“‘300 meters, and the Americans have pulled even! The boats are three across now. 250 meters to go’”. “‘It’s a three-boat race. Who’s going to break?’’ ‘“100 meters to go. It’s neck and neck’”. “‘Germany, Italy, America. And that’s it for now! The results are just too close for this reporter to tell’”. “‘The German fans believe they’ve got their sixth win of these 1936 Olympics. We can only sit and wait for the results.’”...”’America’”. “‘The United States has won the gold!’” Directed by George Clonney, the movie The Boys in the Boat is a true story about the University of Washington's JV rowing team and their journey of going to try and win the Gold medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The Boys in the Boat runs for 2h 4m and is rated PG-13. …show more content…
The movie is about Joe Rantz, who tried out and made the University of Washington’s JV rowing team. It tells the story of his childhood, college, and finally getting accepted for the JV rowing team. It shows the team's progression from their first race ever to winning the Olympics. Along the way, we get introduced to Joe’s love interest and the reason why he joined the rowing team in the first place. It shows the struggles with deciding whether the Jv team or the varsity team goes to the Olympics and the struggles with money getting to Berlin. In the end, we get a glimpse of Joe’s life after rowing and we get a full circle effect. A major part of the movie was when Coach Edgerton chose to make the JV team go to the Olympics rather than the Varsity team. This was a major conflict due to the fact that the Varsity team had been training for this very moment for over 4 years. It irritated a lot of people because the JV team just started this year and that they don’t have enough experience to compete in the Olympics, unlike the Varsity team. Coach Edgerton could have lost his job if the decision he made went
The Boys in the Boat gave me a little shock. Actually, I have had a little expectation to read an English book before, so I was so excited and worried. However, the book describes very elaborately, with lots of words I haven’t seen before, what the rowers did. I realized that there were lots of words I don’t know. Moreover, it was hard to memorize the descriptive words because those are too many. Nevertheless, by reading the book again and again, it is getting better, and even it is fun now. I like the feeling that I’m learning the vocabulary every day by just reading instead of memorizing. Anyway, I have learned a lot of words from the The Boys in the Boat, and I like the story in the The boys in the Boat. One of the elements that makes me
Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat is a book that shows2 the strength of the University of Washington’s crew team. The book teaches many valuable lessons from life in the 1930’s. This piece of literature is based on the interviews, which went on for seven years. Joe Rantz, the star of the crew team, was abandoned by his father and step mom, for the second time at age 17. He eventually found comfort in the Olympic bound crew team. Joe Rantz went through many hardships when he was by himself, as well as the intense team workouts, the following quotes exemplify how Joe channeled his energy to be a great crew teammate, that could trust and be trusted by his teammates.
We make important choices everyday that can affect our futures. Whether it is deciding what to eat for lunch or deciding what college to go to, these decisions can affect our lives in many ways. Choice is the act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. By making a smart choice, your health and welfare can be much better but if you make a bad choice, you future can be different than what you intended it to be. Whether it is a mild choice or a major one, choices can affect the way your life unfolds in the future. In the book, The Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings, the main character Brady Parks is faced with a major dilemma. He has to make a decision to either turn in is friends for murder or to live
Throughout the world, there are many artifacts ranging from Literature, Music, Social Media, Fashion, Toys, Technology, and many other ones. Every single one of these artifacts has a special meaning to them such as, the Statue of Liberty which represents freedom. The National Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum both contain many different types of artifacts that represent our history, as well as sharing a special meaning that can affect a person individually or even shape our society. "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" was a book written by John Boyne, which should be considered an artifact in the Holocaust Memorial Museum or the National Museum, because it represents the history of the Holocaust, as well as by symbolizing
There is a scene in this movie where the coach takes the team on a long run in the middle of the night. They end up at the break of dawn at a cemetery. The coach tells the young men of the battle that was fought on that ground. He told of the blood shed on those grounds that turned the whole area red. This can help many people that want to make a difference in this world.
It follows 5 stereotypical high school students where they are all reported for a Saturday detention and given an essay based around a thesis question of “Who you think you are?”. The type of belonging that is being in the majority represented is idealism within society. A strong example is in the opening sequence where Andy Clarke the athlete says “.. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal… That’s the way we saw each other…”. The technique that has been utilised, foreshadowing creates an early introduction to the theme of stereotypes, also morals. It generates the character's initial impressions of each other and hints to the audience that within the film these have been modified due to upcoming events that have procreated some sort of moral amongst the characters. The tone created produces luring responses of the audience you want to know why and what has happened to change the relationships. Another example where belonging is found is where Andy Clarke once again goes on about how he feels the constant need to impress his father and coach. “I’m here today…because… my coach and my father don’t want me to blow my ride… coach thinks i’m a winner, so does my old man” This speech uses emotive language to enhance the metaphor of how trying to constantly impress someone can be detrimental. This new perspective of “The athlete” shows how significant labels are. Idealism
Popular folk band, The Lumineers, composed a song, “Charlie Boy,” to remind the audience of a terrible and appalling part of America’s past, the Vietnam War. During this time period many men were killed in combat because their president, John F. Kennedy, made them believe that they could win a disastrous war without many casualties. One of the members of The Lumineers had a personal connection with someone who fought in this dreadful war. Wesley Schultz, the lead singer of the band, attempts to remind Americans that the Vietnam War is a critical and unfair part of our history that many people have forgotten. The Lumineers adopt a use of a warm melody, repetition, and album placement in order to convey
...ut boxing, it's a movie about what it means to be a man, a father, and a legend. It's about a man who works hard to support his family, teach his kids to be honest, and communicates delight in his wife with every glance. As Mae says to Jim in a late scene, "You're the Bulldog of Bergen, the Pride of New Jersey, you're everybody's hope, you're your kids' hero, and the champion of my heart."
The story, The Boy on the wooden box, is a memoir by Leon Leyson describing what it was like to live in Poland during the Holocaust. Leon was one of the youngest people on Oskar Schindler's list. Throughout this time he had to work in a factory in order to stay out of concentration camps. Leon describes the horrors he saw, and experienced first hand some including, severe beatings, near-starvation, and the fear of death every day for six years. While in hiding, Leon heard about the mass murders of the people in the concentration camps; he held onto hope despite the fear he felt. This story is told through the perspective of a real survivor during the holocaust; this makes it easier for the reader to imagine the events and struggles he went through.
Lost Boys of South Sudan was a name given to the thousands of young boys orphaned or torn from their families by the Sudanese Civil War. These young boys walked sometimes as much as a thousand miles to reach refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. The US allowed as many as 4000 Lost Boys to emigrate to America providing them with endless opportunities. Gia Nyok and Lopez Lomong were able to reach prominence in America and help their communities in Sudan despite the struggles they endured as Lost Boys.
The novel “Little Brother” starts of with four teenagers getting mixed up in an explosion while playing a role playing game, they then get arrested by the Department of Homeland Security and are later then questioned and even abused. In the end, they are released, but one of them, Darryl, was not and the DHS refused to tell the group where he was. After this event, one of the four teenagers, Marcus, started to revolt against the DHS through technological attacks and he creates a network of teenagers, called the Xnet, using the X-box consul to communicate. In the later part of the novel, he tells a trusted reporter about the ordeal that he and his friends went through. When the report was published he was yet again imprisoned by the DHS. During a waterboarding interrogation, the local troopers raided the compound where the DHS were staying and in the end they were able to free Darryl and many others who were being interrogated by the DHS. The novel was heavily influenced by Orwellian ideas, specifically George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty Four”; it tackles issues about social movements. Which is well connected with Manuel Castells’ Network Society, in which he discusses as to how the characteristics of a network society; he informs us that power lies in those who are part of this network society and are able to influence other social actors. Because the spread of information is so horizontal in this society ideas spread fast and makes it the perfect platform for social movements, like Marcus’ Xnet, to arise.
April 11, 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail to America. The passenger boat was the trip of a lifetime. The Titanic The ship took two years to construct and build- many people believed it was unsinkable. On the fourth night of sailing, April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic sunk into the pits of the Atlantic ocean and changed the world forever. Overall, there was 2,208 people who boarded the ship in total. Only 708 people survived (Deborah Hopkinson Titanic; Voices from the Disaster 12). This tragic accident changed the world for the worse.
“He reminisced about long, cold hours on the water under steel-grey skies, about smashing victories and defeats narrowly averted, about traveling to Germany and marching under Hitler’s eyes into the Olympic stadium in Berlin, and about his crewmates”. Daniel James Brown writes this in the prologue of his moving book, The Boys in the Boat and it gives the reader just the slightest idea of the immense amount of passion that Joe Rantz had for the sport of rowing. Brown wrote the novel after having a conversation with Rantz when Rantz was in his ninety’s. Brown sat in Rantz’s living room with him and chatted about the incredible rowers past and the adventures that rowing had taken him on. Rantz could not hold back his tears when talking about the
Anyone who has spent time with or around children will notice that each one has a special personality all of their own. Children, like adults, have different traits that make up their personalities. Experts have researched this phenomenon in detail and classified children into different categories. Some experts have named more than three categories, but Peter L. Manigone has chosen three that most experts agree with. These categories have been named “flexible,” “fearful,” and “feisty.” Children generally may have similar interests, but the way they interact and deal with these interests displays their personality type.
The movie follows the lives of three students as they go through their first year at Columbus University. These students are faced with issues of race, sexual