The Influence Of Breaking History

The players of a high school football team were traveling home from their football game in Fernandina Beach, Florida. It had been a tough night. It was August and still hot. The game had lasted three hours, and the players had to play offense, defense, and special teams because there

In Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger uses powerful examples of the harms, dangers, and unethical behavior in football in order to evoke an emotional response from his readers and change their opinions about high school sports, specifically football. Bissinger explores the obsession of the Texas town of Odessa with football, showing the side effects of this culture. In America, the benefits of high school sports are heavily touted, but the dangers are often not discussed. Bissinger offers a counter argument in this often one sided debate in order to challenge the domination of sports in high school environments. By appealing to the emotions of his readers, Bissinger is able to make an effective argument against the influence and excessive love of high school sports in America.

Within sports, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it. H. G. Bissinger’s book, Friday Night Lights, hones in on the football team the Permian Panthers of Odessa. Through this focus on the team, one can see how football is an integral part of the town thriving, maintaining its hopes and dreams. Despite the racial and social divide within the community, those Friday night games become a place where dreams may be made possible. In this way, sports, specifically football, not only have an impact on the players but the community as well.

Football isn’t just about going on the field and playing 4 quarters against another team every week. It’s not just those Friday nights going to watch your high school team play. Football is a brotherhood, it’s your second family. It’s making memories that you will have with you for the rest of your life. It’s the hours of preparation, sweat, tears, blood, bumps and bruises and going back out everyday just to give it your all. Football isn’t just a game that i’ve played it’s something that has shaped me into the person I am today.

Sports are a large part of America’s culture as well as Odessa’s. In Friday Night Lights, the players spend their entire lives training to be successful because sports are all they have to look forward to. During the final game of the season to make it to state, Ronnie Beavers told his team, “This is the last minute of your life” (326). Beavers quote shows the importance of the moment. If Permian does not win the game, they have nothing to look forward to in their future. This semi-final game is “much more than a game” for Permian. What Beaver is saying is ridiculous, the Permian players act like Football will determine their future. By following the players and the town, Bissinger is able to show readers how important sports are in Odessa. Bissinger notes how it was “obvious” that the students of Permian hold the town on their shoulders (XIV). By following the story of the American small town, including many personal anecdotes, Bissinger shows the effect that sports have in Odessa. Friday Night Lights supports Lapham’s claim that games represent much more than a game. It is not merely a game but a way of life. Permian players eat, breathe, and live football. Their lives are centralized around one thing: Football. Bissinger describes the town when he states, “If you went to their homes, you might find black toilet seats, or black seat cushions, or black phone book covers, or black paper plates, or black clocks, or black felt on their pool tables” (39). Bissinger throughout the book displays how the town revolves around sports. Everything that Odessa does is centered around the football team. The players train everyday to work to improving their record and that is all that matters to

Sports are a significant part of society and spectators enjoy particular events regardless of the type. However, there are many players who develop special working and social relationships with whom they are participating regardless of the type of sport. The relationship and how people interact with one another can be the determination of how successful a team can be. The particular film based on a true story that I chose is titled When the Game Stands Tall. This film consists of a high performing football team of De La Salle High School in the state of California. Jim Caviezel portrays the head coach (Bob Ladouceur) as a man with such vision and passion that goes beyond the fundamental principles of coaching the game of football. The football team had won 151 games without being defeated which is the highest winning record a team has had in the game of football. The film shows the internal struggles of the players in their lives as people, and how they perform on the field. It also shows the external tragic difficulties that they face while they attend and play for De Le Salle High School. In the movie, the head coach helps the students/players by not only coaching them but also showing them how to live a flourishing life by committing to endure difficult life situations and the way to overcome them. He helps teach the principles of brotherhood and companionship with the team that they build. In the movie, the head coach and the staff had taught the players

In this paper, I will be outlining the costs and benefits of social and technological fixes, and then I will be assessing the use of social and technological fixes of air pollution through the use of automobiles.

It was mid September 2016 we were on our making our way to Lake Hamilton. An hour and a half later we arrived, it had been my first time in Lake Hamilton ever. I walked into the sunlight exiting the bus. We all ran to the locker room and got a drink of water and went to stretch so we wouldn’t have problems with cramps and charley horses. We started hitting practice and ran some sprints to warm up. Soon after the Lake Hamilton football team came out. I wasn’t intimidated to the slightest, I knew what I was capable of and was hunting for fresh blood.

Growing up in the small rural town of Tuttle, Oklahoma is something I would not trade for anything. I will always remember the homecoming football games. I saw these games from a different perspective than most, beginning from when I was in the marching band. I remember how hot, heavy and old the uniforms we had to wear every Friday night where. I also recall all the good memories I made with my friends on those autumn nights, from marching on the field to playing our fight song, Tiger Rag, when our team made a touchdown. For four years, starting with my Seventh-grade year this was how life was.

During my four years at Salina Central High School, I’ve been involved in the football team. Michael Hall, my head coach, father figure, and role model has taught me many many things in such special ways in my eyes. When someone joins the program, Coach Hall’s motive is not only to make us great football players but even better people in life and in my case, he’s done a phenomenal job which I’m so extremely grateful for. He taught me how to always have hope, courage, and mercy when it’s necessary.

When I do wake up, and I do go to school, however, I find myself staring at the walls as I walk to my first class, as if transfixed by the sudden transformation of antiquated green lockers to glass barriers that safeguard the fifty- or hundred-odd trophies from the caustic, slipshod touch of a teenager’s dirty hand. And what do these golden accolades, of which the school has felt the need to shield from harm’s way, commemorate? Plaque after plaque, medal after medal, trophy after trophy, venerate the sweepstakes won by the varsity orchestra for this many years, or the district football championship won by the junior varsity team in so-and-so year, or even an entire glass case dedicated to the school’s current pom squad, with each of the members’ photos printed in large copies. If you look hard enough, you might find a small section of these trophy cases dedicated to the academic decathlon team, or, even harder, the math and science UIL team. My school, the most celebrated in town for its excellent curriculum, concentrates more heavily on athletics and the fine arts than it does education, the entity that

After some initial hindrances, they found hope and strength in Jack Lengyel, they got attracted towards his leadership spirit. Jack was a young coach strong-minded to re-construct the Marshall's football program. Not only this, he also wanted, in the process, help to cover up and make the community move on. Less than a year later, on September 18, 1971, Marshall University's brand new Thundering Herd was poised to perform one of the huge retaliations in collegiate sports. A raw, young at heart and inexpert squadron, reinforced together under the supervision of Lengyel and Dawson. They would disobey crushing chances just to march onto the grid for the first game of school since that hideous accident. That season, it was not of the concern, whether Marshall won or lost. It didn't even matter how they performed in the game. All that mattered was that they took part and made themselves strong enough to play a match again after the ill-fated accident.

The most remarkable thing about the success of the boys who made up the McFarland High School Cross-Country Team is the hard work the boys put in to be a part of the team. The boys wake up before school at 4:00 in the morning to go straight to work in the fields and pick crops. After school they run 8 miles everyday on large and steap hills. They then come home to an old broken-down home with little money to get by. The boys have to watch their parents sacrifice everything they have to give their children the best education possible. However, despite all the the boys’ setbacks and challenges they managed to run on the school’s cross-country team and win first place in the California state championship.

Many people say that history impacts an author’s writing. What it means for history to impact an author’s writing is for certain events, life experiences, or trials and tribulations the author’s past to change an author’s perspective on something. Altering the authors beliefs and the authors views on particular topics. Some historical event that can impact an author’s writing would be war, death of family members or friends. These kinds of events tend to have such a large impact because they change the authors perspective on certain events and the author writes about his/her perspective on a specific subject throughout their book. Tolkien went to war and lost two close friends and many people in his platoon in the 20th century. He also had

It was a dark and stormy,No you know what that is a very boring way to start a amazing story like mine.Well that and it's been done to death.Let's write this story my way.We all are a part of a story.We all take our own paths and affect the future and in a way history.Sure some parts my go unnoticed.But you truly do affect it.The day I affected history was a lovly day.In oregon terms that means slightly less rain.I was running to the bus stop if I remeber corretly.