Oddly enough, despite all these tinges and plot twists, “Friday Night Lights” can be categorized as a traditional sports movie, packed with action, thrill and adventure.…
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 of what would happen in a real Texas football town through a fictitious story, while highlighting many common themes of Southern culture, such as, escapism, the Southern Belle and Gentleman stereotypes, and the depiction of “white trash”.…
Football is life in the south, whether they are the players or just 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 is hungry for the state title and does not touch on the problems of race, gender, education, and other important themes that Bissenger writes about. “Those lights become an addiction…
These communities are made up of various cultures and traditions, as well as, races and ethnic…
The book Night, was written by Elie Wiesel. He was held hostage at a concentration camp for 15 years. Elie had a strong bond with his father, but it changed throughout the story. After being a “slave” for a long time changed him. I’m going to tell you how.…
It is important to note that even within cultures, complexities in individual behaviour will be observed based on religion, personality, age, gender, class, ethnicity and so on. These divides may also create sub-cultures within a culture. Direct and indirect interactions within the group ensure that culture is passed on from person to person and from one generation to the next.…
Culture is how a group of people share the same beliefs and values. Cultures pass on these values and beliefs from generation to generation. “Cultures grow and change very slowly, and have many means of protecting themselves” (Wrench, McCroskey, & Richmond, 2008).…
Social beings in which have established their social groups because of survival, passions and practical motives. Evolving into own cultural parts of communities, which ultimately become parts of societies and then developed into countries is which originally establishes culture. Culture can be defined as; the set of ideas, beliefs, attitudes, and traditions that exist within big groups of people. Not to mention; how groups dress, eat, communicate, and rituals people of that culture practice. These examples are called “surface…
Racism was alive and well during 1988 in Texas and is expressed through many different ways in the story stretching from the jerseys they wear, all the way to where they grow up. In this story, the team wears the colors of white and black, two of the most opposite colors, representing the diversity that is between the white and non-white people of Odessa. They struggled bitterly with racial discrimination, so much so that in 1982 it was placed under a federal court order to effectuate the desegregation both promised and denied nearly thirty years earlier. Although these troubling issues at the intersection of race, law, and sport dominated the 1988 Permian football team's season and inspired a Pulitzer Prize winning author's investigative chronicle, Friday Night Lights, to tell the tale of that team radically de-radicalizes the story (Duru, Jeremy). Of the three high schools in Odessa, one was 90 percent minority based and the other two were 90 plus percent white based. Black players are accepted on “white” teams like Permian because, after desegregation, schools without the talent of black athletes simply could no longer compete. As long as players like Boobie miles perform as they are expected to, they reap the benefits of being a football star. If something should affect their performance like an injury, they become expendable (Duru, Jeremy). Senior Brian Chaves, only Hispanic player and stellar student…
What is culture? Culture is the total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by the members of a specific group. It involves religion, language, education, food and shelter, security, creative expression, relationships, and political and social organization. However, it ties us up to one group and separates us from other groups. A group that shares a geographic region is called a society, while a group that shares a language, customs, and a common heritage is called an ethnic group. Culture changes over time by acculturation, diffusion, and innovation; It spreads by religions and language. Culture develops, spreads, and changes over time.…
Everyone has heard of culture, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they know what it means. Often times people confuse terms such as culture, society, and ethnic group, but they all mean very different things. A society is a group that shares a geographic region, a common language, and a sense of identity and culture; an ethnic group is a group of people who share a language, customs, and a common heritage; culture is how people act and their judgement towards one another. Also, not many people know how culture changes or how it’s spread. In this essay, I will describe culture, how it’s spread, and how it changes.…
A Culture is the language, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs people share and learn according to Larry Samovar and his colleagues (2007). Culture includes two different groups called in-groups which are groups that you identify yourself with and out-groups which is a group of people we view as different (Frings & Abram, 2010; Quist & Jorgensen, 2010). Examples of culture is the foods we eat, holidays we celebrate, the type of music we listen to, or even how we address someone. A co-culture is groups of people banded through beliefs, values, behaviors, and a culture inside a larger culture (Ober & Spellers, 2005). Being a member of a co-culture can be a source of pride and yet you are more likely to feel disadvantaged if you are part of a minority co-culture with would cause you to feel unfulfilled. Examples of co-cultures are age, race, religion, nationality, activities, and also economic status.…
Culture is the way that people is different societies behave about scenarios. KC Chhipwadia said “ Culture is defining how people behave in certain settings across different groups”(2016). Each culture lives by different norms and truisms. One truism, which governs my life is from the movie Talladega Nights which states, “ If you ain't first you're last”(2006). This truism teaches me that if you don't do things to your best potential than you won't come out to be the most successful.…
Reflection allows an individual to identify the reasons or purpose of understanding the outcome of a particular situation in depth in term of emotions on thought and feeling on the topic area. In addition, Reflection is something that we do implicitly as part of being human, underpinning our identities through a process of negotiation between our sense of self and our experiences of others (Demetriou, 2000, p.210). Therefore, I have implemented this quote in my professional and personal goals I wanted and have achieved thought-out the process of the module. I have made continues effort in building my confidence in situations that I have felt uncomfortable in.…
The film Friday Night Lights (2004) is based on the real-life story of the 1988 Permian Panthers football team in Odessa, Texas. The film is a more fictionalized account of the book it’s based on, written by author H.G. Bissinger and downplays the more intense issues that plagued Odessa when Bissinger followed the team during the 1988 season. (Briley 1) The film follows Coach Gary Gaines (portrayed by Billy Bob Thornton) as he coaches the Panthers in the football obsessed town. The film portrays the societal pressures put on young athletes, especially in a town where one sport seems to be the dominating past-time. All that matters is football; academics are barely even mentioned. No matter where these athletes go, they can’t escape the pressures…