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Did you ever wonder how the kids and the teacher felt about the program. In the movie “Mad Hot Ballroom” there is a program where they select several schools to give teachers and kids a opportunity to compete with other kids. They dance tango, merengue ,rumba , bachata, swing , foxtrot ext.
The first completion the schools were color coded. The main 3 schools were P.S. 150 (green), P.S. 112 (pink), P.S. 115 (indigo). The order of dances the schools had to dance to was the merengue, tango, swing ,rumba, foxtrot. After the dancing they all sat down and the judges entered the votes and the host announced the winners. Pink and green team were received the silver ribbons. The indigo went to the semi finals
with other schools. The green team the kids starting crying because they didn’t go to the semi finals the sadness passed on to the teacher. The teacher told the students (dancers) to take this completion as a lesson for the future(the lesson was about that not everybody could be a winner. The indigo team were the only team out of the three schools that when to the semi finals. The order of dances the schools had to dance to was merengue, foxtrot, rumba, swing. Then the host announces the teams who are going to the grand finals. The blue team, the orange team, and the indigo team are going to the grand finals. When the indigo found out that they were going to the grand finals the jumped into joy. When the grand finals came the indigo team added more character and more feeling to their dances, they thought it would get them a better chance of winning. When the indigo team get to where the grand final is located the look at the surrondings. Then the host introduces the indigo team. First they dance merengue, foxtrot, rumba, tango, swing. When they dance the swing in every completion they showed like if they were from the the 1970’s. At the end of the completion they were in a tie with other schools so they to the merengue team and the tango team and made them to dance another dance. The merengue team dance rumba, and the tango team danced merengue. When the judges put in their votes the indigo team won and they were in so much happieness because they didn’t success the first time so they didn’t give up and now the took the trophy home.
During the Talladega 500, Cal Naughton Jr., Ricky Bobby's former best friend, pulled ahead of Ricky, allowing him to slingshot around his car and pass Jean Girard. Though Cal and Girard were teammates at Dennit Racing, Cal disregarded this and jeopardized his team's success to aid Ricky in the movie Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. This moment was crucial to Ricky, he having fallen from grace, going from NASCAR's top driver to being let go by Dennit Racing. The love Cal exhibited was a selfless form of love that was centered entirely around Ricky's happiness, not his own. Because of this selflessness, Cal compromised his own agenda, winning for Dennit, and disregarded personal consequence in hopes that Ricky would win the race. If you truly love someone as Cal loved Ricky, you must sometimes compromise your own interests for their benefit.
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