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    In the Movie "Tombstone"‚ Friendship Comes in Different Forms Friendship between two people can come in many different forms. In a companionship you could just be acquaintances‚ where at one time or another someone might have done something for you that might have changed your life for the better. To this individual you feel as if you owe them a favor in return. For this reason you would always help them in their time of need. In the movie Tombstone‚ Wyatt Earp was the only amigo that

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    The Homestead Act

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    |The Homestead Act 1862 | |The first Homestead Act was passed in 1841. The terms of this act allowed people to purchase 160 acres of Plains land at a very small price. | | | |In a bid to encourage more people

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    Shane by Jack Schaefer

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    In Shane by Jack Schaefer‚ actions and attitudes develop archetypes of two important men. Through their triumphs and failures‚ Shane is characterized as of a hero and mentor‚ and Fletcher as a shadow. Shane expresses the qualities of a hero‚ both physically and mentally. Shane appears in the valley with matching pants and an elegantly worn out coat and a black dress hat. This hero is aristocratic and well dressed in order to convince the reader that he is a mysterious character that has survived

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    Many people believe that Nolan County is simply an open grazed farm land that is just a view as they drive down I-20. From Roscoe to Blackwell‚ Nolan County is filled with many beautiful sites and culture. I’m surprised that Roscoe isn’t called the windy city‚ because everywhere you look there are huge wind turbines and flat lands. Similarly‚ to the huge skyscrapers found in the big cities‚ these enormous wind turbines are always a creative site to see. Even though we don’t have the exciting and

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    Violence in the Old West‚" Roger D. McGrath attempts to refute the myth that the old west was much more crime ridden compared to American cities today. McGrath argues that while the old west was violent‚ the violence that occurred was very different from what goes on today. Two of the most common crimes today‚ robbery and burglary‚ were hardly of any consequence. To prove this point McGrath compares crime rates of major cities today to Bodie‚ one of the most notorious towns in the old west. Bodie was

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    thesis of Fredrick Jackson Turner‚ the frontier changed America. Americans‚ from the earliest settlement‚ were always on the frontier‚ for they were always expanding to the west. It was Manifest Destiny; spreading American culture westward was so apparent and so powerful that it couldn’t be stopped. Turner’s Frontier Theory says that this continuous exposure to the frontier has shaped the American character. The frontier made the American settlers revert back to the primitive‚ stripping them from their

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    and popularization of the American West has left an indelible and lamentable stain upon the historical record of the United States for both European and Native Americans. Moreover‚ this revisionist history has obfuscated the objective reality of the American West. Relations between European and Native Americans have been vexed by this miscarriage of justice all the way through the present era. In this fallacious and farcical narrative of rugged individual European Americans conquering and enlightening

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    American West Risks

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    Were the Risks of the American West Worth it? I believe that the risks the American West posed to those who were brave enough to venture out to the American West were worth it. I also believe that I would have moved to the West despite the dangers and corruption happening at the time for two reasons. Number one and most important reason were the economic opportunities. Many immigrants chose the West because of the hope for economic prosperity. Chinese immigrants for example‚ having heard of

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    Race In The American West

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    century Columbus encountered African Americans which was a factor to how the race was invented. The race was set by a system of rules and a hierarchy where people were set on a scale depending on their race. The color of people’s skin and their cultural beliefs are what set up the idea of race. Race in the American West was based off certain rights and if the people in the American West during this time weren’t considered fully white they were discriminated in American societies. The race is looked upon

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    the expansion of americans into the west was a major step in the 1800’s. the united states had a great deal of land that no one had ventured to settle. however‚ that all changed as the prospect of making it big in the west entered people’s minds. although white settlers wanted desperately to settle the west rapidly‚ they encountered varous problems. the west was land like thye had never seen. the climate could change from one extreme to the other in a matter of hours‚ it was very dry‚ there

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