For seven year-old Olivia Santee, it was her first time competing on a full size horse. Santee started riding when she was five, but had only been riding Chexmate Charlie, her coach’s full size horse, for a few weeks. Chexmate Charlie and her competed in four classes and ribbon-ed in three of them. To ribbon you must place in the top five.
My Journey to become a College Softball player Raegan Nunez 09/30/2012 3rd Period Honors English--Descriptive Essay Mr. Cornutt I love the thrill of standing at home plate, waiting for the pitcher to release the ball because in those few seconds I get to decide how, if and when to swing my bat. My dad signed me up for softball when I was only about seven or eight years old. I had watched the women’s college softball world series and Arizona State University took the title. It was the most exciting thing I had ever seen and I decided that I wanted to be just like those girls when I grew up. There have been many hours of hard work, travel and money spent on my training and I’m grateful for the opportunity provided to me as such a little girl with a big dream.
Despite a lifelong struggle with failing vision and the political conspiracy that have defined post-revolutionary Cuba, Alonso returned to her beloved land and founded the Ballet Nacional de Cuba and created the island's first dance school. At the age of eight, when she took her first dance lesson, she recalled to www.spain-alive.com, "I knew that I was going to love it more than anything in my life." That love has pushed her through six decades of dance. Born Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martinez Hoya on December 21, 1921 (though some sources say it was 1917); Alonso was the youngest of four children. Her father, Antonio Martinez, was an officer in the Cuban army and her mother, Ernestina Hoya, was a homemaker.
As I Lay Dying Prompt #8: Jewel and Anse Anse's selling of Jewel's horse is cruel and does not contribute to the family's greater good; however, Jewel's response to Anse demonstrates his loyalty to his mother. When Anse took Jewel's horse to travel to Snopes' house, Jewel was anxious and distraught. Jewel waited and waited for Anse until he came home and when he finally arrived; little did he know that Anse sold Jewel's own horse without his consent. Anse even looked proud for what he did: "He looked kind of funny: kind of more hangdog than common, and kind of proud too. Like he had done something he thought was cute but wasn't so sho now how other folks would take it."
Baptism Parable Kara has been riding horses almost her entire life. Since the age of 9 she has been riding at Wolf Ridge Stable in Foster, Rhode Island. Riding meant the world to her and she wasn’t in it for the competition, until her trainer bribed her. The day of the horse show finally came in June and all she had to support her was her mother, Allie, and her trainer, Beth. It was Kara’s first horse show ever.
I can point out several books that immediately influence my life upon reading them but the most consequential would have to be a child hood favorite… Black Beauty. Black Beauty portrays the story of a horse’s life through none other but the horse himself. Written by Anna Swells, she depicts a tail beginning with a fortunate horse who lives his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother to the hardship and austerity he faces while a cart horse in London to his tranquil and gratified retirement in the country. Upon reading this compelling and dynamic novel I came to the realization that Black Beauty's life contains a lessons and morals typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses. There is such a great deal of Verisimilitude or resemblance of truth and reality contained with in the novel which makes for the
Elizabeth Kenyon taught emotionally disturbed children in 1984 at Coral Gables High School, south of Miami, Florida, but hoped one day to return to fashion modeling. At age 23, she was the kind of beautiful young woman that turned men’s heads. Two years earlier, she had won the title of Orange Bowl Princess and had been a finalist in the Miss Florida Contest. With thick brown hair and a wide, sociable grin, she made friends easily. Elizabeth Kenyon On March 4, Kenyon left her apartment in Coral Gables to visit her parents in Pompano Beach, a trip she made every weekend.
Pound dogs are big and mean and nasty. The reason they are here is because they are bad dogs and nobody else wanted them.” My mother scolded me and I waited quietly as my dad spoke to the woman at the front desk. After just a minute the woman greeted us all and offered to show us where the kennels were. My heart started racing because the last thing I wanted was to be in a room with a bunch of mean
Heather tries to make Robert jealous by saying another guy loves her but he doesn't show any interest. “Then why should I fight him, Robert had asked...Robert thought it was idiotic and said so”. Him not wanting to fight with Tom Bryan which shows another sign of him not being a fighter or fit for war. Page 14: Robert looked to one side from under the peak of his cap, hoping that no one had seen him flinch from the steam or stepping back from the fire. Guilty about Rowena's death Robert is seen with a horse and dog in the prologue, after the 'war', and when we come across Taffler we see that he is accompanied with a horse and dog.
I didn’t really want to ride that horse, but I felt I had to because Grandpa kept telling Mom and Dad that I belonged on a real horse and not some wooden thing. I didn’t like the horse; when it hit certain angles it jolted and scared me even more. Mom and Dad offered me another ride on it, but I refused. “Want some cotton candy?” Junior brought me back to reality. “We had fun going on the rides and trying to win some prizes.