Cowboy

Who remembers George Jones and Merle Haggard? George and Merle had their own style of music. They sang the traditional kind of music, but you don’t hear it that much these days. Country music today is going towards the pop genre and it’s not like it was in the 1970’s or even 1980’s. There’s one certain guy who has his own twists to music, his own style of the traditional era and has kept it around for as long as most people can remember. Most people call him “King George”, but he’s really much…

The railroads opened more efficient trade routes, but it also created conflict with the Native American tribes in the area. Indians in the area had already established towns, but the whites wanted the land. In the 1830 the government adopted a policy of separating the whites from the Indians. The tribes were moved and some went west to the great American desert. The Indians suffered illness like small pox that was brought over by the white settlers. This caused 40% of the tribe population to die…

In this paper I would not like to explore the chosen books on a particular study or given viewpoint. I have tried to base the study on personal data research and my own reflection on the book. Nevertheless I find it important to bring up various terms and critics according to the topic of political correctness. First of all, I would like to explain what does political correctness (PC) generally means and its importance in the context of education and children’s literature. “The central…

She said, “You’ve become a little American now, haven’t you? A cowboy?” (Lam, 6), to him because “Vietnamese appropriated the world “cowboy” from the movies to imply selfishness. A cowboy in the Vietnamese estimation is a rebel..” (Lam, 6). This show us that the only reason that his mother came to America is because she wanted to end the sufferings in Vietnam. She was acting…

As technology advances and new style of filming begins to emerge, the features of war and how they’re portrayed in film change as well. In Sands of Iwo Jima, it follows a squad of Marines through the battles of Tarawa and Iwo Jima through different vantages, as well as, weaving in real battle footage within the film to realistically portray how the battle looked. Taking it a step further, The Longest Day looks at the events of D-Day through the eyes of American infantry storming the beach,…

When Open Range was published in 1999, reviews were attentive on the conditions of harsh living in Wyoming and how it affected the characters in each story. There is a critic by the name of John Moore who states, “She startles us with her close-ups of life on the range; her characters move in landscapes that are unforgiving of their flaws.” Meaning that in each story each character is a sort of anti-hero who can never seem to have things go his/her way. Such an example is presented in Brokeback…

Normal vs Abnormal Behaviour Each individual is unique from any other being, and to maintain that uniqueness in face of oppression and conformity it is a challenge and responsibility, (add). The concept of what is considered “normal” and “abnormal” has a meaning that is quantitative and statistic based on the occurrence of a behaviour in a given society. Behaviours are in fact a series of conventions that human beings establish among each others, they are untold rules and agreements based on…

She picks out a pair of cowboy boots to her mother’s surprise as she asks “Aren’t those boy boots?” Jamaica insists that they are for boys or girls. She decides to wear them to school, but when Brianna comments on how cowboy boots aren’t “in”. Jamaica now feels insecure about her boots and isn’t looking forward to wearing them because Brianna doesn’t like them. There are two…

and the tasty pecan pie, Ronnie stood up. When I looked at him he just had a blank look on his face and, said “I need to tell all of you something.” I felt my uncles fear of telling us, he stood there rocking back and forth looking down at his old cowboy boots he had for years. Right…

cultures intertwined. The film Tampopo by Juzo Itami is a Japanese Noodle Western; a play on word from Spaghetti Western, that show cases a single mother Tampopo (dandelion) trying to run a successful ramen noodle shop. Goro a truck driver dressed as a cowboy shows up at the restaurant to eat, when asked about the food he openly admits it’s not very good. Tampopo then insists on him teaching her, he then helps Tampopo to create a new re-established restaurant. Tampopo a mother of Tabo is a…