene clearly outlines the manners which the students in Richmond have been brought up with and follows the representations and…

diploma, especially in inner cities where children are surrounded with violence on a daily basis. Society has made assumption about the black men intelligence since slavery times. Black men were always treated as though they were less than then everyone else and have been given the shorter end of the stick. Coach Carter was released in 2005 and According to the NAACP, the graduation rate for African American male students for the nation as a whole in 2005–06 was 47 percent. In 2005–06, less than…

Throughout the movie, Coach Carter places emphasis on the contract signed by both him and the team. Carter prioritises the student part of student athlete, stating that he imposes these rules for the betterment of the team. According to the statistics in the movie- he is correct in doing so. Young African Americans from age 18- 24 are 30% likely to get arrested and youth from impoverished neighbourhoods such as Richmond are 80% more likely to either wind up dead or behind bars. By laying down…