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    In Marie Lu’s dystopian book Legend, there are a wide variety of characters with varying and backgrounds. Although the tale follows the lives of young girl June and outlaw Daniel (nicknamed Day), many side characters are also introduced and developed throughout the course of the book. All of these characters possess interesting names that enhance the plot in certain ways, and while most of the characters’ names fit them, some do not. To begin with, the name of the main character June refers to the

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    team leaders informally and formally respectfully, Coach Yoast ability to interoperate the situation and allow them to celebrate brought the team together. Coach Boone had an excellent follower or Co-leader. Coach Hines’ co-leadership abilities seemed to be the conscious for Coach Boone. He steps in and positively influenced Coach Boone decision. Also, Coach Yoast is excellent as a co-leader. The success of an organization or team is incumbent upon the abilities of everyone and all successful leaders

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    not to be considered. Those who work hard enough and do what is expected will play football. Those who do not, will sit on the bench. The same was expected from the coaching staff; if they did not want to be there, they were free to go. Coach Boone was fine finding another staff member who was willing

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    inspiring story about racial harmony within a high school football team in the seventies teaching us to respect each other for what we are and not how we look. This wonderful movie is based on the true story of an African American football coach, Herman Boone, hired by a Virginia high school in 1971 to replace couch Bill Yoast. Neither man is happy with the situation, but couch Bill Yoast agrees to work as coach Boone’s assistant. Gerry Bertier who is the captain of the team doesn’t want black players on

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    Boaz Yakin’s timeless classic ‘Remember The Titans,’ is a story that encompasses and explores many empathetic topics such as friendship, sport, racism, teenagehood, rivalry and leadership. The film is based on a true story about a ruthless high school American football team named ‘The Titans.’ It was set in the American Confederate state, Virginia during 1971… A year which spawned the ruling out of the colour based school segregation system in Virginia and a year which spawned the beginning of a

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    1. American Sport Movies There are few countries in the world in which sports permeate national life to the degree that it does in the United States. Sports are a big part of the fabric of American life. The centrality of sports in American life is amply reflected in the American cinema. For decades movie makers have successfully mined sports to produce some of the most inspiring, poignant, exciting and memorable American movies ever made. The genre of ‘Sport Movies’ established in the Fifties

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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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