Friday Night Lights: A Town

where the only person I know in the town is my brother, the idea of not being confined in one spot for my entire life sounds unenticing. By moving to new places with new people every so often I have often encountered different challenges and situations. Whether it be at a school with no cliques or a school where the cliques could rival the cliques in Mean Girls, or a town with something to do every night or a town where everyone’s lights were out by 9 pm on a Friday, I always had to learn to…

classroom on a Friday. We couldn’t wait to bust out of the schools doors and claim our prize of a short freedom for surviving another busy, exhausting, and slow week of middle school. I rushed to my locker, grabbed everything I would need for the homework due Monday, threw it in my bag and headed down the hall collecting my friends to walk to town to start what I would hope would be a slow but fun weekend off The weekend went quicker than I wished and before I knew it, it was late Sunday night…

“A person’s thinking or behavior is classified as abnormal if it violates the rule of what is expected or acceptable behavior in a particular social group.” This is called a norm violation. Some people commit a norm violation without even knowing it while some do it on purpose to get you uncomfortable or to invade your space. “The violation of social norms may result from multiply factors and an appropriate theory for such behavior may have to employ an integrated or multi causal model.”[McCaghy…

“River Bank”, “My Kinda Night” by Luke Bryan says “Out where the corn rows, row my boat. Floatin down the Flint river, catch us up a little catfish dinner”. Friday nights appear to be a common denominator with country music artists. Kenny Chesney 's “Boys of Fall” which is about Friday night high school football players. “Weekend” by Brantley Gilbert says the entire weekend is a Friday night. Jason Aldean’s new song “Lights Come On” is about having fun at a concert on a Friday night. It’s widely…

years old, he is average height for his age, he has striking blue eyes, and loves to play sports as well as video games. As the kids stroll towards home, clouds abruptly enter. A blue flare of lightning shot down from the sky faster than the speed of light, and struck just a centimeter behind Chris. Chris knew that he was lucky to survive a shot hotter and fiercer than the sun, he wanted badly to go home and forget everything that just happened, but he couldn’t. Chris thought to himself “If that…

Covered Bridge was built in 1879 by A.M. Kennedy and Sons, who had built around fifty covered bridges in Indiana by the 1900s. The bridge was built with a Burr arch truss located in Guilford, Indiana, over Tanners Creek as the entrance into the small town. The bridge was seventeen feet nine inches wide, twelve feet nine inches tall, and one hundred four feet long with a seven foot overhang at both ends. The bridge contained distinctive Kennedy aspects, including the distinguishing portal arch,…

It was a quiet Friday at Henry’s. There were only five customers scattered around the restaurant. There was elderly couple at one of the booths quietly eating their food, two younger men at the bar chatting about their plans for the night; and one man sitting near the window and reading the local tabloids. Both George and Lennie were, in the back of the restaurant, working. George was cleaning dishes, while Lennie was trying his best to mop. “George, I don’t like moppin’, why can’t I go back ta…

College Park is a big time college town that just like any other college town loses thousand of people buying items in the town over the summer time. This festival would be hosted over the summer in which over thirty thousand less people would be living in College Park than over the rest of the year. A town may have many reasons for not wanting ninety thousand people coming in and spend four days in their city but there are many reasons why this would help the city. First off, the revenue that…

water near the snake to try and scare him and make him let go of the frog but the snake didn't care at all. The snake was hungry and he wasn't going to let go for anything. We ended up leaving the Shut Ins around three in the afternoon and went to a town i forgot the name of. We stopped at the gas station to buy Josh some new water shoes because his were too big so rocks were getting in and hurting his feet. There was a fireworks stand out front so we bought a bunch of bottle rockets and smoke…

How did football affect the culture in Odessa? Odessa, Texas was settled in the 1880’s in hopes of turning into a destination town. The land was a dessert and was useless to farm or raise livestock. It wasn’t until the discovery of oil and gas deposits, that Odessa became a boom or bust oil economy. A “boom or bust” economy is the process of economic expansion and contraction that occurs repeatedly. The rise and fall of oil production within Odessa’s economy impacts family structure, the…