Remember The Titans

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Coach Boone started out using intergroup contact to help the newly desegregated school’s football team to try and overcome the walls that separate the two groups. An example of a superordinate goal of intergroup contact is when Coach Boone had everyone get off the buses and split the two groups up based on offense and defense rather than race. Then not only did they sit with someone of the opposite color but also that was their roommate for the duration of camp. At camp Coach Boone basically reduced everyone to nothing to create an equal level and built teams chemistry and camaraderie up from there. The recategorization part occurred when Boone had an idea to implement three-a-day practices until all the players got to know each and everyone of their teammates, which was his way of basically forcing intergroup contact and the players start realizing that they really are not all that different from one another. A powerful moment for me was Coach Boone’s speech during the 3 a.m. run to where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought. When they arrived to the battlefield Coach Boone demonstrated the central route for persuasion by talking about how they are still fighting the same war today that so many young men gave their lives for; but the part of the speech that really stuck out to me was when he said “If we don’t come together right now on this hollow ground we to will be destroyed just like they were”. After that moment you slowly see the two groups starting to come together on and off the field and beginning to realize that their not really that different from each other. An example of peripheral persuasion is Boone’s speech to Sunshine after Rev. gets hurt but Sunshine still feels he’s not ready to make that pitch. That’s when Boone goes into his exaggerated story saying “when I was 15 I lost my parents in the

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