Friday Night Lights Public Analysis

Racism is a major problem in today’s world. It is now a matter of contention that causes violence and conflict. The aggressive, contagious issue we call “racism” infects and destroys humanity much like cancer infests and devours its victims. It is a dilemma that affects an extensive amount of people all over the world. Although racial bias has been around for many years, it only seems to be progressing into something that one simply cannot comprehend. In the short story “Sonny’s Blues,” the author, James Baldwin, emphasizes the lasting effect of racism throughout the story. While Baldwin vaguely expresses the impact of racial bias on the character Sonny, the audience infers the idea the author is trying to convey. In the story, racism is a

Segregation had had many effects on the black nation, to the point that it started building up ones character, “See the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness towards white people”, King shows readers that segregation is even affecting little children, that it is starting to build up a young girls character and is contributing to the child developing hatred “bitterness” towards the white Americans. King makes readers imagine a black cloud settling in a young girls brain mentally, when instead she should have an image of a colorful blue sky with a rainbow, isn’t that suppose to be part of a 6 year-old’s imagination? King gives readers an image of destruction civil disobedience had created in the black community, especially in the young innocent little children.

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 and racially divided, Odessa’s mass dependence on high school football constructs glorified expectations for the football team to temporarily disguise the disappointments that come with living in a town tagged as the “murder capital” of

"Battle Royal" gives the reader a frightening look at just how society looks at blacks. In the

The article of Jane Elliots classroom was interesting in the fact that it shows how far socially accepted discrimination was in the late sixties. It also shares Elliot’s personal discomfort with the racial issues and how she could discuss them with not only her classroom, but also her father. In the article the classroom was discussed the question on how it would feel to be black, and the kids described it as being quite bluntly as unequal. The fact that the kids were automatically stating these things is astonishing, because it means these ideals must have been engrained into their minds as normal from an early age. The setting of this article being in a third grade classroom is an important aspect to think about because it emphasizes how

But [she] didn’t ‘hear’ it until it was said by a small pair of lips that had already learned it could be a way to humiliate [her]” (Naylor, 411). This not only supports the fact that the boy had been taught or heard this word by someone older like a parent, but it is also sad that a nine-year-old had to be taught that such a nasty, ugly word was created to make her and people like her feel ashamed and embarrassed to be black, or that are worth less as human beings, which is absolutely false. That is why slurs are created though, to make groups of people feel less “human”. This essay explored the most infamous slur against the black community. The fact that slurs like this are prevalent in today's society is extremely upsetting and wrong. There are plenty of racial slurs that are so casually used today, it makes one's stomach ache in distress. Ableist slurs are even less reprimanded, a high school student walking through the hall will hear the r-word too many times to count during the course of a day. Just as commonly used are homophobic and anti-LGBT slurs. A high school student will hear the f-slur and the q-slur plenty of times, and even more will “that’s so gay” or “you’re so gay” be whipped from the mouth of students without a second thought. It’s disheartening.

This demonstrates the clear existence of racism present in the society in which the characters reside in. The understanding that racism is an apparent factor in the lives of this society to the extent it is taught to be avoided or adjusted to clearly demonstrates how social standards were based at this

However, I do believe the author got his message across and was very effective in conveying his message due to the racist jokes of their 6th grade teacher and also by the struggles the African American students faced while attending the predominantly white primary school. Their 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Wickham, made very little effort to hide her racism. She contracts her

Through manipulation of language, Staples demonstrates his comprehension of the effect this discrimination had on innocent black males. Since he has had firsthand experience in this matter, Staples discerns his situation as an “unwieldy inheritance” with “the ability to alter public space in ugly ways.” Clearly, Staples feels as if he was cursed, for he was constantly treated like a “fearsome entity with whom pedestrians avoid making eye contact with.” This put him in an

     Is High School football a sport, or is it more than that to some people? Recent newspaper headlines include such items as coaches abusing student athletes; fathers of athletes murdering coaches, and mother’s disabilitating cheerleading candidates to assure their daughters make the cheerleading team. In Odessa, Texas high school football is a major contributor to the society of a small town in Texas society. Every Friday night, 50,000 people fill the stadium to see high school students put their lives on the line to win a football game. H. G. Bissinger writes a novel called Friday Night Lights, about a year in 1988 where High School players prepare and play on the High School team, and what an impact they have

“Public Opinion” skit from Saturday Night Live satirizes the disarray of events and misunderstandings that occur in American politics.

Joe Christmas, a major character, is a major representation of this theme. Christmas is a biracial, so even though he appears to be white, he is actually black as well. Although this may not seem like much of a problem to us, it definitely brought hardships to Christmas throughout his whole life. Both the black and white communities alike have ostracized him, refusing to view him as a fellow human being. In fact, he has always been in a conflict with himself, contemplating whether he should be cherishing his black culture, or be sickened of it. One instance that particularly struck me (no pun intended) was when Christmas started attacking a black prostitute for “smelling the negro all at once” (Faulkner 156). He “kicked her hard, kicking into and through a choked wail of surprise and fear. She began to scream, he jerking her up, clutching her by the arm, hitting at her with wide, wild blows, striking at the voice perhaps, feeling her flesh anyway, enclosed by the womanshenegro and the haste” (Faulkner 156-157). Christmas had put himself on a level so inferior that he was furious that a woman would have sexual intercourse with a black man. He did not have any confidence in himself, all because of his so-called “inferior” race. The harsh and brutal actions really showed the dilemma Christmas was

Not only does this novel educate about adventure and exploration, but it also demands the students reading it to think about why they do not want to uses racial slurs and derogatory comments towards African American individuals. In Source F, Judge Stephen Reinhardt states that it is a necessary component for students to “[t]hink critically about offensive ideas” (Reinhardt p.1). Teaching anti-racism is something that students should take away from the passage. Students who read this novel may become more aware of the racial problems and negativity in the world today, teaching them that derogatory comments are not okay, and asserting that no one can treat an individual this way. Teaching students how to understand the way that racial slurs were

Life with Derek if filmed as a linear show, this simply means it is played in the correct time order this would mean the TV show/movie would run smoothly with the start, then the middle and finally the end. This is done because the show is aimed towards pre-teens and this makes it easier for the younger people to follow along. The show is a realistic show this is as it is filmed for pre-teens it helps them in their transition into being a teenager and realising there growing up it does this by being a realistic show but having a light hearted sense of humour whereas shows for older people would have humour that is aimed for older people making the show have a more darker comedy side. The show doesn’t have many, if not any, flashbacks this is as the characters and the scenes explain themselves making it easier for younger people to follow. The show is a realist show, this is where the TV show of movie is completely set in reality and everything within the show or movie is believable. The set, sound (diegetic or non-diegetic) everything. Each episode ends with a closed ending as every episode has a different story line. The show has a multi-slandered narrative, the show tells a story form the whole family’s point of view point of view this is so a lot of people can relate to the show as it’s told form a whole family witch has different age ranges and genders. This show uses mostly diegetic sound with only editing non diegetic sound in for comedy purposes, most

With the aid of rhetorical appeals, in Ralph Ellison’s essay, “On Being the Target of Discrimination” he shapes literary portraits of specific moments during his childhood that represents being the target of discrimination. “Ellison (1914-1994) was born in Oklahoma City At the age of three, Ralph’s father died, leaving his mother to support the both of them during a time of segregation with the limited domestic work that was available at the time. Ralph studied music at the Tuskegee Institute after which he went to New York in 1936, where, he was encouraged by the novelist Richard Wright to become associated with the Federal Writers’ Project. Ellison taught literature and writing at Bard College, the University of Chicago, Rutgers University, and New York University. Ralph Ellison became a staple in American fiction but unfortunately, a lot of his works remained unfinished as a result of his death in 1994 (Bedford’s/St. Martin’s). Discrimination is put into words as the treatment of a person or a particular group of people differently, in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated (dictionary.cambridge.org). At the rare age of six, Ellison started to understand the type of environment in which he lived. All though it was something that he gradually became accustomed to, he wasn’t ignorant towards the significance of segregation. He received an immediate experience in the matter. Ellison states, “… become the site of your very first lesson in public