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    The Blind side The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock was a visual text about a teenage boy named Michael. Based on a true story Michael‚ nicknamed Big Mike has grown up in a poor and broken family and goes to a public school where no one really cares about him. Growing up this way has left Big Mike emotionally deprived and lonely. Thanks to his Friend’s dad Michael gets the opportunity to go to a private school on a scholarship. Suddenly he has teachers that care about him and while his

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    prototypical left tackle‚ Oher’s six-foot-five‚ 330-pound frame would have been pretty close to their model. And yet the fact that he was even still at high school was‚ in itself‚ nothing short of a miracle. The focal point of Michael Lewis’s The Blind Side is the story of Oher’s transition from a teenager so neglected by society that the Memphis school board can’t really account for his academic record to an eighteen-year-old college recruit with the potential for earning millions when he hits the

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    The visual text “The Blind Side” has many significant aspects that support the effectiveness of the text. This critical response will focus on the aspect of setting‚ character and costume. It is through these aspects that major theme such as differences in society are highlighted evidence from the text will be used throughout this response. The setting of the film “The Blind side“ is a very effective aspect in helping the audience understand the theme of difference in society. The first example

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    THE BLIND SIDE HUMAN SERVICES SENIOR LEADERSHIP MATTHEW HOOGVELD PERIOD 1-2. 1. After a late night Thanksgiving school play‚ Leigh Anne notices Michael walking on the road‚ shivering in the cold; when she learns he intends to spend the night huddled outside the school gym‚ she offers him a place to sleep at her house. The next morning‚ when she sees Michael leaving‚ she asks him to spend the holiday with her family. Slowly‚ Michael becomes a member of the Tuohy family‚ even as Leigh Anne’s

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    ------------------------------------------------- Looking at Mise-en-scéne ------------------------------------------------- The Blind Side Kirstin Kuball Abstract Looking at everything onscreen and noticing why John Lee Hancock placed it in the way he did. What does he want the viewer to see and take away from the film? What is the purpose and how does it change the meanings? Themes in the film are black & white and wealth & poverty. Mise-en-scéne‚ a French term used to describe

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    Danger Roni Morgan March 23‚ 2013 1. What a blind date is 2. How blind dates come about a. Assumptions made based off comments 3. Online dating a. Being untruthful 4. Why blind dates are not always good and what they are Blind dates are dangerously lacking in security or stability and are very untrustworthy. This is because a blind date occurs when two people going out on the date are meeting for the first time. It does not necessary

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    THE BLIND SIDE Movie Review ‘The Blind Side’ is the real life story about Micheal Oher‚ an Afro-American football player and his struggles from being an abandoned kid growing up in a foster home to a NFL (National Football League) player after being adopted by the family‚ the Touhys‚ who were white skinned Americans. What makes ‘The Blind Side’ such a compelling story is the fact that it tells the true life story of a boy with little or no prospects. It is a film about human relationships‚ the

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    The Text I have chosen was Into the Wild and The Blind Side they are both films. The encounters that both Michael Oher and Christopher McCandless met on their journeys made dramatic changes on both Michael and Christopher. The main unexpected journey that Michael O’her had was that he had encountered success despite of his background. The main unexpected journey that Christopher McCandless had was starvation. In Sean Peen’s 2007 film Into the Wild he elaborated the unexpected encounter that Christopher

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    The Blind Side I have decided to write my paper on the character Michael Oher‚ from the movie The Blind Side. It is based on a true story of the offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL. Michael basically raised himself. He was taken from his mother at age seven because she was a frequent drug abuser. He was placed in several different foster homes but he always ran away. Because of Michael’s massive size‚ he was referred to as “Big Mike”. By the age of 17‚ he found himself sleeping

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    Wonders of Failure Gerlyn Villadore Batoy Many people experience setback erroneously presume that successful people do everything right every time. Some of them also think that failure is a portentous indication of starting something that is not supposed to be. Failure is like an unwanted stuff; being avoided but inevitable‚ expected but discouraging and identified but misinterpreted. It is assumed as a hoarding that has a bold four-letter word‚ “STOP!” A student does excellently in studies

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