Blind Side Essay

The Blind Side is based off of a true story about Michael Oher, the current Carolina Panthers starting left tackle. The movie kicks off by introducing Michael as a very talented athlete who is making it through extreme difficulties growing up. A mechanic who occasionally looks after Michael explained why Oher would be a great fit for Wingate Christian High School’s football team to the team’s head coach, Coach Cotton. Coach Cotton was blown away with Michael’s athletic ability and convinced those in charge of admissions at Wingate to admit the 6’8” 360 pound Oher. Cotton’s main argument for admitting Michael dealt with the school allowing Michael to improve his situation in life, bringing up the idea that it was the school’s Christian duty. Thankfully for Michael and Coach Cotton, he was…

Sports Movie Paper - The Blind Side The Blind Side, which is the movie I elected to watch and analyze, relates to the course work from Chapter 9; the topic of Chapter 9 was Race and Ethnicity. The plot of this movie is centered around Michael Oher, who is currently an offensive tackle for the Carolina Panthers. Throughout the movie, you get an insight into Michael Oher’s childhood and the start of his football career at Briarcrest Christian School (Wingate Christian in the movie). Michael Oher,…

In the inspirational film The Blind Side, the rags to riches archetype is very apparent and has a great affect on the characters and plot of this movie. This movie is about a 17 year-old boy named Michael Oher. Michael has been in foster care in Memphis, Tennessee, since he was a young boy. He was separated from his family due to his mother’s drug addiction. At the beginning of the movie Michael’s friend's father asks the coach of Wingate Christian School to help enroll his son and Michael. The…

“The Blind Side” is a movie about not only football and new beginnings, but culturally ingrained racism and poverty, as well. The Touhy’s, a well-off white family living in Memphis, Tennessee, take in Michael Oher, an underprivileged black boy whom they save from wandering the streets one particularly rainy night. Michael is soft-spoken and introverted, but is gifted at playing football. The movie follows his life with the Tuohy’s as he becomes a part of the family. They give him new clothes, a…

The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical sports drama film. It was written and directed by John Lee Hancock, and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. The storyline features Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Ravens and the Tennessee Titans, and currently is signed with the Carolina Panthers in the NFL. The film follows Oher from his disadvantaged childhood, through his years at a prestigious Memphis, Tennessee high…

The movie The Blind Side portrays the idea of how when individuals are adopted into a new family they may go through situations that they may have not had to go through in the previous years of their life. In the movie it was clear that Michael who had just been adopted by an all white family wasn't use to getting the attention he need to be gettin gas he didn’t perform well academically in school, this is due to the fact that he was use to his birth mom not caring about what was going on in…

The Blind Side is an inspirational movie and it is based on a true story of the main character, Michael Oher. Michael Oher is not one of the ordinary, normal black person. He has been given a name known as “Big Mike” for his physical appearance. Michael has had a rough childhood past that left him traumatic image glued into his mind. He has been physically taken away by his drug abuser mother when he was a child and ever since then, Michael has been living in and out of foster homes staying at…

The Blind side/The Simple Gift “Relationships are essential for a sense of belonging” Relationships are essential for a sense of belonging as it makes you feel acceptance. Relationships are a vital component of health and wellbeing. There is evidence that states that strong relationships contribute to a long, healthy, and happy life. The health risks from being alone and isolated are a comparable risk to smoking, blood pressure and obesity. A review of 148 studies found that people with strong…

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who have cried during The Blindside and liars. The Blindside is an inspiring, true story about a young, black boy who grew up in a rough neighborhood but was taken in by a wealthier, white family called the Touhy’s. I am going to analyze The Blind Side and inform you of the key concepts in the movie, that we are currently learning about in Human Communications. The Blindside stresses many social issues such as self-disclosure, family rituals,…

"The Blind Side" is a movie based off a real story that revolves around a homeless, African-American teen named Michael Oher and a white woman named Leigh Anne Tuohy eventually who adopts Michael into her family. Having grown up in a poor neighbourhood and being neglected by his family, Michael eventually gets noticed by Leigh Ann and her family, and they decided that they would help him by giving him a place to live as well as assisting him through high school. Throughout this time, Leigh Anne…