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    His interest was in U.S. frontier and western history, Native American borderlands, and the Native American history. Faragher has written many books, including: Women and Men on the Overland Trail, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer, The American West: A new interpretive History, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland, Frontiers: A Short History of the American

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    Remember the Titans is a 2000 non-fiction set in the early 1970’s. This well-known film would feel familiar to anyone that has ever seen a racially divided group or team dealing with the dislike from the public. For example, the film Hoosiers and Miracle on Ice. Remember the Titans was about a renowned football team that was dealing with segregation. T.C. William High School’s board was forced to have blacks infiltrate an all-white school. The foundation of footballs great tradition was put to the

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    1971 of African-American coach Herman Boone. Set in the time during segregation, he tries to integrate a racially divided school football team putting the fundamentals of footballs great tradition to the test. In contrast The Help is a 2011 American period drama film, directed by Tate Taylor, based on the best-selling novel of the same name, written by Kathryn Stocket. Set in Jackson, Mississippi during the civil rights

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    Salaam Remember the Titans is a film based on the true story of Coach Herman Boone, who takes on the task of integrating a racially divided football team in order to achieve victory. In 1970, the Supreme Court ruling in Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education permits busing students to achieve racial integration in public schools. In 1971, T. C. Williams High School hires successful, black coach, Herman Boone as head coach to lead the school's newly integrated football team, depriving Bill

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    the movies and television shows we watch feed into the stereotypes and gender roles that we believe in. Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin, tells the story about a high school football coach, Herman Boone, attempting to integrate T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria in 1971. Boone coming to T.C. Williams High School really upset many parents and students. When the parents of the football players found out he was going to be helping the head coach, Bill Yoast, many were fuming with anger

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    Coah Boone and Coah Yoast demonstrate leadership qualities in a different way. Coah Boone reveals authority and confidence when he is coach regardless of he is black in the community, he divides both the races of players to sit and sleep together at the camp no matter what race they are in which he hopes that it would bring the players together. He wants them to be familiar and understand each other as a team. On the other hand, Coah Yoast also uncovers insightful and accountability when it comes

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    Titans (2000), is based on the true story of Coach Herman Boone, the football coach of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Now Coach Boone becomes the football coach around 1970, and he is promoted to be the Head Coach of the team, and he is an African-American, while the high school is newly desegregated and starting the controversial practice of “bussing” black students to the high school. Now the film starts with Coach Boone being appointed by the school board as the assistant coach

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    effects high school football teams, coaches and society. The movie takes place at a time in history when integration of black and white teenagers start in schools. There is a cultural divide between the football players. The main characters are Herman Boone, Bill Yoast, Sheryl Yoast, Gerry Bertier, and Julius Campbell. In this project I will explain 4 examples of “friendship/self discipline by the main characters in the movie. Next I will explain what friendship and self-discipline mean to me. The definition

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    Like other Yale senior societies, Skull and Bones membership was almost exclusively limited to white Protestant males for much of its history. While Yale itself had exclusionary policies directed at particular ethnic and religious groups, the senior societies were even more exclusionary.[11][12] While some Catholics were able to join such groups, Jews were more often not.[12] Some of these excluded groups eventually entered Skull and Bones by means of sports, through the society's practice of tapping

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    Throughout the past, discrimination has been a common topic in history around the world. World problems, battles and wars have been fought over discrimination against different races and religions, and problems like that still happen today. Over race or religion, discrimination has been a problem in the past and the present time and it is something that needs to change. In the past, discrimination of race can be shown in the movie Remember the Titans, where the discrimination of blacks are in the

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