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    Personal Myth Assignment

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    Fiona was amazed at how much horsepower her unicorn had. Fiona ran into her castle and called the NFR headquarters to enter up in the next rodeo. The next one was in a day. She had lots of practice to be done before a race that big but Fiona was confident in her new unicorn. The next day Fiona, her mom, and her new unicorn loaded up and headed to the rodeo at Mystic Island. When Fiona got there she tacked up her unicorn and scoped out her competition. She was beginning to feel butterflies in her…

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    she would turn the porch light on to allow him to know that her mom was asleep , but one night her mother caught them in their conversation and the two became in love when that rodeo season was over he rode home with her to the family farm and was a ranch hand for her dad. The two where later married and continued to rodeo . The two where later married after she had a lung transplant in which he gave her a lung. Her disease was still getting worse and as much as her doctor told her not to she…

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    The Triple C's Analysis

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    In Grandview, Idaho there lived three teenagers, Cody, Clayton, and Cole Wright they are all cousins that would rodeo. Cody and Clayton are nineteen years old, and Cole is eighteen years old. Clayton’s junior and senior year of high school he took first place in the High School Rodeo National Finals in the bull riding and now has qualified for the NFR ( National Finals Rodeos ) in Las Vegas coming in second place in the world. Cody as qualified for the NFR two years in row but coming in First…

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    Weston Tucker Short Story

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    kinfolk were well-known throughout the state of Texas, but living on the edge with the bills. His mother, Missy, was a tailor, sewing and making clothes for who knows how many people. His father, Warren, was a professional in the rodeo. He would always be traveling to and from rodeos, except for the holiday seasons. His best friend, Beau Montgomery, had just moved far away: about twenty miles out of town (for a six-year-old, twenty miles is extremely far away). Weston’s other two closest…

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    Aaron Copland’s “Hoedown” from Rodeo incorporates several elements of music to further its ideas. The “Hoedown” is peppy and in duple meter. It is program music, using traditional American folk tunes and an impressively diverse range of high and low pitches to convey a sense of vastness, representing the immense American frontier. The movement’s beginning uses consonance as all the notes seem to mesh well with each other, but the middle shows some dissonance, as the notes seem harshly unrelated…

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    Lane Frost Lane Frost was born on Oct. 12, 1963, in La Junta, and lived a life most cowboys know well. Clyde Frost, Lane’s father, rode saddle bronc and bareback on a rodeo circuit. His mother, Elsie, stayed with her parents while she was expecting Lane. It could be said that “cowboying”, as most Oklahoma cowboys call it, was in his blood. Frost started riding dairy calves on the family’s farm when he was five or six. He first rode a grown bull when he was nine. About this time, Frost met…

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    Hostage Rescue Case Study

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    Hostage Rescue Example: A member of the Las Colinas Vagos gang has captured one of our Officers, and his holding him as hostage at the Rodeo bank. The Las Colinas Vagos member is standing infront of the Rodeo bank with our Officer, the Officer has been tied up and a gun has been placed against his head by the Las Colinas Vagos member. Protocol Attempt to establish how many hostages have been taken before arrival. Upon arrival, secure the area. If you don't have the manpower, request Patrol…

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    ranch. He sneaks out of the house one morning and rides away on his horse. His plans are to compete in a rodeo in La Junta and then be offered a job by one of the ranches. His brother Denny follows him. Will tries several times to make him go back home but he insists on following. Will gives in and lets him come but plans to call his father after the rodeo. The climax is when he competes at the rodeo. He gets injured by a bull. He is tied for first place and…

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    life, such as to succeed at being a professional bull rider, but I know that if I don’t dedicate myself to the sport of bull riding every single day that I may not ever achieve my goals. One reason why I push myself so hard is because when I’m at the rodeos and bull rides that I go to, there are a bunch of little kids looking up to me, and quite frankly, I don’t want to let them down.…

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    The number of injuries has gone down ever since vests became popular (Rodeo Participants Increasingly Wearing Protective Gear but to Unknown Benefit, Study Shows). Lambert was born on December 2, 1961, in Artesia, New Mexico. He was a calf roper, saddle bronc rider, team roper, and bull rider who attended Sul Ross State University after he won at the NIRA Finals in 1982 but retired in 1996 (Cody Lambert - National Rodeo Hall of Fame). Lane Frost's death sparked the invention of the protective…

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