Invictus Movie Report Com 410: Leadership Strategies Justin Smith Introduction The Clint Eastwood movie by the name “Invictus” tells the story of Nelson Mandela, played by Morgan Freeman, during the beginning of his time as President of South Africa. The movie follows his struggle to unite the white and black South Africans after years of apartheid, as well as the South African rugby team which is to compete in the Rugby World Cup in the next year and how that sports team affected the entire nation. Modeling the Way As South Africa’s first black chief executive governing a country torn apart by apartheid, Mandela recognizes the challenge ahead of him. It’s his first day as president and the headline of the days paper reads ‘He can win an election, but can he run a country?’, to which he acknowledges, “It’s a legitimate question.” This shows his integrity of not letting fear conquer him, which is the foundation of one of Mandela’s most famous quotes; “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Mandela begins taking charge and challenging the process right from his first day in office.
Many exciting things happened to him there. He learned about true Islam and that Caucasian people are not savages. He was made a Guest of the State. He even met Prince Faisal, leader of Saudi Arabia; ironically, both would be assassinated because of political-religious reasons. After performing Hajj, which all able-bodied Muslim must do, Malcolm X took a tour of Africa for a few weeks before coming back to America.
Many times leaders will not always tell people what they want to hear. However the unpleasant the issue, he is not afraid to raise it with them. By doing so he can challenge everyone to be different and stand out from the crowd. He insists that everyone is to be open and honest with each other. Don also has passion and enthusiasm.
25 October 2011 “King Gimp” As I watched the documentary on Dan I encountered two feelings, amazed and happy. I never saw anything in all my twenty five years of living more touching than his story. It’s amazing to see a young man with this disability actually live a normal live and attend college and graduate. The thought of me finishing college seems unreal but to know that Dan can do it really makes me want to push myself in the hardest way because I don’t have any excuse as to why I can’t graduate just like Dan did. Watching his story made me so happy because he was a fighter and he didn’t give up.
And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live—for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken.” | Pg.151 | This is one of my favorite quotes from the book. It was odd at first that Steinbeck started giving war a positive light, however after reading it over I completely agreed with the quote. Man is constantly moving forward step by step. This also reminded me of how in the book Tom was just trying to put “one foot in front of the other” so that he could deal with his situation. Men always advance and as they do, it can be a struggle so it is almost like everyone is just stumbling
They both had a dream, and worked very hard to accomplish that dream. Malcom X was willing to do whatever it takes to achive his dream of a world that is free of segregation even if it was through the violence way. However, Martin Luther King was a peacful activist and used the non-violence way to sturggle with the discrementaion. Although Malcom X and Martin Luther had some differences in the way they were achieveing their goals, they were fighting for the same thing which was to get the freedom. At the end, both of them had a
EDS 6205 SUM 07 Movie Review Who is the leader? Describe his/her role in the film and the setting of this leadership. Malcolm X takes place in America during a period of four decades from 1925 to 1965, the movie is a moving saga of America's most controversial Black Muslim leader- Malcolm X. Malcolm spends his boyhood in Lansing, Michigan after his family moves from Omaha, Nebraska in 1929. He is imprisoned at the age of twenty. It is during his imprisonment that he converts to Islam, and educates himself in history and religion.
Public Life Muhammad Ali was considerd a very eragant man by some because he was loud and would brag about his skill but time after time he proved he could back it up.Muhammad ali won his first Golden Gloves award in 1960 and soon after won a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics in Rome.After winning the gold medal in the olympics Muhammad went to the White House to visit the President whiile he was there he told President Ford he liked the place so much he might go after his job.Later he started to learn more and more about the Muslim religion and joined the Nation of Islam.Soon after he became a Muslim and Elijah Muhammad changed his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali.Ali said "The day i found Islam i found power within myselfthat no man could destroy or take away".Muhammad met Malcolm X in Detroit in 1962 they became good freinds and that scared his white fans because at the time white people belived that th Nation of Islam was a cult some thought they were planning somthing horible but it wasnt like that they were teaching about unity as a race and that difinitley made whites scared.Before Ali's fight against Sonny Liston Muhhamed ws seen around Miami with Malcolm and people began to get scared so
First slide I did my presentation on Nelson Mandela who, in my personal opinion is one of the greatest men to ever live. Second Slide To start things off, I would like to tell you all about the different names he is called because there are a lot of them and they are all important. • Rolihlahla – This is Mandela’s birth name: it is an isiXhosa name which means “pulling the branch of a tree”, but figuratively it means “troublemaker”. • Nelson – This name was given to him on his first day at school by his teacher, Miss Mdingane. Giving African children English names was a custom among Africans in those days and was influenced by British colonials who could not easily, and often would not, pronounce African names.
As peaceful protests would turn into massacres, violent clashes amongst the two groups were beginning to resemble a civil war. Nelson Mandela was released from his 26-year prison sentence, for heading the violent protest group “Spear of the Nation”, as a recreated man. Being a symbol of the nation he united those who were restless of the burdening conflict that South Africa had subjected itself to. Although beginning with mainly black support, his humanitarian message reached many open ears in the white population. Those who felt the conflict was detrimental to their freedom united and supported Mandela.