Friday Night Lights,

    Friday Night Lights,

    , illustrates the
    detrimental and beneficial effects of representative sports and the ways in which sports can both
    unify and divide a community. Keep this in mind as you address one of the following questions:

    1. To what degree to you agree or disagree with Bissinger’s statement, “Odessa also evoked
    the kind of America that Ronald Reagan always seemed to have in mind during his
    presidency”…(33). In what ways, does it (not) represent the legacy of the Reagan
    presidency?
    2. Frank Deford states, “It is time to recognize the truth, that sports in the United States has,
    in fact, never been so divisive. Uniquely today, sports have come to pit race against race,
    men against women, city against city, class against class and coach against player.”
    Analyze either class, race or gender unit in the context of Deford’s statement. How is
    football is used to create either class, racial and gender unity and/or division in Odessa,
    Texas?
    3. Friday Night Lights is an example of representative sports, in which “limited conflict
    with clearly defined rules, in which representatives of towns, regions, or nations are
    pitted against each other. It is primarily an affair for the spectators: they are drawn to it
    not so much as the mere spectacle, by the ritual, or by an appreciation of the skills
    involved, but because they identify themselves with their representatives.” Examine the
    function of representative sports in Odessa, Texas in the 1980s. How and why is
    identification with their sports representatives so important to the people of Odessa?

    Objectives:
    ! To demonstrate a clear understanding of representative sport and its effects.
    ! To demonstrate that you have read and understood Friday Night Lights
    ! To write a clear and effective evaluative essay
    i. Strong clearly defined criteria for evaluating your subject
    ii. Including an effective thesis
    iii. Clearly organized supporting body paragraphs, with
    1. Credible, logical, thoughtful evidence to support your thesis
    ! To effectively use MLA format and properly cite sources
    ! To properly select and incorporate secondary sources

    Requirements: This assignment has a minimum five-page requirement and maximum of seven
    pages. You are required to use, at least four different sources. This must include Friday Night
    Lights, the excerpt from Sports Unites, Sports Divides by Stanley Eizten, one of the supplemental
    articles from Unit 01 of this course and one scholarly article you research and find on your own.
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