Herman Boone

both achieved it, yet in very 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…

The movie Remember the Titans is an excellent example for sociological theories. Many topics can be observed within this movie, but two of the most prominent topics that we covered this semester are social structure, more specifically race and prejudices, and group processes, focusing on status construction. This movie takes place in a small town in North Carolina that has to deal with the shifting racial makeup of their football team, therefore high school, and therefore community. There is a…

Tolerance is a concept that permeates through our everyday lives and we find ourselves presented with situations where understanding is a key aspect we must employ. In the words of the great Dalai Lama, “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher”. This is an incredibly strong moral that guides us and expresses that in the face of conflict, facing our enemy is the best way in learning how to be accepting. This notion of tolerance is exemplified predominately through the themes…

Summer Reading Analytical Essay Final Draft This summer I read The Running Dream and watched “Remember The Titans.” The protagonists in these stories both overcome huge challenges. The protagonist in ”Remember The Titans” is the football team as a whole. Their antagonist was the whites not wanting blacks and whites together. In The Running Dream the protagonist was Jessica. Her antagonist was a thing rather than a person. Her new leg and learning how to walk again was her antagonist.…

MOVIE REVIEW (OLA BOLA) 1.0 SYPNOPSIS Movie that set background in 1970’s, Ola Bola celebrates the unity and courage that inspire a team of Malaysian footballers to rise through all previous situation that story from zero to hero. Inspired by real events, the film showcase, the pride, and passion of a multicultural football team and their struggles to overcome personal and collective hardships. It is at once a powerful exploration of everyday human relationships and of the indomitable spirit…

Dean Edwards Smith was born on February 28, 1931 in Emporia, Kansas. (Dave Nightingdale) His parents were Alfred Smith and Vesta Smith. Both of his parents were public-school teachers at Emporia High school and his father was the coach of the varsity basketball team. Dean Smith graduated and went to the University of Kansas and majored in mathematics, but still played sports such as varsity baseball, varsity basketball, and freshman baseball. Dean Smith was not just a respected…

The Blind Side is based on a true story about Michael Oher, and the events that took place before becoming a left tackle for the Carolina Panthers NFL team. The movie starts on a mysterious 17-year-old black boy whom no one seems to know anything about. He is rather large and intimidating, but quiet and mysterious. Michael attends Briarcrest Christian School but has been in and out of different schools all his life. Early in the film Michael is seen walking down the street in the rain by the…

The purpose of this paper is to observe how the football team from the movie "Remember the Titans" came together to become an effective team. I will first go over how the Titans go through the four stages of becoming a team, as specified in Tuckman's Group Development Theory. Those four stages are forming, storming, norming, and performing. I will then discuss how the Titans are a high performance team, defined by Doug Howell. Tuckman's Group Development Theory The first stage of becoming a…

Twenty years ago, the Sonora Wildcats fielded the most successful football team the school had ever produced. They were perfect. They finished the 1995 season 13-0, with a Sac-Joaquin Section Division III Championship victory over the three-time defending champions, the Del Oro Golden Eagles. The dream season didn't have a definitive starter to begin the season. Head coach Gary Smith had a three-way battle for the starting signal caller, and he was unsure if Derik Rickson, Joe Barton, or senior…

Remember the Titans is the story about a football team coach who tries to unite a racially divided team. The movie focuses on how a black head coach leads the newly formed black and white members of the team to achieve its goal despite the group members differences in their behavior and color. The highlight point of the movie was the challenges that the leader and the members had to face by coming together as a multi-racial team and working for the success. This movie is the perfect example for…