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    Film Analysis: Remember the Titans Remember the Titans has the setting to be in the early 1970s, two high schools in Virginia integrate forming T.C. Williams High School. The movie is about a football team, starring Denzel Washington who took the role of Herman Boone, the head coach of the Titans. At first, Boone is brought in as an assistant coach to an all-white staffing coach but he is then appointed to be the head coach over the current one. Herman Boone was hesitating in the beginning…

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    Remember the titans’ focuses on a football team of the separated T.C William School Alexandria Virginia in 1971, the white and black schools are integrated and so are the two school’s football teams. The very successful white football team head coach Bill Yoast is replaced as the head coach for the new integrated team, by an equally successful black coach Herman Boone. This action angers Yoast who contemplates advancing his careers elsewhere. However, he is prevailed upon by the white players…

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    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…

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    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…

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    this article sums up my thoughts of how I personally felt about the film as a whole. The article states, “...the ship is afloat again, and the audience in intimately involved in it's voyage.” That is also a major part of the film that had stuck out to me every time. The film represents the 1912 tragedy so precisely that it is no less then being fully realistic. In my opinion, the article is definitely right that the director put in loads of effort and cost into making this movie look realistic.…

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    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…

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    Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, two people who find themselves unexpectedly involved with each other after a practical joke between Landon and his friends, leaves a boy in the hospital. As punishment for this Landon is forced to partake in an after school play directed by the Minister, who also happens to be Jamie's father. The relationship begins when Landon asks Jamie for help in remembering his lines. Jamie, who is also in the play, agrees to help him on one condition: Jamie warns Landon…

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    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…

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    Racism on the Gridiron Do you have metathesiophobia, the fear of change? Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin and starring Denzel Washington and Will Patton, takes place in Alexandria Virginia in 1971. It is about an all white school and an all black school that integrate to form T.C. Williams. This leads to very high racism, discrimination, and prejudice in the town. The film does a great job of leaving an impact on the viewer by portraying a change of heart in many characters. The…

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    the community celebrated every game and victory as if it were a holiday. Remember the Titans is a story about the T.C. Williams High School football team after the federally mandated integration. The story is centered on Herman Boone, the African American football coach who is hired to replace the Titans Caucasian head coach Bill Yoast. Coach Yoast deliberated leaving after losing his position to Boone, however, the…

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