Theme: One major theme of The Blind Side was to judge people based on their charter and not on their appearance. When Michael had first started at Briarcrest Christian School the teachers deemed him unreachable. Michael was a sight to behold at school because he was huge and black. I wasn’t until a teacher gave him a test orally did they find out that he was like a sponge that soaked up the information he was given. After teachers found out that he was paying attention they started to reach
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Michael wasn’t very good in school‚ and that gave him problems later on. Michael started to play American football in his freshman years‚ at the Briarcrest Christian School. After the 2003 football season at Briarcrest‚ he was named Division II‚ Lineman of the Year in 2003‚ and first team Tennessee All-State. Oher was scouted by the website Scout.com and they rated him 5/5 stars. Scout.com also rated him as the no. 5 offensive lineman
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with an auto mechanic whose son was just about the same age as him. His guardian enrolled both his son and Oher into Briarcrest Christian High School so they could study together. However‚ he ran into financial troubles and had to force Michael to leave. Eventually‚ Oher ran into Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy‚ who adopted him and took care of him until he went to college. Briarcrest Christian was a predominantly white school; in fact‚ the entire district was a predominantly white district. This meant
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his first years of school and put into foster care at the age of seven. He had been in and out of foster care homes‚ and attended a total of eleven different schools. He had been living with auto-mechanic‚ Tony Henderson‚ where Oher enrolled at Briarcrest Christian School. It was at this school where Oher was coached by Hugh Freeze and Tim Long‚ started playing football and made title Lineman of the Year. In 2004‚ he was adopted by Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy. Where they worked with him‚ to help him
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The Blind Side Formal Speech Alex CalinaThe Blind side is a not only a novel‚ but a movie based on the life of a young man named Michael Oher who was taken in by a family and turned into one of the most successful athletes in the history of the NFL. The movie has gotten many great reviews‚ because of its great acting and very deep story. “Is every extraordinary true story worth adapting to film? It seems as though we’ve heard everything before‚ especially when it comes to down-on-their-luck athletes
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Henderson. Michael was a nobody sleeping on his friends couch when one day Big Tony went out to get Steven in a very good Christian school called Briarcrest. Big tony went to the head football coaches office‚ Hugh Freeze and talked about Steven attending the school. Steven had the grades and the talent. Big tony also talked about Michael Attending Briarcrest. Michael did not have the grades but was still able to get in. After a few days he was living on the streets but still attending the school. Every
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school‚ and students happier. (1) A close family friend of mine goes to Houston High School‚ he has become more involved in school and the work. My elder brother‚ a senior at ECS‚ starts at 7:30 am and gets in trouble often for sleeping in class. Briarcrest‚ my school‚ even started later‚ which has inspired many other schools in the area to do the same. Hopefully‚ you now understand why starting later in schools is a great idea for the community. Finally‚ because school should start later because
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movie starts on with when Michael knew his father was shot and killed how he was promoted into Briarcrest Christian high school by his Black friend’s father when he was already seventeen years old Before this‚ Michael have been studied in eleven schools including his primary and secondary as all of the schools rejected him because of his poor attitude towards studies. At first‚ the teachers of Briarcrest Christian high school do not want to accept him; but‚ the school’s football coach convinced them
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The movie of The Blind Side attempted to mimic the book as much as possible‚ however there were noticeable choices that the director made that changed the presentation of the movie compared to the picture that the book created. One of the main choices was to cut out a lot of the football facts that were presented in the book. Throughout the book‚ numerous chapters were dedicated to talking about the history of the importance of the left tackle and other players in the game‚ but in the movie‚ almost
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particularly well through the character of Michael Oher in ‘The Blind Side’. Settings such as the Touhy house‚ the Christian school and the suburb of Hurt Village‚ where Michael’s mother lives‚ serve as examples of these contradictory places. Briarcrest Christian School is a place where Michael originally feels threatened‚ but becomes a place of comfort for him as the movie progresses. When he first moves to the school‚ Michael does not know anyone‚ and is daunted by the lack of diversity in the
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