seeps over the horizon as the horses graze in the paddocks, under the watch of the morning sky. As I drive through the entrance to the horse show, I notice the countless people working diligently as they prepare for the day. Everyone is bundled up in jackets, looking cold and unhappy; but not me. Although most people may be irritated at the early arrival, I could not contain my enthusiasm. I tossed and turned the night before, due to my eagerness to arrive at the show. On my walk from the car to the tent…
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illuminating my room. I slowly rose as it was five thirty in the morning, pulled on my jockey pants and found a somewhat clean t-shirt. I headed out to the stalls to do morning horse chores and saddle up my first horse to exercise. Then I went back in the house where my father, Jim, and brother, Charlie, were just getting up, as I started breakfast. We all ate in peace and discussed the morning exercise schedules for the different race horses. My brother and I both rode the races horses, but I was…
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always around horses. I have been riding and breaking in horses for as long as I can remember.Some of my best times growing up are doing things with my friends and my horses. We were about 10 and spent hours playing at the barn. Sometimes my friends and I would go to the jump arena and pretend we were horses. Other times we'd be out riding and pretend space invaders were coming after us and we had to outrun them by galloping across an open field. When I was about 11 I had my very own horse and I have…
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I think horses as beings that just want run freely as they pleased, and that’s just like me. A horse that just wants to run free. As a kid, I always loved to be rowdy and move around a lot. As a result it got me in trouble and I had no fun with it, being punished and limited. When I was in second grade, my recknessless got my into big time trouble by talking, and socializing too much and not focusing on school, which I never really liked. In the end of all the commotion I caused, I decided to change…
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decisions I did. It started off a great day spending time with the horses just being around them. Well, my father and mother realized that it was finally time that I take up riding my actual horse T-bone. But that also meant that Andy wouldn’t be used by any of us because he is way too old for us to ride. At first, I was against the idea of riding t-bone because I was still not strong enough to ride him plus he was a very tall horse. But my mother told me to think about what would be best for Andy. As…
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should really listen to my mom more. Hi, I’m Maddy! I am a 14 year old girl who loves riding and being around horses. Since I have been around horses my whole life, I tend to get a little bit too confident that I know everything and I can trust any horse what so ever! I am getting ready to take three Off the Track thoroughbreds ( ex race horses) named Jet, Dreamer, and Grannus to a show and I make a big mistake. Leaving three extremely clean horses in a pasture without halters(horse harness) and the gate…
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Peasant Fires by Richard Wunderli Peasant Fires, a self proclaimed tragedy written by Richard Wunderli, is a historical narrative that explores the rise and fall of young peasant named Hans Behem, a common herdsman, who believed he had been personally affirmed by the Virgin Mary to lead thousands of oppressed peasants on a pilgrimage to Niklashausen in a revolt against corrupt leaders of the established church during fifteenth century Germany. Thousands upon thousands of peasants dropped everything…
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her quest to defy gender defined stereotypes. Alice Munro illustrated in Boys and Girls how females’ integrity will attune to conventional stereotypes when their aspirations are threatened. The protagonist transitions from initially pursuing her personal desires; to being assimilated; then to adapting to conformity. In other words, females ambitions are compromised by societals conventional standard. The young protagonist resisted societal pressure in her gender-defined…
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character, family, husband and wife, immediate family (son/daughter), friends, community, outsiders, animals eg, horse items eg, spade write about language similes, metaphors, factual, poetic, powerful short sentences, humour, narrative, dialogues *** use lots of…
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“Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass: Literary Analysis” In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass explains, in great detail, how slave master would use a variety of methods to dehumanize slaves located on their plantation. These methods involved both severe physical and psychological trauma. Nevertheless, Douglass remains diligent and finds a way to resist the harsh reality of being a slave. Because of his immovable desire to acquire knowledge to his fighting encounter with Mr…
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