Purpose: To persuade my audience to watch the inspirational movie‚ The Blind Side. Thesis Statement: The Bind Side is an extraordinary true story that reflects upon many life lessons. Introduction I. Attention Getter: As once stated by George W. Bush‚ “America is the land of the second chance- and when the gates of the prison open‚ the path ahead should lead to better life.” II. Argument/Introduce Topic: The Blind Side is an extraordinary true story that reflects upon inspiring
Premium Michael Oher
With the promotional poster depicting a picture of a woman holding the hand of an oversized football player leading him onto the field‚ the movie “The Blind Side” made skeptics of moviegoers. Challenged by most energy-packed movies that hit the screens in 2009‚ the movie at hind sight did not do much visual stimulation. However‚ being a movie that faithfully represents the real life experience of famed football star Michael Oher‚ it did not fail to raise a lot of eyebrows from both movie fans and
Premium American football National Football League Film
highlighted various unearned white privileges in her autobiographical article “White Privilege‚ Color and Crime: A Personal Account.” She illustrated the white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that one white person could count on cashing in each day. White people have these privileges given to them by the society in which they live in. The same society taught them to be ignorant and unawareness of these privileges. This system of unearned privileges established by white individuals
Premium Race White people Racism
The Blind Side 1. The blind side 2. Michael Lewis 3. 2009‚ 2006 by Michael Lewis 4. 339 There are always stories of random acts of kindness and how one of the people is benefitted in the situation. Love‚ risk and Friendship can go a very long way in changing some bodies’ life so drastically that the whole world knows and saves some bodies life. This is a story of how the love and kindness of one family leads to one of the most memorable and heartwarming sport stories I have ever heard. The story
Premium Michael Oher
The Blind Side: Do You Have Any Place to Stay Name ENG 225 Instructor October 9‚ 2011 The Blind Side: Do You Have Any Place to Stay? Based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis‚ the 2009 film The Blind Side is the true story of Michael Oher. Oher is an under privileged African American teenager living on the streets of Memphis who is taken in and adopted by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy‚ an affluent white couple. As much
Premium Michael Oher Film crew The Blind Side
handicap one’s existence and freedom. In the short story "The Blind Man‚" Lawrence reiterates these themes in the climatic scene at the end of the story. Lawrence illustrates through symbolism‚ diction and character Bertie Reid’s need to be private and Maurice Pervin’s need to be connected. The vocabulary an author uses to describe the way a character speaks and thinks‚ helps the reader to better understand who the character is. In "The Blind Man‚" Bertie Reid’s character uses more complicated words
Premium Short story Fiction Symbolism
Halev 1 Davida Halev Patrick Shultz Honors English 1 10 February 2013 The Privilege of Individualism What if our whole lives we had to live as all others did‚ completely stripped of our identity and sense of self? Ray Bradbury proposes such a world in his short story “The Pedestrian‚” a story about a middle-aged man‚ Leonard Mead‚ living in a uniform‚ monotonous society yet doesn’t quite follow its tacit rules. Through diction and metaphors‚ Ray Bradbury shows that a uniform society suppresses
Premium The Pedestrian Ray Bradbury Walking
Work in Translation Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong Final Draft Name: Chung Yee‚ Lee Candidate number: 003072-225 Year 11 QASMT Teacher: Ms Jennifer Russel Word Count: 1477 Work in Translation Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong In the novel‚ Paradise of the Blind‚ written by Duong Thu Huong originally in Vietnamese and translated into English by Phan Huy Duong and Nina Mcpherson‚ the author constructs characters Aunt Tam and Uncle Chinh as analogs of conflicting
Premium Communism Marxism Karl Marx
White privilege "Being white means never having to think about it." -James Baldwin It is unnecessary to think if you have been followed in a grocery store‚ also‚ your way of wearing clothes and behavior in public are considered as racially neutral. Seeing your kind of people are represented to public on television daily is common occurrence‚ people are thinking about you are living in a putative life and with no interaction of crime. Those are the signals of white privilege. “white privilege is an
Premium Gender Race Racism
EMC1 #142426 The Blind Side During our Physics class‚ it was my second time to watch this movie. The first time I watched it‚ I didn’t really focus on the movie but when we were required to watch it during our physics class‚ I fully focused on the movie and I’m glad I did. The Blind Side shows the value of loving your neighbours and helping those in need. I really enjoyed the movie because of the values
Free Love Emotion English-language films