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    Introduction The Blind Side is a story based on Michael Oher’s life. Michael is a poor, homeless black teen that struggles academically. The Tuohy family, who are a rich, white family, end up taking him in, and they got him academic help so he could become smarter and continue on playing football. A lot of the Tuohy’s family friends judged the family for taking in a black kid, and when the Tuohy family sent of their Christmas cards, one person told Leigh Anne, “Y’all know there’s a colored boy in

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    The ‘blind side’. In football: the side of the field the quarterback cannot see. Life meaning: a direction in which a person has a poor view, typically of approaching danger. In the movie The Blind Side, that phrase is used as a metaphor for Michael Oher’s life. How he went from Hurt Village, a ghetto located in Memphis, Tennessee, to living lavishly with the Tuohy family. Michael Oher and the Tuohy family met at a school that Michael just started attending, and was lucky to even be considered

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    The Blind Side Movie

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    The Blind Side is based on a true story of Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher. The movie was shot in 2009 and is rated pg-13 for brief violence, drug and sexual references. The movie faithfully represents the real life experience of the famed football star; it did not fail to raise eyebrows from both movie fans and critics. John Lee Hancock wrote and directed a box office hit that will have you crying with laughter and reacting with sorrow to every twist and turn along the way. Bring

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    The Blind Side Essay

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    The Blind Side Identify the title, text type, composer and year of publication * ‘The Blind Side’ is a film composed by John Lee Hancock (2009) Identify the context in which your ORT has been set and they key ideas related to the concept of belonging which are represented. * The blind Side was created based on the 2006 book ‘The Blind Side: Evolution of a game”. The film was set in Memphis, in various environments such as A Christian School, the Tuohy’s household and other areas. This

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    The Blind Side Sociology

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    Most people who see the homeless don’t usually help them. Sometimes people give them some change to buy some food, but thats all they usually do. In the movie the blind side, a family changes an 18 year old black boys life. There are very few movies about a story that is as uplifting as this one. This movie takes place in Memphis Tennessee, in the early 2000s. A black 18 year old teen had his life changed by a white american family. The teen, who’s name is Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), was spotted

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    Blindness from the Truth in The Blind Side In the film The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock is centered around taking in a young man and transforming his life for the better. Movies such as this intended to have a greater effect on the viewers through dramatizing tangible events. This film is based on a true story though the film industry often exaggerates the story in order to make a profit, which often alters the reality of the perception of the viewers. Films often alter the main storyline

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    The Blind Side Sociology

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    The Blind Side The 2009 John Lee Hancock film, The Blind Side, tells the story of Michael Oher and the Tuohy family. The Touhy family took in Michael, who was a homeless African American teenager who had befriended the Tuohy’s young son SJ, after Leigh Anne realized that the boy was homeless. The Touhy’s are very well off family in Memphis and are able to give Michael a better life than he could ever imagine. The Tuohy’s eventually become Michael legal guardians and push him to see his potential

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    The Blind Side Essay

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    John Lee Hancock’s film, The Blind Side, is an absolutely must see. The Blind Side, is a semi biographical movie that is based on the life of a football player named Michael Oher. The film was produced in 2009 by the Warner Bros. Production Company. The movie exemplifies the works of talented actors and actresses, some of whom are familiar and others that are new to the acting world. The names of the Main characters are as follows: Sandra Bullock, who plays the role of Mrs.Tuohy, Tim McGraw, who

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    One of the most popular movies of the past five years, The Blind Side ostensibly tells the story of a young, lower-class, poorly-educated black male (Michael Oher, played by Quinton Aaron) who becomes a professional football player. However, the story it actually tells is that of a morally righteous white woman (Leigh-Anne Tuohy, played by Sandra Bullock) using her morality to help a poor under-educated minority succeed in a world that has dealt him a bad hand. And by world I really mean “other black

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    The Blind Side Analysis

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    The Blind Side, written and directed by John Less Hancock, is a nonfiction sports film based on Michael Oher, who is an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens. In this biographical film, Oher was a homeless African-American teenager and had little formal education. He grew up in the Memphis’s projects and his mother was a drug addict while his father was never in his life. Due to Oher’s family circumstances, he was in and out of foster homes. One day, Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband Sean Tuohy

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