The movie “The Great Debaters” has a huge impact on African American students. This movie was based on the 1930s when colleges were segregated. Forest Whitaker was a preacher in the Methodist church. In the beginning of the movie he gave a speech. He preaches‚ “I believe we are the most privileged people in America because we have the most important job in America‚ the education of our young people”. These young people he speaks of are the young African American students. Our leaders are the most
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Film Critic Hossein Aghababa stated in moviequotesandmore that “The movie (the great debaters) is explicit enough on the issue of racial discrimination.” Throughout The Great Debaters (2007)‚ Denzel Washington illustrates racial discrimination as the main theme. The setting of the movie‚ the nature of the characters‚ and the high stance of education are some of the primary examples that represent the main theme. The film is set around a predominantly black college named Wiley College in Texas 1935
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fifties of the 20th. Inspired by a true story‚ The Great Debaters plunges us into the South of the mid 1930s Texas America. In southern America Negroes’ living condition was still under the whites in many aspects‚ like education‚ work. Blacks endured the daily indignity of discrimination‚ and racial violence always simmered just beneath the surface. The white government used to control Negroes to make them physically strong and mentally weak. In the movie‚ Farmer also said‚ “We do what we have to do‚
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The Great Debaters is an inspiring true story of the Debate Team consisting of four students and their professor from Wiley College‚ in Marshall‚ Texas. As an all black school‚ Wiley College during the 1930’s trained young minds to believe in themselves and to use their educated minds to change the hearts and minds of society‚ to establish peace‚ and maintain human dignity‚ tolerance and acceptance for all people‚ no matter the color of their skin‚ origin of their birth‚ language they speak‚ or
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Wilhelmina Amansec 14 September 2012 Response Journal on The Great Debaters Quotation: “When I was a child‚ I spoke as a child. I understood likea child‚ I thought as a child‚ but when I became a man‚ I put away childish ways.” Significance of the Quote This was said at the beginning of the movie ‘The Great Debaters’ by Professor Tolson to the incoming freshmen of Wiley College. The reason why Professor Tolson chose this verse
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differences between the film‚ The Great Debaters and the novel‚ The Secret Life of Bees. Their context both explore the issues of discrimination and prejudice towards African Americans in the 20th century. Both film and novel are set in the South during the times of segregation‚ where Black people and White people lived separately from one another. This is primarily due to the Jim Crow laws which enforced segregation between Blacks and Whites. The Great Debaters is set in the 1930’s when no one challenged
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Samantha Booke: Resolved: The Negroes should be admitted to state universities. My partner and I will prove that blocking a Negros’s admission to a state university is not only wrong‚ it is absurd. The Negro people are not just the color in the American fabric. They are the thread that holds that all together. Consider the legal and historical record. May 13‚ 1865‚ Sergeant Crocker‚ a Negro is the last soldier to die in the Civil War. In 1918 the first US soldiers decorated for bravery in France
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The Great Debaters is an intriguing film set in the 1930s about a professor that goes by the name of Melvin Tolson who teaches students from Wiley College‚ in Texas‚ the fundamentals of debating. During this day in age‚ if an African American didn’t “stay in their place” they would be ridiculed for such insane behavior. One can only imagine how difficult it must have been for them to get through a debate without caring if they had crossed the line on a touchy subject. But through it all this debate
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2010 Higher Education The Great Debaters brings viewers back to a time in American history where the discrimination between races was a very hot issue. The Great Debaters illustrated the black experience‚ by depicting the many challenges blacks were faced with in their daily struggles. In this film discrimination was a key element‚ and it was through debates that‚ the black community expressed their grievances indirectly in the 1930s. The Great Debaters is based on a true story. In Texas
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Remember the Titans and The Great Debaters. Although the movies are drowned in similarities‚ they also have a few minor differences. The movies of two different eras of history. Remember the Titans centers around an integrated high school football team in Virginia in the Mid 1970’s. The team has learn how to come together as not only a team but a brotherhood in order to overcome the horrible reality of the 1970’s. The Great Debaters takes place in Texas during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Three
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