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Film Analysis: Glory Road

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The movie Glory Road is about a Texas El Paso basketball coach putting a team together that will win, he knew that in order to do so he would have to bring a change to the world of basketball. Not caring about racial colors he recruits black players from different parts of the country with great talent to be great. This change would bring a bigger struggle. In this movie there are different types of leadership and different types of racial interactions. Don Haskins is the most predominant leader in the movie. He shows mostly an instrumental leadership type, being the coach trying to get his team to be the best they can be and be a successful team and win the games. He prepares his team by making them do hard drills at practice to

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