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    Barranoha (father) and asked him permission to speak to Rolin at T.C. Williams High School. I received permission and advised Mr. Barrahona that I would follow up with him or his wife in the afternoon. I spoke to Mr. Barahona in Spanish which was the language we used all throughout our interview. I responded to T.C. Williams High School and School Resource Officer Bond had Rolin Josue Barrahona Cruz responded to the School Resource Officer’s Office. Rolin arrived a while after and I had the

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    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 Yoast, former head coach and nominee for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame, of the head coach position. Yoast debates pursuing opportunities elsewhere, but when most of his white players vow to

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    "Remember the Titans" is a sports drama film set in the early 1970s, based on the true story of the integration of the T.C. Williams High School football team in Alexandria, Virginia. The film follows the journey of Coach Herman Boone, played by Denzel Washington, a black coach hired to lead the newly integrated team, as he faces challenges of racial tension, discrimination, and prejudice among the players and the community. Through teamwork, perseverance, and understanding, the players learn to

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    FIRST TEETEEEP The director of the film “Remember the Titans”, Boaz Yakin uses the technique, dialogue, to show how the football team, the Titans, from T. C. Williams, a high school in Alexandria, Virginia, USA helped their city to overcome racism. The dialogue in the particular scene when the Titans were in their locker room for a halftime break during the football game and Coach Boone (Denzel Washington) gives them a motivational speech is “You taught this city how to trust the soul of a man rather

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    football team from T. C. Williams High School. In the start of the movie Coach Yoast was a happy man coaching a good team. Then came along a black coach called Coach boon and took his job. There were some arguments throughout the movie and then Coach Yoast had to accept he was going to have to work with this man. In the movie Remember the Titans by Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman, there are two main coaches that are involved with a mixed race football team from T. C. Williams High School. In the start

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    story of a newly integrated high school football team. It takes place in 1971 in the city of Alexandria, Virginia at T. C. Williams High School. When the school board decides to consolidate and integrate all the schools in the district, T. C. Williams finds itself caught up in the middle of racial tensions as both blacks and whites are now attending the same school. Tension builds even more when the current head coach, Bill Yoast, a white coach, is told by the school board that he must step down

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    The setting for the movie Remember the Titans is post April of 1971- significant because that is when the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that ended all state-imposed segregation in public schools. T. C. Williams High School located in Alexander Virginia was integrated, but is now desegregated, and the film starring Denzel Washington as head football coach deals with these cultural and social tensions. He’s an African American who is replacing a previously white coach. Now, social tensions

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    Blind Side and Rudy. This football movie has a special place in my heart that is more than just one hundred twenty yards, a touchdown and a field goal combined. Remember the Titans is based on the true story of T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia where the black and white schools were combined into one. Although some racial tension was exaggerated in the movie, it still shows the football team’s efforts to overcome blatant differences towards a common

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    In April of 1971, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision that finished all state-forced segregation in government funded schools. This was that year that T. C. Williams High School situated in Alexander Virginia was incorporated. This is the setting for the film Remember the Titans, gazing Denzel Washington who portraits Herman Boone the head coach of the Titans. Herman Boone is acquired as a colleague coach to join the all-white coaching staff. At the point when Herman Boone is named

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    Remember the Titans

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    Velez Elizabeth Hughes Paul Way EDUC 268 Remember the Titans - Five Step Analysis Plot Summary In April of 1971, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that ended all stateimposed segregation in public schools. This was the same year that T. C. Williams High School located in Alexander Virginia was integrated. This is the setting for the movie Remember the Titans, staring Denzel Washington who portrays Herman Boone the head coach of the Titans. Herman Boone is brought in as an assistant

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