This movie is a great example of how leadership roles collaborate in the pursuit of a common goal. The common goal in this case is to lead the tropic to the NBA by promotions and team structure. Jackie is the owner, player, and coach of the Flint Tropics basketball team. This leader is most successful in developing community support and interpersonal relationships. However, team members decided on Monix to coach the team, since he knows the game better than Jackie. Jackie was practicing entertainment, not basketball. The team's’ hopes were to start playing some real basketball. Jackie had completely turned to promotion, these great promotional ideas brought 2,000 fans every home game. Monix helped the players and team to mature by setting goals, …show more content…
The forms of simulation include use of visualization, mental rehearsal or practice. Imagery should involve as many senses as possible. The kinesthetic sense improves the athlete's sense of their body in motion. In the movie “Semi-Pro,” Jackie Moon mentioned his finely tuned ability for his underarm free-throw courtesy of going through the motions of the free-throw. He leaves a lot of room for improving as he misses his free-throw an important game. Next is the visual sense in which an athlete pictures themselves doing an action in their particular sport. Jackie Moon certainly used this tool to visualize himself jumping off a ramp over the Tropic’s cheerleaders on roller skates, which he almost made. The use of auditory sense helps with hearing the sounds an athlete would encounter during an event. Tactile sense takes in account of the feeling of the sporting equipment, which could include; a basketball, baseball bat, etc. There is even the use of olfactory senses in some sports. The smell of a freshly mowed field can heighten awareness of any soccer or baseball player. Besides the use of senses athletes will attach emotional states to their imagined experiences. This skill can help control emotional states during competition. In Semi-Pro, Jackie Moon would benefit in this practice, he shows no control over his emotions. This causes him a lot of problems in and out of the game. So much so the team asks him to allow Monix to coach
When looking back at some of the baseball greats, Jackie went through the toughest journeys to the majors. What impressed people the most about Robinson was his inner drive. In the mid 1940’s, when teams looked for new players, they looked for players with high physical ability and high caliber intangibles, but when Frank Rickey looked at Robinson, he looked for patience and competitiveness. When Robinson stepped on the field for the first time as a Brooklyn Dodger, he didn’t just bring his skills and competitive drive, he brought the entire pride of the African American community. As Robinson played his first years as a Dodger, he opened up the door for other talented African Americans such as, who were eager to bring their game to the big leagues as well.
Phil Jackson has often been miscalculated. Known over his historical career as “The Zen Master”, the truth is that Jackson is in a league of his own, both in his success and how he reached that success; as a person and a basketball coach. Jackson’s book, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success, written with Hugh Delehanty, tries to explain the talent and genius leadership of the man thought of as one of the most successful coaches in NBA history. Born September 17, 1945, in Deer Lodge, Montana, Jackson was devoted to sports his entire life, playing basketball in college at North Dakota, and going on to being drafted to the New York Knicks in the second round of the 1967 NBA draft.
Get Out (2017) is a horror film directed and written by Jordan Peele. The film is about a black male named Chris, performed by Daniel Kaluuya, who is going out of town with his girlfriend Rose, performed by Allison Williams. The purpose of this trip is to meet her parents for the first time at their estate located deep into the woods. Little does Chris know Rose’s parents do not really care to meet him but are more interested in auctioning off his body. Chris figures this out towards the end of the film and he barley figures out a way to escape.
Throughout “Stories We Tell” there are many questions and uncertainties pertaining the truth behind Sarah Polley’s biological father, and the affairs that her mother Diane may have been involved in. As we get deeper in the story we found out there have been multiple accusations of Diane being with other guys during her unfaithful marriage with Michael. The real question is who is the creator of this documentaries, Sarah Polley’s, biological father and why did Diane hide such a colossal secret from her family? From the dinner table jokes of Sarah being adopted, to the friends views of Diane 's affairs, there should have been more certainty from an earlier time to who her father
The Athlete conveys that if a person fouls out of the game that hurts the team. Lastly the most major rule or regulation is your goal and thought process should be to out play and score the opponent to win or have victory. An athlete's mind or thoughts plays a valuable role in the competitive world, or develops players' mindset to make quick decisions. Also to stimulate projections onto
A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court written by Coach John Wooden is unlike any other book on leadership or biography I have ever read before. This book tells a story, a story about John Wooden’s life, the lessons he shares, the experiences he has had, and the people who have shaped the leader he became. There are no chapters, there are merely titles of the stories he is sharing and the lessons he wants to tell. In the book, there are four parts, Part 1: Families, Values, Virtues, Part 2: Success, Achievement, Competition, Part 3: Coaching, Teaching, Leading, and Part 4: Putting It All Together: My Pyramid of Success.
The Gleaners and I, is a 21st century documentary Agnes Varda shaped to depict the interactions she has with a class of people called, gleaners. Gleaners are a specific class of individuals who not only gather rural agricultural surplus but also urban supermarket trash. They salvage through acres of agriculture, performing backbreaking work, to provide for their needs without spending any currency. Gleaners believe in the saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure. " Some say Varda, throughout her entire film and the film itself, uses a style of filmmaking that is often interpreted as a statement that great things like art can still be created through scraps, yet modern economies encourage people to only use the finest product.
The movie, Miracle, is a heartfelt movie about the United States Olympic Hockey team adjusting to their new coach, their teammates, and the environment around them. Throughout the movie the head coach, Herb, was not the easiest person to please. He was a leader throughout the movie for his team, and his family. The assistant coach, Craig, was having trouble adjusting to Herb’s way of coaching, but trusted his leadership skills. Coach Herb had assembled his team with a unique and brash style of coaching that took the hockey players to win the Olympics.
Not just in sports, but in the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. During Jackie’s prime, “people began to view him as a spokesman for other African-Americans. He was an outspoken activist for African-Americans’ rights. He participated in many protests for fair wages and workers’ rights.” (Santella)
Movies are usually followed by books or events that sparked and interest in public. While movies depict the story of the written works, it cannot fully include all the information from the books. Movies are a medium that has to encompass a whole story in typically two hours, where a book can cover a longer history. Movie directors are in some ways translators of texts or their subjects; therefore, they have the ability to add or delete parts they prefer from a piece of writing. While the movie Rosenstrasse, does highlight some of the issues that were in the three articles, it leaves out other information such as Aryan women heads were shaved if they had a relationship with a Jew, and the strict laws against interracial marriages lead parents
Directed by Dziga Vertoc, ‘Man with a Movie Camera,’ is a 1929 one of a kind film. The movie is revolved around one day in the urban life in a Russian city. The movie does not include any actors, or an actual narrative, story. ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ basically follows a passionate camera man and his camera; the man himself is somewhat brave given the danger he puts himself through in order to get a specific shot. It is all about the different ways of making a film, and the techniques required.
Body Kinesthetic: an individual’s ability to move an object skillfully and the coordination to move their body. Musical: an individual’s interpretation of tone and pitch including the understanding of rhythm and harmony. Visual/Spatial: an individual’s ability to judge distance as well as their ability regarding high order thinking such as understanding mazes and maps.
The movie Spotlight, recounts the true events that occurred in Boston and were brought to light back in 2002. The movie talks about the massive cover-up scheme by the catholic church to conceals the fact that several priests were abusing and had abused hundreds of kids without any action from the Archdiocese. In this paper I will summarize the movie, discuss the type of victims shown in the movie, asses the risk level of the victims, and lastly relate the different theories of victimization and how each relates to the movie. The movie follows a group of journalists working at the Boston Globe, who are known as the spotlight team.
By including tactile imagery, Gunn displays the early perplexity of a disease. In addition to tactile imagery,
Flipped “Flipped” is a movie adapted from a young adult novel entitled Flipped. The novel is written by Wendelin Van Draneen; the Sammy Keyes serial writer, which was published in 1st October, 2001. This movie is directed by Rob Reiner and has comedy drama romance genre, also has 1 hour and 30 minutes length. It is made in earlier 2010 with the 1960 setting. Flipped was released in theatres on 10th September, 2010 and got 1 win; Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actress (Stefanie Scott) in Young Artist Award 2011, and 3 nominations; Best Comedy in AARP Movies for Grownups award 2011, Truly Moving Picture Award in Heartland Film 2010, and Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor Ten and Under Ryan Ketzner