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Zapatistas is a drawing from Jose Clemente Orozco. In this painting all of the of the characters look like they been traveling for a long period of time. It was painted on the year of 1931. All of the characters in the painting look like mexicans on horses. It looks like they are going thru the desert. There are many characters in this painting there are men, women, and horses. There is also a lot of color in this painting also. There is also a lot of dark paints in this painting.…

Over the hill of a small town there is a lone shadow of a man on a horse watching over the town making sure that everything within the town is safe and no bandit is going to raid or rob any of the townsfolks. He is the saver of damsels in distress, the rider of freedom and peace, however this image of the cowboy that so many people have in their minds is not the true cowboy, but an image from popular literature, to films. The real cowboys were the men that would run cattle drives making sure…

Who are the Antagonists in High Noon and Unforgiven High Noon and Unforgiven are films set in the Western culture depicting the livelihood of people in Hadleyville and Big Whisky respectively. The main antagonist in Unforgiven is the cowboys who decided to cut up a prostitute for having laughed at one of them for having a small penis. Their actions are what led to the other prostitute’s decision to put a bounty in their head. In High Noon, the main antagonist is Frank Miller. He was an outlaw…

One of the most enjoyable and well-known film genre is the Western, produced from the start of the movie business to even today. When one thinks of a Western, they might think of an iconic star such as John Wayne riding on a horse in a beautiful landscape. In one of the most classic Westerns, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Captain Nathan Brittles is tasked with simultaneously easing tensions with the aggressive Cheyenne Indians and transporting his…

writing produced places that could be thought of as barren, empty, unleveled … [and] needful of European influence and control” (319). Meanwhile, Kathleen Jamie’s essay “Shia Girls’ is a piece of travel writing that produced an idea of Pakistan for her Western readers. The keyword in the editor 's’ description of travel writing is “control,” both generally and for Pakistan. Before reading Jamie’s essay, Pakistan seemed an “empty” place for me and probably for most Americans. In our minds, when…

He is remembered to this day as the “Father of the Western”. Zane Grey was able to capture his childhood and many adventures through his youth into classics of the western genre. The relationships and hardships Zane faced as a young man, greatly impacted and thrusted his career to fame and fortune. The agony and hardships were an immense struggle for Zane,…

the cowboy western genre “The Wild West has always enticed the readers’ imagination” (Vanja 128). This research paper explores the context of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (2011). DeWitt’s use of a “stylized abstraction of western speech” (Vernon 1) offers its readers a respite from everyday life. Although it follows the traditional scheme of a cowboy western genre, the novel has certain innovations of its own (Vanja 130). The novel is narrated in a gritty 19th Century western speech,…

Screening: The Third Man (1949): Directed by Carol Reed, this black and white film had exceptionally articulate visuals of landscapes throughout the city of Vienna in 1948. In spite of being for the most part shot around evening time and in the sewers, the director does an incredible job capturing the overall character of the city. The music was fairly interesting, and added a feeling of peculiarity to the film. Although all the actors played their roles, respectively, Orson Welles was my…

Title: The title The Devil’s Highway is both literal and metaphorical. Because the meaning of the title has both literal and metaphorical connotations, it easily captures the essence of the book. Literally, while these men travelled across the desert in order to reach the Mexican-US border, they traveled through the Devil’s Highway. Metaphorically, the title is a representation of how these men went through Hell on earth to get to where they needed to go. These men experienced dehydration,…

you a glimpse into real cowboy western wear. Leather boots, blue jeans and ten-gallon hats dot the landscape in Texas. If you love the look but you live farther north, you might think dressing like a cowboy or cowgirl is off limits. That’s really not the case as anyone can pull of the western wear look with the right clothes. The staple of any look like this is the blue jeans. Most of us have at least one pair of jeans we absolutely adore. For the cowboy western wear look, you need a pair that…