Coach Carter as a Tool for Therapeutic Development
Though based on a true story, there are many elements of Coach Carter that can be seen as directly related to standard elements of fiction. The titular Coach himself, played compellingly by Samuel L. Jackson, is something of a Byronic hero with his harsh and unlovable exterior and a depth of conviction that does not admit for any real discussion and even excludes politeness quite often, and the series of triumphs and setbacks experienced by many of the characters is typical in many ways of the hero's journey. Cruz especially must go on a complex inner journey in order to find himself and to accept and even to acknowledge his potential, his motives, and his fears. The scene in which he finally admits to Coach Carter that his deepest fear is that he will fail to live up to his potential is one of the most moving in the entire film, and helps to position the movie not as the triumph of the title character, but rather of what communities and networks of individuals are capable of when they take an active and conscious control of their lives.
While Coach Carter becomes the center of his community in a certain manner, it is truly his status as an outsider that makes him successful both within the film's narrative and as a protagonist in...
Carter never allows his students to accept the limitations that have been imposed on them. A good coach understands that students' self-concepts are shaped by their peers, parents, the media, and their adult mentors. When kids are taught that they are more likely to end up in prison than in college, they become resigned to their fate. When they are told not to bother trying in school because "basketball's
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Instead of pretending that racism and its effects no longer exist, we need to strengthen affirmative action and devise a new set of policies that directly tackle the racial gap in wealth." (Derrity, 1). That, in a nutshell, is the position of this paper. America has not given affirmative action enough time to act. Moving forward, we should continue our affirmative action policies, but with an end in mind. Economists
positive outcome in the educational progress for the students resulting from applying the Z. Model framework. In Mr. Zander's classroom, the average improvement in test scores is 16.75 points. The is the rise in test scores resulting from the students taking the same standardize test, once at the beginning of the school year, and a second time after 6-7 months Z. Model application. The baseline group data was taken form
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