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    The Blindside Sociology

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    For this assignment I chose the Blindside. There are a couple reasons I chose this movie, one being it is the only movie I had on DVD, and the other being that it has to do with my future career. I hope to work with adoption and foster care, as well as low income communities. This movie was filmed and publicized in 2009, and was based off of a true story. The story line is about a character named Michael Oher, or in the beginning he is called Big Mike. Within minutes of the movie, you learn that…

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    Blindside Analysis

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    Blindside is based on a guy, michael oher (big mike) A homeless black teen. He’s been out of the school system for years.He has been living on the streets for most of his life because his mom is a drug addict and his father died from suicide. He then got enrolled into this christian school.It was an all white school so he felt uncomfortable. He didn’t talk, he was failing his classes but he was really good at sports. One day he was walking down the street in the dark, where he met leigh Anne and…

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    When have you shown your grittiest moments and how did that help you push through your problems to move on? Grit enables you to be able to hold on in circumstances that make you feel like you don't have a chance. In the movie, The Blind Side, Michael Oher was that kid and had a similar experience like this, where his life was changed by a family named the Tuohy's. Michael was not always gritty, but with the help of the Tuohy family encouraging him and showing him what family is really about, he…

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    The movie Blind Side is based about NFL player Michael Oher's early life as a teen in Memphis, Tennessee. The movie has many big actors and actresses in it, including Sandra Bullock, and country singer Tim McGraw. The story takes place in Memphis, Tennessee in the early 2000's. The movie falls under a couple of different genres documentary, drama, and sports. The movie begins when someone the Michael is staying with tries to get him into a private school. He gets in to the school but eventually…

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    The book I chose for my ethical framework paper was “The Blind Side” by Michael Lewis. This book is a true story and was later turned into a movie in 2009. It is a story about a wealthy, well off white family from Tennessee who take in a poor, struggling black boy into their home and try and give him a better life and provide him with better opportunities and tell how they make him apart of the family. The main character and who the book is based off of, is Michael Oher, a black high schooler…

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    hesitant of the visiting blind man. He describes the old man the way he has seen blind people in movies; “the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes led by seeing-eye dogs” (94). Immediately, it can be seen in his personality that he thinks in a very stereotypical way. He has never actually talked to or been around a blind person he is just going off the way they are depicted in movies. This behavior also demonstrates how he is quick…

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    narrator is not only upset that it’s a man but also because he is blind. Through the actions and words the narrator uses, it is evident that Robert (the blind man) can see more than Bub ( narrator) can. The narrator character is not a nice one. From the first sentence readers can see that he is judgemental, apathetic, sarcastic, jealous, ignorant and scared. When talking about Robert he does not say his name but calls him" this blind man.." (3). This shows that he defines people by their…

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    Critical Reading: “The Blind Man” We live in a society where people are solely judged by their appearance. We allow the media and the internet to develop our opinions. Most of us no longer take the time to get to know each other and it's rather unfortunate. The short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is very relatable and is a great example because it deals with the idea of looking versus actually seeing. One might think that those two words are interchangeable but Carver shows that…

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    movie should we watch? The Blind Side or Soul Surfer?" Replied Sarah, "Both are similar!" Alisha responded with disavow, "No, they're two different films." The Blind Side and Soul Surfer are both Hollywood movies that are based on actual events that had happened to Michael Oher and Bethany Hamilton during their teenage years. Furthermore, "The Blind Side" is a 2009 American biographical sports film directed by John Lee Hancock and based on the 2006 book "The Blind Side" by Michael Lewis, which…

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    two important characters which are the narrator who is a man and Robert, an old friend of the narrator's wife. The narrator is known to be a jealous person. The story expresses this feature of him by the way he tells the readers about the time the blind man was touching his wife's face and he disliked how close Robert and his wife were. Other than that, we can clearly assume that he is racist as he judges the name of Robert's dead wife. This is stated when the narrator says, "Beulah! That's a…

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