Friday Night Lights Media Criticism If you were to ask a random person on the street to name five aspects that represent America the sport of football would undoubtedly come up more times than not. The sport of football is so engrained in our society that over 113 million Americans watched the championship game also known as the Super Bowl this past year3. After discovering how rooted this game is in American society it is no surprise that Football serves as the focal point of one of the most
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Brant Norlander 2/20/11 Sociology of Sports Prof. Delany Friday Night Lights Sustaining the ambitions of not only themselves but the alumni and town of Odessa‚ Texas is a lot to ask from a young adult. That’s exactly what Permian football provides to the people of Odessa‚ where the post economic boom of the oil business has left the town in a racially tense‚ economic crisis. The lights on Permian High School’s football field are the only sanctuary for the west Texas town. Socially
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The Scary Friday Night Descriptive writing It was a Friday night. The full moon was shining through the bare branches making scary shadows on our path as we walked. A cool light wind was blowing sending leaves dancing noisily in the forest floor. I remember thinking to myself that the night‚ was the scariest night ever‚ and I wanted to ask Scott to go back and take the long way through the road‚ but I was afraid that he would laugh at me and make jokes about me for being scared of the dark. The
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Friday Night Lights Questions 1. For Brian Chavez‚ football does not play as large as a role in his life as it does for the other players. Chavez is very smart and works hard at school‚ therefore he plans to have a career from his education‚ not from football. Boobie Miles is relying on football as a career and does not perform in school‚ therefore football plays a very large role in his life as he is relying on football to make money as a career. The people of Odessa are similar to Boobie as
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The book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger is about a high school football team from a small town in Odessa‚ Texas. The citizens of Odessa are football-crazed fanatics which thrive off the highschool football team‚ the Permian Panthers. For them‚ football is the most important aspect in their lives that they even value the teams winning record over grades. There is very little regard given to education among the highschool. Much of the town’s businesses are in dismal condition because oil‚ its
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crime rate and such bleak prospects that Money magazine rated it the fifth worst place to live in the United States. Football‚ Permian High football‚ was what held the town together. And hold it did‚ with crowds of 20‚000 flocking to see games on Friday nights‚ and thousands watching every practice and internalizing every success and failure of the team. The Permian Panthers was no ordinary high school football team. Its win-loss record was unrivalled in the state‚ and the team had won five state championships
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Stephen Bolden 4/1/13 Contemporary Lit Honors Ms. Delmour Boobie Miles in the book Friday Night Lights had minor differences from Boobie Miles in the movie. In the book they touched on boobie’s background and how he got to live with his uncle L.V. the movie didn’t touch on that. In the book Boobie had more pressure on him to do well in football than in the movie. The Odessa townspeople felt like he was only good for football and after his injury he was a nobody. In the movie people
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The book "Friday Night Lights"‚ is a book about a team of high school football players; all with different characters‚ personalities‚ and situations. The town of Odessa‚ in Texas is where the story begins and takes place in. To some of the players‚ football is just a game and for others‚ it is much more. To portray the mood and feeling that there is more than what meets the eye‚ Bissinger uses various rhetorical strategies throughout writing the book; however the strategies that are more often seen
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be featured as the next best thing‚ not only collegiately but professionally as well. That all changed during his sophomore year at the University he suffered a horrifying knee injury‚ which led to him being known as the best that never was. Friday Night Lights’ Boobie Miles and Oklahoma Sooner Marcus Dupree have quite the similarities when it comes to their football glory. Boobie Miles and his Uncle L.V. had dreams of Boobie turning professional and being a highly paid running back in the NFL
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fans‚ many people put their whole physical and mental being into the game. Friday Night Lights tells the realistic story of the Odessa Permian High School Panthers football team through the 1988 football season. The book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger exposes the truth about life in a town that is not just home to football fanatics but also home to racist and economically challenged people. In the movie Friday Night Lights‚ Peter Burg (the director)‚ tells us a story of a team and a town that
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