Friday Night Lights And The Problem We All Live With By H. G. Bissinger

Throughout Friday Night Lights and “The Problem We All Live With”, the authors utilize personal connection to create a pathetic appeal in order to address the growing racial tension spewing in particular communities. In doing so, they are able to strengthen their arguments by emotionally appealing to their audience. This is clearly shown as H.G. Bissinger, in Friday Night Lights, portrays the socially accepted mindset of coaches, who are regarded as role models, towards their own African American players. Bissinger appeals to the emotions when he purposely adds a quote from a coach referring to Boobie as “a big ol’ dumb n*****”, emphasizing the point that the Permian football society believes that African Americans are nothing without football

In Friday Night Lights, Bissinger focuses on the overcrowding in the student’s classrooms, negatively causing many academic and social effects. He uses L.V. Miles’s own high school experience to portray these conditions by saying, “the colored high school he went to, all the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders - about twenty of them - were housed in the same little room near the entrance”, highlighting that all these different grades were forced to learn together (Bissinger 59). Aiming the argument towards young adults, they personally feel the effects of improper schooling since they are receiving an education. Hence, they feel a sense of pity towards the African American students, who feel the consequences of merely saving some space. In “The Problem We All Live With”, Jones addresses the issues with the lack of motivation held by the teachers in the African American schools, who are the ones suppose to inspire children with learning. Mah'Ria Pruitt-Martin is a young student who is forced to leave her school since the learning conditions are so bad, and even describes it saying “teachers didn’t seem to care. Classes were dumbed down and often unorganized and unruly” (Jones). The teachers hurt the students when they “dumbed down” the classes, causing the students to learn less due to them not wanting to

In Friday Night Lights, Bissinger focuses on the overcrowding in the student’s classrooms, negatively causing many academic and social effects. He uses L.V. Miles’s own high school experience to portray these conditions by saying, “the colored high school he went to, all the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders - about twenty of them - were housed in the same little room near the entrance”, highlighting that all these different grades were forced to learn together (Bissinger 59). Aiming the argument towards young adults, they personally feel the effects of improper schooling since they are receiving an education. Hence, they feel a sense of pity towards the African American students, who feel the consequences of merely saving some space. In “The Problem We All Live With”, Jones addresses the issues with the lack of motivation held by the teachers in the African American schools, who are the ones suppose to inspire children with learning. Mah'Ria Pruitt-Martin is a young student who is forced to leave her school since the learning conditions are so bad, and even describes it saying “teachers didn’t seem to care. Classes were dumbed down and often unorganized and unruly” (Jones). The teachers hurt the students when they “dumbed down” the classes, causing the students to learn less due to them not wanting to