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Western being a genre itself has subgenres. The major common subgenres are pre-classic, classic, spaghetti and revisionist. Western movies, regardless of what subgenre, had a similar major attribute, which included; Narratives that took after a mission that the legend needed to partake in-characters, mostly males who isolate themselves from whatever remains of human advancement by having an unmatched level of mental/physical durability and chivalry settings in normal settings, for example,…

A group of seven misfits comes together to save a town from an evil, money seeking man in the film The Magnificent Seven directed by Antoine Fuqua. James Horner and Simon Franglen’s film score in The Magnificent Seven transported me back to the old west. Horner and Franglen effectively utilized the unique timbres of select instruments, texture, and foreshadowing making the audience feel as if they are riding along side the misfits, a character in the story experiencing all that unfolds on the…

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance examines the Old West in a flashback. It compares and contrasts how the past emerges into the present. As viewers, we are trying to understand how the forces of civilization, now the present, can conquest “the law of the West,” from the past. In the duration of the present, the heroes of the Old West are only called a myth. There are three different individuals in the movie. There is Ransom Stoddard, Tom Doniphon, and Liberty Valence. Random Stoddard is an…

The Searchers, a film directed by John Ford (1956) is a classic American Western featuring America’s original cowboy John Wayne. In the film, the main protagonist Ethan Edwards comes home to Texas after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Both John Ford and John Wayne depict Ethan Edwards as an extremely isolated, bitter, and misunderstood character. When Ethan finally comes home from the war he mistakes one of his brother’s children for another child that has since full grown in…

different. For over a hundred years the “Western” style of film has cemented itself as a hollywood staple, but has the exhaustion of its content pushed the limits of what it means to be a western? To accurately depict what it means to be considered a true Western, we first must reference the most notorious movies it has to offer; Shane, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. These movies amongst many others follow a series of elements that fits them into the Western Genre. Takes place in the…

Many readers that love the western writing genre can argue that Zane Grey is one of the bestselling western writers of all time. His novels The Lone Star Ranger and The Spirit of the Border are two examples of this. In these two novels Grey does a good job at showing the differences of the west during two different time periods when Native Americans roamed the lands and when cowboys and outlaws ruled the west. When examining the two novels, it will show the stereotypical views of the west,…

described. This experience made me see that I have a passion of wanting to understand why crime occurs in our society and how to fix these issues. For this reason I chose to be a student at both Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and Western Kentucky University completing a double major or double B.A., in Criminology and Sociology. A college education is more than just a degree or an experience of…

I will be taking my family (mother, father, and brother) to Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. We went one year when I was 4, but I don’t remember anything. This will be a nice chance for our family to catch up and spend some time together before I go off to college. We will drive there using I-30 and I-40, stopping overnight in Memphis, Tennessee. It is a 755-mile journey and since we will be driving a Prius, we can count on 50 mpg on the highways. The national average gas price…

The Gatton Academy is a residential public high school for students interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math located at Western Kentucky University. Academy students complete their last two years of high school, while also beginning their undergraduate studies. As Gatton students, we are afforded many opportunities not available to typical high school students. First, all Academy students live together in a newly renovated residence hall on WKU’s campus. Secondly, all Gatton…

statement{} I am a second-year graduate student at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. My decision to pursue Master of Engineering degree has been motivated by my ultimate objective of digging deeply into the field of Financial Engineering. I firmly believe that I possess the requisite background and aptitude for pursuing active research in this area at Cornell. statement{} My interest in financial engineering has burgeoned during my internship at L 'Or…