JOSH LUCAS (DON HASKINS) POSITION: THE COACH STATS: After playing college basketball for Oklahoma A&M, Haskins coached highschool basketball in Texas. He was hired to coach the Texas Western Miners in 1961, winning the NCAA championship in 1966. He later served as assistant coach for the USA Men’s Basketball team at the 1972 Munich Olympics, was enshrined to the Hall of Fame in 1997 and retired in 1999 with an overall record of 719-353. DEREK LUKE (BOBBY JOE HILL) POSITION: GUARD JERSEY NUMBER:
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The movie glory road is a stunning mix of sports and civil rights that has become one of Americas favorite sports movies- an instant classic. I personally have seen glory road three times and everytime it gets better and better. The move is about a small el-paso based NCAA division-1 basketball team called the miners. The coach was drafted to coach the miners, who at the time sucked. Nobody had ever heard of them, but they soon would This new coach who previously had coached nothing but women's
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through my movie collection I came across a few movies that fit the assignment description, Guess Whose Coming to Dinner, Glory Road, Guess Who, Remember the Titans, The Great Debaters, etc. After finding all these movies I decided I wanted to do something that deals with something I can closely relate to, after some great thought I went with the Disney movie, Glory Road. Glory Road is a movie that is based on a true story that happened at the University of Texas El Paso in 1966. It addresses the events
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Chris Oseitutu 4/27/2015 JRN 180 J. Stockwell Glory Road One of the biggest issues in the movie “V for Vendetta” was the theme of revenge. This emotion of revenge was the reason and motivation for everything that V, the main character, did. There were certain ways that V used revenge to get back at the government. He executed this revenge through death, destruction of materialistic things (like the tower), and by exposing the government of what they were doing. Without
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PROYEKTO SA FILIPINO IPINASA NI: CHRISTAN MARK B. HERNANDEZ (III-YAKAL) IPAPASA KAY: MR.BADILLO (GURO SA FILIPINO) DEKADA ‘70 MAY AKDA; LUALHATI TORRES BAUTISTA I.PANIMULA Layunin ng proyekto na to na malaman ng mangbabasa ang dinanas ng kababayang Pilipino nung DEKADA 70’ dahil ang napapaloob dito ay ang paghihigpit ng gobyerno sa mga taong gustong maging Malaya. II.PASASALAMAT Ako ay lubos na nagpapasalamat sa mga taong
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Cariñosa Cariñosa (Spanish pronunciation: [kaɾiˈɲosa], meaning the loving or affectionate one) is a Philippine dance of Hispanic origin from the Maria Clara suite of Philippine folk dances, where the fan or handkerchief plays an instrumental role as it places the couple in romance scenario. History and Emergence The dance originated in Panay Island in the Visayan Islands and was introduced by the Spaniards during their colonization of the Philippines. It is related to some of the Spanish dances
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Glory Soc 150 11/20/13 The 1989 film Glory is a classic Civil War film based on the history of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment. The film focuses on the courage displayed by the first black regiment in the Civil War, also known as the “Fighting Fifty-fourth.” The regiment headed by the admirable Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, Matthew Broderick, must overcome an enormous amount of adversity during the war. The film was daring for filmmakers Zwick and Fields because it was a film not only
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“Glory” & “Paths of Glory” Film History Justice Dominique October 7, 2014 In "Paths of Glory" war is observed in positions of command. This film about an accurate affair in World War I mingles the idea that status differentiations are more significant than nationwide differences with the way soldiers were viewed or treated as dispensable in combat of war, the philosophy that soldiers are simply ragdolls in the paws of generals who put on a production of what war is if it were just
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When watching a movie like Glory I tend to treat it like every other movie that is made for public consumption.Yes, there may be some historically accurate parts to the individual film, but that doesn't remove the fact that it was created to earn a profit. This means that not everything will be one hundred percent factual, or that certain characters will be portrayed in a manner befitting how they truely were. The most prevelant case of this occuring in the film was the portrayal of the black soldiers
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Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman. Glory follows the personal letters of the events that Robert Shaw went through during his time in the Civil War. This film follows the life of five men during this time, Robert Shaw (Matthew Broderick) who commands the 54th Mass, Private Trip (Denzel Washington), Private Jupiter Sharts, Corporal Thomas Searles (Andre Braugher), and Sergeant Major John Rawlins (Morgan Freeman). Glory follows the personal letters of Robert Shaw and in his letters
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