Thoroughbred

getting ready to have my horseback riding lesson just like I had done every other Saturday morning for the past eight years. Although this morning was different, instead of riding one of the regular horses, my instructor had me scheduled to ride a thoroughbred named Storm. This horse was still green and had not been fully trained on how to do much except race. Sure enough I got Storm groomed and tacked up despite his constant pacing and weaving. The both of us headed up towards the arena to…

“Going once…twice…SOLD to the gentleman in the front!” Welter Weight, my eight-year-old thoroughbred horse from Lexington, Kentucky, sold as a yearling at auction for one million dollars to become a “supposed” famous racehorse. Being the grandson of Seattle Slew, the farm who bought him believed that he would be a successful racehorse. Unfortunately for them, but lucky for me, racing was not the career for Welter, and they soon retired him. He ended up at a show horse barn where he was trained…

Zaroff finds pleasure in cold blooded murder, He views the killings as nothing more than a civilized man hunting animals far inferior to himself. “I hunt the scum of the earth -sailors from tramp ships- lascars, blacks, Chinese, Whites, Mongrels-a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.” (10). Anyone who Zaroff deems unintelligent means nothing more to Zaroff than an animal and should be controlled by someone civilized. Zaroff ignores the fact that being civilized…

When I set out to the Metropolitan Museum in New York I did not expect to have as much fun as I did, nor did I expect to be there for over six hours. The Metropolitan has a vast collection and some of the most unique artifacts I can ever remember seeing at a museum. From the Greek and Roman art, to the sarcophaguses from Roman and Egyptian lands, it even has a reconstructed pyramid, and I didn't even get to experience more than half of the artifacts. One enormous piece that caught my attention,…

PC owners and supporters are aware and display the fact that their computers are more flexible and are able to complete various tasks. PC computers are portrayed to be nearly as impenetrable as Mac computers when it comes to viruses and malware. Moreover, they are on the cheaper side of the computer spectrum and that is a humongous lure for customers looking to purchase a computer. However, these claims are not always factual as they are perceived. Although Macs are becoming vulnerable to…

get into the United States. The anti immigration probably affected Connell into using it in his short story. In the story General Zaroff said, “I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships--lassars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels--a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them." Connell’s life impacted Most Dangerous Game because of his time fighting in the war. War was very violent. The anti immigration laws which affected many Americans. Connell will be…

It is no coincidence that the previous character who shared a separated comparison is Achilles. Like a thoroughbred stretching it out Over the plain for the final sprint home-- Achilles’ simile presents purpose, determination, and strength. Hector’s presents pinned desperation, literal and figurative. The match for the fight is well made, certainly…

The author Richard Connell is trying to establish a mysterious and scary mood in the beginning of the story, he does with by including different phrases such as "Ship-Trap Island", "Thick warm blackness", "Superstition", and he included the phrase "Crew's nerves seemed a bit jumpy today." The author added all this to really bring out the mysterious and scary mood in the story. One use of figurative language the author uses in the story is on the first page the story reads "But even you can't…

Ewan McGregor was the only advance casting the team made - all the other actors had to audition. Robert Carlyle expects to play the lead in a film but he accepted playing a part under McGregor so the team "knew [they] were getting thoroughbreds all the way down". The film was criticised for its "neutral attitude" to drugs but Boyle said that patronising and preaching to today's youth was pointless and…

Every story portrays an idea, or theme, that the reader most likely picks up on and follows throughout the story. A theme in “The Most Dangerous Game” is that civility and savagery are in everyone. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell’s idea of civility and its relationship to savage, comes to life through a series of traits in Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff and how they react to certain situations. In The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell proves, through Sanger Rainsford and…