History in Louisville, Kentucky spans hundreds of years. Many famous people are from Louisville; actors, inventors, and a boxing legend. Louisville is also known for the Kentucky Derby at the Churchill Downs. During the 1770’s settlers moved into the Kentucky region area starting from scratch they built a settlement, forts, and farm lands on the Ohio River. One of the well-known residents was inventor Thomas Edison, he was a prolific inventor, holding over a thousand US patents in his name.…
In today’s media, people love vigilante justice, actually we root for vigilante justice. We have movies like Taken, where a man takes the law into his own hands and goes after the men who took his daughter, and in the wake of this he kills over thirty men. In the show Dexter, the main character is a smart and likeable guy who decides who is a bad person and then kills them. We watch these things and don’t think twice about the aspect of the law. In real life, vigilante justice is and incredibly…
all these stories of improbable victory the story of Seabiscuit rises above the rest in American culture. In Laura Hillenbrand's book an awkward, and stubborn horse named Seabiscuit becomes an unlikely hero as he is trained by an even more unlikely team of men and they rise to horse racing stardom. In the story, Seabiscuit races against a horse named War Admiral, who is favored to win by a long shot. Hillenbrand makes the reader feel as if there are actually at the race with her use of diction,…
The horses misbehaving could be because their reaction for pain, or trying to tell you something, or fear, or instincts or confusion. It is important to understand which reaction you are getting prior to trying to correct the behavior. There are some times where you must punish the horse physically. Pain is one of the common causes for horses misbehaving. That because horses can't talk, for example when a horse experience a pain they can't say 'Hurts', instead the communicate by their body. If…
Yet both men are very human when it comes to their faults and both can be seen and the anti-hero. Odysseus can be seen as such because is the new form of hero, the think before you kill, type of hero. His craftiness and tricks can come off as cheating or as not honorable. The corruption of the ideal of xenos is seen in both men's actions. Odysseus' actions of wronged xenos can be seen is the following quotation from Book Nine of The Odyssey: "I'd brought along a skin of wine that we'd been…
Horses started with evolution of dinosaurs. First were wild animals Slowly began to help the early indians. They was worked and pushed them into work force and tame the wild horses. With the amazing nine times larger then human eyes are usually 5 centimeters around. They can sleep standing up due to the support of their forelegs and hind legs. Their small stomach only has a capacity of 2 to 4 gallons for an average-sized 1000 lb. horse. So this will limit how much they can eat or take in at a…
lessons I have for the day. I fill out a list with the horses my students will be riding, going person by person, indecisively flipping from the horse list over to the rider list to examine their names, like it will help me decide. I also look at the list for when I have a lucky slot with no one scheduled in it, which allows for a break in a busy day. Once I finish checking my schedule, I hop up from my desk and stroll outside to get the first horses I need for the day from the pastures. This…
Due to the nature of an epic, the epic hero will be given a task that most people wouldn 't survive. The epic poem of a nation or people must have a protagonist, and that protagonist must embody the best elements from the most important elements of that culture. As such, he must have an epic journey fraught with danger and trials that challenge these elements to their very core. As the epic hero meets these challenges, performs honorably, and ultimately succeeds, he affirms his possession of the…
through a 10-year long journey to reach home while facing many obstacles on the way. One day, a man that goes by the name Odysseus was called upon to go to war called the Trojan War, which lasted 10 brutal years. He then had a plan to build a trojan horse and filled with solders to attack the other side in the night which upset the gods. While Odysseus is trying to get home from a 10-year long journey, he faced many hardships, such as meeting a Cyclopes, who enjoys human flesh, going to the…
The horse show We were in are gray Tahoe for 16 hours and me and my family had finally arrived in Florida.We were in Florida for a horse show I ran to are stable’s I was so excited I could just scream but I couldn't I would get in trouble by my parents.I felt someone touch me on the shoulder I turned around it was Michaela.She was my friend from florida I only get to see her during the horse shows. ‘Iza finally you got here I kept looking for you and I couldn't find you. Me and Michaela…