Friday Night Lights

players to practice on ONE WEEK ! before their first home game!!!! It is especially demoralizing to the athletes who travel to other high school venues and find themselves on a varsity football field with adequate seating for the spectators and lights that can be necessary for the SAFETY OF THE PLAYERS !!!! Where supporters of the programs are able to generate revenue through…

Football has become a way of life for Americans. There is Friday night high school football, Saturday college football, and Sunday NFL. There are teams all over the country that fans devote themselves to one hundred percent, and in the small, deserted town of Odessa, the fans do just that. In H. G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights, football has become a necessity in life. The town comes together every Friday night and rallies for their team. Permian football is the town’s heart. Without football,…

H.G. Bissinger is a very effective author. In his non-fiction novel Friday Night Lights, he is unbias between the sides of arguements and writes freely without the persuasion of others. The author describes the racism, explains the passion for football, and paints a picture of the historical background of the town well. Bissinger keeps an unbias stand-point throughout the book. As he meets with people and they explain their views on certain things he does his best to keep his own personl views…

Sports is a big aspect of high school life, especially the sport of football. The films The Blind Side, Remember the Titans, and Friday Night Lights, all revolve around the sport of football and how it manages to change the lives of the athletes. Among these films, the main themes I will focus on will be on the impact of being in a team and the influence an authority figure has on the athletes’ lives. I will begin with examining the theme of being a part of a sports team and how much growth it…

something else, they do not exactly provide hope, but a false or temporary hope. People always know the game is going to have to end, but they still enjoy what they have left. In H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights, there is a small town called Odessa that experiences this erroneous hope every friday night. It is known that the town has problems with the oil, crime and murder rates, but once you step into the stadium, all the problems just disappear.…

When I first entered Harding Stadium on November 4, 2011, I could feel the electricity in the air. Friday Night Lights in the state of Ohio, one of the biggest high school football states in the country. Round 1 of the OHSAA Division III playoffs. Two crosstown rivals playing in one of the most anticipated games in recent memory. The 8-2 Indian Creek Redskins, the school I had gone to my entire life, taking on the Steubenville Big Red, the 10-0, #1 ranked team in the state. “Death Valley”…

and nuclear war. Oh yes, I,like millions of other teenagers loved good rock music and was just beginning to discover MTV. Before my parents got cable and MTV, I watched this other program that played music videos. I believe it was called "Friday Night Videos" and it was great stuff. I eagerly watched and enjoyed great music videos. Bands such as "Van Halen", "Def Leppard"…

The last couple of weeks had been very long and drawn out for my family and I. Although we were a very withstanding family and looked healthy, however many problems lay under the surface that made this an untrue statement. However, my brother, Tarryn, had been sick with severe stomach pain for quite some time now. The doctors at Scott County Clinic were baffled as they had no diagnosis for his symptoms. We were also baffled as a family, but we finally decided to seek doctors with a great…

Black Friday, a time of the year when everything is on sale and almost everyone is in mood of shopping. It is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. During Black Friday, the retail stores come up with many giant sales promotions and door-buster sales events. For most of the people the main attractions on Black Friday are the discounts on electronic goods and appliances. Other than that, people buy almost everything just because it’s Black Friday. They think that if it is…

use of stars throughout his poetry to signify a light in the dark. Neruda uses a star motif to indicate a positive feeling or outlook surrounded by the harsh darkness of negativity. Neruda suggests that there can only be light if there is also darkness and the emotional highs and lows in life must ultimately balance out. In his poems, Neruda uses the motif of stars to portray positive emotions in contrast to the negative emotions represented by night, showing the reader that people cannot feel…