Remember The Titans Persuasive Essay

With tension brewing one thing came to mind: “Racism is man’s greatest threat to man -- the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Racial tensions were arising every day between team members because their school, T.C. Williams became integrated. Are all men created equal? Is it possible for a single person to make an impact on multiple people’s lives? Possibility is an understatement if it is the right person; 2000’s Remember the Titans proves that one man can make not just a difference, but thee difference. Though there are struggles to show that blacks and whites can get along, Coach Boone plays a fantastic role model for the athletes to look up to, as well as someone that each one of us can learn from. Each individual can make a huge

Coach Boone’s way through which he connected with the players gave him an opportunity to help them come together, and in essence help themselves. The team as a whole had its dreams and goals, but because of their differences they weren’t able to complete them. They needed a mediator. Boone helped them feel successful, appreciative, and unique, while simultaneously bringing out the competitive side of the players in an attempt to have them focus more on the desire to win rather than the social issues at hand. Knowing that it is only possible by putting aside the racial barriers and helping everyone cooperate as a team. Under his hand everyone on the team is an equal, it doesn’t matter what skin tone, however, he showed them that they need to humble themselves and pay their respects to those people who died for the betterment of their nation. By so humbling themselves it made them more willing to cooperate, more capable of having an open mind and heart, in essence the becoming of a team. He gave them something they weren’t able to offer themselves: the opportunity to feel unique in a racially divided community. Young people love to feel special and Boone facilitates unity by offering the football players a chance to be a model society for the rest of the nation. Through his love and care he was able to change their outlook and their ability to come