Michael Oher & The High Five Principles.

        In the movie "The Blind Side" Michael Oher clearly demonstrates the High Five Principles. As a more dominant character in a film about ones journey for success, it is easy to place his life into charts and file it as a good example for an English class. In everyone's life there is a starting point, a place where the journey begins. This is the moment when a person realizes their purpose and where they're supposed to go in life. Not everyone can do it alone, fortunately in most cases there are other people who are able to help. Michael was able to follow his heart, even though he had to experience a lot of change and he got the bonus of learning along the way. His journey opened up opportunities as well as adventures and he finally had multiple people to access when he needed help. 

High Five Principles-  Michael Oher

Follow your Heart: 

• Michael had possible dreams of a better life.
  

• Michael wanted to protect his family.
  

• For Michael Football was a dream of his, he wanted to make his family proud.
  

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Change is Constant: 

• He was taken in by Tuohy family.
  

• He got used to living with them and he even got his own bed, the only bed he’d ever had.
  

He had to get used to hurting people in football. At first he didn’t want to tackle he wasn’t working at it. it was a change he had to get used to.

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Learning is Ongoing:

• He was excepted into a good school where he worked hard and learned a lot.
  

• He discovered that the Tuohy’s cared about him and he learnt the value of family and friendship.
  

• He learned that the football team was his family and he had to protect them. He also learnt that he was pretty good at football
  

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Focus on the Journey:

• Along his journey he developed relationships with the Tuohy’s and became a part of the family.
  

• Along the journey he stood up for his new mother and made sure to protect his little brother when they got into a car accident.
  

• He realized he could go to college for football if he got his grades up, this was a big opportunity for him on his journey.
  

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Access your Allies:

• The coach  got him into the school & S.J wanted to be his friend right from the start.
  

• His family was there for whatever he needed. They even got him the truck he wanted..
  

• His tutor, Miss Sue was there to make sure he’d succeed and get into the school of his choice.
  

photo links:
http://www.davenussbaum.com/adapting-to-change/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Love_Heart_SVG.svg

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-child-learning-difficulty-image2591459

http://timbers.org/ai1ec_event/crave/?instance_id=

http://bestclipartblog.com/30-friends-clip-art.html/friends-clip-art-5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oher

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