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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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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make it past their senior year of high school. The kids that don’t make it past high school football savor every moment of their time on the field. There is nothing wrong with that‚ except if the people around the game take it overboard. In Friday Night Lights by Peter Berg‚ the town is obsessed with their high school team‚ the Permian-Odessa Panthers. Having been in football for over ten years‚ I know what the movie is talking about. It is good
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Peter Berg’s Friday Night Lights – Story of a Town‚ a Team and their Dreams! The movie based on a series of true events taking place as related in Buzz Bissinger’s best-selling book‚ Friday Night light: a town‚ a team and a dream will take you into the world of action packed adventures leaving you clingy to the couch. The story line of the movie pictures the 1988 football season of the Odessa – a high school football team called Permian Panthers‚ small town in West Texas where everyone’s crazy
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Friday Night Lights Analyzation Author and director‚ Darnell Hunt‚ once stated‚ “Race is a core reality of the American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don’t have the day-to-day‚ face-to-face contact with others‚ or where that contact is minimal‚ to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they’re all part of the American fabric.” How might media portray anything but realistic expectations? Media
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Friday Night Lights Captivating audiences and myself from the first episode‚ Friday Night Lights‚ has a complex and dramatic plot line. Dillon‚ a small Texas town‚ rallies around the high school football team on their journey to the state football championship‚ but the voyage is not without love‚ drama‚ and learning experiences. The characters within the program have diverse dispositions‚ representing the wide variety of personalities within Southern culture. Friday Night Lights exploits the events
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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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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Parent involvement. How much is too much? What do you think of the relationship between Billingsley and his dad? I strongly believe that it is important for parents to be involved in the extra-curricular activities of their children. This builds encouragement for the son/daughter‚ and makes them respect their parents even more. Yet at the same time there is a line that must not be crossed by the parent. Once you reach the point of getting physical and abusive‚ you know that
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Friday Night Lights reminds me of the movie‚ Remember The Titans. It started with the blacks hating whites and whites hating blacks. The didn’t want to play with each other‚ go to the same school. The blacks had to eat at their colored restaurant‚ they didn’t feel comfortable playing football with them either but the coaches were not having the racist things on their team. The coaches made them work together and be a part as a team. The first culture i’m writing about is social groups. Social group
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question without a simple answer. “Are elite athletes born or made?” is the title of one CBS sports article. This article debates the idea of the natural born athlete‚ and I plan to address my own personal thoughts on this subject. The movie Friday Night Lights had a character that closely follows my beliefs of the natural athlete. That character was Boobie Miles. Boobie was portrayed as the perfect depiction of being born elite. He didn’t need practice‚ Boobie was a natural. His teammate asked if
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