Ambling Essays

  • How to Train a Horse

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    How to Train a Horse Training a horse to ride is hard work, it involves ground work, riding, and in both patience is very important. In the next few paragraphs I will be explaining the steps needed to train a horse. When you first start training a horse you want to start with doing the ground work. When you are doing the ground work such as leading, lunging, brushing, picking up the hooves, putting on the saddle, blanket, and bridal, and putting weight on the saddle, the ground work allows you

  • Narrative Essay About Riding A Horse

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    People are shaped by the occurrences, decisions, etc, that happen in their lives, whether those occurrences be negative or positive in the end all depend upon that certain individual. The way out own character is shaped is dependent upon these certain situations. What you have seen, what you have experienced, everything that has happened to you, and the decisions that you have made along the way have built you into the person that you are today. My first and most beloved passion was riding horses

  • Personal Opinion About Horses: A Horse is a Horse?

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    Popular opinion is that the Quarter Horse is the best overall western style competition and pleasure horse. Conversely, in the past I have talked to other active horsemen who said that one or another of their various breeds of horses performed better than the Quarter Horses they owned. I have 4 horses: 2 Quarter Horses named Buck and Scout, 1 Thoroughbred named Bugsy, and 1 Rocky Mountain Ranger named Jack. For the purposes of this paper we will only take into consideration the two horses that

  • Overview of the Tenessee Walking Horse

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    Index "Number 278 Your Honor!!!” This is what I hear as I ride my horse, Ranger, along the perimeter of the huge ring that holds all my fears, worries, hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. As the announcer yells into the loud speaker “Riders the judges say ride on at a Running Walk!” I pick up speed flying past my competition, so many World Champions and World Grand Champions on one fair ground, it can be over whelming at times. As the riders sit in the ring patiently anticipating the results all

  • Benedict Cumberbatgh's Hamlet

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    Of the three productions of Hamlet viewed- starring Ethan Hawke, Benedict Cumberbatch and Kenneth Branagh- the one featuring Kenneth Branagh best captures the essence of Hamlet’s soliloquy through his effortless delivery, use of props and use of setting to convey his message, revealing Shakespeare’s intent, which is to provoke the question, “is there a greater purpose in life?”. Throughout the soliloquies starring Ethan Hawke and Benedict Cumberbatch, there is a continuing thread of forced and awkward

  • Angela's Experience: A Narrative Fiction

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    It took a moment for Angela’s eyes to adjust enough to the newfound darkness. She realized there was moonlight filtering through the windows. It was enough to give a vague outline of her surroundings. She heard those footfalls again, but from Lillian, she heard nothing. She considered running out the front door, but she’d come too far and was in too deep. Now that things were in play, she might never find out who killed Lil if she bailed. She lunged to the left and leapt on the couch, throwing

  • Personal Engagement Statement On A Card Game: Spit

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    Personal Engagement Statement: Growing up, I have always loved the card game called Spit. Spit is a card game where you and your opponent split the deck in half and see who can get rid of all their cards first. You and your opponent both place a card in between you both and have to line up the cards you’ve placed down in front of you in number order until all of your cards are gone. Once one of the players finishes all of their cards which they set up infant of them, the opponents race each other

  • Where Sweatshops Are A Dream Analysis

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    explaining what the sweatshop would look like from the average American’s point of view. “ The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn. Then the smoke parts and you come across a child ambling barefoot, searching for old plastic cups that recyclers will buy for five cents a pound. Many families actually live in shacks on this smoking garbage.” From my perspective, one of the strength points about this article is Mr. Kristof put the visual

  • College Admissions Essays - Something Daring and New

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    College Admissions Essays - Something Daring and New Think about something you never did in high school but wish you had done. Now imagine your time at college. Propose taking up something daring and new, and describe how it might affect your life. For years I have harbored a secret desire to become a cheese aficionado. This is not entirely arbitrary. Cheese, as an independent entity outside of any broader alimentary context, is at once worldly and whimsical. It provides the ideal complement

  • Puns In Romeo And Juliet

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    uns are the ultimate literary device. They can be corny and make you groan, or poetic and full of raw meaning. Shakespeare fully realized the power of the pun, and worked to make it a focal point of his play Romeo and Juliet. He uses puns to a plethora of extents, from displaying character emotions, foreshadowing, and malapropisms that convey a deeper meaning. One of the primary functions of puns in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is to convert character emotions. An example of this is when Romeo

  • Romeo And Juliet Decisions

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    party he attended, and killing Juliet's, who he had married, cousin Tybalt. The first bad decision Romeo makes is attending a Capulet party that his friends, Mercutio and Benvolio, told him about. Romeo says, "Give me a torch; I am not for this ambling." Being heavy, I still bear the light." (1.4.11-12) Romeo says this to let his friends know that he is sad and upset that he has to

  • Contrasting the Natural and Mechanical Worlds in Hathaway's Oh, Oh

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    world into the carefree land of nature. The images, content, and focus of the poem change with the intrusion of the train.  Before the protagonist's girl notices the train, the two characters are concerned with the cows, grass, and simply ambling down a country lane.  But, as soon as the train approaches, and as it passes, the characters are no longer concerned with nature.  Rather, they suddenly begin dreaming of "being president" (11) and of "wonderful, faraway places" (14).  This switch

  • The Status Of Women In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice

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    money, he is infuriated. However, he is more upset about his loss of property than he is his own daughter, stating that he wished his daughter to be “hearsed at his foot” with the “ducats in her coffin.” Later in the scene, Shylock is mocked for ambling in the streets, moaning, “my daughter, my ducats” — his repetition elucidates his belief that those two losses are of equal importance, demonstrating that women were considered commodities like currency. Similarly, throughout the play, Portia is repeatedly

  • Terrible Decisions In Romeo And Juliet

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    In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo plays the role of the tragic hero. In the play Romeo is an extremely impulsive individual. and makes his decisions without considering the consequences. Romeo makes terrible decisions that end up killing him. What Romeo Failed to see is that every decision he made had an even worse reaction. Romeo is an extremely impulsive individual. Romeo makes decisions without considering the consequences. Romeo tells Mercurio and Benvolio, “Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll

  • Richard's Monstrosity In Frankenstein

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    In actuality, his mind overpowers his self. Because he firmly holds on to the belief that he “cannot prove a lover” without offering any proof that he really is incapable of wooing “a wanton ambling nymph,” Richard chooses “to prove a villain” (Shakespeare 6). His mind constantly rejects optimism and instead thrusts him back into the darkness where he can protect himself from disappointment. By doing so, Richard’s body becomes a canvas upon which

  • Gothic Short Stories

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    The gentle barrage of acid rain on the flat rooftop wakes me late at night. A dim light shines through the spaces in the cheap blinds. The soothing sounds of the sleeping night caress my aching body: a distant mechanical hum; the moan of an infant; the quickening tempo of the rain on the roof. My back is stiff and itchy as it sticks loosely to the clammy sheet that separates me from the coarse concrete floor. The stifling night air is sweltering and saturated. I now hear slow, faltering footsteps

  • The story of Summer

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    of tempting situations. The reader begins to notice, however, that Homer's mind is still easily swayed by that most primitive of urges - sexual desire. The passage, "Homer looked up. Through the screen he watched Fred's sister Sandra as she came ambling down the path, stepping lightly between the stones in her bare feet," (293) is the first mild manifestation of Homer giving in to a loss of control to his sensual appetite. The next case of Homer's decreasing ability to control himself takes place

  • School Observation Essay

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    It was a cold day when I visited Overlea high school and observed all that was happening in the school. The schools looked as if it was built before 20 years. The walls had black dust on it, there were chips and chocolate wrappers in the corner and the green grass was wet. In the morning at 7am I saw yellow colored buses filled with twenty five students coming to drop them at the school. Near the flagpole there were many students that belonged to other school standing and waiting for their bus. Those

  • Romeo And Juliet Light Imagery Essay

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    Light imagery is often used in literature and theatre to establish mood. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, contrasting images of light and darkness are used by Romeo to explain his depression after losing Rosaline, his infatuation upon meeting Juliet, as well his attachment and reluctance to leave her later on. Romeo’s use of light imagery underscores the volatility of his emotional responses to events. Romeo compares Rosaline to the light and his disposition to darkness near the beginning

  • Titus Andronicus Trauma

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    As has already been shown, Shakespeare’s bodies are not simply constrained to the individual but encode the memories of wider groups of people. Throughout Titus Andronicus Shakespeare is interrogating how to understand the trauma that our family experiences; when faced with Lavinia’s mutilation, Titus asks ‘shall we cut away our hands like thine?’ (III.I.131) suggesting that to understand another’s trauma is to inflict the violence on yourself. This is particularly interesting when considering Tamora’s