Friday

Friday Night Lights “Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Can’t Lose”. The first season of the American serial drama television series Friday Night Lights aired on October 3, 2006 and concluded its 22-episode season on April 11, 2007 on NBC. The show revolves around the Dillon Panthers and their new head coach Eric Taylor as they deal with the pressure of high school football in Texas and everything that comes with it, on and off the field. The show is most focused on the head coach of the Panthers, Eric…

I am a student at Coldwater High School. I recently read Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger in my Honors 11 English Class and I recommend you read it too. This book displays the pride, defeats, and brotherhood of a football team. This book is a thrilling book about Permian High School football team. In the story Bissinger talks about racism. In Odessa, Texas whites and blacks are separated by the railroad tracks. The author shows that the whites and blacks remain segregated besides on the…

In the novel Friday Night Lights, author H.G. Bissinger narrates his time spent with the 1988 Permian High School Football team in the small town of Odessa, Texas. Every individual involved with the team feels a certain pressure from the community to be as close to perfect as humanly possible, causing the game of football to feel a little more like a job than a sport. Bissinger takes a break from his typical life in his Philadelphia home to quench his thirst of finding a town whose football team…

and not straight to the point, unveiling of Odessa’s flaws gives the book a nice feel that Bissinger isn’t for or against the towns ways, he is only pointing them out to inform and instigate change. This book is in the non-fiction sports genre. Friday Night Lights starts off in the thick of a football game, which is where most of the focus lies throughtout the book. It’s a playoff game, and thousands of football craving fans adorned in black are shouting mojo at the Permian football team.…

Friday, the 18th of March, 2005, shall be remembered as a watershed in the Islamic discourse on the role of woman in religious life, as the first-ever Friday congregation was led by a Muslim woman scholar that day. The woman prayer leader, Amina Wadud, professor of Islamic Studies at the Virginia Commonwealth University, was considered a heretic by many, as she challenged the halo of sanctity around the male-centric, and in some cases, misogynic constructions of Muslim religious teachings.…

This Friday, member of the merit writing program, John Bultena, lectured on the significance of images in comic books. The lecture was interactive since it required the audience to interpret various comics. For every comic, it seemed like each audience member had their own unique interpretation. During this process, Bultena also elaborated on the significances we failed to notice. For example, he pointed out the different methods in which time can be depicted in comics. Adding that the context…

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…

November 14, 2016 1614788 Black Friday “Black Friday” is a day when everything is on sale. According to blackfriday.com I discovered that the expression Black Friday “was coined in the 1960s to mark the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season” blackfriday.com. Black Friday refers to “stores moving from the red to the black” back in the past when accounting records were kept by hand, the red ink indicated a loss, and black ink indicated a profit. Black Friday originally occurred during the…

following Friday is the day known as Black Friday. This day is where all the giving of thanks is thrown into the trash and replaced with two middle aged women fighting over the last toaster that’s half-off regular price in Wal-Mart. Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year which comes immediately after thanksgiving, where people fight over mediocre deals not long after giving thanks to everything in their lives. What would Thoreau say? As a consequence of Black Friday people…

The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much as they could of the nation’s gold, hoping to drive the price sky-high and sell it for astonishing profits. On that Friday in September, the conspiracy finally unraveled, sending the stock market into free-fall…