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The film, The Blind Side is the story of Michael Oher, a teenager from a poor neighbourhood that is given a second chance at an education and at having a family and a future when he is taken in by Leigh Ann Tuohy and her family.

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Resilience in Blind Side examples from movie Michael lost his his home, but he did not let that stop him from finding a place to sleep every night. He had no food to eat, but everyday he waited until everyone was leaving school to collect all the food that was left behind. He had.

The Blind Side Amelia, Celeste, Kiara, Christian Cultural biases Ethnocentrism: evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture. racism: the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or. Prezi.

Inside The Blind Side: Gender, Stereotype, and Racism. by Avie Rajanti Puteri, Mita Sofia Mochtar, Titis Pratiwi. Introduction If you see the movie for the first time, The Blind Side seems like a movie about how the rich helped the poor. It just so happens that the rich is white people and the poor is a black.

The Blind Side The Blind Side, based on a true story, is a movie about the life of Baltimore Ravens' left tackle Michael Oher while he was enrolled at a Christian school in Memphis, Tennessee.

Furthermore, some readers of The Blind Side have interpreted the Tuohys’ treatment of Michael as condescending. They’ve argued that Sean and Leigh Anne chose to adopt a black, inner-city kid to assuage their sense of guilt with their own wealth and privilege, or that they treated Michael like a docile pet rather than respecting him as a mature, independent human being.

For those who have never seen the movie The Blind Side, it’s about one African American boy, named Michael Oher, who was sent to a Christian and predominantly Caucasian private school in Tennessee. The hope was that this school would give him better opportunities academically and athletically.

Seeing the Blind Side The Representation Test is really important because it does shed light on the significance of diversity in the media. Audiences enjoy movies that contain a little bit of everything, but this can be ineffective when the diversity trumps the realistic development of the setting.

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Sean Tuohy is one of the key characters in the book: in particular, he’s sympathetic to Michael Oher, and helps him out in increasingly important ways. Unlike many of his colleagues at Briarcrest, Sean is a wealthy white man who doesn’t ignore or condescend to impoverished black people.

The film The Blind Side presents an unusual opportunity for analysis because of its non-fiction basis and, specifically, the biography and autobiography associated with it. The film was inspired by the biographical book about Oher 's life, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006), written by Michael Lewis, and marketed (as the movie.