Lone Star

Borders help define opposites. They help people to understand what is right and what is wrong, what is theirs and what is not, and when they’ve crossed a line. Borders can be physical or imaginary. Physical borders include rivers, mountain ranges, walls, and even roads. Imaginary borders are racial, social, cultural, and moral. All of these borders separate people in one way or another and this separation can often result in conflict between the opposing parties. Director John Sayles demonstrated this idea of borders and what happens when they are crossed in his 1996 film, Lone Star. Sayles tried to erase the expected borders with seamless transitions between the past and present instead of using a typical cut or dissolve. In an interview,…

The film Lone Star (1996) directed by John Sayles is controversial. It’s one of few films that you the audience have to pay close attention to the plot. In trying to solve the murder mystery of Charlie Wade there is a lot of discovering interpersonal and interracial tensions in Rio County, Texas throughout the whole investigation. The local sheriff Sam Deeds is the man for the job in starting to investigate the forty-year-old skeleton that was found in the desert by accident as two men were…

I probably would be dead now. That really isn’t an exaggeration. I have more than one life-threatening ailment. Without the professor job I have now at the North Harris campus, I wouldn’t have medical benefits. Without them, I might not even know I was a walking time bomb. That’s one example of how Lone Star College has influenced my life. It has through a job, benefits and education. I needed a job. After decades of working as a journalist, I had gone private. I was consulting independently.…

What was the Significance of the Lone Star Republic? Texas is one of the two states to be an independant country. For nearly a decade, Texas was a lone star republic, officially named the Republic of Texas. This all started in 1821, when mexico became independent from spain, with Mexico controlling Texas. When Mexico banned slaves, Texas felt, Which started a big war between them. The Lone Star Republic was significant becau Texas pursued independance all because of how Mexico treated them.…

The 1996 film Lone Star, written and directed by John Sayles, is a neo-western suspense thriller set in Rio County, TX on the Mexican/American border. Chris Cooper plays a county sheriff, Sam Deeds, who returns home after his father, sheriff Buddy Deeds, played by Matthew McConaughey, has passed away. After returning home, Sam begins an investigation into the death of Charlie Wade, the long-missing and former sheriff of Rio County played by Kris Kristofferson. During his investigation, Sam…

The film, “Lone Star”, by John Sayles was film that shows one an understanding of Texas culture and politics. The film displays how Texas culture, political culture, county government, and ethnic and racial demographics changed over the years since it was established. By analyzing these aspects of the film it will provide a better understanding on why these changes occurred and gives clear view on the culture present in the state of Texas. In the film it is prevalent that it is shedding light…

In pages 172-259 of “Lone Star Nation – How Texas Will Transform America” Richard Parker starts out by explaining how Texas is dominated by the republican party. But can possibly be converting back to a democratic state, due to so many Hispanics migrating to Texas. Parker goes on to interviewing University of Texas Professor Regina Lawrence, who argues that Texas will never ever turn back to a democratic dominate state. She also says that democrats have themselves to blame after constantly…

As high school graduation season approaches, many students are deciding where to go to college. Community colleges are being looked at based on what they offer, if a student is interest in sports they are most likely to pick a school based on that. Lone Star College is a community college that does not offer major sports like football, however Blinn College, which is also a community college, has a very talented football team. Lone Star College should have a football team, because it will be a…

Lone Star College has a lot of helpful resources and services that I didn’t know about, but there were only 5 that really stood out to me. The first service were The Dance and Zumba Classes in the health and wellness center because I do like to stay active and I feel like those to classes will help to stay fit. Secondly, I chose the Library because they have study rooms that students can use to study when they need a quiet place to look over notes, and I feel that this will benefit me a lot…

This essay will argue that in both Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained hereby referred to as Django and Zane Gray’s The Lone Star Ranger, hereby referred to as Lone Star violence exists due to inept law enforcement. While there are differences in the medium, the violence within them is significant due to how central it is in these works. Moreover, Lone Star depicts violence as it should be for the cowboy or outlaw hero, while Django demonstrates violence as it is in reality, messy and full of…