Thistle The “Russian Thistle” or tumbleweed has been an icon for the west for many‚ many years. Just think about those old western movies we see with the wind blowin the lone tumbleweed across a deserted street. I have always wondered what they were and how they came to be. According to ehow.com‚ A tumbleweed or salsola tragus‚ was introduced to the western United States in the late 1800’s. Russian thistle is bushy‚ and as it grows it becomes spiny and obtains an oval to round shape
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stuck different emotions among viewers such as‚ “’Gay cowboy movie’ shatters stereotypes” (Clinton‚ sec. 2) with two handsome young cowboys Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) who fall in love‚ which is not viewer’s typical western genre expectation. While Ang Lee’s‚ Brokeback Mountain‚ will remain an important piece of cinema now and one hundred years in the future because‚ the genre of the film makes it memorable to audiences‚ stimulating cinematography and sound‚ the incredible
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making it one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ author Erich Maria Remarque describes the life of a WWI soldier and the effects it had on the men. Wilfred Owen wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum Est as a soldier during the war. Similarly‚ this poem focused on describing a scene of tired‚ weary soldiers experiencing one of their comrades dying. Both All Quiet on the Western Front and Dulce et Decorum Est focus on showing the horrors of war‚ challenging the
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constructed and this construction takes place in large part through language. Basso brings attention to the dialectic interplay between the construction of place and the definition of community for the Western Apache. While a relationship with the landscape exists to reinforce the cultural ideology of the Western Apache‚ such would not be possible without the same ideology shaping the perspectives of the landscape (how it is experienced and regarded by the people) in the first place. It is then understood
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Development and adaptation of the western genre has occurred throughout the twentieth century in relation to the shift in context‚ this is still relevant. Stereotypes of a western genre and the context are determined by the time in which the film is being produced. The time in which they were produced determine how social construction‚ gender ideas‚ values and attitudes‚ the setting and SWAT codes are demonstrated. I have chosen to present this speech by looking at the film studied in class‚ and
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Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve portrays its positive woman characters as ideal sufferers and nurturers. "[T]he cause of her suffering springs mainly from poverty and natural calamity. The women are from the rural sections of society. They are the daughters of the soil and have inherited age-old traditions which they do not question. Their courage lies in meek or at times cheerful way [sic] of facing poverty or calamity" [Meena Shirdwadkar‚ Image of Woman in the Indo-Anglian Novel (New Delhi:
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The poems; • Flag by John Agard • The Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes • The Right Word by Imtiaz Dharker And the Novel All quite on the Western Front . Show us different aspects of the parties that are involved in the conflict. Flag by John Agard explores the patriotism and pride over sovereignty of the motherland. How a piece of cloth ‚ a flag can unite people from different ethnic backgrounds and cultures to fight for a mutual agenda symbolizes grandeur ‚the love of their country to such extent
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Tom Doniphon and Ransom Stoddard are the two key characters in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence‚ directed by John Ford and filmed in 1962. Tom Doniphon is played by John Wayne‚ while Ransom Stoddard is played by Jimmie Stewart. In this movie Ransom Stoddard is a well educated attorney from the East who comes to the West to find new opportunity and a place to practice law. He finds out real soon while traveling to the town of Shinbone that the West doesn’t really care about law or city folk. Liberty
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he is not relevant anymore. His monuments‚ built as reminders of his heroism‚ stand distant and unreachable on his pedestal‚ as if deliberately exaggerating our insignificance. It even comes to a point that one may say “I can’t be like him.” The western construct of a hero was named after the Greek war goddess Hera. It points to a strong-willed and supernatural character who consciously directs his abilities for the good of the people. More often than not reduced to titles and merits‚ a hero’s humanity
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John Ford’s 1962 film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is considered to be one of the greatest of American movies. This Western film begins with Senator Ransom Stoddard and his wife‚ Hallie‚ returning to Shinbone for the funeral of Tom Doniphon‚ an ex-outlaw and old friend of theirs. Upon the Stoddard’s arrival‚ the editor in chief of the Shinbone Star begins to question the Senator’s reason for visiting‚ forcing him to revisit his past. From then on‚ a flashback of events in the Old West begins
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