Ken Carter

Coach Carter, an inspiring movie directed by Thomas Carter that told the story of a real-life high school basketball coach, was filled with unique and intriguing characters that underwent a heartwarming growth throughout the movie. Coach Ken Carter, the main character, was the one that helped the team evolve by being demanding, fun and, most importantly, by showing a strong sense of leadership. It was through Ken Carter’s actions and words that we were able to see that he was made to coach the players

coach. In the movie Coach Carter do Ken Carter accept a new challenge, to become the new head coach for an awful basketball team, that’s having tremendous problems with dreadful results, criminality and bullying. Carter changes the team, their structure and the player’s way of being, which ends up making them a successful team. But what is the secret about his great success? And which coaching strategies do he use to make the team successful? Just from the start Ken Carter showed how great his personality

Ken Carter becomes the coach for the basketball team at Richmond, his former high school. The members there are rowdy, rude and need to be disciplined. He distributes contracts, filled with a few requirements, to the team. One of the more important requirements is to maintain a minimum GPA of 2.3. Carter went on to acquire the players’ academic progressions. However, Carter is opposed by the players in the gym. Cruz, and 2 other star players, quit the team. Carter then warns the rest that if they

Have you ever had to take a group of young men who had no future after high school and create a future for them? Ken Carter from the movie Coach Carter had to do just that. Carter had to take a group of young men who knew for themselves after high school they wouldn’t be able to go to college or make something of their lives and make a future for them. Carter’s used multiple forms of leadership behavior and style to achieve his goal of creating a future for his basketball players, however the traits

Ken Carter A.K.A Coach Carter is a fictional character from the Docudrama Coach Carter. Ken shows signs of an authoritarian complex as his personality has an exceedingly apparent correlation with; sociopathy, draconian authority, and an almost dictator like persona. Using references from the film we gain proof of Ken's autocratic demeanour. During the time after the Oilers (Richmond high basketball team) win their first game Timo Cruz comes to the gym seeking to amalgamate with his bygone team. Timo

expectations, and helps people grow. In the influential film Coach Carter, we are introduced to a character by the name of Ken Carter, who is offered a position as a basketball coach at Richmond High School, upon he decides to accept the offer to take on the mission of guiding, training, and teaching students on the team how to not only be great basketball players, but how to be great students as well. Throughout the film Ken Carter demonstrates a unique and distinctive coaching style that ultimately

IGN Entertainment called it, “Inspirational, Gripping, and Entertaining.” The Movie Guide summarized it as “an entertaining, morality lesson.” Six years later, Coach Carter still captivates the minds of audiences as the frontrunner of underdog movies and joining the top tier of movies. Winning 3 awards and receiving 10 nominations for best director, lead actor, and best female breakthrough performance, was an incredible tale that touched the audience’s emotions and evoked the feeling of the victims

three black men between the ages of 18-24 tends to get arrested, the youths of Richmond High are 80% more likely to end up in prison than college. Coach Carter is based on a true story of coach Ken Carter and the Richmond High basketball team. The year was 1999 when Richmond High hired a new head coach for their underperforming basketball team. Ken Carter is an alumnus who played on the team himself and even earned records for the school. He took the position upon seeing how rude and disrespectful the

Psychology of C & O ATHC-4690 Rost 9/6/13 Essay #2: Coach Carter and Communication The film “Coach Carter” demonstrates many great examples of good communication between coach and athlete. I will point out a few examples of good communication from the film and I will explain why the examples I discuss demonstrate characteristics of effective communication. I will use a few excerpts out of the communication chapter of our text book, Chapter 11. I will use these excerpts from Chapter 11 of our

2017). Coach Carter is a sports drama based on a real life experience of a former Richmond High alumni and basketball coach, Ken Carter, who became known in 1999 for benching his undefeated basketball team, due to poor academic standing (Watch Coach Carter, n.d.). It is through this film I will illustrate my understanding of structuralism, with a special focus on the “lockout” that occurs, as it demonstrates power imbalances addressed by advocacy and social action (Watch Coach Carter, n.d.). In the