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Michael Catanzaro 12-03-03 Remember the Titans Jerry Bruckheimer's Remember the Titans is based on the true story of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. The film chronicles the Virginia School Board's seemingly insurmountable task of integration in 1971, and the consequential response of the community. The state's most successful high school football program was forced to integrate with a black school. The School Board unwittingly initiated the conflict that was necessary for adaptive change. The Coaches are there to help orchestrate and manage the conflict as well as model appropriate behavior for the football players. Characters within the movie serve as archetypal of the community at large and in doing such, represent various dysfunctions that organizations and even society as a whole operates with everyday. It can, at times, be difficult to summarize what sports can mean to a community. I think of Boston and what their sports teams mean...

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