...Jamie Velez Elizabeth Hughes Paul Way EDUC 268 Remember the Titans - Five Step Analysis Plot Summary In April of 1971, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that ended all stateimposed segregation in public schools. This was the same year that T. C. Williams High School located in Alexander Virginia was integrated. This is the setting for the movie Remember the Titans, staring Denzel Washington who portrays Herman Boone the head coach of the Titans. Herman Boone is brought in as an assistant coach to join the all white coaching staff. When Herman Boone is appointed head coach over a wining white coach he is reluctant to accept because the same things had happened to him when a white coach had been appointed over him in South Carolina. He finally accepts the head coach position when he sees that the black residents see him as a symbol of pride and respect that is lacking in their community. The movie starts with a riot after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident underscores the racial tensions that exist as a result of the desegregation of the high school. Coach Boone has to overcome the racism within the team, the coaching staff, and the community to build a winning racially mixed football team. Leader Description In the movie we have four primary leaders: · Herman Boone, the black head coach · Bill Yoast, the white assistant coach · Gerry Bertier, the white unofficial leader of the White athletes · Julius Campbell, the black unofficial...
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...Interpersonal Conflict in Remember the Titans I choose the movie – remember the titans. It is an inspirational movie, making my blood boiling from the beginning to the end and teaching us that we are all equal no matter what race you are. It talks about not only the games, but also racial conflicts, friendship and the significance of life. The story goes like that: in the early 1970s, two schools in Alexandria Virginia integrate forming T.C. Williams High School. The Caucasian head coach of the Titans is replaced by an African American coach from North Carolina. Tensions arise when players of different races are forced together on the same football team. Many of these tensions are eased during the two-week training camp in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When players return to Alexandria the players find the city in turmoil due to the forced desegregation of the high school. Through facing a lot of objections and questions, the players and the coaches still choose to unify, depend on and trust each other. As the season progresses the team's success causes the community to accept the changes. After the Titans' perfect season, the team and the city are closer than ever. There are many interpersonal conflicts in the movie, such as the racial conflict between the black and the white, the conflict between Coach Herman Boone and Coach Bill Yoast, the conflict between Gerry Bertier and his girlfriend Emma and so on. Because of different cultural background, conflicts arise between...
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...In 1971 a black football coach, Herman Boone (Danzel Washington), is hired as head coach for T.C. Williams High School. He takes over the position from Bill Yoast (Will Patton), nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. Boone offers the assistant coordinator coach position to Yoast, which he declines until the white players vow to boycott the team without him. Yoast reconsiders realizing the boys would lose the chance at scholarships and becomes the defense coordinator. During football camp racially motivated conflicts are handled by Boone with forceful coaxing and extreme athletic training. The boys develop racial tolerance and become a true team. Upon returning from camp, Boone is informed by a black school board member that he will be fired at the loss of a single game. The Titans slowly gain community support, while battling racial prejudice, having an undefeated season. Prior to state semi-finals, a white school board member approaches Yoast and implies he wants Boone fired because of his race, offering Hall of Fame induction if the team loses the game. Referee bias being more than apparent during the next game, Yoast confronts the head official threatening scandal exposure to the press unless the game is refereed fairly. The loss of candidacy induction for Yoast is the result of the teams win. During the towns’ victory celebration the team captain is paralyzed in a car accident. The Titans win state and return ten years later for his funeral. A conflict between...
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...In 1964 segregation was banned in all public places with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However the government may be able to eliminate racism in the law, but racism within the people cannot be eliminated by the government itself. Remember the Titans was directed by Boaz Yakin in 2000. The movie takes place in 1971 in Alexandria Virginia. Two separate schools with separate races, are forced to integrate by the school board and form one school called T.C. Williams. The main social issue portrayed in this movie is inequality for African Americans. Remember the Titans effectively portrays the social issue of social inequality in the means of prejudice and discrimination throughout the movie. The movies opening scene is a race riot sparked...
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...Darian Greenbaum K. Baker English 1100 13 November 2012 Left Side, Strong Side Remember the Titans is a film directed by Boaz Yakin bases in 1971 when discrimination, prejudice, and racism was still a way of life. Due to a court order, three high schools in Alexandria, Virginia were forced to integrate their students and faculty for the first time. Consequently, Coach Bill Yoast, a prominent, white member of the community and longtime head coach of the T.C. Williams High School football team, is asked to step down. Herman Boone is appointed to replace him as the school's first black faculty member and head football coach. The new coach faces many challenges; the newly integrated team is full of players (both black and white) who have little trust or respect for one another. Boone is determined, however, to put a winning team on the field. Against the odds, Boone helps his team over-come doubt and misconceptions of their coach, and each other, as they become an undefeated team eager to partake in the championship, united. Remember the Titans shows that people can put aside their individual needs and wants for the greater good of the team and the community. The film loudly conveys that building inter-racial friendships, one by one, then group by group, can transform a community. The relationship between Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell highly resembles, at first, the tension amongst whites and blacks during the 1970’s. Gerry, the white captain of the football...
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...‘Remember the Titans’ Leadership in Organizations 12th December of 2013 Miguel Nogueira Rodrigues 150110034 Remember the Titans is a film that tells the story about a period of history in the United States, when the differences between black and white people were much assumed. The black people wanted to feel respected and not discriminated by the whites, and because of that they wanted the same rights as the others. In this story, for the first time, all people could attend the same high school, and this change created many problems between students and their families. The Titans were a football team, but they were always losing the games, and win the championship was unreachable for them. So, the school board decide to get a new team coach, with the capabilities to turn the results around, and make them a team of winners. The problem was that when they discover that the new coach, Herman Boone, was black. From that day, he had to win the respect of the players that were both black and white, and get a new environment, to make them a united team, capable of overcome the differences and difficulties between the players. And to achieve that Coach Boone ask the previous coach, Coach Yoast, to help him doing that. In this film, is very well presented the example of a leader, and how the cultural differences shape the beliefs, attitudes, opinions, preferences and behaviours of those who lead and of the ones that made the choice to follow the coach. In this case despite...
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...in the text, The Death Crawl Brock has to do the death crawl for three reasons, He said the other team was going to win, the coach wanted him to show all he has, and the coach wanted brock to encourage the other players. although Brock said the other team was better than his own team, the coach wanted to see the best of the team. After saying the other team was better than his own team the coach asked Brock if he's assuming the loss on friday and told brock to get up and told him he would have to do the the death crawl and gave him a blindfold and then said “even if you can't do it i want to see your best” This shows that the coach believes they can win if they do their best even though the team doesn't. then, Brock starts...
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...Remember the titans is about a white football coach being replaced by a black one, all the white teens wanted to quit but didn’t when they found out that there coach was going to help coach. When all the black teens and white teens mix for there camp its like the world goes crazy, nobody is getting along until they have to go to 2 a day practices until they find something out about a different race teammate. When they all get back from camp everybody is so surprised that they can all get a long. Nobody in the town likes the thought of having a lot of black football players, but the team proves to them that just because your a different race doesn’t mean that you are very different. The movie really uses leadership through the football players,...
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...The movie “Remember the Titans” is a movie that brings about many aspects of sociology. The movie was set in the 1970’s when the United States Courts made the ruling to end state segregation in public schools. This is the setting of this movie that casts Denzel Washington as Herman Boone who is the head coach of the Titans. Herman Boone is brought in as the head coach to join Bill Yoast the assistant coach and the all white coaching staff. At first Boone is reluctant to accept the position because of the stereotypes and criticism people have, however he accepts the position in order for the black residents and players to label him as a man they can respect and have pride in which is lacking in their community. Racism and football is the main factor that leads to the difference in leadership and perspectives that each team member must learn and agree with in order to be a team that is going to win. Boone experiences very racist people as he was joining a community of all white families and had to try to bring together a school that was bringing together whites and blacks for the first time. Boone had a lot on his plate accepting the job as the head coach because the team was divided during these times when segregation was coming to an end. People were still very prejudice and not accepting of the new norms. As Schaefer states in the book, “One important and widespread ideology that reinforces prejudice is racism, the belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately...
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...Remember the Titans Concepts of the Roles In 1971 T.C. Williams High School was newly segregated in Alexandria, VA. During these turbulent times the school certainly had its share of issues therefore all of the Roles came into play during the movie “Remember the Titans.” The Roles of Power, Culture, Social Comparison, Historical Time Period and Social Roles was involved in the growth of a town and its high school football team, the Titans. The Role of Social Comparison and Social categorization are the expectations associated with them typically arise out of our culture and our place within the cultural hierarchy. (Alberts, 2010 pp 96-97) So when school was segregated stereotypes and ethnocentrism showed its ugly head. The Role of Culture played a heavy role with not just the football team and students, but it also the way of life in the town. Everything that everyone believed in was strained. Life as everyone knew was forever changed. Along with the culture shock came the Role of Power. The head coach position was a big part of the movie. A black head coach Herman Boone (Washington) is hired to lead the school's football team. Boone takes over from the current coach Bill Yoast (Patton), nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. As a show of respect, Boone offer a coaching position to Yoast which at first he refused. Yoast eventuality reconsidered because his players had planned to boycott the school and possibly costing the white teammates chances for scholarships...
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...Introduction I chose the movie Remember the Titans. This movie for me was the best choice, because I have watched it numerous times and I think that this movie will go along best with the topic of interpersonal conflict. The plot of the movie is in the early 1970s, two schools in Alexandria Virginia integrate forming T.C. Williams High School. The Caucasian head coach of the Titans is replaced by an African American coach from North Carolina. Tensions arise when players of different races are forced together on the same football team. Many of these tensions are eased during the two-week training camp in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When players returned to Alexandria the players found the city in turmoil due to the forced desegregation of the high school. As the season progresses the team's success caused the community to accept the changes. After the Titans' perfect season, the team and the city were closer than ever. Legitimate Power The first concept that I found in the movie was legitimate power. In the text, legitimate power is, “power based on one’s legitimate status or position” (Floyd, 2012). I think many people who have the mindset of racism use legitimate power, because they think they are more powerful and better than those of a different race. Coach Boone meets with the boys for the first time. He states, “This is not a democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law” (Yakin, 2000). Coach Boone is using legitimate power to let the team know from the very beginning...
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...Remember the Titans Organization: T.C. Williams High School Football Team (Alexandria Virginia 1971) * Organizational Environment: Consisted of the school board, the coaches, the team and the community. * Org. Structure: Due to desegregation, the structural norm of an all-white high school, coaching staff and football team, soon changed when a new head coach was appointed. * Org. Culture: In the beginning, everyone was out for their own self interests. The school board was trying to sabotage Coach Boone. Both coaches were out to make a name for themselves (Boone: Up and Coming/Yoast: Hall of Fame). The team members had their own initiatives (to get their desired positions). While white members of the community were waiting for failure, the black members longed for a figurehead. The coaches, team, and the community struggled to understand and except one another.The mentality was “This is how we do things around here”, but that was all about to change. * Org. Climate: At first everyone lacked motivation to put forth the effort of trying to work together. For example: Boone took offense & Yoast took defense. The team captains weren’t showing any leadership and the community members were extremely divided. Racism and football was the backdrop for the clash of leadership styles and personal perspectives that each man had to learn and understand from each other because they all shared one common goal, to become a winning team. * Team Building: At camp when...
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...Remember the Titans Character Analysis Note: read case study document first Character | Description | Significant Events | Boone | Head coach | * Marched with Martin Luther King * Had teammates mix up bus seating going to training camp, they also had to bunk with whoever they sat with on the bus * Had the boys jog to Gettysburg, talked about the battle and similarities to them today | Pete Jones | Team member | * Yoast put him in the game despite not being under his group after Boone took him out | Louis Lastick | Team member – neutral, just wanted to fit in | * Talked about his roommate * Joined in on “yo mama” jokes * Lacked self-worth * Always neutral between blacks and whites, saw no differences | Gerry Bertier | Team Captain – became best friends with his roommate Julius | * Started a fight with his roommate * Made a connection with Julius during a heart to heart talk * Embraced his new team and awareness for discrimination * Stood up to Emma * Fired Ray from the team * Car accident | Julius | Team member – best friends with Gerry | * Made Gerry realize he wasn’t as much as a fair leader as he thought | Yoast | Coach | * Went against Coach Boone * Found out about the plan to fired Boone but did not support it * Made nice with Boone at the last of it | Cheryl | Coach Yoast’s daughter | * Told her Dad he had nothing to be proud of at the last game. Making him realize he needed to change his attitude...
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...Titans is based off of a true story and is written by Gregory Allen Howard. Released in late 2000, the movie was mainly filmed in Woodstock Georgia and other areas of Atlanta. The time period in which the movie was filmed, was meant to portray the early 1970s in the south. The purpose of this speech was to show the disastrous outcome of the battle due to the men not fighting together as a team. Coach Boone is trying to get the players to realize that they need to be on each other’s sides and build each other up rather than tear each other down so they do not end up doing to each other what these men did. The football team at T.C. Williams High School was among the first integrated football teams with a black head coach in the south. T.C. Williams was a strictly white school until another school nearby, an all black school, had joined T.C. Williams. The men were not getting along whatsoever due to the common issue of racism. It was still unacceptable in many peoples point of views for blacks and whites to share the same rights. Not only was this team biracial, the head coach was African American. The previous head coach was white, but was demoted down to assistant when Boone became head. Due to this, many including the former head coach had a lot of animosity toward Boone. In one of the scenes, without a doubt the turning point in the movie, Coach Boone has his football team run at 3 in the morning through the woods and mud to the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. Once there,...
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...toughness behind the courage to tell their story. This phase is what really can tell if someone will have a productive future or not. The story of Luther really discussed one extreme how he was emotionless and had no empathy for his victims. Luther lived with constant rage for being stuck at the site longer than originally planned. He didn’t leave till twenty-one. Luther was one who had no vision of the future and no real plan. Boys like Luther come out and have a tendency to commit more crimes and not feel anything, which in return leads them to a criminal life and back in and out of jail. Ronnie starts to discuss how he felt powerful with his stepfather’s gun and wanted to scare his brother while he was playing Nintendo. Before coming to state school Ronnie and his friends claimed they would die young and appeared as a different type of juvenile than Luther. Just by the beginning of Ronnie’s crime story I could see the difference between both these two and was able to see how important a crime story is and what it can reveal about future behavior for an individual. It really is the key piece to being able to see if this is a phase or a lifestyle that can’t be...
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