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The Genre Of The Sub Genre

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Each genre has their conventional way of displaying themselves in movie titles. The sub-genre not often talked about, inspirational teacher/drama has this exact same flow, it has various key elements that make up their story and become part of that sub-genre. “Given the importance of storytelling as an organizational knowledge transfer mechanism, there is a need to develop a comprehensive and well-grounded framework for analyzing organizational stories to identify their salient characteristics, types of knowledge embodied and their likely effectiveness in achieving their purpose.”(Lee et al. 1). This concept can be applied to all types of storytelling, sub-genres are no exception. In the case of this sub-genre, there are various …show more content…

This wasn’t very given light on the subject however it is clear it is an issue due to the whole school having an academic failure and being played by an all-black cast. 1988 was the time a film “Stand and Deliver” was directed by Ramón Menéndez. Their story’s protagonists were a group of Hispanic students taking AP calculus in a low academic achieving school. The school board doesn’t believe they can produce great marks. As said by their mentor Jaime Escalante said: “Those scores would have never been questioned if my kids did not have Spanish surnames and come from burial grounds.” The same correlation can be made in the movie “Great Debaters” directed by Denzel Washington in 2007 when a black debating team staying in a white prominent community is chased off by some of the town members after witnessing a lynching of the black citizen. Is it obvious that they are being discriminated after a white townsperson exclaims “There’s niggers in that car” and chases after them. This film takes a more radical approach to discrimination, which creates a more impactful emphasis on discrimination. A film that doesn’t acknowledge discrimination however clearly is presented is the 2010 “Karate Kid” directed by Harald Zwarts. Dre an African American moves to china and is outcasted due to not knowing the culture. There is not verbal talk of being a different race, this method of discrimination is unique since the

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