Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs In The Movie, The Blind Side

After fulfilling his basic needs, Michael also achieved the safety needs where he had a sense of protection with his newly adopted family and environment that were surrounding him. According to Norwood (2009), living in a safe place and having protection from other is very important for human beings. In home, Anne treated Michael Oher as her own child where she always gives him support such as bought him some new cloths to encourage him to start a new life; she also brought Michael a trunk when he wishes for it. Besides than his adoptive mother, Sean Junior also plays an important role in the changes of Michael’s life. Because of the adoption, both of the boys had become buddies in a matter of seconds. After Michael joined the American football team in school, Sean Junior had became Michael’s personal trainer to brush up Michael’s techniques and physical abilities in football. Collins, daughter of Leign Anne also showed acceptance towards Michael when she ignores her friend’s impression towards Michael and chosen to accompanied Michael when she saw him study alone in the library.

S.J. then turns into the role of Michael’s coach/mentor. He helps Michael train for football practices by taking him to the practice field and making him run sprints, lift weights, and other workouts. S.J. also films Michael at practices and games, so that Michael can look at them later on and learn how to make himself a better player. After filming Michael at his first game of pushing a player all the way down the field and over the fence, S.J. makes a DVD and sends a copy out so that college coaches can see how good of a player he is. The final role S.J. plays is Michael’s agent. He negotiates with every college coach who tries to recruit Michael. S.J. wants to have access to his brother and be able to reap all the benefits as well. He even asks one coach, “What am I going get from this” (The Blind Side).

With his family and his passion for football, Michael has become more of a man. He finally speaks for himself as he did with the inspector lady and speaks for his family as he did when he beat up the gangsters that were insulting his “mother”. He is now more confident than before shown by

As humans, we have needs that are to be met in order to reach our fullest potential and these are shown in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The movie ‘Miracle’ is about the USA Olympic hockey team and their work towards success in the 1980 Winter Olympics. The first four tiers of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs which are, self-transcendence needs, self-actualization needs, esteem needs, and belongingness and love needs are supported throughout the movie ‘Miracle’ in multiple ways.

In the book “The outsiders” written by S.E. Hinton. There is the intelligent boy names Michael Curtis (Pony boy). He is the smartest out of his gang (The greasers). In the story he has a lot of good quotes such as “he looks tough and i don't- but i guess my own looks aren't so bad (pg.16 Hinton) next, “Boys will be boys” (pg.65 Hinton) next, “I guess were disguised” (pg.

Interpersonal Communication is the form of communication often exchanged between two or more people. In the film Tootsie, there are many examples of this communication style. Tootsie is a 1982 American film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange about a man named Michael (Dustin Hoffman) who is so desperate for work that he dresses up as a female character named Dorothy in order to play a role on a soap opera. This specific circumstance provides many different areas of interpersonal communication to be discovered throughout the movie.

The characters that are part of the family that takes care of Michael Oher. They are Leigh-Ann, Sean, S.J, and Collins Touhy. They are the family that takes in Michael Oher. Michael does not do the best in school, but they tested him and he tested ninety eight percent in protectiveness(). Michael is a kid that is starting everything new and trying to get his life back in order. Leigh-Ann plays a big part in Michael’s life not just as

In the movie while Michael is learning football he is portrayed to be very “soft” so they have to find a way to make him tougher. Leigh Ann knows that he scored high in the category of protective instincts so she gives Michael the analogy of the offense being his family. She knows that Michael will do anything to protect the Tuohy family so she tell him to protect their family. From that moment on Michael does just that on the field. I think this is highlighted so much in the movie because it gives the viewer an emotional connection to Michael. When the viewer watches this scene it shows them how caring and sensitive Michael really is. The viewer will be very sympathetic at how Michael will do anything to protect his family. In both the list of famous football coaches that come to recruit Michael is the same. It is very interesting that for the film they were actually able to get the real coaches to come out and participate in the film. I’m sure that getting the coaches from these schools was not easy. I am sure it is not every day that Phillip Fulmer (Tennessee), Lou Holtz (South Carolina) , Houston Nutt (Arkansas), Ed Orgeron (Ole Miss) , Nick Saban (LSU), Tommy Tuberville (Auburn) just have time to go out of their way to be in a movie. While I am pretty such these coaches were paid a nice amount of money to do these it is still the fact that they did. I feel that the directors and producers make sure the real coaches were

1. Michaels self awareness and perception process concerning his internal dialog when starting at the school was negative because he was the “fish out of water”. In regards to self-awareness, Michaels open self is a feeling of being lost or out of place. This was most likely due to being in a wealthy, prominently white society. Michael’s blind self awareness was his protective instincts. On the football field and in the car accident when he protected S.J. The person in specific whom recognized Michael’s ability to protect was Leigh Anne. Information that was hidden to others but known to Michael was his past, whether it being his mother being a

Everything is about to change for him when the Tuohy’s see Michael walking alone in the dark. They decide to give him a place to stay and later on, become his legal guardians. During the movie, Michael becomes interested in football. He isn’t very good at first, but that doesn’t stop him from giving up! Through hard work, he gets so good at football that all the colleges are wanting him to play on their team.

At the beginning of Michael’s football career he was unable to figure out what he actually needed to do on the field. It wasn’t until Leigh Anne explained to him: “This team is your family, you protect them.” This genuinely hit a chord with Michael. He is now able to not only have a new family at home but one on the field as well. His protective instincts step in and through dedication and his journey at overcoming prejudice, Michael becomes a successful and appreciated football star.

Although he can remove himself physically from the problems he sees all around him-using his winter coat as a physical protector- Michael can’t escape or run away from the torment of his own mind, knowing there’s more he can do to change the world. “I've been a victim of A selfish kinda love It's time that I realize There are some with no

Maslow or Freud- I think when Jack didn’t keep the fire going he was showing one of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs which is esteem. I think he was showing this because he wanted to prove that he can kill the pig so that he can have respect in the other kids eyes and if he has respect, he also has power. Maslow says that esteem needs are to gain power and respect which is what I personally think Jack was trying to do. It is also proven when it took him some time to sorry even though he knew he was wrong because he didn’t want his self-esteem to go down.

On April 1st 1908, Samuel and Rose Maslow became parents to their first child, Abraham Maslow. He was their first child and was born in Brooklyn, New York. Abraham Maslow would become the oldest of seven children (Boeree, 2006). His parents were from Russia and were Jewish immigrants. Maslow was raised in a diverse, working class neighborhood. His parents were uneducated, however education was something they valued for their children. Maslow’s family was poor Maslow experienced anti-Semitism from teachers and peers. Jewish boys in his neighborhood (The Famous People). Maslow’s parents were rather cruel to Maslow while he was growing up. His father would constantly degrade Maslow and tell him that he was ugly and stupid. Maslow described his father as someone who loved whiskey, women, and fighting (Hergenhahn and Henley, 2014). His father publicly announced that Maslow was repulsively ugly causing Maslow to have a low self esteem about himself (Emrich). Maslow’s mother, Rose, was not a caring and loving mother; she never showed her children and husband affection. Maslow grew to hate his mother because she never cared for him or gave him attention (Emrich). Maslow spoke about feeling lonely during his childhood as well as being unhappy. Most of Maslow’s time was spent in a library with books. Growing up Maslow thought that physical strength was the true definition of a true male, but he didn 't achieve this due to his humble-looking and innocent figure, along with his

Leigh Anne was the first to see the needs of Michael Oher and adjusted to that needs, and eventually by the goodness of her heart and sympathy of what Michael’s life was before she decided to convince her husband to adopt Michael. They sent him to Wingate Christian School for secondary education but he felt discriminated by his schoolmates and even his teachers. But because of Mrs. Tuohy’s kindness, courage and positive attitude, she never gave up on Michael. She treated him as her real son and made him join the School’s football team which they discovered that he has extraordinary athletic skills. Her encouragement and love for Michael made him realized that he can be a better person and learned the game of football and later became a star player and he was offered by different state colleges for college scholarship.