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    Blind Side. Not only does this movie have a great story‚ it also has many forms of dyadic communication. This movie is about Michael Oher who‚ in the beginning‚ was really struggling in school and with his life in general. All it took was one conversation with Leigh Anne Touhy on a cold night to change both of their lives for the better. With the Touhy family’s help‚ Michael succeeded in high school and college then eventually went on to play in the NFL for the Carolina Panthers. A couple of concepts

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    childhood‚ 17-year-old Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) has been in foster care with different families throughout Memphis‚ Tennessee. Every time he is placed in a new home‚ he runs away. His friend’s father‚ whose couch Mike had been sleeping on‚ asks Burt Cotton (Ray McKinnon)‚ the coach of Wingate Christian school‚ to help enroll his son and Mike. Impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism‚ Cotton gets him admitted despite his abysmal academic record. At his new school‚ Michael is befriended by a boy

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    can blend in naturally. Jackson incorporated the triangle offense with the Bulls where anyone can shoot‚ can score‚ can make a pass. What made the Chicago Bulls a successful team was their connection with each other as a team‚ and the ability of Michael Jordan to set his ego aside and realize that he couldn’t do it by himself but trust his team. Phil Jackson wanted to get the most out of his team‚ he was able to make his players disconnect from him and connect his players to their teammates and the

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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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    his friends. But the most important trait that characterized Michael was how he was a responsible and parental figure to his little brother‚ Bug. As the author of the article The Foundation of a Free Society‚ which criticized the system‚ Tom Waldron says‚ “Students couldn’t stay after school‚ (…) they had to pick up younger siblings and watch over them. Like The Wire’s Michael Lee‚ they were already parents themselves” (Waldron 3). Michael had to mature fast and make decisions that would benefit him

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    and Pleasure The film "The Blind Side"‚ is a very inspirational film. This film is a story of Michael Oher‚ a homeless African-American teenager from a broken home‚ taken in by the Tuohys’‚ a wealthy white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time‚ Michael’s presence in the Tuohy’s lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment‚ Michael faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. As a football player and student‚

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    leaders‚ whereas characters that cannot achieve these things exemplify bad leaders. Niccolo Machiavelli’s theme of adaptability to be a good‚ successful leader is depicted in the popular television series‚ “Prison Break”‚ through the protagonist Michael Scofield‚ who is adaptive: in personality‚

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    portrays many ideas of belonging. The scene involves the climax of the movie‚ where Michael Corleone is revealed as the next “godfather”‚ by shows another side of Corleone. There are many signs that suggest that Michael Corleone fits in and belongs in the mafia just like his father. The double life of the mafia shows the sense of belonging. The scene shows a montage of many plots of murders. The double life of Michael Corleone‚ the mafia and his family shows the hypocrisy of people who kill go to church

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    Earth Song! Michael Jackson! ! The biggest problem in todays world is that we are blinded to see the damage that is being done to our planet earth and how it has affected the lives of many especially the lives of innocent children. Throughout this song we can see no future ahead of us without the society changing and for them to show humanity. In the song ‘Earth Song’ written and performed by the King of Pop Michael Jackson exposes the cruelness of society and how we are the reason for not living

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    Outline- Michael Jordan I. Introduction a) 3 significant events 1. Decided to go to UNC (University of North Carolina) 2. Drafted into NBA (After junior year of college) 3. Father shot and killed b) While Michael Jordan achieved becoming the greatest basketball player ever‚ one can argue that he would have not been able to accomplish this success without having experienced college basketball (UNC)‚ by being drafted by the Chicago Bulls‚ and his

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