Akaash Nayak MBC-08 UPenn 7-8-12 Character Analysis for The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game: MICHAEL OHER African-American Michael Oher’s story started when he ran away from home‚ escaping his drug-crazy mother who was fighting her own battle of maintaining a husband-less family and retaining money for drugs‚ food‚ and other “necessities.” Although he kept poor grades up until the year he graduated from high school‚ Oher showed an aptitude in sports from an early age. This would play a major
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“The Blind Side” is a movie based on a true story about an African American Michael Jerome Oher an American football offensive tackle plays now for the Carolina Panthers of the National football League (NFL). In the movie Michael Oher also known as “Big Mike” he was a less privileged teenager from the Memphis‚ Tennessee he grow up in the projects Michael’s mother was a drug addict his father was absent in Michaels life that led Michael to become orphaned child he would escape from foster to foster
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distinguishes who they are from others. Personality theorist also assign different values among themselves to describe subjects and objects that relate to value. Simply put‚ subjects including people‚ and objects we encounter in everyday life have more than one way to describe it. Eventually‚ personality traits are often assigned or given to subjects that are used to describe constant emotions or behaviors that are displayed. Another unit within the personality structures used to provide analysis I
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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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The protagonists of Precious and The Blind Side both come from impoverished homes characterized by their weak family ties and histories of abuse. The protagonist of The Blind Side‚ however is able to turn his life around‚ attend college and eventually become a professional football player... but only with the intervention of a white family. Despite the popularity
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That is just how things work. As growing to respect people as a young man we should respect our elders‚ help people‚ and avoid negativity in life. The movie The Blind Side conveys a lot about the world we live in and life situations teens go through on a daily basis. This movie is based on a true story. The main character Michael Oher. He conveys to the audience the challenges he went through and possibly what others
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Strangers. To Leaders. To Family. Many times during high school and college professors tend to ask‚ “Who do you see as a leader and why?”‚ and the majority of the students refer to a parent or a close family member. Michael from the movie The Blind Side did not have a parent or close family member to view as a leader. Being a poor‚ homeless‚ teenage African-American‚ Michael Oher had a good heart that Leigh Anne saw since the first day she met him. Leigh wanted to make a difference on Michael’s
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Blind Side (healthy family relationships) What makes a healthy family? Well in the movie " The Blinde Side" it depicts the importance of family‚ and what parents need to do in order to raise a happy‚ healthy family. Leah Anne Touhy a mother of the memphis family took strong effort in changing Michael Oher‚ a troublesome kid’s life for the better. Leah brought Michael into the family as one of their own. Leah then saw that Michael Oher‚ was born into a family of 12‚ was held back 2 years in elementary
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mother)‚ the sense of self develops appropriately and affects their social life. If there’s too much mirroring‚ the child won’t be able to deal with frustrations. If there’s too little‚ the development of the self is stunted. In the movie “The Blind Side” Before meeting Tuohys‚ Michael was reserved and had very few friends. It is apparent that he did not receive sufficient mirroring from his parents while growing up which resulted in his ‘psychosocial dysfunction’. At school he was ridiculed because
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This movie-The Blind Side talks about how Michael Oher achieved his self-esteem during his adolescent time. Between the plots of the movie‚ we also included some development theories such as Erik Erikson’s psychosocial cognitive theory; Maslow’s hierarchy needs theory and also the operant conditioning theory that associated with Michael’s development. As an introduction‚ Michael Oher was a famous Black American football player that came from a poor family that consist of thirteen children
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