used words. They began against the top Negro college in the state of Texas and eventually worked their way up to the Harvard University. Harvard had won league championships multiple times and these students from a small Wiley college‚ while undefeated were still unproven. Wiley saw and faced many challenges on their way to their debate at Harvard. In order to evoke emotion from the judges and audience the students used a personal anecdote‚ a certain instance when they witnessed a lynch mob on their
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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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A Narrative Analysis of the Film The Great Debaters and its Relationship to the Urban Debate League Movement A Senior Project Presented to The Faculty of the Communication Studies Department California Polytechnic State University‚ San Luis Obispo In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Arts By Nicholas J. Carrasco Chris Skiles Senior Project Advisor Signature Date Signature Date Dr. Bernard Duffy Department Chair © Nicholas J. Carrasco 1 Table of Contents
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The Great Debaters The Great Debaters‚ directed by Denzel Washington‚ is an inspirational movie about a specific debate team overcoming racism in the segregated South. It is based off of the debate team of Wiley College‚ a small religious black school in East Texas‚ during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Under the guidance of their coach Melvin Tolson‚ the team kept prevailing week after week against every single opponent. They started competing with other black schools but eventually worked
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The Great Debaters The movie Great Debaters was about a debate team from Wiley College in Texas. They were a very good debate team‚ only losing one match before facing and defeating the national champs‚ Harvard University. When they faced Harvard they didn’t have their coach or their best debater‚ but a young boy named James stepped up and defeated the champs. The message of the film to me is‚ if you put your mind to it you can accomplish
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being mistreated and persecuted just for being black‚ this reality was even worse for black women in Texas. But this fact did not stop Samantha to believe in herself and her ability to be part this debate team. She will be the first woman to be in the Wiley college debate team and when given the chance to debate‚ she is not shy‚ but demonstrated a lot of emotions in her speeches‚ bravery‚ confidence‚ and passion. As I said in my first paragraph‚ I believe every character in the movie has their moment
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when I became a man‚ I put away childish ways” Why‚ do you think‚ he chose this verse? Dr. James Farmer‚ a renowned educationist quoted the scripture 1 Corinthians 13:11 at the beginning of the movie‚ when he was addressing the freshmen of Wiley college during the orientation of a new school year. I think this verse was an intended eye-opener‚ he chose it because it was quite pertinent for such an occasion; the students were fresh from high school suggesting Dr. Farmer intended to use the
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winning film starring Henry Lowe (Nate Parker)‚ Samantha booke (Jurnee Smollett) Melvin B Tolson (Denzel Washington) James Farmer Jr. (Denzel Whitaker) is based on a true story of four brave courage’s “underdog debaters” and there remarkable coach from Wiley College (an all-black institution) In Marshall‚ Texas in the Jim crow of the south in the 1930’s. This film was not only to tell a story about the college’s triumphs‚ but the art of the debate was to teach us about the adversity and racial inequality
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to others. Bibliography Fina‚ Anna. Discourse and identity. New Jersey: Blackwell Publishing Ltd‚ 2006. Galasińska‚ Aleksandra. "Border ethnography and post-communist discourses of nationality
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Assessment art Georges-Pierre Seurat was a post-impressionist I will analyse his painting “ Sunday Afternoon” I will also analyse Claude Lorraines work “Seaport with the Embarkation of St. Ursula” he’s style is classical. Firstly I will analyse “Sunday afternoon”. The colours in the painting are simple and bright‚ the artist does not blend colours instead he dots pure colours and lets the eyes blend them. This takes a long time to do and a lot of patience‚ but it eliminates the grey colour you
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