and that ended the most terrifying experience of my life. Surprisingly by age 50‚my lucrative business lost its thrill‚ and I felt like it was time to move on and experience more of what life had to offer. I had enough of the problems and headaches of mainstream life and decided to sell my business to my husband. With a couple million dollars as pocket-money and a picture of my family‚ I moved to Jamaica where stress is low and "hakuna matata" is the national motto. I wanted to start my new life
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In the book Bless me Ultima‚ there are a lot of connections to the two poems "The Tiger" and "The Lamb". In "The Tiger" the tiger is this fierce scary and sinful creature. The tiger brings sin to people’s life. The tiger represents all the sin that is brought to Antonio’s life. The sin being when Lupito is shot‚ and when he learns about the golden carp‚ and when he is used in the exorcism of his Uncle Lucas. In the poem "The Lamb" the lamb is referred to as being innocent and sin free. The lamb
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Cattle industry 1820-1865: Origins in Texas Ranching first started in Texas‚ with ranches mostly manned by Mexican cowboys called vaqueros. In 1836 Texan ranchers drove many Mexicans out‚ and claimed the cattle left behind. The Civil War started in 1861‚ and Texans went off to fight. The cattle roamed free as huge herds grew up. On returning home‚ the Texans started rounding them up and driving them to sell in places such as New Orleans and California. 1865-1870: The ’long drives’ - first ’open
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chapter 6‚ before Ultima blesses Antonio and his siblings‚ his mother says ‘“And especially bless my Antonio‚ that all may go well for him and that he may be a man of great learning”. Tony’s father‚ a man of the land‚ aspires for Tony to become a ‘vaquero’‚ just like him. As Tony becomes closer and closer to Ultima‚ he opens up to her more. They talk about everything. Ultima tells Tony stories and legends of his
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Chapter 13 Notes: Changes on the Western Frontier Native Americans -Native Americans of the plains hunted‚ farmed‚ and traded in traditional ways. -Plains people relied on the buffalo for a variety of survival needs -The booming of the cattle industry in the late 1800s contributed to the decline of the Plains Indians’ culture. -The Sioux (war-like plains tribe) resisted the efforts of the U.S. government‚ the army & the settlers to remove them from their sacred lands. -Sitting Bull &
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Natalie N. English II Things Have Changed (Bless Me Ultima Final Draft) In Anaya’s Bless Me Ultima‚ Antonio doesn’t see much of a future in becoming a priest or a vaquero as he learns of new cultures and beliefs which contradict his parents’ choice of destiny. With Ultima’s guidance Antonio comes to terms of having an open mind and learns to live with both the new and old beliefs in harmony. Antonio struggles with the thought of becoming a priest as he witnesses Lupitos last
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quarrel. Their frequent Sunday morning arguments about religion are a result of Gabriel’s Saturday night drinking. María is a devout Catholic‚ but Gabriel’s vaquero mindset causes him to distrust priests because to him they stand for order and civilization. Antonio knows that Gabriel’s father once dragged a priest from church and beat him after the priest preached against something that Antonio’s grandfather had done. At last Antonio goes downstairs‚ and María scolds Antonio for not being properly
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Describe how many Americans saw the “west” or the “frontier” in the late 1800s. (448-450) Most Americans had visible the west/frontier as a process and an area that supplied a secure haven therefore freeing social tensions and giving possibilities to social actions that served as a reason for Americanizing Americans. This helped maximum people in order that they may differentiate themselves from the world. Describe how Native Americans were forced to assimilate into white society in the late 1800s
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was not as successful. The bull bucked like normal and she fell of but then her foot got caught in the stirrup. She was then dragged to her death in 1929 since then women have not been allowed to do any other events. The rodeo tradition comes from vaqueros (spanish for cow and man). The first rodeo was in 1864 in Prescott‚ Arizona. Not until five years later was there another rodeo. Rodeos were used as entertainment in a time before T.V. and electronics. To make rodeos more entertaining they brought
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