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    This movie-The Blind Side talks about how Michael Oher achieved his self-esteem during his adolescent time. Between the plots of the movie, we also included some development theories such as Erik Erikson’s psychosocial cognitive theory; Maslow’s hierarchy needs theory and also the operant conditioning theory that associated with Michael’s development. As an introduction, Michael Oher was a famous Black American football player that came from a poor family that consist of thirteen children

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    The Blind Side is an inspirational story that describes the life of Michael Oher who was a homeless teenager that Sean and Leigh Touhy adopted. Oher eventually goes on to be drafted by the Baltimore Ravens and play in the National Football League. A movie and book has been made about the life of Michael Oher. There are varying differences and similarities between the novel and its film adaptation. Throughout the beginning of the book, Michael Lewis, the author, has many chapters that are reserved

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    This movie-The Blind Side talks about how Michael Oher achieved his self-esteem during his adolescent time. Between the plots of the movie, we also included some development theories such as Erik Erikson’s psychosocial cognitive theory; Maslow’s hierarchy needs theory and also the operant conditioning theory that associated with Michael’s development. As an introduction, Michael Oher was a famous Black American football player that came from a poor family that consist of thirteen children

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    The movie The Blind Side was released in 2009. It is about a young man, named Michael Oher, who grew up in a poor environment. In the beginning of the movie, Michael was homeless and not currently attending school. All of that changed when a woman, named Leigh Anne Tuohy, offered Michael the chance to stay with her and her family. The Tuohy family was well off, unlike Michael, so it was an adjustment for both the family and him to live together. However, the family was very warm and welcoming to

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    In this video clip from the movie, "The Blind Side," Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) tries to motivate Michael (Quinton Aaron) while playing football. The levels exemplified in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs here are safety and security needs, belongingness, self-actualization, and cognitive. Firstly, Michael shows motivation through safety and security because he was told to think about defending his teamates just as if he would defend Leigh Anne and her young son he cares a lot about. Through belongingness

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    The Movie and the book of The Blind Side has plenty differences when comparing the both of them. These differences could have been done on purpose by Hollywood to perceive to the people that watch the movie. Along with differences there are controversies about the Tuohy’s and why they helped Michela Oher. Theorist have different opinions about the book and movie. In this conversation, I will talk about the differences and why. Along with Hegemony and Critical race theories and religion. From the

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    an example, the movie The Blind Side is created to remove stereotypes focused around race and economic class. In many movies and television shows, writers challenge stereotypes and use counter-hegemony to remove stereotypes around social groups like race and economic class. There are many articles that talk about race and social class in movies. One article is, “How The Blind Side Blinds Us: Post racism and the American Dream” by Jeffery Bineham. This article mentions how the movie fights against

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    On the surface, The Blind Side may seem like a great feel good movie, but once the movie is analyzed, it’s apparent that the movie is filled with blatant stereotypes as well as racism. The Blind Side, based off of a true story, shows the protagonist escaping poverty against all odds and growing up to be very successful with the help of a select few. Although some may argue that escaping poverty and becoming successful like Michael did is very possible this connotation of escaping poverty depicted

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    The Blind Side - Fact vs. Fiction “Life's a maze, you twist and you turn through it,The driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it” (Clipse). During the Blind Side, Michael Oher comes up from living on the `street to becoming an NFL football players. Throughout the film he is adopted by a new family who puts him down the right path in life. Although the movie "The Blind Side" is similar to Michael Oher's life, there are also many things that the movie changed about Michael's journey

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    out of foster care in search of a home and family. This was the life of Michael Oher Oher as depicted in the movie,The Blind side. This movie tells a story of a young man’s life, changed. How Michael overcame the discrimination and judgement,with help from a loving family who were willing to go above and beyond from him. A heartwarming story The most influential American film is The Blind side because it possesses many positive morals that all audiences can reflect on ,the filming special effects were

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