October Sky

In the movie, "October Sky", many examples of cooperation and dedication were displayed. When a group of people from the town go out to see Sputnik, the first satellite ever launched by Russia, a boy named Homer becomes very attached to the science and math of rockets. This gives him the motivation to start a group called the Rocket Boys that build rockets in a deserted area and launch them there. When a forest fire starts the police officers blame it on the Rocket Boys putting them in handcuffs. It wasn't until their parents came to get them, that they were released. Soon after there is accident in the coal mines where everbody works and Homer's dad gets seriously hurt. This causes Homer to take his dads place therefore making him drop out of school so he can work. Soon after his dad is better Homer reads a book about rockets that Ms. Reily, his science teacher gives. While using the maps and the math in the book he was able to prove that the Rocket Boy indeed had not started the forest fire they were accused of doing. Because of this, the Rocket Boys once again had once again gotton their rights back to that open area. Cooperation was displayed in this movie because all the Rocket Boys work together in order to build a rocket that is able to fly well enough into the sky. When the boys enter a science fair, they get chosen to go into the nationals but the school could only pay for one person to go. Therefore, they used the quality trait assertion to choose the Homer had given up enough and deserved to go the National Science Fair. Homer's father never had much empathy for Homer's love of these rockets, but, when the displays Homer was about to present, get stolen, his father realizes that it is time to start supporting his son and allow one of his workers to make Homer another display prop. He soon gets second prize along with many scholarship opportunities. All of the Rockets boys acheived something from this lifelong journey and soon they all acheived prospering two of which were a job at NASA and a job as an Oil Engineer.