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    Knockin On Heaven's Door

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    Heaven’s Door” (Dylan) is clearly a call to leave the darkness and come to the light before it is time to meet your maker. Bob Dylan wrote the original Lyrics in 1973 for the sound track to Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Dylan). Once best friends now on the opposite sides of the law I am positive Pat Garrett found himself contemplating the irresistible urge to quit before having to end his friend’s life or to face the demise of his own. Therefore‚ “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” leaves you pondering

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    Kid was deeply affected by the murder. At his funeral‚ Billy Said‚ "I’ll get everyone who helped kill John if it’s the last thing I do." On December 15‚1880‚ Governor Wallace put a $500 reward up for whoever could find Billy the Kid‚ and soon‚ Pat Garrett began his hunt for the kid. He set up many traps to try to Catch Billy‚ but the kid seemed to have an animal instinct to aware him of danger. This didn’t last too long. On November 30‚ 1880‚ Billy and his gang rode into White Oaks‚ New Mexico

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    Billy the Kid is my kind of Cowboy This issue of Living in the West explores the love affair we have with the great American Cowboy. Call them cowhands‚ cowpoke‚ cowpuncher or buckaroos‚ billions of dollars have been spent chronicling their storied history. With his Stetson hat‚ sunburned face‚ weathered dungarees and boots of leather‚ the cowboy has gone from a ranch hand to a blue color icon. In fact‚ America’s love affair with the cowboy has been around longer than the name “cowboy” itself

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    Billy The Kid Analysis

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    named Pat Garrett who ended up finding him and taking him into court once again. Billy begged Wallace to be good on his word of pardoning him‚ but Wallace didn’t. Billy ended up being the only one convicted for a crime in the Lincoln County war out of fifty or so men. So Billy planned his next escape. He had asked a friend to place a gun in a privy that he would later use as he was being escorted to lunch. After getting the gun he later shot the people holding him and escaping town. Pat Garrett again

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    written in 1971‚ a novel names after one of Wilfred Owen’s poems. It concentrates on a realistic representation of relationships between young men in the trenches of World War One and the reality of war and the impacts it has on individuals‚ similar to Pat Barkers Regeneration. Hill is a female author which is significant because the whole novel is based on a women’s point of view. As a reader we can see this because of the devices Hill uses throughout the novel such as letters‚ devastation and possibly

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    Poetry

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    Danah Bakir “Same Song” By: Pat Mora * Predictions: Based on the picture surrounding this poem‚ which is a mirror‚ I predict this poem will be about external beauty and the concept of beauty only being skin deep. Based on the title of this poem‚ I predict this poem will be about similar people’s stories and how they handle their situations in similar manners. The type of poem I think it’ll be is an observational and descriptive poem. I predict this because I think the author is going to use

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    References: Breakdowns‚ Complacency Are Key Problems in 15 Day Arizona Takeover. (2004‚ March 10). Corrections Digest. Retrieved from http://www.allbusiness.com/public- administration/justice-public-order/1137791-1.html Garrett‚ M. (2004‚ June 17). In Need of Correction: Arizona’s prison system is overloaded and its staff is overwhelmed. Tucson Weekly. Retrieved from http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/in-need-of-correction/Content?oid=1076508 Ranzau‚ S. (2009‚ June 24).

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    Is Billy The Kid a Tragic Hero? William H. Bonney (born William Henry McCarty‚ Jr.) was known for his sulky smooth character‚ his enigmatic hero/outlaw image‚ and most importantly his treacherous rumored 21 murders. Most commonly and historically known as Billy the Kid‚ Bonney was born November 1859 in New York City‚ having moved around numerous times as a young child‚ and ultimately settling down in the Old American West. Orphaned as a young boy‚ “The Kid” began hanging around the wrong crowd

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    In the 1988 movie Young Guns we will analyze William H. Bonney‚ better known as Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) as the outlaw hero‚ and Patrick Floyd Garrett (Patrick Wayne) as the official hero. This movie was closely based on real life events of the Lincoln County war of 1877-1878‚ but because the real life events weren’t nearly as controversial and exciting‚ the movie was minimally changed in various ways to make it more appealing to audiences. The movie starts out with a group of wayward young

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    Interest In The NFL Draft

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    The question of the week is why should you guys be interested in the NFL Draft? One of the many reasons why you should be interested in the NFL Draft is because it’s one of the most important weekends of the year. Therefore if any sports fan or even college fans that don’t care about the NFL but‚ care about their college team to see where their favorite players on their favorite college team will go and continue their careers. “It’s no secret that the NFL draft is catnip cut with Vicodin for

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