Throughout the ages, animals have been a source of fascination to humans. Whether loyal companions, enemies, or a means of sustenance, animals with their kindness, strength, beauty, and mystery have inspired people to create works of art (httpwww.artsmia.organimals). "Throughout history there have been representations ranging from the realistic, to mythical, ... Read More
Strangles Prevention Strangles is a highly contagious infection that plagues horses, and it needs to be controlled. The transmission of strangles is very easy, and its effects on horses are very serious. Vaccines should be required for all horses. Measures need to be taken to control the spread of strangles ... Read More
Horses and How They Grow Horses are fun to ride, but they can be a lot of hard work. The first horse was the Eohippus. It was about the size of a fox. It can be traced over a period of 60 million years. From America they spread across the ... Read More
Throughout the course of a novel, characters may face obstacles and endure many hardships, ultimately leading them towards a path to self- awareness. Both Miranda in John Fowles' The Collector, and John Grady Cole in Cormac McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses, encounter many unexpected struggles, which teach them important life ... Read More
Her long brown hair whips in the wind as she gallops off on Annabelle. Of course, knowing Daisy Lynn, the waves on each strand of hair is done perfectly. She is the most flawless person I have ever met, and definitely the picture perfect girl at Tullahoma High School. I ... Read More
Hallie is a friendly, warmhearted teenager, who is passionateabout swimming, cheer leading, and horseback riding. She connects with,and is comparable to horses in many ways. Horses tend to be very bright,comforting animals with wild sides. They gallop and buck around thefields just to have fun. Being able to let go ... Read More
Migrant workers are those who travel around to different rancheslooking for work. Many migrant workers have dreams of someday settling downand owning land of their own once they save up enough money. However,these dreams are rarely fulfilled. These issues are present in the novel OfMice and Men by John Steinbeck, ... Read More
Parasites in HorsesParasites can become a major problem for farmers with livestock. Any animal can become infected with parasites and some farmers can tell when an animal has parasites. However, some animals that are infected dont show any signs until it is too late to treat them. It is a ... Read More
Jeannette Walls wrote Half Broke Horses to tell the story of her grandmothers exciting yet arduous life. In this novel, Walls writes in the perspective of her grandmother, and tells her story. This novel shows how Walls found her grandmothers self-fulfilling ideals to be impactful in her life. Walls is ... Read More
The characters of Huckleberry Finn and John Brady Cole had many similarities and many differences throughout the book. The two characters motivations for leaving home were very different but had some similarities. Huckleberry Finn and John Brady Coles family situation was similar but there were also differences between them. Another ... Read More
A World without Therapeutic HorsesIn the face if cultural devastation a community must decide whether they want to change and grow, or stay with what they know and decline. The Crow, after facing many devastations had to rebuild and redefine everything they had known to be true, all the traditions ... Read More
The Rights of Carriage HorsesFor animal rights, and carriage horses, by Elizabeth Crowley presents one of the biggest animal rights issues currently being debated in New York City. Crowley believes that the proposed horse carriage ban is only about, special interests, multi-million dollar real estate and political promises. I agree ... Read More
In the PBS documentary film Crash A Tale of Two Species, we explore the worlds of two very different kinds of animals. The first is the horseshoe crab, an Arthropod from Class Merostomata that has survived from as far back as the Cambrian period (Hickman, 263). Horseshoe crabs migrate to ... Read More
What happens when you venture into the wild west with your greatest pal by your side? Probably nothing you expected! In Cormac McCarthys award winning novel, All The Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole, sixteen, sets off on an adventure with his friend Rawlins and comes back a man. This story ... Read More
Throughout history, horses have played pivotal roles in humantransportation, trade, warfare, and countless other utilities. This essayexamines how horses have helped shaped human society as symbols of statusever since their domestication during the Equine Revolution.. To assist inmy thesis, I will be analyzing the Iranian-Style Royal Portrait fromSasanian-Type Silver Plate, ... Read More
"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and, once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed." Ralph Waldo ... Read More
The American conception of the West is a romantic ideal born of a profoundly unromantic reality. It has been the self-appointed role of contemporary scholarship and culture to reach past the popular vision of America's westward expansion and settlement--a vision shaped and colored by hundreds of Western movies and their ... Read More
Yukio Mishima's landmark novel, Runaway Horses, the second part ofhis The Sea of Fertility cycle, examines the passions of a small, yetzealous ultra-conservative faction within Japan, struggling to combat therapidly expanding Western influences of industrialization, capitalism, andculture during the 1930's. One of the most intricately-developed themeswithin the novel centers around ... Read More
World War I (WWI) signifies a point in time, when there was thedeadliest armed conflict in history, dividing nations between two rivalsides the Allied Forces and the Central Forces. It is a great example ofhuman and animal interrelationships. This is because horses were heavilyused in this war. Historical evidence suggests ... Read More
What if most of the mental cases were not due to drugs or trauma? What if such individuals are wanderers lost in a blur and are trying to reach out? An individuals need to escape from the harsh realities of life draws a thin line between sanity and insanity. Naturally, ... Read More
Dreams and the Heros JourneyThe book All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy follows the boy, John Grady, throughout his travels in Mexico. The story is a bildungsroman, or a story about a hero who matures with the experiences gained during the adventure to ultimately become a fully developed individual. ... Read More
Running Quarter Horses.Running quarter horses is a story about how peoples dreams and ways of life clash and work in harmony. In the play Bobby and Dana initially share a common vision of life. As they both pursue this dream with varying success their dreams began to shift. Satisfied with ... Read More
John Grady Search of the Old West lifestyleAmerican Westerns A statement that alone makes anyone think of cowboys and indians, being free, being a person of the land and a long lost legend that only a few people have managed to hold on to through our history. The stories and ... Read More
The need to recall and record a lifetime of experiences appears to become universal at older ages. People often look through old photos to reconstruct their earlier years. In the article "A Guided Tour of the Past," Paula Span calls this guided autobiography. In the book "Out Stealing Horses" by ... Read More
William Faulkners Spotted HorsesandMule in the YardLei SzabadosMarch 16, 1999UCONN English 109Mrs. DrescherSpotted Horses and Mule in the Yard are two short stories by William Faulkner that deal with comedic animal chases. Although both provide entertaining examples of Faulkners work in very similar settings, on the scale of literary value, ... Read More
John Grady Cole, the last in a long line of west Texas ranchers, is, at sixteen, poised on the sorrowful, painful edge of manhood. When he realizes the only life he has ever known is disappearing into the past and that cowboys are as doomed as the Comanche who came ... Read More
Do Not Open This EmailWarning New virusDo not delete! is probably the most common phrase in the subject line of email today. If not those words exactly, then something similar warning people of the most recent viruses circulating through the Internet. There are several ways viruses can be downloaded, but ... Read More
The Godmother of All the Pretty HorsesIn analysis of the character, Duena Alfonsa, in the novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, facets of her character are clearly revealed. From her physical deformity to her feelings of her father keeping her exiled in her own country, seventy-two year old ... Read More
My Horses, My Teachers is an excellent book on Horses and how to learn from them. Alois Podhajsky tells about his experiences with horses and how they taught him how to ride and teach them from the time that he was a small child and for most the rest of ... Read More
Wild mustangs have captured the thoughts and imagination of almost everyone at some point in time. From pictures of wild horses silhouetted against the sunset, to visions of the Wild West and the Cowboys and Indians that rode the wild mustangs and ponies. But how much of these stories are ... Read More