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The film “The Blind Side” directed by John Lee Hancock, is based on the true story of a family who take in a homeless teenage African-American boy, Michael. Michael does not know who is father is and his mother is a drug addict. He doesn’t have many skills in order to help him learn as he has had only little formal education. Leigh Anne (The mother who took him in) takes charge to ensure that Michael takes every opportunity available to succeed. They discover Michael has an interest in football,

Culture and Communication: The Blind Side The movie, “The Blind Side,” has a culture group which created a diversion between races, religion, and group membership. Michael Ohear, a star football player in the film, has overcome the life of reality during this time, and has an upbringing story behind it. He knows how to be persistent, heroic, and gentle throughout the movie no matter what situation he is put in. Michael starts as a foster child for many years, and then becoming someone who everyone

Norman Lear was picked as a nominee for the prestigious Kennedy Center Award. Instead of accepting the award, Lear decided to boycott the Kennedy Center ceremony in December at the White House to protest Donald Trump presidency. Norman Lear has embodied the role as an agent of change because throughout his life, he has been breaking societal norms and discussing issues in society that people are afraid to talk about. Specifically, in 1971, a groundbreaking American television sitcom broke through

John Hancock was born braintree on january 23 and he was raised by his aunt and uncle Hancock. After graduating from Harvard college in 1754 hancock went to work for his uncle. Hancock would later earn a reputation for being generous and using his personal wealth for public projects however, he also received criticism from some people, including fellow Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams. In 1775 Hancock married Dorothy Quincy (1747-1830) the daughter of Boston merchant and magistrate. In 1765,John

focus on high-end commercial building and lead the paradigm of the use of the modern international, or "glass box" style of skyscraper. Since its inception, the firm has designed and built several of the world's largest buildings including the John Hancock Center (1969), the Sears Tower (1973) and the Burj Khalifa (2010), currently the world's tallest building. The company has diversified and evolved and now offers services in Architecture, Building Services, Graphics, Digital and Interior Design, Structural

of the book takes place in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. There we have a depiction of a mansion similar to the Wheatley mansion of her master and her home for a large part of her life. There we also have a fountain that would have been in the center of the garden before it was removed. This was because Phillis, the main character of this book, started partaking in her previous african traditions of offerings to the sun god and the family sawis better fit for her to abandon those ways to become

weapon manufacturing. Ingalls Shipyard, Camp Shelby, and Stennis Space Center are just a sample of what Mississippi has to offer. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957, President John F. Kennedy’s responded to congress by stating, “this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.” At the time, Mississippi’s senator John

One may ask “Were the American colonists politically correct when rebelling against England? Was it their ethical duty to rebel or should they have tried to resolve the matter peacefully?” One could ask themselves this question, “What would I do if I had been in their situation? This question can be answered as follows.” Samuel Adams said it best when he said, “Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; and Thirdly, to property; together with

British Secretary of State, Lord Dartmouth, quickly ordered Gage to send his soldiers on a search and destroy mission to capture colonial leaders, and military supplies in Concord. “At the same time Gage would attempt to find, capture, or kill John Hancock and Samuel Adams.”3 The stage was set for the first major engagements of the American Revolution. Early in the evening on April 18, 1775 Dr. Joseph Warren, a prominent leader of the Sons of Liberty, became aware that Gage’s soldiers were

this full day-to-day account of the battle that shaped America’s future. Michael Shaara author of “The Killer Angels,” tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of generals Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and John Buford, and the other men involved in the action of the battle. The historical account of the Battle of Gettysburg gives the reader a chance to experience the battle personally and not the history book manner taught in schools. The feelings and inner-thoughts