...Taylor Tamayo Period 2 Feb. 3, 2012 Friday Night Lights Movie/Book Analytical Essay H. G. Bissinger was a writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer when he was selected to be a Harvard Neiman Fellow. This was while he was at Harvard he had the idea to write a book that specifically focused on the role of high school football plays within American society. This happened to take place in particular rural societies. Bissinger returned to the Inquirer for a short amount of time, received a Pulitzer Prize, and then decided to go out in search of a community in which high school football was prevalent. Bissinger then settled on Odessa, Texas. In Odessa, Texas Permian High School and its football team, the Permian Panthers, had a long history of winning in Texas' 4A and 5A divisions. This earned Permian High School winning championships in 1965, 1972, 1980 and 1984. Bissinger moved himself and his family to Odessa, Texas and spent the entire 1988 football season with the Permian Panther players, their families, their coaches, and even many of the townspeople in an effort to understand the town and its die-hard football culture. Bissinger's newest book, Shooting Stars, was published by Penguin Press in September 2009. The book, co-authored with basketball superstar LeBron James, tells the story of James' high school career. Bissinger is now in the process of completing a book about his twin sons. Born 13 weeks premature in 1983 and weighing less than two pounds, they...
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...Friday Night Lights is a successful effort to tell a story about a high school football team and the struggles they go through to win a grand championship. While telling this story, Bissinger is able to address a deeper message about an American addiction to football, and the toll that this takes on the players and students. Showing themes of racism and athletics over academics, this book gives a new perspective on what it means to be a student in this town. This book takes place in the small town of Odessa, a conservative Texas town where football reigns supreme, and every Friday, crowds of almost 20,000 gather at the Permian Football Field to watch the Panthers play. Roaring crowds and team spirit fill the arena. The town revolves around football, to the point of obsession. When the star player, Boobie Miles suffers a leg injury, the town’s social issues begin to become noticed, and the team must work to achieve success in the Texas State Championships. With the help of new coach Gary Gaines, the Permian Panthers work hard in a tale that exposes corruption and unhealthy...
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...Odessa is a town where football rains supremacy to everything else. Not school, not politics or any other major topic in the town or country can dethrone football as it is what the town and people live for. Odessa is not a town where one goes to find a successful life, it's a place one goes to have Permian football engraved in their mind. Through "Friday Night Lights" by H.G. Bissinger, we get to see the impact football has on Odessa and its citizens through the eyes of the 1988 Permian High football team and what they went through. The Permian Panthers of 1988 was a team that the author H.G. Bissinger spent a year studying to truly understand the importance that Permian football had on this town. He packed up his bags and moved to Odessa with his family. This is a big sacrifice he made in order to look at an enigma of high school football in Texas. By Bissinger doing this, he is able to give the whole country just a glimpse of what exactly Permian football is and what it stands for through his book. All of the characters stood for different virtues and had different traits, but one thing they all shared was there love for Permian football. Going from the players on the team, to the coaches,...
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...Bissinger, the author of Friday Night Lights, juxtaposes different aspects of athletes lives in Permian to expose the negative impacts of football in Odessa. Throughout the telling of Friday Night Lights Bissinger uses imagery to portray the glory of the football season at Permian high school. In the football stadium “stillness was ruptured by a thousand different sounds smashing into each other in wonderful chaos”(14) and fans lost “all dignity and restraint...because of these high school boys in front of them, their boys, their heroes”(14). A sense of unity is immediately conveyed to the audience regarding this town. The colorful language inspires a feeling of excitement in the reader that is akin to that of Permian fans. As the piece...
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...It’s Not Just Football: Friday Night Lights Review For many people who aren’t sports fans, a television drama about a high school football team in Texas does not sound interesting. But NBC’s Friday Night Lights is one of the best American TV dramas in recent years. There's a level of honest, raw humanity in this Primetime Emmy award-winning show that few TV dramas have ever achieved. Friday Night Lights focuses on the small town of Dillon, Texas, where what matters most is the local high school football team. Eric Taylor is the new head coach of the Dillon High School Panthers. This is a job that comes with an incredible amount of pressure, as everywhere he goes, Eric hears how much the town is counting on him to take their boys to the state championship game. The show illustrates the stress that a town gives its high school players to win and the hope that a team gives to a small town. To have a heightened sense of realism and immerse viewers in the world of the show’s characters, Friday Night Lights...
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...“Friday Night lights Movie Review” Everyone has to go out and see “Friday Night Lights”, this movie is based on the book “Friday Night Lights: A town, a team, and a dream.” The book was published by H.G. Besieger. The movie takes place in a small town in Texas called Odessa. Throughout the movie they follow the high school football team known as the Permian Panthers coached by Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), who already has high expectations from the people of Odessa. James “Boobie’” Miles (Derek Luke) is the heart and soul of Odessa, the team loves him, the parents adore him, and the kids look up to him while he carries this football team win by win. From the beginning to the end you will see the struggle of a young football team with a lot of pressure to make a push into the playoffs, where they have to overcome the odds against an over achieving Dallas Carter High School. This film is great for movie watchers who love drama and suspense. When James “Boobie” Miles” goes down with a gruesome season ending ACL tear, you will see his teammates struggle knowing that there star player is gone but will start to rise up and start winning games. Quarterback Mike Winchell (Lucas Black) who has to really focus because he is supposed to be the leader of this football team turns out to be a rising star. Fullback Don Billingsley (Garret Hedlund), who is pushed by his abusive father (Tim McGraw) to be as great as he was when he played for the Permian Panthers. Third-String running back...
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...Their winning record was a 0.825; which was the highest of any team in the entire state dating back to 1951. Permian High School football was nearly unstoppable. However, football took such priority at Permian High school that other important qualities often sat on the sidelines. This was just the way of life in Odessa. While this sounds like any ordinary sports novel, Friday Night Lights had some aspects that set it apart. Education, racism, gender inequality, drugs, and community involvement were four aspects that stood out and made this book different from the average sports...
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...Alas! That is a long way from reality. I've watched probably the most effective substance makers on the web, and I've seen a pattern. They think like media makers rather than bloggers or online advertisers. In the case that we look to the standard media we see this example of repurposing substance all through it. The news isn't made; it's curated. Someone makes the news by doing something newsworthy, and someone else repurposes it by investigating it. Books are transformed into films and TV shows. Friday Night Lights began as a book. It was made into a film. In due course, it was transformed into a 5- season TV arrangement. The time span of usability of one bit of substance was amplified in light of the fact that it was repurposed. Time is a valuable Internet asset. Repurposing content can be a big time saver for content creators. It’s a super hack with benefits for SEO, reach, and much more. One story can lead to dozens of pieces of content. You may even find value in thinking ahead to your repurposing options before you start a new blog post or...
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... In this journal, I will be characterizing Boobie Miles. Beginning, Boobie is a very talented football player. First, he is the starting running back for the Permian Panthers. Permian is a small town in the middle of Texas, and are were most known during the oil boom and for football. Football is a part of everyone's life in Texas. People will close up there stores and everyone in the town will go to the games. Because everyone goes to the games they need a big stadium, so Permian plays in a stadium that fits 20,000 people. Week after week they will fill the stadium to its full capacity to show their love for Permian. For these reasons this shows how big of a deal it is to be the starting running back for Permian. In order for Boobie to be the running back he has to be a talented player. Second, Boobie is know as the “heart and soul” of the Permian team. Boobie has incredible size, strength, and athleticism for a high school athlete. “No one, was as good as he was” (Bissinger 54). This quote shows how Boobie was one of the best running backs in the state. Also, the town depends on him to win because the play scheme is designed around him. The play scheme is designed so Boobie gets the ball as much as possible. This shows Boobie is the “heart and soul” of the Permian team. Lastly, Boobie is one of the top 10 running backs in the state. He is one of the top 10 running backs in the state because of his hard work. Boobie has worked his whole life to be a top player in the state, and...
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...‘The Watermelon Feed’, the title of chapter two in the book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger begins by taking place in the Odessa high school cafeteria. The beginning of the chapter starts on a Friday night in the preseason of the Permian High School Panthers football team. Each player takes part in a prayer as well as watching a video of past heroes of the team. The squad is introduced player by player giving the town a preview of who is playing this year. Bissinger infers that Boobie Miles, a young player, has high hopes and dreams but feels great pressure from the team and town to fill the shoes of the past all-star. The author explains that in a few weeks the beginning of the season will begin and the town will observe the team closely. Bissinger explains to the reader that being able to play for a team such as the Permian Panthers is an honor. He states that the boys on the team will endure intolerable pain to have the privilege of playing for the team and being able to wear the Permian Panther beautiful black jersey. The author presents the idea that winning is more important that personal pain or suffering. As such the author tells how boys will use pain pills and about anything they can get their hands on to persist through the game. In addition, the team is starting to feel the pressure and how important each season is to the town as well as the players. Bissinger explains how children are exposed to the atmosphere of football from a young age and encouraged...
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...The 31 year old American actor, known for his roles in the film Friday Night Lights - Garrett Hedlund, has got a feeling of intense longing for his younger years. Hedlund, who portrayed Captain Hook in the most recent adaptation of J.M. Barrie's beloved children's classic Peter Pan, seems to be having a hard time accepting the fact that he's in his 30s. The Friday Night Light's actor claimed that he's "much more like Hook" than he is Peter, Hedlund said at the NYC premiere of Pan film on Sunday, "There's something about Hook that is really jealous of Peter Pan, because he's young and doesn't grow old and Hook is of a contrary kind and does, and there's this sort of very strong sexual desire for lost time." Garrett Hedlund, who turned 31 year old last month, admitted that, "I'm now getting into my 30s, and I feel that," then he added looking stunned, "That's the first time I've said that I'm in my 30s."...
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...What are you when you can no longer do what you are known for? “He responded without the slightest hesitation, ‘A big ol’ dumb nigger’” (Bissinger 49). In the true story of Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissinger, the small town of Odessa, Texas was segregated by a railroad track until Ector high school, a black school in the south, was closed down and transferred to Odessa High. Now, all of the black and white students either attended Permian High or Odessa High, above the railroad tracks. If you were a student of a different race you were considered nothing until you proved yourself to be “accepted” by the football team because football meant everything to the town. Racism wasn’t supposed to be there at that time, but there still was a large chunk of it hanging around, and as time goes on it slowly does disintegrate....
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...The Reason Behind Boobie Miles Boobie Miles’ vision went from blurry to clear only to become blurry again. Boobie came from nothing, he was in foster care and also had an abusive father. He then had everything, colleges and professional teams after him for football. Boobie had an accident and thought nothing mattered anymore because his football career was ended. In Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger, Boobie Miles is cocky and stubborn because he came from a poor and abusive background but was adopted by his Uncle L.V. where he was then worshiped for his football skills. Boobie Miles came from an impoverished and abusive background and was taken in by his loving uncle. The author stated, “When he was just a young boy he was placed in...
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...weekends working and I’ve never been much of a partier so it’s hard to not to see those images and feel almost jealous because it all looks so glamorous from the outside. I quickly remember, however, that the risks, consequences and realities of that night would not be worth the few “cute” pictures they got out of it. Media only shows you one, very biased, much edited version of something and it’s our job as the consumer to realize that. For many people, our youth mainly, it’s very difficult to see past what is at the surface of media. Music in pop culture ranges in topics from sex, drugs to alcohol, with very little in between. All you hear on the pop radio stations are songs about sexualizing women and getting messed up with the use of alcohol and/or drugs. Alcohol is glamorized in every form of media there is, so it’s not shocking that we have such high rates of underage drinking and alcohol related deaths. There isn’t enough proper education on alcohol and everywhere you turn there are movies, shows and songs depicting binge drinking and partying. The problem I have with a lot of these movies or shows is that they talk about the party itself but never the safety of it. You never see in movies or shows a designated driver for the night, they rarely even explain how the characters get home. In almost everything it’s just assumed that they get home, or the next scene will just be the next day with no explanation. You also rarely see characters in movies or shows get sick because...
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...* Characteristics of Judaism beliefs, ethics, rituals and ceremonies and sacred texts have impact in many ways on adherents and provides source of purpose and identity for individuals. * Gives meaning and guidance contemporary situations therefore is considered dynamic, living religion. * Judaism is monotheistic faith, mean Jews believe only One God. * God is beyond our ability to comprehend, but God is nevertheless present in our everyday lives. * The covenant is agreement Jewish people have with God. * Jews believe one God, no other participated work creation God only being to whom they offer praise. * Terms of covenant are summed in Ten Commandments reveal adherents must have respectful, obedient relationship with God live harmoniously and respectfully with others. * In return God will never abandon his Chosen people and will provide salvation. * Jewish adherents ethical beliefs are derived from the 613 mitzvoth * Orthodox Jews believe given Moses on Mt. Sinai taught to Israelites as travelled desert promise land. * Other variants believe they may have also been delivered to other divinely inspired people over time. * 248 positive 365 negative commandments have been discussed and interpreted throughout centuries by divinely inspired philosophers and rabbis so they can provide guidance in every aspect of everyday life. * many sacred writings in Judaism, all teach Judaism's adherents how to live ethical and moral...
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