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"Friday Night Lights", 2002.
Critically analyzes "Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream" by H.G. Bissinger a book about community football.
1,894 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper introduces and analyzes the book "Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream" by H.G. Bissinger. Specifically, it discusses the philosophical, psychological, social and ethical views from the book, in regards to life, sports, coaching and the students/players. Football in Odessa is the only reason most people live, and "Friday Night Lights" vividly shows the petty small town bigotry, small mindedness and mentalities that create a culture out of football and create life or death drama over winning or losing.
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"Psychologically, the people of Odessa seem not only extremely simple minded, they obsess over the games as if they were life and death. One prominent businessman says, "'Life really wouldn't be worth livin' if you didn't have a high school football team to support'" (Bissinger 20). It would be funny if it were not so sad. These people, even those who are happy and successful, seem to have nothing else in their lives but these Friday night games. What causes them to lead such empty and superficial lives that football is the only entertainment? Admittedly, Odessa is a "wretched" place to live, and there seems to be little else to do there to keep society interested and involved."
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Friday Night Lights, 2007.
This paper analyzes the book 'Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream' by H.G. Bissinger.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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The writer of this article discusses that in the book 'Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream', H.G. Bissinger writes about the central role of high school football in the community life of Odessa, Texas. The writer notes that the author is attracted to the story when he learns that as many as 20,000 people attend the football games on Friday night, eager to root for a team called the Permian Panthers. The writer discusses that football holds a more important place in the lives of the people of this area than would be true for people elsewhere. The writer points out that the author analyzes not just the games and the crowds but the demographics and economics of the region, suggesting a link between the poor economic life of the region and the focus on a winning football team for community spirit and a relatively inexpensive and reliable source of entertainment.
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"The elevation of athletes to a favored position in schools is nothing new and is common in high school and college alike, though Odessa may have exceeded the norm in this regard. The community's dedication to football has much less to do with the athletes themselves than with the need on the part of the rest of the community to have something that raises them above the unsettled nature of the region in which they live. Bissinger notes from the first how the area suffers from economic problems and intermittent violence. Life is described as hard in Odessa, and people find that football can be an escape. The way the people of Odessa respond to football is not unlike what is seen in other communities, Midland included, but as a rule, a community reacts to the local football team to the degree that members of the community are associated with the school because they have children in the school or because they themselves are alumni of the school. In Odessa, on the other hand, the high school football team appeals to people with no direct association with the school at all. The high school has been made the central feature of the community, at least during football season."
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Film: "Friday Night Lights", 2006.
This paper analyzes of the film "Friday Night Lights".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper reviews the 2004 movie "Friday Night Lights" about high school sport in America. The author includes an introduction, analysis, justification for the movie, relationship of the movie to sport in American life, contribution to society and conclusion.
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""Friday Night Lights" starred Billy Bob Thornton, Tim McGraw, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black and Garrett Hedlund. "Friday Night Lights" is a movie that chronicles the true story of the Odessa Texas high school football team the Permian Panthers and ..."
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Bissinger's "Friday Night Lights" and Kotlowitz' "There Are No Children Here", 1994.
This paper describes two books, "Friday Night Lights", by H. G. Bissinger, and "There Are No Children Here", by Alex Kotlowitz.and compares their portrayals of teenage problems, violence and economic struggles in American communities
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 2 sources, $ 55.95
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"Two books, "Friday Night Lights", by H. G. Bissinger, and "There Are No Children Here", by Alex Kotlowitz, both begin in the late 1980s. Both books are also about teenage boys struggling in urban and rural towns of America. Both authors document specific instances of violence which occur in the American communities. The citizens of both cities are greatly affected by the shocking events which occur within their cities as well as by local police forces, schools, and unemployment rates. But the similarities end there. The lives which the football players lead in Odessa, Texas are very different from the lives Pharoah and Lafayette lead in Chicago, Illinois.
The crime is so bad in the Lafayette's home town that he ... "
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H.G. Bissinger's "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream", 1994.
This paper is a critical review of H.G. Bissinger in "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream", which discusses the impact of high school football on socioeconomically deprived Odessa, Texas.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"H.G. Bissinger, in "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream", uses high school football as a window through which we can study the soul of a Texas town. It is clear that Bissinger's study is meant to shine a light on the problems of American society in general, because the social and economic troubles of Odessa, Texas, are the troubles of the country as a whole. The book must be seen as a pessimistic one, because the problems of the town are not faced honestly and courageously, but are instead buried in the town's obsession with football, just as an addict would bury his troubles in his obsession with drugs.
The book might be seen as an academic, judgmental indictment from on high, the product of a writer from the big city who comes to the little town to study the inhabitants like a scientist studying rats. But it is clear that that is not what Bissinger ... "
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"Friday Night Lights" by H.C. Bissinger, 1996.
Sociological analysis of book on Odessa, Texas, high school football team & town's values, using approaches of functionalism, conflict theory & interactionism.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 79.95
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"In Friday night lights: A town, a team, and a dream H. C. Bissinger recounts his observations of living in Odessa, Texas where he sees "high school sports keeping a town together, keeping it alive" (Bissinger, 1990, xi). With passion and sensitivity Bissinger records the triumphs and failings of Odessa's Permian Panthers. As a journalist Bissinger's aim is to explore the town's values about race, education, politics and the economy (Bissinger, 1990, p. xiii). Analysis of the sociological concepts emergent in Friday night lights will be examined against the rubric of functionalism, conflict theory, and interactionism. Since sports pervade contemporary American culture, it has become a preferred target of study for many sociologists. A new field of specialization, the sociology of sports, emerged with..."
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Night Terrors, 2008.
This paper explores the symptoms and treatments of night terrors as well as research on this disorder.
1,292 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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The paper describes night terrors as panicked awakenings that could turn very violent. The paper looks at how to handle a situation when someone is experiencing night terrors, the symptoms of someone experiencing night terrors, the cause of these night terrors and how to prevent them from happening again. The paper then examines an experiment on night terrors and its interesting results.
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"A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder. A night terror occurs in stage 3 or 4 sleep. A stage four night terror causes the "greatest heart rate acceleration possible in man" (Kahn, 533). Episodes are most common in the first third of the night and may last 10 to 20 minutes, and then normal sleep returns. Contrary to what most believe, a terror it is not a dream or night mare. Dreams occur during R.E.M, rapid eye movement sleep, while night terrors occur in N.R.E.M. sleep, non-rapid eye movement."
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"A Night to Remember": Book Review, 2008.
A review of "A Night to Remember", Walter Lord's 1955 work about what happened the night the RMS Titanic sunk.
756 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper favorably reviews Walter Lord's 1955 non-fiction work, "A Night to Remember", explaining that it is a heart-rendering account of the Titanic's deadly collision with an iceberg. The paper further relates that the book is a compilation of survivors' recollections of the disaster and that the major theme of the book is the good and evil of human nature that is revealed in life threatening situations. The paper concludes that Lord's book is a critical expose of one of the most tragic events in the history of travel on the seas.
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"Walter Lord gives his reader an authentic sense of what it was like to be a passenger onboard the boat that dreadful night. He describes the night of the crash as being calm, clear, and bitterly cold. He details the passengers' formal attire to help demonstrate just how shocking and unexpected the sinking was. He depicts their dress as an odd mixture of bathrobes, fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, and tuxedos to emphasize the bitter irony of the sinking."
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Night Shift and Cancer, 2004.
This paper discusses the causes and effects of working night shifts as related to breast cancer.
2,555 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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This paper explains that only a few studies examine the direct relationship of working night shifts and breast cancer; but, based on the several studies that used different methods, medical researches have hypothesized that working night shifts puts women at greater risk of breast cancer. The author points out that the most common cause cited is the decrease in the level of melatonin and the exposure to bright artificial lights at night. The paper relates that the lack of melatonin as a risk factor to breast cancer is linked to the
overproduction of estrogen, another breast cancer-causing hormone. According to studies, melatonin regulates a hormone system?s production of estrogen; therefore, a decrease in melatonin can cause a reproductive system to produce more estrogen, thus allowing a higher risk of breast cancer.
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Introduction
Epidemiological Studies on Working Night Shift and Cancer
Links to Working Night Shift and Breast Cancer
Other Links to Working Night Shift and Breast Cancer
Conclusion
Policies to Address the Issue
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"Melatonin is a hormone that is essential for the body. It acts as a protection against the growth and development of tumors. According to studies, during sleep at night is the peak time when melatonin is produced, specifically between 1 am to 2 am. Because working night shift deprives an individual from a night sleep, production of the right amount of melatonin is also being deprived. Thus, allowing a higher risk of developing cancer tissues. Daniel DeNoon, in his Hormone Melatonin Slows Breast Cancer, indicates the following report of David E. Blask of Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y. about the relationship of melatonin to growth of breast cancer."
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Elie Wiesel's "Night", 2007.
A look at the deconstruction of Elie Wiesel in his autobiographical book "Night".
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"Night", by Elie Wiesel, is an autobiographical book about the survival of a young Jew, Wiesel himself, in the utmost degradation of the human soul. This paper dicusses how, in Weisel's book, "Night", the images of night and fire, the themes of brutality against children, the loss of spiritual faith, the idea of death, the inversion of the father-son relationship between the protagonist and his father, Shlomo Wiesel, all substantiate the degradation of the human soul from civilization and faith to savagery and loss in faith.
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"The recurring image of night itself and fire are significant. Night falls at the most crucial parts of the book: when Shlomo Wiesel, Elie Wiesel's father first announces the news of the "transports" (13), when Eliezer first observes the shocking vision of death by burning in the crematorium, and when the march from Buna commences. There is a gradual increase in the darkness especially before, during, and after the march: "an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side." (84) Eliezer's pain increases with the darkness and is finally numbed when the night becomes pitch-black. Once the procession reaches the barracks in Gleiwitz, the prevalence of death increases as the night grows longer to the point where "the days resembled the nights and the nights left in [our] souls the dregs of their darkness." (100) "
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Transformations in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2002.
This paper examines the recurring changes of the moon and the transformation of the characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
1,465 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 4 sources, $ 48.95
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This paper analyzes one of William Shakespeare?s most celebrated comedic plays, "A Midsummer Night?s Dream". The author examines how the throughout the play the characters attempt to find a way to understand the mechanism of love in a rational way and experience self-alterations that they believe to be a dream in the end. The paper also looks at how the recurring reference to the ever-changing moon parallels the transformation of the characters in "A Midsummer Night?s Dream".
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"A Midsummer Night?s Dream" brilliantly expresses the profound human uncertainty about love. Dream world and reality merge undetectably so that the characters are not sure themselves in which sphere they move, nor whether what they have experienced has been imagination or truth. What seems to be a fantasy or a dream for the characters in "A Midsummer Night?s Dream" is actually reality. However, the dreamlike atmosphere of the play accentuates the fact that the lovers appear to be quite removed from any criteria applicable to reality."
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"Karaoke Nights", 2006.
A book review of the popular book " Karaoke Nights" by Rob Drew.
966 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 34.95
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In this book review the author starts with a look at the background behind the writing of the book "Karaoke Nights" by Rob Drew. He highlights how Drew was originally drawn to the topic of his book as a research subject only but as he learned more, he elaborated on the karaoke phenomenon. The paper looks at how "Karaoke Nights" is an observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audiences and an intimate portrait of the emotional roller coaster that is the internal life of a karaoke singer. The author also examines how Drew provides an analysis of the varied roles karaoke plays in popular culture and how karaoke can guide to an understanding of local music and culture. The book review concludes with a summary of how karaoke has had a great impact on the American culture at weekends giving people a motive to act out a part and have fun at the same time, as described in "Karaoke Nights".
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Introduction
History of Karaoke
Karaoke Nights
Conclusion
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"Another point that Drew make in his book that American culture relies on a good time Saturday nights so that they relax after a hard week's work. And, ten years ago, karaoke caught on in America after being in Japan for many years before. Drew describes this craze from Japan a great way for people get together and live out some of their fears by singing songs in a public place where others could easily make fun of them. However, everyone in that local karaoke bar is feeling the same fears so they respect the person's feelings and not torment them while they are on stage singing out of tune. Most people do sing out of tune as Drew points out but karaoke is all about having fun and doing something some people would not normally do in front of others."
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A View of Feminism in "Arabian Nights", 2003.
Analyzes the role of women in Arabian culture as depicted in literature, especially "Arabian Nights".
716 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 25.95
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Historians have always looked to literature for insight into how a culture functioned, what it valued, and how its people lived. Today, when studying the Middle East, many would not only read the Qu?ran, but also "The Arabian Nights", the folklore. The paper shows that when we read "Arabian Nights" we understand a great deal more of how the Arabic people actually lived. Perhaps the most evident discrepancy between the teachings of the Qu?ran and the "Arabian Nights" tales pertains to the view and treatment of Middle Eastern women.
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"This method of seclusion is dramatically illustrated in The Arabian Nights where we hear the story of the demon that locked his wife in a chest and carried her about as if she were his private property. Yet ironically the authors of the Arabian Nights convey in this same story that not even this extreme could prevent a willful woman from knowing other men."
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Madness in "King Lear" and "Twelfth Night", 2002.
Examines the multiple levels of the theme of madness in two plays by William Shakespeare, "King Lear" and "Twelfth Night".
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 80.95
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Madness in Shakespearean plays has distinct and multiple meanings and purposes. On one level, the madness of insanity is clearly felt in the tragedies like "Lear". On another, madness is also felt in the frenetic pace of impossible situations and comedic errors in judgment as is found in "Twelfth Night". Madness is, then, both tragic and comedic. But, it is much more than that. Madness represents a loss of control, of being borne by unnatural impulses, drivesa nd, perhaps, voices. Being mad is to not be yourself, it is to have lost touch with humanity, with life and with reality. The mad are excused from the rules of man and at the same time, tragically bound by them. For some, in madness is found freedom. Lear is wrapped, tightly, within a horrible prison created by his inability to see through the duplicitous daughters and embrace the one person in his life that loves him enough to refuse him. His madness, in the end, is what sets him free of the binds that his daughters and his pride had him in. The madness, however, is like the release from an intense and long-term drug addiction, it is horrible to watch, but leaves Lear in a better state afterward, free of poisons. Madness also allows otherwise straight-laced, bound by social rules (which were oppressive in Elizabethan England), to freely express inner passions, make mistakes and be fools in the eyes of others without fear of recourse, as is the case with nearly every character in "Twelfth Night". It is the purpose of this paper to examine the nature of madness in the Shakespearean context, how it plays out in both King Lear and Twelfth Night, and the meaning behind the madness in both works.
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Emotion and "Twelfth Night", 2008.
This paper looks at the overabundance of emotion in Shakespeare's work 'Twelfth Night'.
1,274 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 43.95
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In this article, the writer points out that many scholarly articles and studies of 'Twelfth Night' tend to downplay the literary importance of the play by categorizing it as a genial and charming play. The writer maintains that there is not anything inherently abominable about being either genial or charming, but these two words do not do justice to Shakespeare's deceptively "light" play. 'Twelfth Night' is not a tragedy, but this does not prevent Shakespeare from exploring, through comedy, several fundamental themes of human existence: love, grief, and desire. This paper analyzes Shakespeare's exploration of these existential themes as they appear in 'Twelfth Night' and argues that the playwright, through comedy, unveils the ludicrousness and inappropriateness of extravagant and sentimental emotion.
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"The question and the man who asks it barely register in Orsino's mind, but he is quick to pull out his readily available stock of conventional wisdom as soon as he breaks his reverie, and responds to Curio's question with a trite metaphor on love and hunting. No wonder, then, that the servants show signs of impatience and restlessness: their master is luxuriating in a state of complete self-absorption, and the outside world (or the beings that inhabit it) have ceased to exist. Of course, this matters not at all to the extravagant Orsino, as he is completely clueless as to what transpires around him and simply lacks the energy (in the manner of all love-sick gentleman) to engage in hunting or other depleting physical activities.
"Olivia, too, embodies these same characteristics, and it is perhaps unfortunate that the two do not make their own happy ending. Similarly to her determined pursuer, Olivia's emotional "disorder" reveals itself through her conversations with Cesario. The reader knows, before even encountering Olivia, that she is in mourning for a beloved brother. "
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