FILM ANALYSIS The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock. The film took place at Memphis‚ Tennesse and featured Michael Oher‚ an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Raven of the NFL. For most of his childhood life‚ 17 year old Oher has been in foster care with different families yet runs away every time he was placed in a new home. His life change when his friend’s father asks Burt Cotton‚ coach of Wingate Christian School
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For most of his 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
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Sociological Views of Poverty Michelle Williams-Thomas Sociology 101 Professor Yelena Gidenko February 12‚ 2012 At the beginning of the twentieth century‚ the most common reasons people died were accidents or communicable diseases like pneumonia. Today‚ millions die each day from poverty. How can poverty be defined? And what is the difference between absolute and relative poverty? In the paper I will address these issues along with sociological views of poverty. Poverty is a
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The Blind Side: Making All the Right Calls When asked to think of an inspirational drama in recent years‚ one movie comes to mind projecting lives of people that follow their dreams from a under privileged lifestyle to a well known role model. An inspiring movie has to give the audience that unique sense where they themselves have a different outlook on life. That outlook hits them right in the heart where some people leave the movie theaters with tears of joy in their eyes. In John Hancock’s “The
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Organized religion is a duality between the religion and the church which represents it. Sometimes the representation of the religion is marred and flawed to those who view it because of the bureaucracy contained within. Unknown to those who gaze upon the dissolved morals and values of what is perceived to be the contradiction known as modern religion‚ it was never intended to be this way. Most religions started off as a sect‚ a minor detail on the fringes of the society it never wanted to represent
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In the Blindside directed by John Lee Hancock there are a lot of important ideas in the blindside.The most noticeable idea in the film would be the importance to belong to a family.A key idea in the film would be the change of character after he meets the Tuohy’s Michael meets the Tuohy’s‚after he meets the tuohys and when he plays football.These all display the idea of family. Another important idea in the film would be when he plays football.At the start of Micheal’s football practice‚Micheal
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The Blind Side An African american teenager named Michael Oher was spotted by Leigh Anne Tuohy wearing nothing but a t-shirt and shorts in the dead of winter. Without hesitation Leigh Tuohy invites him to stay in the Tuohy home for the night. What began as a kind gesture turns into something bigger as Michael becomes part of the family despite their differences. As the family helps Michael to fill his full potential on and off the field‚ the presence of Michael in the Tuohy’s lives leads them to
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The Blind Side‚ Movie. November 17‚ 2009 released. Micro Summary: The blind side follows the story of Michael Oher‚ a boy from‚ ‘Hurt Village’ in the lower side of Memphis‚ who lives a life of poverty until he is taken care of and then adopted by the Tuoheys‚ a rich family who own a chain of Taco Bells. They help him improve his grades and develop his NFL skills until he earns a scholarship to Ole Miss University which helps him become a professional NFL player. Belonging in The Blind Side: During
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“The Blind Side” Rev of The Blind Side‚ John Lee Hancock. CinemaBlend. Cinema Blend LLC. 27 Feb. 2010. Web. 1 Apr. 2016 http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/The-Blind-Side-4321.html Perri Nemiroff’s review is interesting to read. He words it to where the reader stays focused and builds the movie up with things like‚ “embrace The Blind Side and you’ll be in for a feel-good time.” He then gives a summary of the movie and tells
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Obviously‚ the movie I am going to write about is The Blind Side (Hancock‚ 2009). There are four psychological issues that I am going to talk about in this paper. They are going to cover the stages that Michael Oher faces in his life all while trying to achieve his dream‚ playing college football. He tries so hard to reach his dream while trying hard to achieve in academics during high school. The four psychological issues that I am going to cover are his abandonment issues‚ racial issue‚ social
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