Country

On your marks...Bang! That is the sound of the gun going off, and hundreds of kids running like a stampede to one destination, the finish line. Many people think that Cross Country is just a hard sport to do and think why would someone want to run for fun. Well, it isn’t fun, and it is hard, but the friends that I have made in the sport, are some that I will never forget. It’s not just that, but it is a sport that helps, whether it’s getting someone in shape, or helping them realize that they…

No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2007) is story about one box of money, two ways of living, and three men. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who is an ex-soldier, finds a shooting scene by chance and get a large amount of money. Then, the psychopath killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) tries to chase and kill Moss to get this money back. The aging sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) follows Moss and Chigurh attempt to save Moss and this case. The most impressive part in this film is…

the state cross country meet. That was the moment when I knew I could finish this race with a personal record. For five months, I had worked hard to qualify for state. When most kids were sleeping, I was running. When most kids were at the pool on hot summer days, I was running. It wasn’t just me though, I was on a team of nineteen fantastic girls and I had a great coach to keep me motivated. We were a close group of girls, whom would not have been friends without cross country. We had a lot of…

I remember the time when my coach made me run a cross country race on a course with hills bigger than a house in our town. She thought that I was ready to run three miles in under twenty-five minutes. It was hard, and I thought I would fall but I kept going and never gave up. The day of our cross country meet, our coach came and picked us all up at our houses, took us to a gas station, and got us food. We all got something light so we wouldn’t get stomach aches during our race. Then…

The film “No Country for Old Men” describes in West Texas in the 1980s. Because of the evil (a fail drug deal) invasion of calm town, it results in a cat-and-mouse chase story of people’s. They chase each other all because of money from drug deal. Llewelyn Moss is a poor white former Vietnam veteran. Anton Chigurh has a mushroom head and carries a fire extinguisher new weapon like a killer. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is an old sergeant in west Texas. The killer Anton Chigurh is a good example to…

Literary analysis of “No Country for Old Men” : Is Greed Worth it? In No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy’s book explains the problem of greed; all through the book we mainly follow main character Llewellyn Moss. Who finds himself in a pretty scary place. He found a bag filled with millions of dollars of drug money and many people are hunting for him, to collect that money. He is running for his life for a great deal of the book. All of which is because Llewellyn loved the power of money.…

cleared of civil issues. American women have endured a long history of having constitutional rights denied to them. Specifically, In You’ve Got the Wrong Song: Nashville and Country Music Feminism, writer Claire Miye Stanford delves into the issues that the feminist movement with its relationship with country music. Country music has historically been profoundly anti-feminist, and Stanford cites Tammy Wynette for advising women to, “Stand by your man,” regardless of however abusive “the man” may…

As the legendary Olympian Jesse Owens once said, “Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust”. This was the quote that the seniors chose for the Cross Country teams t-shirt this year. The senior leaders chose this quote specifically to show how the sport isn’t just about winning, it's about the team. This year the seniors decided to show the younger kids just how the team was always supposed to be. They instilled new activities and more importantly they implemented more team building…

heard the starting gun. This all was my first cross country meet at Sanborn, Iowa on September 18, 2017. My parents were not able to come because my mom was sick. The whole cross country team was there and so were all of their friends. No one showed up to watch me so I ran without worrying about what they were thinking of me. This was a very important race to me because it was the first time I was running for competition. I went out for cross country so that I could run with people my age…

There are a lot of similarities between “No Country for Old Men” and “Fargo”. The opening scene of NCFOM where Anton Chigurh strangles the cop to death instantly reminded me of when Gaear Grimsrud in Fargo shoots and kills the police officer in the head after only getting stopped for a minor traffic incident. “Money is the root of all evil” is a one of the common themes both “No Country for Old Men” and “Fargo” share. There is also a small time cop whose experience and intelligence pieces…