Rough Draft People stricken with poverty can turn their life around to achieve great things when they do not give up. The story of a current NFL football player for the Carolina Panthers that drafted in 2009 by the Baltimore Ravens, Michael Oher, holds an inspiring and heartfelt story about his life and journey from the midst of poverty to a rising football star. The popular film “The Blind Side” directed by John Lee Hancock is an accurate film over Oher's life and stays true to the time period of his childhood and upbringing in which his life took place, the facts about his life, as well as the history about him growing up into adulthood as a football player.
Michael Oher went through many obstacles in his life that are accurately portrayed
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His big frame and ability, even though football was new to him, helped him constantly make plays all season long brought in “legends as Lou Holtz and Nick Saban that came to recruit Michael” (Sharkey). Being as highly sought out in high school, Oher paved the way for himself to continue to be dominant in the rest of his high school career, through college, and into the NFL. Just like exemplified in the movie when college scouts would watch him dominate. Michael “is easy to pick out on [...] football highlights. He’s the [...] offensive linemen who makes the biggest players on the opposing teams look like over stuffed rag dolls” which was not unusual to him since he had been doing this ever since he first began playing (Wallace & Schnee). Being so powerful allowed him to continue on his forceful journey all the way to becoming a professional known for throwing people around like it was easy for him and he continues to do this for the Carolina Panthers in the NFL every sunday just like he was depicted throughout the …show more content…
The Tuohys support, care and money, just like shown in the motion picture are on of the major ways they helped.. As many would agree, not because he was not good enough to play football, but because he did not have the opportunity to be on a team until he found a new home with the Tuohys. Without them, it's “unlikely that Oher would have reached the NFL without the selfless acts of his adopted family” because of all the love and support they gave him as one of their own kids (Weissenburger). The Tuohys were the family that brought in Oher off the streets of the poor neighborhood he called home. With no father, and a mother that was never home, and drugs and violence in every corner, the Tuohys showed Oher an overwhelming amount of love, joy, and support also by enrolling him at the academy to play football, the tutoring for him to catch up with his classmates and with the new material he had never seen anything like before. Also at home, he had a room to himself with his own bed that was new to him and a little shocking to him at first, because he had never had one before as stated in the movie. The Tuohys money also helped Michael in a vast way since he had been “rescued out of the memphis ghetto by a rich, white family” (Weissenburger). They used their wealth to pay for all of the things that they could in
love for competition helped him become a leader on the football field as well as
Being bold is crucial when exemplifying heroism. Leigh Anne Tuohy steps out of her comfort zone multiple times in the movie The Blind Side to positively affect Michael Oher. Michael Oher is a homeless African American teenager who grew up in the projects around Memphis, TN. Micheal comes from a drug centered and broken family, which lead him to be controlled by Family Services. SJ Tuohy, the son of Leigh Anne, formed the first relationship with Micheal when they bonded over their grade school habits. One
...orts. He set firsts for some things and re-iterated others. He is still a very large contributing influence in the football world today. He is currently a NFL analyzer. He is very smart and knowledgeable. But he didn't get to where he is now without struggle. Power and fame almost ruined him. Yet he was able to bounce back and use his experience to learn from and shape his future and create a positive outcome. He made it positive not only for himself but for others as well. He set his goals and was determined. One thing
He experienced joy, pain, satisfaction and disappointment through it, but ultimately, he let social pressure overcome his spirit and change who he was meant to become. Hockey allowed him to physically and mentally mature as a person, but it was the sport itself, at the end, that led to his destruction. His journey as a player is a clear representation of the racism that is still unconditionally present in our community and that has to be overcome in order obtain social equity in sports and other recreational
You learn early on in the story that Jackson Jackson has not had the best life. He flunked out of college in Seattle, was married two or three times and has fathered a few children and is now homeless. Jackson admits that “Being homeless is probably the only thing I've ever been good at” and refers to himself as an “effective homeless man”. Also we learn that Jackson has some kind of mental disorder “an...
just because the guy he was. He a big effect in his family and had a big influence on his family.
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Michael attended the University of Mississippi, where he majored in criminal justices which was something he was genuinely interested in. He was drafted to the Carolina Panthers in 2009 and began his NFL career. As it is clear, Michael Oher had a very tough childhood. It is very impressive for someone like Michael, who came from such a rugged background, to get out and create the life he has today. However, Michael did not get where he is right now without hard work. He was determined and because of his awful past, he succeeded and found the motivation to make something better of his life. He was used to not caring about his grades and just barely passing in his classes. That all changed when playing the game he loved was on the line. He definitely got his act together when football was a threat for him. Michael realized he had to get his life in order to be able to go to college to play the game he loves, and there is no way he would have ever succeeded if it wasn’t for a past with such experiences. Now that he had opportunities and the tools to succeed, Michael was able to do whatever he wanted to and he had the chance to really
As a kid he sometimes let his leadership be a little too strong and got a little bit bossy. As Jockbio.com states, he was frequently scolded in school for bossing his classmates around in sports and other group activities. Many times his teammates would try to get Aaron to change plays in the huddle, one of his greatest dilemmas was a play a teammate wanted to change, but Aaron made a justified decision and later explained with this simple statement, “I had a dilemma. Ferguson kept telling me to change the play in the huddle to a go route. But I couldn't do that” (thinkexist.com). This is something I credit to his leadership skills. In his NFL career, though, this leader like way of his doing things was a great asset to the Green Bay Packers team. With his contribution of skill, talent, and leadership he led the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl win in
Throughout the story Jackson can be found executing many unexplainably kind acts. Obviously, Jackson is not in a position to give out much being homeless and jobless, but he makes a major impact on the world he lives in through giving all that he has to those around him. After Jackson wins one hundred dollars on a scratch off ticket, he gives the cashier, who he flirts with jokingly, twenty dollars out of his winnings. She did not want to take his money, but Jackson exclaims, “It’s an Indian thing. When you win, you’re supposed to share with your family” (Alexie). Jackson did not owe the young cashier anything, and he was in far worse shape than the cashier was in. This man is homeless and jobless and he gave out one fifth of his earning like it was nothing. For all Jackson knows, he may never see one hundred dollars ever again, but that never stopped him from sharing his new found wealth with those around him. The next thing Jackson does is buy eighty dollars worth of shots at an Indian bar for everyone attending. Again, Jackson goes out of his way to show kindness to others. One hundred dollars worth of lottery winnings all gone. Barely one cent went to him or his important regalia
In sports, there is no shortage of black success stories. Meanwhile, two black men of prominence in Odessa (who are not athletes) fell from grace. Willie Hammond Jr. (the first black city councilor and county commissioner) and Laurence Hurd (a minister and desegregation supporter) were glimmers of hope for the black community that were both snuffed out. Hammond was arrested on charges of arson conspiracy and perjury and Hurd is in prison for burglary and robbery, leaving a hole in the morale of the black community that was not repaired. These losses, combined the with negative news of black people circulated via media, made the possibility of succeeding in a white man’s world inconceivable. Yet, there is no shortage of black success stories in sports, like Michael Jordan and Bo Jackson; in every area that is not a “rich man’s sport”, black athletes dominate. To the poor children on the Southside, there is something very alluring about the “Cinderella stories” of men from poor black neighborhoods rising to prominence through sports. Based on these examples, there seem to only be two paths for a black teen to take: criminal or athlete. Many of these teens aspire to be sports stars and depend on nothing else because there is nothing else. Some may become the superstars they hope to be or they fall into ruin as Boobie Miles, Derric Evans, and Gary Edwards
Jerry Rice is one of the best NFL wide-receivers in history. Throughout his football career he broke many NFL records. He was always working out and said that he was never a couch potato. Jerry Rice’s life was influenced by his early life. His major accomplishments/contributions to American society including breaking almost all the NFL records helped him earn his place in history as an important African American.
The Blind Side is based on a true story of Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher. The title of this film has two different meanings. The first, is a quarterback’s dead zone, which the left tackle must protect in the sport of football. The second, is the dead zone of good intentions, which we might just pass by carelessly. Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is a student at Briarcrest Christian School who is an under privileged African American teenager living in the streets of Memphis who is shuffled between the welfare system.
The movie The Blind Side is about a homeless young man named Michael Oher, who was from one the worst
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