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    families do and provide the structure and family Michael has been longing for in his life. He gets his grades up with a tutor named Miss Sue Ann who has the confidence in him that she knows he has within and brings it out in him. Through trials and a few difficult times they make it through like a true family‚ not a family just helping an African American boy. There are tears of joy and sorrow as the Tuohy family realizes all that they have and that Michael did not have and come to find that there is

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    Sport brings out the best in people I propose this motion. Sport definitely brings out the best in people because it keeps you fit and healthy. Everyone needs to exercise to stay fit and healthy. There is numerous ways to exercise sports‚ walking and going to the gym. Things as simple as going for a 10 minute walk can help. Exercise is very important as many people are sitting down at school or at work and they need to get exercise. Another thing is that most people travel everywhere by car

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    portrayed in the movie‚ Blind Side‚ where Michael Oher is advanced with an opportunity by the Tuohy family and it changes his whole life forever for the better. In the beginning‚ Michael Oher felt out of place‚ he had no home‚ was poor‚ and he had lost his family. As time passed‚ he was enrolled in school‚ his teachers either worried about him or doubted him because his grades weren’t the best‚ in addition to that‚ he didn’t talk or did his work. Soon‚ Michael met the Tuohy family who is made up of

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    going to comment on the aspects of costumes‚settings and dialogue The Blind Side is a movie about the struggles of Michael Oher and the story of how he is taken in by the Tuohy family. Michael came from Hurt village a bad part of town where he was taken away from his mother. When the Tuohy family took him in the gave him a home and an education at high school and later college. Michael took up football in high school and was later talked to by college football teams until he made his final college

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    African American boy named Michael who lives in a bad section of the city. Michael is slow at learning and keeps to himself for the most part. At school he comes across another boy in school named S.J. Tuohy‚ who is quite a bit younger but tries to talk to Michael. After S.J.’s mom‚ Leigh Ann Tuohy‚ hears of Michael and finds out he doesn’t really have a place to call home‚ she invites him to stay with their family. Everyone in the family eventually gets attached to Michael and invites him to live with

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    1. Why do you think this film is called “The Blind Side? ( i.e. who has a blind side and why?) The term “Blind Side” refers to Michael Oher when he is playing football‚ his objective is to guard the quarterback’s blind side. Michael does not understand this at first‚ however‚ Leigh Anne tells him to imagine his team as his family. His instinct to protect his family’s blind side is why this movie is titled “The Blind Side”. The title of the film Is also related to Michael’s previous thoughts of being

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    homeless‚ male‚ African-American teenager Michael Oher (Big Mike) who is taken in by the Tuohy family. Michael grew up never knowing who his father was and his mother wasn’t anything but a drug addict who he was taken away from when he was a child. Michael had very little education but had preformed strong in “protective instincts” which is later on used to help motivate his football skills and eventually shape his football career. The Tuohy’s provided Michael not only with a home and a kind loving

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    Peter Shelton Film Case Study of The Blind Side The Blind Side was based on the life of Michael Oher a teenage African American boy whose mother was battling drug and alcohol addictions‚ in the projects of Memphis Tennessee. Mike as he is know in the movie was in foster care several times and always ran away to his Mother‚ thinking that no one could ever love him the way his Mother could‚ even with her ongoing addiction. Mike often slept at his fathers friends home‚ but even he could not give

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    Film Analysis Psychology 280 Social-Psychological Analysis of the Blind Side The Blind Side depicts the story of Michael Oher‚ a seventeen year old African American homeless boy from a broken home‚ taken in by Leigh Anne Tuohy‚ a wife and mom of two living in a well to-do neighborhood. Repeatedly running away from the group home after group home‚ he was placed in after he was taken from him drug addicted mother‚ he happens to run into the exceedingly accepting family. Only after the catholic

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    Movie Review “The Blind Side” is based on the remarkable true story of Baltimore Ravens offensive left tackle Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron). Michael grew up in the inner city housing projects with his mother in Memphis‚ Tennessee aptly named “Hurt Village”. Michael’s story begins with him being homeless and coming from a broken home with a drug-addicted mother‚ and an absentee father. Because of his family circumstances‚ Family Services took control of his life as he was growing up. Unfortunately

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