Friday Night Lights Research Paper

     Is High School football a sport, or is it more than that to some people? Recent newspaper headlines include such items as coaches abusing student athletes; fathers of athletes murdering coaches, and mother’s disabilitating cheerleading candidates to assure their daughters make the cheerleading team. In Odessa, Texas high school football is a major contributor to the society of a small town in Texas society. Every Friday night, 50,000 people fill the stadium to see high school students put their lives on the line to win a football game. H. G. Bissinger writes a novel called Friday Night Lights, about a year in 1988 where High School players prepare and play on the High School team, and what an impact they have

No one can deny the social segregation between nerds and athletes. We see it in the media and reality. Most turn a blind eye to this social occurrence, some put an emphasis towards it. A passionate writer by the name of Leonid Fridman wrote a passage titled, “America Needs Its Nerds,” which expands upon our nation’s social treatment of scholars. Fridman emphasizes the need of individuals who place their focus on learning to help advance our country versus one focusing on less important aspects such as athletics. Fridman uses dramatic tone and ethos to convey to his readers how “geeks and nerds” are undermined instead of admired in our society.

“‘Athletics last for such a short period of time. It ends for people. But while it lasts, it creates this make-believe world where normal rules don’t apply. We build this false atmosphere. When it’s over and the harsh reality sets in, that’s the real joke we play on people’” (Bissinger xiv). “Friday Night Lights” shows the darker side of high school football. Players are taught to play games to win, and thats all that matters. Football players are put under a tremendous amount of pressure, almost enough to be considered unfair. Even though football is a “team sport”, pressure on individual players is unnecessary. Some players have the burden of the team, the city, their family, and their future, resting on their shoulders. These players

When stopping to look around at the abundance of “friend groups” and cliques I couldn't help but notice how well worn and clichè they are. The quote unquote popular boys and jocks were stereotypically unnecessarily rowdy and were discussing the oh so important topic of … you guessed it football. “ Lamar Jackson is a total bada** . I knew he was gonna finess the heisman”. Of course they were swearing about sports. So original. A couple tables over and entire four long rectangular tables are filled with boy with broken hoop dreams. These boys know anything any everything when it comes to sports but were unfortunately to small short, weak or unathletic to make the cut . These boys have a better chance of being on a part of a professional team than the jocks. As an marking PA or something along those lines of course. Your typical cool asian girl are eating their home packed sushi with anime and Japanese designs all over there chopsticks. The cheer girl sit

In H.G. Bissinger’s novel Friday Night Lights he goes in-depth describing the world surrounding high school football in Texas. There is nothing like high school football in Texas, it is the best thing to happen to many of the people that live there. Winning a high school state championship in Texas can make someone a hero for the rest of their lives. This being said, it causes a lot of difficulties once this peak in their life is over at such a young age. Many of these people do not know how to live with themselves after their days of football are over. They grow up and live through their kids. Sports and academics are two of the areas of life where parents attempt to live their dreams and ambitions through their children.

This Movie also shows viewers how to be good sports although they encounter with one of the higher class kids of their neighborhood of course Benny and his team win and celebrate their victory by going to the local carnival and end up doing the most stupid things any of them could think of. Other things i also liked about this movie is that they worked as a team and help each other when needed also how most of them still were friends when older. Things i don't like about the Movie is how they can be very hard headed when it came to getting Smalls Ball back Smalls says that instead of trying to sneak up on the beast maybe asking Mr.Mertle if he can get the ball back Squints tells Smalls that Mr.Mertle was one of the meanest old man ever, but that wasn't the case

Would you rather be a bigger nerd or a better athlete? I bet the majority of you said athlete because that is what American culture is rooted in. However, in his article “America Needs Its Nerds” (1990) Leonid Fridman proposes that “For America’s sake the anti-intellectual values that pervade our society must be fought.” By first spelling out how the meaning of the terms geek and nerd are derogatory, and secondly, explaining how at prestigious colleges “nerds are ostracized while athletes are idolized” and third, describing how other countries treat the intellectually serious– hold them and teachers above athletes– Fridman accomplishes his task. Through his utilization definition, rhetorical question, and contrast, Fridman seeks to

Sustaining the ambitions of not only themselves but the alumni and town of Odessa, Texas is a lot to ask from a young adult. That’s exactly what Permian football provides to the people of Odessa, where the post economic boom of the oil business has left the town in a racially tense, economic crisis. The lights on Permian High School’s football field are the only sanctuary for the west Texas town. Socially and racially divided, Odessa’s mass dependence on high school football constructs glorified expectations for the football team to temporarily disguise the disappointments that come with living in a town tagged as the “murder capital” of

The movie seems to focus a lot on the relationship between Davis and coach Schwartzwalder. The football scenes in the movie are well done and the camaraderie which develops between the players really works. Overall, this is a heartwarming story which also shows a personal side of Davis. You see his gutsy determination to continue on when faced with a terrible disease. It is a feel good movie, but also a sad one, as Davis is unable to play even one game in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns. If Ernie Davis was as kind, hard working, and optimistic as this movie portrayed him to be, he deserved all the accolades he received, and then some. This movie was rated PG and has a running time of two hours and nine minutes. It is a good family movie, which sends a good message, especially for a movie

Some people don’t understand that football is not an easy game. Football is one of America’s favorite sports. A team winning can easily change a fan’s mood for the better. Our team works very hard to win and compete with other teams, but it takes a lot more work than just showing up on Friday night and playing. In order to get ready for a game a player will need to complete steps for the day before and the day of the game.

In the last five years there has been an enormous shift in the way television is consumed, largely due to the growing availability of content online. The internet has brought the power of what, when and where a program is consumed into the hands of the viewer (Pittman & Sheehan, 2015). This has caused a surge in both the amount, and the frequency of television consumed, leading to a growth of a viewing practice known as ‘binge-watching’ (Matrix, 2014; Pittman & Sheehan, 2015). Streaming services, such as Netflix, have helped to facilitate this change in consumption practices (Pittman & Sheehan, 2015). Netflix is an online streaming platform with a large variety of television programs and movies, which are made available to subscribers for a small monthly fee. Some of the content is exclusive to the streaming site, and others have originated elsewhere but are now available through the streaming service. Peaky Blinders is a show that falls into the latter category, having originally aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. The first three seasons of Peaky Blinders have recently been made available on Netflix. As shown in my media journal, this was how I consumed this program. While Peaky Blinders was not originally distributed as a program to binge-watch, it does meet several of the criteria which makes it a program ideal for this type of consumption.

Okay we all know that America can have some intense television programs that are offensive, and filled with profanity. No wonder kids are so rebellious to their parents these days cause of shows like Family Guy. Other shows like The Simpsons could also have an affect on kids’ behavior in a negative way. Just to provide some background on the situation Family Guy and The Simpsons have big similarities and differences. Some which include derogatory language but we will get into that a little bit later. Now that we have an idea what’s going on let me get more in depth with the situations.

Imagine yourself in a dark environment where you can only see sparks of light every few inches away from each other. Once the voice said the phrase "Let it glow", the moment of magic began to happen where lanterns were released and flying up toward the stars. Reflecting back at the moment, nothing can go beyond the experience of expressing our gratitude and love felt by ours heart to be written down and be able to sent it up toward the dark space. Although the actual experience can't be expressed through words, it is definitely heart warming to experience a special event like Lantern Fest. Keeping service in mind, Nevada Circle K volunteered at Lantern Fest on September 24 with different shifts throughout the day with registering, packing the

As a kid I never liked reading. The only reason I ever read was because I had to in elementary school. When I got into the sixth grade the third book in the Twilight Saga came out as a movie. I never had interest in the movies, but my friends got me to watch them just so I could go to the theatre to see Eclipse with her. I started to really like them, and everybody kept talking about how the books are better and I wanted to see if that was true. My dad bought me the entire series and I finished them in two weeks. That series was the first series of novels I ever read, and after that I just fell completely in love with reading. As of now I have read the Twilight series five times(once for every movie).

The book Twilight is a very interesting book showing that extraordinary polarities don’t matter between two people. No one in their right mind would think that a lion and a lamb could fall in love. Lots of people would say that this is impossible. However, others say nothing is impossible.