Information about the education system existing in Odessa that hit the oil based economy was also gathered by collecting raw data about the family structure of people, educational priorities and communal stability. How football has become the day-night partner of Odessa in lifting the overall economy of Odessa was explained and addressed through adequate knowledge and real life data gathered from the depressed economy of Odessa. It is not that the author has relied upon any secondary data. But…
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…
Generational Deficits: The complexity of generational poverty One would assume that if one generation is impoverished and the next generation is also impoverished, that this had to be from the same lack of resource and exclusively that. This generational poverty, however, does not necessarily have to be the same as the one preceding it. Each generation who is impoverished finds themselves in a new situation that has its own unique deficits of a certain resource that they simply cannot live…
As a young girl, I spent the vast majority of my time sequestered in my room with my dolls. They helped me to escape my reality. They listened to me without judgement and gave voice to the conversations that I desperately wanted to have but could not. I remember vividly wanting a Barbie that had brown hair and green eyes. I wanted a doll that represented me, one that looked like me or at least seemed like the person I wanted to grow up to be. I don’t remember my age when I saw my first…
Ms. Grondin, I am not sure if you are aware of the situation that the high school lacrosse teams have been subjected to, again this year, concerning their home playing field. It is an embarrassment to Edward Little High School and the Auburn School District when the lacrosse teams have to host their home matches on a PRACTICE FIELD !! , that was deemed unsafe for the players to practice on ONE WEEK ! before their first home game!!!! It is especially demoralizing to the athletes who travel to…
that Reid explains the similarities between athletes and animals, he compares the coaches to owners or masters. For example, when Reid first starts training at the University of Michigan, he says ““This time he owns your body and your mind for the next four years” (Reid 2). In football, a player’s body becomes their greatest asset is their bodies. So, to own a ballplayer’s body is to ultimately own them as a whole, thus placing the coaches in the “master” position of the player-coach power…
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…
The book Automatic Millionaire by David Bach has taught me so many different ways to become rich from a young age, let alone in ways that you can start late and still finish rich, which happens to be the title of another book. I never really thought about being a millionaire until after reading this book. The best thing about this book was that it showed me what I was already doing right, and what I needed to work on to perfect my goal of being a millionaire. My previous thoughts on how to…
The book “The Millionaire Nest Door” is about the millionaires of America and their lifestyle. The authors went to investigate on how millionaires get wealthy and how they stay that way. They wondered are most of the millionaires from rich families that get inheritance from their parents. Do the millionaires of this county live in big houses with numerous foreign cars? Do millionaires buy thousand dollar suits and watches? Do they by no means have to worry about budgeting and investing their…
Today as in yesterday is tomorrow as in today: struggle between modernity and tradition in Pour la Suite du Monte Pour la Suite du Monte is a Canadian documentary film directed by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault in 1963. The film follows the residence in the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec about the traditional Beluga whale-hunting event as they agreed to reenact it for the one last time. One of the most outstanding themes from this film is the inheritance and innovation of the tradition…