The Ice Breaker is a perfect show for young riders like Santee. Being fairly new to horse shows; events like The Ice Breaker give Santee a chance to learn more about horse shows in a friendly environment. “Here it gives her a sense of different kinds of horses...good experience for her from the different showings,” said Santee’s mother Chris. “This is perfect for her.” Not only was The Ice Breaker a great learning show for riders, it was a great way meet new people. LCC student, Chelsea Carlson has been competing for fourteen years and has traveled all over the US for higher level competitions.
A headstrong sixteen year old girl (Katie McLaughlin) wants desperately to work on her father’s (Rob McLaughlin) ranch, but her father wants her to finish school and have a good education. When Katie is back home for the summer she discovers a gorgeous wild mare (Flicka) running in the foothills of Wyoming. She plans to capture this beast and prove to her father that she can run the ranch. She starts to succeed in this plan, but an unexpected disaster occurs which will take everyone’s strength and courage to restore hope. Although this movie is incredible, the lack of realism pulls the believability out of it.
In Ka Vang’s short story, “Ms. Pac-Man Ruined My Gang Life,” the reader takes a wild ride through the eyes of Asian “gangsta girl”, Cindy, who is struggling with her life as a current gang member and the future she has ahead. The author uses a first person narrative in order to better depict what actually goes on in Cindy’s mind. Cindy’s character in the story can be depicted as distracted and hardhearted as she struggles with the loyalty she has to her gang and best friend Nicky, and choosing a better future for herself. The author opens the story with “Mandy stole my boyfriend, Tiny.” The first sentence already sets the story’s conflict and lets readers understand the plot right in the beginning.
Some athletes don't care what kind of shoes they wear, or how many fans they have. They don't even care that they're on television from coast to coast. They just want to run. Nothing moves me more than when on the way to fetching in my mare in the morning than the sound of her neighing to me as i open the gate. A canter is the cure for every evil ~ Benjamin Disraeli A good rider can hear his horse speak to him.
Both having their similarities and differences, they play huge roles in the books “The Hunger games” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”. One could easily see that Scout is the mature girl she is because of her wise father, Atticus Finch. Atticus taught her to be open minded, and to treat every human at the same level. Katniss’ father also played a huge role in the maturity level of Katniss. Since her passed away in a mine explosion, she was forced to look over the family.
But what got all of them excited was when Nick talked about jumping horses and all the different medals he won in horse shows. Feeling left out Mark turned to the local stables, with the idea of learning how to jump as well to show his friends that he is cool just like Nick. Now Kim, the owner of the local horse stables and she is also a trainer, has grown up around horses and has seen the good side and the not so nice side of horses. She has also seen good riders and bad riders and some that are impatient and think they can just jump on a horse and go. When
He is also an emotionless violent serial killer, He is the type of killer that struggles with fitting into society while at the same time he tries to cope with his inability to feel emotion. Dexter was once taught by his foster father to manage his lust for blood and killing. He lives by his own strict moral code - which is that he only kills murderers who cannot be brought to justice. The satire of Dexters life is that he works closely as a blood splatter analyst with many people who hunt his kind - the Homicide department. Debra Morgan, Dexters step sister, Is a smart and capable, yet unsure of herself and so she relies upon Dexters seemigly limitless expertise on murderers to solve difficult cases.
Scout’s Loss of Youth In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, undergoes a sudden change when she hears the verdict of Tom Robinson’s trial. Scout goes from an immature, rash and stubborn child, who gets in fights and doesn’t think about her actions, to a young woman who formulates her own opinion, fully understands racism, and understands the role it plays in her town’s justice system. Before this turning point Scout is immature and childish. For example, Scout tried to get Calpurnia fired for selfish reasons. Scout claims that “[Calpurnia] likes Jem better’n she likes [Scout], anyway” and then proceeded to “[suggest] that Atticus lose no time in packing her off.”(25).
White discusses how slave children had roughly the same day-to-day routine whether male or female. At puberty things begin to change as women are urged to find a mate. The teenage duties consisted of pulling weeds, and raking the yards. While performing these duties the girls were heavily surrounded by other young mothers "which helped them develop a sense of what was expected of them in their future role of mother” Slave women usually had their first child late into teen hood. At this time if you were a barren woman you would be separated from your husband and
A young knight in King Arthur’s court rapes a beautiful young maiden. The people are repulsed by the knight’s behavior and demand justice. Although the law demands that the knight be beheaded, the queen and ladies of the court beg to be allowed to determine the knight’s fate. The queen then gives the knight a year to discover what women most desire. The year passes quickly.