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The movie Remember the Titans (Remember the Titans) is a film that is focused around the difficulties, and triumphs of desegregation in sports. The story takes place in T.C Williams High School of Virgina in 1971 when Black student integration into public schools had begun. The football coach Herman Boone is also a newly hired black coach who must find a way to unite his prejudiced and separated team, and compete in the State and advanced championships. With lots of conflict, hard work, and

Boone, a black head coach, is hired to lead the T.C Williams High School Football Team. The team formerly led by a white coach, Bill Yoast, is better known by their nickname, The Titans. Both Boone and Yoast must work together to bring their white and black players together in a time where segregation across racial lines in the south was commonly accepted. Boone and Yoast are successful in doing this during the team’s training camp, only to return to find that bringing the team together would be only

Remember the Titans: Reaffirming Gender Expectations Disney's Remember the Titans (2000) depicts the first season Herman Boone serves as head football coach of the T.C. Williams Titans in Alexandra, Virginia. The beginning of the movie shows how Bill Yoast, a Hall of Fame caliber coach, becomes the assistant coach to Herman Boone when Virginia public schools integrate in the early 1970's. Upon the temporary resolution to those coaching conflicts, the racially divided players and coaches go to football

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 to assistant coach to make way for the newly appointed head coach, Herman Boone, a black coach. The movie focusses around the football team as both blacks and whites lean to put

The town parents and players are outraged that a black man was going to be their new head coach. The previous coach, Bill Yoast had a winning season and was nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. Coach Yoast gained the support and love in the community. The white football players were also upset having a black coach and threatened to quit the team if Coach Yoast was replaced while the blacks were very happy. This is the first time the

sports teams, the Titans have an autocratic leadership style. Coach Boone is the one and only person who makes the decisions, he is the main man in charge. The style is productive, and the team wins games. Although he has assistant coaches, such as Bill Yoast who is the defensive coordinator, all the decisions must go through Coach Boone first. The democratic leadership style is not applicable on a football team because that’s why teams have coaches. The team does not make group decisions. Coach Boone

Manager and leader in particular have different kind of power to control their follower. But when leaders do not have the correct way to use their power, it will not have the best result. Therefore, it is necessary for any leader to understand different kind of influence tactic and when to use them. Influence is the ability to bring about change in others’ behavior, beliefs, attitudes, goals, needs, and values. There are ten different influence tactics that the leader can use depend on the situation

1. Define personal, social and institutional power. Give an example of each type of power that is displayed in the movie. a. Personal power is the degree of control an individual has over their own decisions. In Remember the Titans, an example of personal power was when the white boy made a decision to start a fight with Petey Jones (a black boy) because Petey was talking to his girlfriend and threw the first punch. b. Social power is expressed in the way different people relate to each other, or

Team Cohesion in the sport setting is the most important factor for group effectiveness, being influenced largely by leadership people. Homogenous attitudes and goals, personal sacrifice, and training and instructing coaching tactics are positively linked to team cohesion, and therefore performance. Cohesion is a dynamic and multidimensial process, and these methods could change depending on initial levels. By examining two scenarios of teams having significantly different levels of cohesion, it

the beginning as they are considered better than people with coloured skin. Institutional power is when individuals have more power than others from their experience and knowledge. Institutional power is portrayed through the two coaches (Boone and Yoast) as they have more power than the students since they have studied and finished. Question 2: Belonging is the ability to feel wanted and included in a group, team or with other people. It is imperative that the younger generation understand the concept