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    Remember the titans is a film based on a true story of a high school football team in Alexandria Virginia T.C Williams High School was on the verge of integrating and being one of the first schools to integrate in America. However a mass protest was being held against the integration of the school due to the brutal murder of a black student. Nevertheless the school still integrated in the summer of 1971‚ which eventually led to individual change in many of the members of the community. The film portrays

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    the Titans’ is a movie based out of Virginia‚ it tells the story of a small town were one black and one white high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. While merging the schools were a big task‚ merging the two football teams was even bigger. Denzel Washington was giving the head coaching job at T.C. William high school the job was previously by soon to had been Hall of Fame Coach Bill Yoast. Denzel had to bring a group of white

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    Remember the Titans is the story about an African American head coach and his multiracial football team. The head coach‚ Herman Boone is the first black man hired to lead the T.C. Williams High School football team during the 1970’s. Boone offers Bill Yoast who was the former Titan coach and the town’s favourite white coach‚ out of respect to take up the position as an assistant coordinator. Yoast refuses the offer but the white players on the football team retaliate by threatening him that they

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    rights. This hurts them in job opportunities and school placement. At T.C Williams high school in Virginia‚ Herman Boone has just been announced as the schools new football coach. Boone is an African American and the coach he is now replacing (Bill Yoast) is white. This causes an uproar around the school and the town but the government stands firm and permits Boone to be the coach. Although Yoast decides to take up the assistant coaching job at T.C Williams under Boone‚ The fact that an African American

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    Remember the Titans is based on actual events that occurred in the year 1971. Mainly on the integration of a school called TC Williams High School. When the school was integrated the old football coach‚ Coach Yoast‚ was let go and a black coach Herman Boone was hired on. The main plot of this movie is regarding the coaching change in the school and the 1971 football season the TC Williams Titans have. During the movie we see that each of the people that we meet establish certain roles that are

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    The movie Remember the Titans (2000) is a great example that describe leadership and teamwork in various ways. Remember the Titans (2000) is a true story of a newly appointed African American football coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated school. This paper would analyze the leadership traits of three of the key characters I the movie Remember the Titans (2000). It would also provide examples of each key character’s leadership style‚ decision making and outcomes;

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    white and black students into public schools in 1971. T.C. Williams High School was one of the first schools to integrate this new rule‚ which was located in Alexander‚ Virginia. This was an opportunity for someone like Herman Boone (a black man) who was hired on as an assistant coach to prove his leadership and talent in coaching football coming from a double A to a triple A district. He was offered the head coaching job after a short period of time by the school board‚ but it seemed as if he wasn’t

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    goal was to bring awareness to civil topics such as racism‚ discrimination‚ along with athletics‚ such as a football team. The film was based on a true story which took place back in the 1970`s. An African American coach was hired to lead T.C Williams High school’s football team. A team that was racially segregated. To understand the film you have to understand that plot and become familiar with the characters. Herman Boone is the African American coach hired to take over for the current coach‚

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    Some feature films follow a contemporary style of filmmaking where some components are based off from real events and scenarios. On the other hand‚ screenwriters add a more dramatic sense to filmmaking by integrating characters and a storyline to structure the film into a creative piece of art. “Remember the Titans” in this case is an exemplary film for creative filmmaking‚ not only does it resonate with historical events and takes the audience back to the 1971’s era but also sheds some light into

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    Remember The Titans‚ is a movie based on actual events that occurred in 1971. Remember the Titans is about how a black high school and a white high school were closed‚ and the students from both were forced to attend the same school under federal mandate to integrate. In the movie the football team is the main focus because a black man is hired to coach the team over a successful white coach. The team becomes one as the players and parents learn to trust each other‚ and get along. The reason I Remember

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