Friday Night Lights is a dramatic show based in a small Texan town known as Dillon. The show revolves around the Dillon high school and their football team, the Panthers. The Dillon Panthers were a very successful team up until their star quarterback; Jason Street was injured and was paralyzed. However, Coach Taylor was able to train the backup quarterback so their team could gain back their former glory. Which lead to them winning the championship football game. Race, family, and religion play large roles in the Dillon community. These roles define the community and the students and others within it. Race is a group of people that share the same culture, history, and language. In Friday Night Lights coach MacGill of the Panthers team “accidentally”
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In Friday Night Lights there are two known churches. One Church contained the white members of the Dillon community while the other contains the African American members of the community. These churches support their members but never have any type of interaction or known thoughts about the other. This also could add to the racial problems in Dillon if any disagreements occurred. In most towns churches are split like this. In Chesterfield, it seems to be rare to ever see the two races share a church unless it is a church that supports AWANA, but even then it’s mostly white/Caucasian children and mixed children. Churches have been split for so long that no one tends to want to join them together as one. One major difference between these churches is how their members act. (This doesn’t apply to all African American) African American churches tend to have longer services but most of those church members, minus young children and elderly go right back to filthy or crime involved jobs. This would include drug dealers and prostitutes as main examples. In Friday Night Lights the “white” church has no problems with its use (that involves the church) but the “black” church had a situation with Smash Williams taking money that was given to him for SATs and using them for steroids in order to boost his growth for
In Friday Night Lights there are two known churches. One Church contained the white members of the Dillon community while the other contains the African American members of the community. These churches support their members but never have any type of interaction or known thoughts about the other. This also could add to the racial problems in Dillon if any disagreements occurred. In most towns churches are split like this. In Chesterfield, it seems to be rare to ever see the two races share a church unless it is a church that supports AWANA, but even then it’s mostly white/Caucasian children and mixed children. Churches have been split for so long that no one tends to want to join them together as one. One major difference between these churches is how their members act. (This doesn’t apply to all African American) African American churches tend to have longer services but most of those church members, minus young children and elderly go right back to filthy or crime involved jobs. This would include drug dealers and prostitutes as main examples. In Friday Night Lights the “white” church has no problems with its use (that involves the church) but the “black” church had a situation with Smash Williams taking money that was given to him for SATs and using them for steroids in order to boost his growth for