Rodeo

me throughout my daily life. A time where I experienced failure occurred in 2007. I was riding my horse, Cupcake. We were just doing our basic drills that I was able to do at the age of 7. About the time this incident occurred, the National Finals Rodeo was on television and all of the big cowgirls whip their horse to encourage them to go faster so they win their event. Well, I wanted to be one of those big girls. To this day, I remember this mistake…

The cueing system is a formal structure that helps to enable young children decipher language and develop their reading (Moats, 2000). The system consists of three main categories; semantic, syntactic and graphophonic which aid in creating functional and fluent reading (Moats, 2000). Each category consists of supports in which students are to use in how they figure out unknown words they encounter whilst reading and also to gain meaning from the text, this can be seen in the graph below. Cueing…

Riding With Staph “Let ‘er buck boys!” and the chute gate swung open and the beast blew outta there like Mr. Sweeney’s temper when he feels he is being ignored. He exploded into a series of spins and belly rolls. My thoughts were stuck on making the eight second ride, as if it were the only thing that mattered in the world. In great disappointment, I felt a quick pop and recognized that my hand has blown outta the handle on my rope. One, two, almost three more jumps I ride without anything to…

Daughter to the Sky A non-fiction essay as lived by Cinnamon Spear I was born a daughter to the sky. Vast expanses overhead have become my breath. My family and I would sit amongst prairie hills studded with pine trees, consuming countless sunsets. You could see for miles and miles. The sky would flow from a crisp blue to a subtler shade of purple. Passionate pinks and oranges would come just out of that finally resting upon a vibrant yellow source. I caught myself thinking once, “This…

People tend to be unaware what cultural appropriation is. Cultural appropriation defines as when one culture adopts an element of another culture. (Uwujaren 9/30/13) In the world today, many people are witless as to what is culturally appropriate. There are many examples of cultural appropriation today, such as henna tattoos, bindi’s, sports team names, etc. These types of culture or traditions have become a fad for people, especially in America. People who are within the culture tend to get…

Since the introduction of European culture to the Americas, Native American women have been either been portrayed as a squaw or a beautiful princess. And the first thing to be mentioned in a conversation between a native and non-native is that somewhere 7 generations back, their grandmother was a “Cherokee Princess.” While many natives and non-natives handle these situations well or brush it off with a light joke, there’s a over 100 years’ worth of deeper meanings behind these words. Native…

Squeaky has to be someone she is not. This is similar to Mulan, who sings, “Now I see, that if I were truly myself, I would break my family’s heart.” This is similar to Squeaky’s thinking in “Raymond’s Run”: I’ll highprance down 34th Street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight so that she walks ahead like she’s not with me, don’t know me, is all by herself on a shopping trip, and I am somebody else’s crazy child. (p. 28, lines 71-76) The only…

Boys Don’t Cry, released in 1999 by director Kimberly Peirce, was adapted from the real life story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who was passing in rural Nebraska. After passing for some time and successfully dating local girls, Brandon was brutally beaten, raped, and murdered at the hands of two cisgender men who felt threatened by his masculinity. Peirce, with her “long-standing interest in transvestism and transsexuality,” sought to reclaim sensationalized media accounts of the 1993…

In Greider and Garkovich’s piece, “Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment”, they write, “Some cultural ecologists argue that nature and the environment are givens and that different cultural groups simply adapt to that environment” (Greider 4). The landscape, culture, and social expectations placed on an individual will present opportunities and limitations that will be the most defining factor in shaping their character. Colton H. Bryant was defined by Wyoming, much…

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water A Yellow Raft in Blue Water written by Michael Dorris is a story about three women; the grandmother Ida, the mother Christine and the daughter Rayona. Each woman had their own hardships in their lives; however, they all persevered through these hardships and grew into wonderful and caring women. In the book, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, the author reflects on the life of all three women and how they dealt with their own life struggles. In life there are people we…