Comparing Coach Carter And Dead Poets Society

In 2010, Penny’s childhood best friend, Desmond Merriweather became ill with cancer. To help his friend out, Penny Hardaway assisted Merriweather in coaching his son’s basketball team at Lester Middle School. Eventually Desmond Merriweather became too sick to head coach so Penny took over. He started a tutoring program that was mandatory for all players, and as a result, their GPA improved drastically. He was not only helping out a dear friend and serving as a role model for those young boys, but he was also contributing greatly to his hometown.

The story about The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell, is a story about a man named Sanger Rainsford. Whom falls off a boat and has to swim to a nearby island from which he heard 3 gunshots from. He then is rescued by man who does not hear nor speaks. The man takes Rainsford to his leader who is named General Zaroff. The General is a hunter as so is Rainsford.

Through his teaching methods, Mr. Keating establishes in his students a sense of originality, creativity, and the ability to challenge themselves. The story also explores themes of societal expectations and the pressure to succeed, which can lead students into a spiral and question if what they are doing is really going to help them find what they want in their lives. In the face of these challenges, Mr. Keating teaches the students to listen to their own voices and follow their dreams, no matter how different they may seem. This struggle for self-discovery is portrayed through the character Neil Perry, whose passion for acting is suppressed by his father’s firm expectations. Neil’s fate emphasizes the film’s exploration of the consequences of denying one’s ‘true self’ in favor of conformity.

One day Alfred Rascon saw some soldiers near his California home as they were practicing jumping from planes with parachutes. The seven-year-old boy wanted to be like them so he made his own parachute out of a sheet. Alfred climbed onto the roof of his house and jumped, but of course, his “chute” didn’t work. The fall broke his wrist, but it didn’t kill his spirit. Alfred was born in Mexico and when he was a young boy, his family moved to the United States where his parents worked on farms near Los Angeles. Although Alfred Rascon was not a citizen, he fell in love with his new country. Due to no funding for college, Alfred hoped to join the Army after he graduated from high school. Because Alfred was only 17 years-old at the time, he needed

Coach Carter is based on a true story about a Basketball coach trying to turn a team of hood boys with minor chances of getting a bright future into a team of young respectful gentlemen with great success both on and off the court. 

Coach Carter's main purpose is not making the players become a successful basketball team. Instead, his focus is based on securing them a successful life. He wants them to have a standing chance at getting into college and encourages them into wanting more. This is seen although out the movie. The reason why Coach Carter wants them to focus on school and trying to get a better life. Is most certainly because he came from the Hood in Richmond himself. Coach Carter explains how some of his teammates from back when

Before they had known Mr. Keating all the students would have just sat in their seats and do nothing, but because he had played a big role in their lives, this made them follow their beliefs and tell him to

Mr. Keating was able to free the student’s mind by giving them a chance to think. In each class the students were to peruse everything from the content. Keating’s teaching method was not the “banking” method, it consisted of the “problem-posing.” Gaining knowledge from a book is not the same as gaining knowledge from another person. There is a scene where Mr. Keating takes the students to a corridor, he tells them, “Seize the day boys, make your lives

Coach Carter made a contract to be signed by the team and the parents. It is about maintaining their grades to 2.3 GPA, attending all the classes, and sitting the first row of the class. But Coach Carter found out that team is forgetting about the agreement they had. That is why he decided to lock up the gym. He wants the boys to realize the importance of going to college.

In the movie, Coach Carter is consistent in his statements about what his intentions are as the new basketball coach and what his goals/expectations are of the young athletes. Chapter 11 of our text book, Anshell discribes the Ten Commandments of Communication. The Ten

Coach Carter had trained this team to become undefeated, all thanks to hard work and discipline. The teams grades and attitudes slowly started to decline, Coach Carter took matters into his own hands. One day before practice Coach locked the gym doors, putting an end to their championship season. The team heard the news and broke out into chaos. Coach preached to the team that no one will be playing basketball until the grades are brought up, and the attitudes get better.

Mr. Keating’s class and lessons are very different from anything else at the school. He teaches his students to look at poetry and life and a whole new way. This new way of thinking that he teaches his students is very transcendentalist. This is shown through the poetry that he reads to his students and his overall message of “carpe diem” or “seize the day”. He reads a large amount of poetry from Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau who are both very transcendentalist writers. Mr. Keating also encourages his students to form the Dead Poets Society in which they open

In the movie Dead Poet’s Society Mr. Keating is also viewed as outcast and a person who does not conform to social norms. Mr. Keating is viewed as a different and unusual teacher because he does not follow the traditional teaching styles. Mr.

The way Professor Keating taught was successful in the way that he made his students realize that they need to live their own lives. . An example is when he teaches the boys "Carpe Diem (Seize the day)." In the movie, Tim repeatedly says that when he is trying to win over a girl. Keating is successful because he teaches Tim to go after what he wants and Tim was persistent enough to keep at it and winds up getting her. Another example is when Neil decides to be an actor in a play. Even though his father is against it, Neil does is anyway cause he knows he has what it takes and he feels he has nothing to lose. I feel that if Keating did not teach his students to be themselves, Neil would have never gone against his father and he would have never enjoyed his life. When Neil kills himself at the end I think the blame is on his father because he would not let him do what he wants to do in his heart, he wasn’t being supportive of his sons wants. I feel that Keating had a very positive influence on him. Because of Keatings teachings, his students learned to live their own lives to the fullest.

Coach Carter received both high praise and staunch criticism when he made national news for benching his entire undefeated team for poor academic performance. Set in Richmond,

His teaching styles were very unintentional but you could tell what he was doing. Since he had experienced a similar situation when he was once on a team, he had wanted to give his team a different form of coaching that they wouldn’t have had expected at Richmond High School. Coach Carter did a very exquisite job at portraying these learning styles, knowing that there could have been consequences to a certain amount. It was gratifying to see that Coach Carter would do anything for his team, win or lose, he wanted them to come out successful and at least learn something even if it was a