Chongwen Yang
Robin Stewart
AE 20C
2015/1/15
Movie Essay Teamwork is an action that several people do a specified work instead of doing by one single individual. With the help of teamwork, every team member has an appointed goal to focus on in order to increase the efficiency of whole work. The movie October Sky , which is directed by Joe Johnston, shows the teamwork of 4 high school students who become inspired to learn how to build rockets and get success in the National Science Fair. The main character Homer dreams of launching a rocket ,which obeys his father's wish as being a miner in a mining town called Coalwood. His high school teacher Miss Riley encourages Homer to follow his heart and do his best to finish his yearning rocket. At the end, Homer and his team win the prize and get college scholarships. In the real life, teamwork is also important to be applied to solve many problems. A few years ago, my friends and I worked on a group project about photosynthesis. We were required to research how photosynthesis worked and made data report. So 2 team members worked on recording the data, and another team member and I worked on finding the theory of photosynthesis from books and internet. Because of appropriate arrangement of every member's work, we finished the project very quickly. In conclusion, teamwork is necessary to people's daily lives. There are three benefits of teamwork: teamwork can make the work much more easily to do., teamwork encourages people in many ways, and teamwork improves people's abilities. First of all, teamwork can make the work much more easily to do than doing by one person. With the help of teamwork, the work is separated to many parts and each team member can be assigned to work on the part which he/she is keen on or good at. So, the workload of every person can be greatly decreased and the efficiency of work is increased in order to finish the work more quickly and effectively. Sometimes, whether the result is success or failure is based on the team because a team with people who have the same motivations, passions and abilities is the basis to do teamwork and then make the work much easier with adequate human resources. This idea is also be shown in the movie October Sky . Homer and his friends have great talents on math, and they design the rocket structure with elaborate calculation. Although the theoretical knowledge is enough to them, the lack of material support and manufacture of spare parts makes the work hard to proceed. So Homer's father and many miners who work for Homer's father voluntarily make key parts of the rocket. So in this case, Homer has a perfect team with material support, knowledge support and his teacher and families' encouragement, which maximizes the speed of work progress. In one plot, Roy Lee, a member of Homer's team, tells Homer that " I'll tell you what's unbelievable...captain of the football team being jealous of you." This sentences shows that Homer's rocket attracts a lot of people and makes people feel proud of him, so Homer's reputation becomes greater than reputation of captain of the football team. But more importantly, this situation implies the success of rocket design by teamwork and people really can do the work more easily and more effectively with teamwork. So in conclusion, teamwork makes the work much more easily to execute. Secondly, teamwork encourages people in many ways. Third of all, teamwork improves people's abilities.