Also, in becoming President, he swore an oath to have integrity and use it to make the Unites States better. Honesty is a huge part of integrity and Abraham Lincoln is a very honest man. He even had a nickname: "Honest Abe". He was first recognized by this name when he was working as a clerk in a local shop. According to one account, whenever he accidentally gave a person the wrong amount of change, he would momentarily close up the shop to find the person and give them the correct amount of change, no matter how far the walk.
The characters that were in the story consisted of Lazarus the main character and his horse Grey Bat, who the story is followed in his point of view. Lieutenant Heyl, who was the overseer of the group who was a white lieutenant, the Indians who had ambushed the soldiers, a character called Redbone and the others Buffalo soldiers. The writing style of the story was in a narrative form from Lazarus who was the main character of the story. In my opinion of the story I thought that for one that the United States Army did not put as much work or effort into the Buffalo Soldiers as the regular white soldiers. Although Buffalo soldiers were paid a salary, they were not treated or were worth the same value as the white soldiers or they didn’t whole up equally.
The passengers include the town banker and his wife, a whiskey salesman, a conniving drunk Dr. who has long been excommunicated from the medical profession, and two women, one “proper” and one “not”. On the top of the wagon, are the driver Buck Rickbaugh, who is a garrulous type, who doesn’t like Indians; mostly because he’s afraid of them, and sitting “shotgun” to Buck is the roughneck sheriff of Tonto New Mexico; who is coming along to search for a cowboy that recently escaped from the state penitentiary. Shortly after the stagecoach leaves the town of Tonto, it runs into the “Ringo kid” on the trail. The sheriff then orders the kid into the wagon because he is the escaped prisoner he is looking for. The Ringo kid “goes down without
Why did John Ford not shoot from horseback, from Ethan’s point of view, with the house in the distance? He wanted the audience to take specific notice to John Wayne’s character to fit his profile for the rest of the film. Later in the film, Ethan rides out with the other men to search for stolen cattle, only to find that Native Americans had killed them. Ethan lives off the land, symbolized partially by the opening scene, which allows him to realize why they had killed the cattle. They wanted to homestead vulnerable for attack, which is exactly what the Indians proceeded to do.
He was very suspicious about their message but after thinking about it he went too met up with him. He then brought with him ten men and one of then went walking with him to the front door, and as he was about to open the door. The solider inside opened the door and shot two bullets to Zapata at point blank Range without letting him letting him get out his pistol, Zapata’s army leader fell down never to rise from the ground again (guaitt, pg 29). “it was said that he was riding his white horse with his black clothing around the mountains for years after he was shot” (Guaitt, pg )16. Pancho villa and Emiliano Zapata both accomplished many things well they were alive in the revolution they got the government to give the land back.
Anton Chigurh is on his trail wanting the money, murdering his employer, opponents and even normal citizens. Moss is clever and tries to keep one step ahead as Chigurh closes down on him. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell runs the investigation as struggles to face the things he is seeing and how different this country is to what he knew. (Chisholm, 2007) The film begins with an audio visual, with a narrator telling his story. We know the narrator is the sheriff because he opens with, “I was sheriff of this county when I was 25 years old.” He talks about the old times compared to the new times, and the change in crime, he’s states, “I don’t want to go out and see something I don’t understand, a man puts himself at hazard and has to say, ok I’ll be part of this world.” As the sheriff talks we see multiple static shots on a wide-angle lens different landscapes, each one harsh and empty giving an impression of the type of country these
Article Review: The Death of a People's Dream” The history between the U.S government and the Native American people is one full of blood and betrayal. In Robert Utley's article “The Death pf a People's Dream”, he tells a compelling story through the eyes of one brave Sioux Indian as he fought his way through the battle of Wounded Knee. Utley gives us a firsthand point of view which helps the reader understand history through the eyes of the defeated. In December of 1890, a treacherous bloodbath erupted on Wounded Knee Creek between white soldiers and the Sioux regarding practice of the Ghost Dance religion and over all dominance for the North American land. Utley tells us a story about one Sioux man named Dewey who managed to fight his way through the holocaust of the Wounded Knee battle in which he lost his mother, his brother, his wife, and infant son shortly after.
"In the first scene each of the Earp brothers on the cattle drive is introduced by a low-angle medium shot profiled on horseback against the sky. Somehow the short take, the brief isolation of each one, exposes a premonition of mortality, which is heightened by the ominous arrival of Old Man Clanton and his son Ike hunched over on their buckboard, in a medium shot seen from the back. They, their rig, and their horses are dark figures in the gathering dusk of the hills as Wyatt Earp rides up from the daylight plain to speak to them in low-angled closeup." Analysis of director John Ford's 1946 Western film
Even as they grew older they watched films with Cowboys and Indians, with the “bad guys” on trains running the west. Older Westerns were silent and colorless, but told a story. In the present there is sound, color, and still has a story to tell but it can be told in faster fashion than in late 1800’s and early 1900’s. A comparison of old Western movies to new age western movies can be made by exploring characters, settings, and changes in film making
The modern American culture is taking over and the reservation is not able to keep up. This is seen through Thomas’ vision in which the children drive a car to the police station. This act is the modern interpretation of the Indian right of passage where once the boy tames a wild horse, he is considered a warrior. Since the Indian culture is disappearing, they are struggling to find means of association. This disappearance of culture is seen when Thomas jokes that everybody in the reservation is named Junior.