Cowboy

“RING!” “RING!” “RING!” I reach over and slap the snooze on the alarm clock set to 4 a.m that morning. Although, instead of normally falling back to sleep, I roll over and plummet down onto the floor as a way from tempting myself to stay wrapped in my cozy sheets. It was a hot summer morning in Dodge City Kansas, my hometown. The day my Aunt Marie, my sister Marlene, and I, go on a late, spontaneous summer vacation trip to California. The sweltering season was eventually coming to an end…

their labor costs by employing fewer cowboys. It also gave ranchers more control over their herds, keeping their prized bulls from wandering and impregnating competitors' cattle and allowing ranchers to rotate herds from pasture to pasture to prevent overgrazing. Since ranchers could have more control over their herds ranchers gained more money. It states from this reference that “Gone were the long trail drives that characterized the prairies from 1866 to 1880 Cowboys no longer lived the…

The whole room fell silent and looked at the man, who was now looking at me. I was slightly disappointed, it was just getting good, the wannabe cowboy was just about to yell at Mr gas mask. My blue-green eyes met his deep blue ones. "Ah, yes, you must be the new member", he spoke with a British accent. "Yeah, then that means your Liquid Snake, right?", I asked. He nodded and turned to…

Ever speculate curiously why the Texas economy keeps flourishing while the rest of the Nation is still clawing its way out of downturn? Ever speculate curiously why a place that is known for oil wildcatters and cattle rustlers in the nation’s wind-vitality leader and has thumped Silicon Valley off its cutting edge platform? Ever ask why Californians and also New Yorkers are moving to Texas by the thousand and carrying their investments with them? For writer-businessman Sam and Andrew Wyly, the…

THE Roman city Rodeo A long time ago in the town of Roman city (a beautiful town modeled after rome) people were anxious for the annual summer rodeo competition in the royal stadium. The citizens were lined up for blocks watching the rodeo clowns drive in with all the animals when suddenly a bull escapes .The bull vanished up the trail and into mountains becoming stronger than ever . Later in the day citizens heard the bull thumping back down the trail and into town square. Those that…

A lawless time, the old west faced detriment by the power of the gun. It was an era where sheriffs and cowboys had the same level of power, and gunslingers road around ensuing that a shootout or robbery was going to occur at any time. People did not feel secure with their justice system. They became forced to carry a gun with them at all times just to ensure their safety and the safety of their business. The Daltons gangs first train robbery in February 6, 1891 marked the beginning of the Dalton…

The narrator’s lack of confidence is connected to the small sense of pride to their country. “Dazzling hero figures, always brimming with self-assurance. I die with envy of them … I am left in envy of the cowboys, left admiring even the horses” (346 Neruda). The narrator is envious of cowboys and horses for their bravery and freedom, which he lacks himself. Because of this, the narrator then begins to question his true self. “I never know just who I am, nor how many I am, nor who we will be…

There are about seven billion people living on earth today, and about fifty-seven million miles of land surface area that we share. Simply put there are a lot of people living in a relatively small amount of space. This ratio of space to people would lead one to think that people would never be lonely, they would always have a friend. While this reasoning makes sense it does not ring true in: “Solace of Open Spaces” by Gretel Ehrlich, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” by Scott Momaday, “They All Just…

about her wanting to see a reminder of the ranchers and cowboys she's ridden with for the last eight years when she’s missing them, instead she sees something else. Ehrlich states,” But the men I see in those posters with their stern, humorless looks remind me of no one I know here. In our hellbent earnestness to romanticize the cowboy we’ve ironically disesteemed his true character” (41). Ehrlich has had a long experience in knowing what a cowboy really is, so when she looks around trying to…

Ha in the book Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai and the universal refugees have a lot of similarities and some differences. Before she becomes a refugee, Ha is a 10 year old Vietnamese and like any other 10 year olds, she is rebellious, naughty, jealous of others and sometimes thinking about the fantasy that won’t come true. One of her fantasy is her dad, she lost her dad because of the war and hopes that he will come back. Then her life gets harder because of the war and they have to…