The Great Debaters”‚ a movie drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson a professor at Wiley College located in Marshall Texas‚ in 1935 he inspired the student body to form the schools 1stdebate team‚ which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. The movie has an academy award-winning cast‚ consisting of Denzel Washington playing the lead role of Melvin B. Tolson; Forrest Whittaker‚ who plays the stern father in the character of Dr. James Farmer Sr.; his son‚ a debate team
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about a specific debate team overcoming racism in the segregated South. It is based off of the debate team of Wiley College‚ a small religious black school in East Texas‚ during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Under the guidance of their coach Melvin Tolson‚ the team kept prevailing week after week against every single opponent. They started competing with other black schools but eventually worked their way to triumph over prestigious white schools as well. Their most significant win was against
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4/29/13 English 102.008 The Great Debaters In reviewing the film “The Great Debaters” I found it to be captivating and the elements of the movie made it very relatable to the viewers. With this being a true story I found that it was very easy for me to understand that these young kids really wanted to find themselves and a voice in the process. I found that this film was an earnest drama about the search for self-esteem and sense of responsibility among young black people that successfully relies
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The Great Debaters Melvin B. Tolson is the kind of educator who truly did recognize the remarkable powers of knowledge his students possessed. “The Great Debaters” is based on a true story about an outspoken Wiley College professor who boldly challenged the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the 1930s. Melvin B. Tolson who is the coach of the Wiley College debate team in east Texas molded his students into a formidable team to create change. Tolson recognizes that his young debate students possess
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The Great Debaters is a drama film based on the story of Melvin B. Tolson; Union Activist‚ Communication and English professor of Wiley College. Tolson had a mediocre vision of transitioning four amateur African Americans into master debaters which would allow them to defeat all other African American debate teams. In 1930‚ Mr. Tolson held tryouts for the debate team. He warned all contestants that only four will be left standing‚ however‚ he reminds them that debate is all about the hotspot in which
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Melvin Burgess uses language very powerfully in a variety of different ways. He uses very persuasive ways of changing the readers opinion but leaves it open a bit to you can still think what you want and kind of have your own opinion about the book but adds a bit of his own opinion. My first reason why Burgess uses language powerfully is that he said “Its’s getting colder and you know you’ve got nothing to lose.” This shows that one of the characters is in deep trouble when something is
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debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) at historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s‚ when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a pervasive fear for blacks. In the movie‚ the Wiley team eventually succeeds to the point where they are able to debate Harvard University. This was their 47th annual debate team.Based on a true story‚ the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel
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important job in America is the education of our young people. The people were separated; the low class people living in one area and the high class people live in a separate area were the class is higher. A professor of Wiley College named Mr. Melvin B. Tolson held the debating team. He was the coach of the debating team. There were 72 students who signed up for the debating team but only four can be one team. So a try outs was held at Mr. Tolson’s house and the remaining four who made the team
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The Great Debaters offers a fictionalized and limited account of the exploits of the award-winning Wiley College debate team headed by Melvin B. Tolson‚ an African-American English professor‚ during the Depression years. Beyond his academic duties‚ Tolson was an accomplished poet‚ journalist and social activist. Before this film was produced‚ very little was generally known about Wiley‚ a small college with only 400 students‚ or its debating team. The team had a remarkable record‚ going 10 straight
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real consequences for cutting up in school. Every Sunday‚ there was no option‚ children had to go to Sunday school and Sunday morning worship service. The average cost of a home in May 1971 was $24‚000. There was a movie called “Sweet Sweetback” by Melvin Van Peebles that was playing during this time. This movie was about one Black man’s resistance against white authority. Romper Room was the top children’s television show and the Mike Douglass show was the top daytime talk show. The weather in Cleveland
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