Friday Night Lights: A Town

As my high school career is coming to an end, I find myself wanting something more than just a high school diploma. Growing up in a small ranching town my parents have always taught me to want something more than just a job at McDonald's flipping burgers. Growing up with an older brother and a younger sister has definitely made life more interesting; my older brother has been more of a role model for me just by learning how to do stuff with cars and more mechanic type things. My sister is the…

it wasn’t as bad as I thought. Only the town’s kids were jerks. I realized I haven’t left the town and had a chance to meet people like Khalid. That’s when I moved to the capital of Yemen, Sana’a. A three-hour long car ride from Rada’a I saw a lot of the land, it was drier than I thought it would be, “Yemen was facing a looming water crisis” (Running dry). I also past a port town that had a lot of light skin people, and they looked American. Surly enough they spoke English and are from Britain…

discover who you truly are. You will find your niche. Yet, looking back on my Sophomore and Junior years, I lack memories of Friday night lights followed by going to the newest movies with friends. Instead, the absence of a normal high school experience is replaced by reminiscing on phone calls to strangers in all fifty states to share my passions. I can reflect on late night rallies of thousands of people gathered around to hear one man speak his mind. I flashback to weekends that consist of…

Upon seeing A Christmas Carol on the night of Friday, November 18th, I had what I thought to be a firm understanding of the Charles Dicken’s classic. It was until the show was over that I realized my previous interpretation was completely senseless, with little to no opinion deriving beyond the script. As I dove into the performance in the Joan C, Edwards playhouse, I made personal connections that I had never made before when watching other adaptions of A Christmas Carol, in particular Scrooge…

Independent Reading – Connections 1. As of Friday, December 11th, 2015 I have finished reading Paper Towns by award winning author John Green. The book, published in 2009 by A Penguin Random House Company, is a novel about romance and mystery. This book sends a teenager boy who tries to find the girl of his dreams. I have finished 305/305 pages within the book. 2. The book Paper Towns by John green is about a teenage boy, named Quentin find a girl named Margo, the girl of his dreams. Ever…

The year 2008, my name Wesley C. Coffey, my video game of choice S.L.A.I (Steel Lancer Area International) a little known, highly underrated sequel to Phantom Crash and this was the night my life would change. Like most fourteen year olds' who could stay up as late as they pleased and didn’t have access to the wonders of the world wide web, I was channel surfing for, how do I put this without sounding obscene, ‘porn’ when I came across a show by the name of X-Play, which didn’t have any smut but…

I suppose every state, large city , or small town in the United States has its bragging rights on being champion in one sport or the other. Football comes to my mind, especially high school football in the State of Texas. Statistically, three states contribute more high school athletes to division 1A college football. California, Texas, and Florida are leaders in this category. I am most familiar with West Texas high school football, especially District IV- 5A. These are considered large Texas…

sport in the south, football, is a game that stumbled out of rugby and soccer. In 1823, English soccer player, William Ebb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it, inspiring the students of Princeton to become involved in a sport they called “ball town”. The first football game took place on November 6th of 1869 in Brunswick, New Jersey between the Rutgers and Princeton. One hundred spectators gathered to watch a game with no helmets, uniforms or developed scoring system. The Rutgers won the…

Friday nights held a special place in the hearts of the people in Floodwood. The bright lights and the game of football are what everyone looked forward to on those nights. My town was one of the smallest towns in my area with a population of five hundred people. It was small but close knit place, where you knew everyone and everyone knew you. There was one main road leading in and out of town and the rest of them were dirt. One of the perks of living in such a small town was that you got to…

In smaller towns the school is part of the community’s environment. Friday night football games light up the skies and the sound from the announcement box can be heard for miles. When a school is closed it takes away a vital part of the town. The availability for parents to attend school functions may become diminished, and even a parent’s sense of security can be lost. With…