...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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...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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... 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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...“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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...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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...‘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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...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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...The earth and space Did you ever wonder what was outside our atmosphere? Well I’m going to tell you the many things that are in our solar system and maybe beyond it. We will start with our moon, its shape resembles an egg, and has been around for 4.5 billion years. Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon. The year was 1969 and the mission was called Apollo 11. After all the excitement from their landing Armstrong made a statement when he stepped out of his aircraft. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The moon has little to no atmosphere, and has a weak gravitation. The surface of the moon has not changed in 3 billion years, so a foot print on the moon from a million years ago would still be there today. Because the moon has little to no atmosphere there isn’t any water to create erosion and there is no wind. The temperatures of the moon vary from day to night. During the day the temperature is approximately +300°F and night time is -270°F. The temperature is this way due to the fact there is no atmosphere to protect against the sun and keep it warm at night (MoonPhases.Info, 2010-2011). The coolest cosmic entity in the sky is the moon. At night when the moon is out, it’s the first thing that lights up the night sky. It takes 27.3 days for the moon to turn on its axis and to orbit the earth. Due to this it makes the moons phases and orbit a mystery (Charles Q. Choi, 2013). Below is a photo of the moon. Some...
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...University of Phoenix Material Basics of Astronomy Outline Amanda Taddei 8-27-2012 Complete the outline based on the readings for this week: Ch. 1–4 of The Cosmic Perspective. Use complete sentences for all sub points listed. The following is an example of a completed outline: 1. Our place in the universe a. The modern view of the universe 1) What is our Sun and what is its role in the solar system? a) Our sun is a hot ball of glowing gases that is at the heart of our solar system. b) Our suns role is to give out energy and heat. This energy and heat allows for there to be life on earth. However, even though our sun is unique and life giving there are billions of stars that are just like it in the Milky Way galaxy. (Solar System Exploration, 2012) 2) What is our Milky Way galaxy and the sun’s position in it? a) The Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy that has arms that extend out from the center like a pinwheel. Our galaxy is one of about 100 billion visible universes. (Solar System Exploration, 2012) b) The sun’s posistion in the galaxy is in the Orions arm of the Mily Way. However, because of how our planets are set up in our system there is life on Earth. The Sun has an almost circular orbit. The sun is just the right distance from the center of our galaxy to promote life. The planets and our sun are just the right distance apart for one of our planets, Earth, to have higher intelegance life on it. 3) What is the Big Bang and what does...
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...Title: SOLAR ENERGY: “SUNLIGHT into USEFUL ELECTRICITY” >Introduction< In today's climate of growing energy needs and increasing environmental concern, alternatives to the use of non-renewable and polluting fossil fuels have to be investigated. One such alternative is solar energy. Solar energy is quite simply the energy produced directly by the sun and collected elsewhere, normally the Earth. The sun creates its energy through a thermonuclear process that converts about 650,000,000 tons of hydrogen to helium every second. The process creates heat and electromagnetic radiation. The heat remains in the sun and is instrumental in maintaining the thermonuclear reaction. The electromagnetic radiation (including visible light, infra-red light, and ultra-violet radiation) streams out into space in all directions. Only a very small fraction of the total radiation produced reaches the Earth. The radiation that does reach the Earth is the indirect source of nearly every type of energy used today. The exceptions are geothermal energy, and nuclear fission and fusion. Even fossil fuels owe their origins to the sun; they were once living plants and animals whose life was dependent upon the sun. The sun is an inexhaustible source of energy. Solar energy is radiant energy from the sun caused by nuclear fusion in the sun’s core. The sun’s radiant energy reaches the earth in rays of sunlight. Solar energy in the form of heat and light sustains life on earth. Solar energy can...
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...Salt in Bottle As Solar light Bulb Researchers: Ivette Claire Eduave Maricris Aliwate Merlo Tagolimot Reymart Baquirquir September 2, 2014 Introduction A Light Bulb is a a glass bulb inserted into a lamp or a socket in a ceiling, that provides light by passing an electric current through a filament or a pocket of inert gas. Without this invention we would still be spending our days and nights in darkness.Unless you prefer the use of candle light, oil lamps, camp fires and the such all the time, light bulbs are an important part of our daily lives because simplyspeaking they provide the light we need in order to see.The invention enables us to be able to conduct work at night. This greatly improves productivity, enhances the quality of our life, and reduces crime rates. Statement of the Problem 1. Will the water with salt inside the bottle be able to retract sunlight? 2. What is the effect of the amount of salt to the brightness of the solar light bulb? Hypothesis Is the water with salt can retract sunlight then it is possible for us to make a solar light bulb? Secondly, if the amount of salts affects the brightness of the solar light bulb then we can consider the quantity of salt as the brightness of the salt. Review of Related Literature Alfredo Moser got the idea of a solar bottle bulb as he was figuring out a way to illuminate his workshop during one of the frequent power cuts. He realized that he can light up his workshop by...
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...BUYCO, GENEVIEVE P NS2 / 1:30-2:30 01249 / BA: 304 THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM There have been two main views regarding the origin of the planets in our solar system. The first is that another star happened to pass near our sun, and drew off clouds of gases which then formed themselves into planets. This is the planetesimal group of theories. Astronomers are well aware of the fact that stars do not wander around through space, but that is how the theory went.. The other main viewpoint is that a swirling cloud of gas formed itself into our sun, planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. By 1940, all the various encounter or planetesimal theories had pretty much been discarded as hopeless, but, beginning in that decade, under the urging of *von Weizsacker, *Whipple, *Spitzer, *Urey, *Garnow, *Hoyle, *Kuiper, and others, an attempt has been made to bring astronomers back to some variation of the nebular (gas cloud) hypothesis. Their efforts have been surprisingly successful, in spite of the obvious physical principle that gas in outer space (as well as here on earth) never coagulates; it always spreads outward. Let us consider some of the major reasons the various theories of the origin of our solar system are more foolishness than fact. 1-Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the eighth largest. Mercury is smaller in diameter than Ganymede and Titan but more massive. 2-Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest. Venus' orbit is the...
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...ESTIMATION OF SOLAR ENERGY FOR STREET LIGHTS IN VIT ABSTRACT A solar lighting system which can make a 18x3 w lamp glow continuously for about (7) hours if the battery is fully charged has been constructed. Here, solar energy is collected with the aid of a solar panel and thus, a battery is charged during day time with the help of a simple charging circuit. During night time, this stored energy is used to light. The device can be used for small-scale lighting applications in remote areas that are far away from the power grid. The system has a panel to collect the sun’s energy, a battery to store that energy and a light source to use the energy. The system operates like a bank account. Withdrawals from the battery to power the light source must be compensated for by commensurate deposits of energy form the solar panels. INTRODUCTION Electricity is becoming costly every day; so many people are getting interested in using solar energy to fulfil their electricity needs. Power cuts and dependency on Generators is making people look for better sources. Solar Photo Voltaic panels provide a very good alternative way to fulfil their demand. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India is also promoting solar PV systems under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in our country. They also provide subsidise solar panels under this scheme. There are so many people, interested in buying solar panels in India so we thought of doing a research on price...
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...Before using Solar Power: Samad lived in a village. He was illiterate. There was no connection of electricity. He has 3 children. His attitude was not charming. His room fills with darkness and dampness. Using kerosene, the surface of his room and other utensils had a layer of ash. Every night Samad sleeping without wash his leg. Because of high cost of kerosene, Samad not give chance to study his children at night. Otherwise he had not any communication media like, TV, Radio etc. It is therefore, he was verdant about many things of the country. His life was full of Superstitious. After using Solar Power: Samad’s wife feels interest to solar power after watching in a relative’s house. First Smad feel Apathy for using this. He said that solar power only for literate people. Samad’s wife said that it’s very easy to use. Enduring Samad’s wife explains to Samad for buying solar in installment. In the first day using solar power they felt very happy. Than switched on the light they saw the garbage around the house. They also saw that their feet were very dirty. They washes away their feet and gone to sleep. Next day they clean their house. This solar power lightens the Samad’s mind. He thought that he doesn’t have to pay any electricity bill, and also no load shedding. He buys a TV. He knows about the current world and also modern cultivation systems. And also he took up the restriction from his children to study in the night. His successes risen day by...
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