Essays on Horse

English

Liam Neeson’s ‘Carriages Belong in Central Park’ is an article, which addresses horse-drawing carriage business in the Central Park. The author notes that such an activity has existed over the centuries, and sees no harm about it. However, Mayor Bill de Blasio intends to eradicate the activity. His reason for this step is that the industry was inhumane, and as a result, he suggested that he would replace the horse-drawn carriages with vintage cabs. Neeson had as his main aim the urge to argue against such abolishment, for he saw no reason for the horses to be banned Continue reading...

In his article “Carriages Belong in Central Park”, appearing in the New York Times, Liam Neeson addresses the issue of horse drawn carriages in New York City. The article come from a sense of exigency created by a proposal by current New York mayor, Bill de Blasio to eradicate the horse drawn carriage business in the city of New York by the end of this year. Neeson feels the need to address this issue seeing that he is a lover of horses and as he mentions, he grew up with horses in his native land of Ireland. Neeson also Continue reading...

When a hoofed animal walks and works on hard ground, there is a probability that the animal might have its hooves destroyed by the hard ground that the animal is working on. There are animals that have survived without their hooves being taken care of. However, these animals are either wild or ones that are not involved in demanding schedules. The horses are hoofed animals that require their hooves taken care of frequently. The hooves of these animals are very important to the overall reliability of the animal. If the hooves of a horse are not in good shape, Continue reading...

A self-directed investment is a retirement account in which the investor is responsible for all the decisions. The individual who holds the account makes decisions based on his/her own choices. People use this account as a means of diversifying investments apart from stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. The investments in this account are administered by a custodian or trustee who is appointed by the investor himself/herself.
The greatest advantage for a self-directed IRA is that; a person can invest in whatever he wants. These investment decisions may range from gold coins to horse farms (Tuchman, 2013). However, people have Continue reading...

Haniwa Horse

Description of the historical work in Ceramic Media
Haniwa Horse encompasses a small horse hollow terracotta statue placed in aristocratic graves during the Kofun period in ancient Japan (Haniwa uma 43). Haniwa is Japanese word that means circle of clay to refer to the unglazed red clay cylinders put around the burial mounds. Haniwa horse supports the ground on the imperial burial mound to provide stability and support the roof of the tomb.
The artisans of the Kofun era were the first to design the Haniwa Horse during Japan’s Iron Age. The Kofun means an old tomb that Continue reading...

“Compass and Torch”

In Elizabeth Baines’, “Compass and Torch”, an eight year old boy, ready for the camping trip with his father that he has not seen in four months, listens as his mother mocks the idea of camping on a mountain side with an eight year old that his father cannot relate to, to her new boyfriend Jim. As the boy is packing for his trip, he comes into the kitchen with his torch and reluctantly hands it to Jim, who checks it to make sure it is in working order for the boy. Throughout the story’s entirety, the central Continue reading...

The short story “Boys and Girls” (1968) by Alice Munro discusses a young girl’s coming of age, and her realization about what it means to be a girl in a society where gender roles preordained and stereotypes are highly prevalent. The author uses the young girl as the narrator who experiences an inner conflict, where she feels divided between what she wants to do in her life and what is expected of her. Munro’s choice of the setting of a rural area, more specifically a farm where sexism and gender based roles play much greater than in Continue reading...

In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates warns Phaedrus that “in every one of us there are two guiding and ruling principles” (Plato, 54). These two principles are of the same two conflicting natures found in Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train. Just as Plato’s virtuous horse and his dark, intemperate horse ride side by side guided by the same charioteer, for Highsmith, “good and evil, live side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next” (Highsmith, 180). Highsmith demonstrates that in the same way Plato shows the dark Continue reading...

Kathleen Tamagawa grew up with an Irish American mother and a Japanese father. Her memoir “Holy Prayers in a Horse’s Ear” is about her experiences growing up and feeling like she never fit in. She believes being racially mixed is a difficult and complex. Her memoir was written in 1932, so maybe things have become better, but her conclusion was that different cultures and societies are not fully open to completely accepting other races. She explains the title of the book towards the end, when she asks the reader “and now I ask, what use are holy prayers, Continue reading...

The Mending Wall

The Mending Wall is a poem that revolves around the saying, “Good fences make good neighbors,” as stated in the 27th line. The speaker and his neighbor, both separated by a wall made of stone, are the main protagonists in the poem. The poem itself is a setting where both the speaker and his neighbor record one of their rare instances of meeting one another – during spring, a time when they make repair on their sides of the wall together (Holland 365-385). A thorough reading of the poem would bring one to realize that the speaker is highly unconvinced Continue reading...

The book to be used in the running record sheet is entitled Hello Children: Reading A to Z. The book A to Z is of aa level.

The formula is;
((Running Words –Total Errors) ÷ Running Word) × 100
((362-22)/362)× 100
=93.9%
Percentage accuracy of 93.9% shows that this is best for Instructional level for use in leveled reading session.

Self-Correction rate

((Total error + total self-correction) ÷total self-correction)× 100
(22-4)/4
= 1:4.5
4.5 rounded to the nearest whole number it becomes 5, hence the ratio becomes
= 1:5

Error Rate

Is calculated by dividing total words with the total error:
(Total words) ÷ (total error) = Error Continue reading...

Any organization that desires to venture the international market, initially needs to have a plan on how to carry out its operations in a new market. Since an international market typically means that the business will involve people that were not part of the business during its inception. It is, therefore, important that the business in particular Crazy Horse company to formulate a structured plan for personnel in China. This will enable Crazy Horse Company to run swiftly and with minimum difficulty. The personnel in Crazy Horse Company plays a vital role in ensuring that the product is made Continue reading...

Frost‘s poem is simple in language, form, and context. The poem deals with the theme of nature and one man’s love of the beauty of the woods on a snowy afternoon. It is the darkest evening of the year, but the man stops to admire the lovely woods. Literally, the poem deals with one man’s appreciation of nature. Figuratively, the heavy metaphor in the poem suggests a darker meaning. The heavy metaphor is an element of death in the poem. Frost uses symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to bring out the theme of the beauty of Continue reading...

Chuck Close’s “Frank”: Everyman as Art

The late author Douglas Adams said that art is holding a mirror up to the Universe – although he then pointed out that there was not a mirror big enough, since the Universe was infinite in size. So what’s an artist to do? American artist Chuck Close brings that mirror down to size by making his subject huge. In “Frank” (1969), a grey-toned acrylic painting of a black-and-white photograph, an everyday man becomes a monumental work of art. Close shows that the everyman is just as valid a subject for art than classical themes or the upper class.
It Continue reading...

The Hapsburg monarch developed required stallions that may portray their royalty and enabled their dominance during war. They developed the Lipizzaner stallions. The stallions were custom made for the monarch as they were used for war and peace. In addition, the prestige of the stallions was significant. This acknowledgement made the breed across the globe. To date, the stallions are celebrated as the oldest breed of horses across the Europe. The stallions have been bred for 400 years (Green, 2009). Regardless of the time frame, the horses are applauded across Europe for the most outstanding breeds of horses. However, Continue reading...

Introduction

“Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart,” is a fascinating story written Chretien de Troyes that explores the themes of courtly love and knightly valor. The story tells the story of the famous Arthurian knight, Launcelot and his love affair with Guinevere. The main action of this classic tale centers on the abduction of Guinevere by the evil Meleagant and the various conquests of Launcelot as he attempts to rescue his lover. A revolving theme of the tale is the struggle that Launcelot faces in trying to balance his duties as a lover and as a knighted warrior. Throughout the Continue reading...

Ireneo Funes develops skills that should be beneficial for the entire human race. He is a savant. However, his skills turn out to be a disaster to him. He is a miracle wasted. Funes demonstrates that the ability of the brain is yet to be understood. He has a memory that even the experts of the time such as Borges cannot comprehend. Had there been an appreciation of his skills, Funes should have been recognized globally and may be used as the best global diary or world clock thus giving him proper care and utilizing his capabilities.
Funes fell Continue reading...

Chen Tian-Xiang Painting Background

Chen Tian-Xiang can be related to modern Chinese painters as his works have become more popular and recognizable in last years. The painter’s style is difficult to be characterized by one genre, because his works could be found among those of contemporary Chinese art as well as traditional pattern and animal painting. In 2011 Chen Tian-Xiang opened his own exhibition, where all his artworks represented contemporary abstract painting created with oil canvas and paper. His abstract painting explicitly represents the very unique combination of several oil painting techniques such as linseed oil for drying oil painting to make Continue reading...

Venus Revenge

The house perched on a cliff overlooking the bright blue bay. The channel that ran under the house had risen from the tide that came in, in the early evening. The water kissed the floor of the little house and made a slurping sound. Venus stirred in her sleep. She rolled over on a large, hard bed and felt the handle of her sword pressing in the small of her back. She jumped with a start as she feared it was the hands of her enemy. His fingers had felt like that when he tried to caress her soft, Continue reading...

Children are always taught to render love and respect to their parents. As children, there also appears a steady obligation to take care of our parents especially when they are already old. Personally, my mission in life at this point of my life is to be successful in my career and seek for an employment that would render me greater income so that I would be able to provide my mother’s needs all the time. This paper presents the story titled The Rocking Horse Winner and how the story connects to my own life situations.
Many people are Continue reading...

The Hrafnkel saga is based on Christian ethics and morals, a view that after a period of increasing criticism has lost a great deal of its initial convincing force. Hrafnkel was the son of a Norwegian man called Hallfreor, who was one of the original settlers of Iceland. Hrafnkel, with the permission of his father established his own settlement and selected an uninhabited valley for his farm and named it ‘Noble home’ and the valley was subsequently named after him, ‘Hrafnkel’s valley.’ He believed in a god called Freyr and had erected a large temple, where he performed Continue reading...

“The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson are two extravagant literary works from the America history. This paper is a comparison and contrast of these two suspenseful and dynamic short stories. These short stories are different to each other in terms of their tone and style, but share tragic ironies. Both of them keeps the reader in the dark throughout the short story, but both of them have powerful emotional endings. “The Lottery” is a tale about an annual tradition in a small village where the whole village comes together, and one of them Continue reading...

IF WISHES WERE HORSES: THE WORK OF ROBERT VAVRA

If Wishes Were Horses: The Work of Robert Vavra
If Wishes Were Horses: The Work of Robert Vavra
One of the most successful commercial photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is Robert Vavra. Although he is best known for his horse photography, his portfolio includes many subjects like wild animals, flowers and landscapes. The work that sells the best are his horse images, so naturally Vavra has concentrated on the horse since the success of his 1977 book Equus: The Creation of a Horse.
In a 2011 interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader, Vavra said that he thinks of Continue reading...

The Drawing Technique of Leonardo Da Vinci

Drawing is a form of expression in the study of visual arts. An artist marks lines and areas on the paper to express the visual world on the surface. Most of the traditional artists used monochromes in their plane surface, unlike the modern artists, apply a wide variety of colors. There is a difference between drawing and painting. In the painting, the artist uses liquid paint and applies onto a canvas or a panel while drawing uses dry media such as chalk. Drawing is a form of composition to pass on a message and solve problems. Some artists often Continue reading...

There original Battle of Issus by Philoxenos is lost but its copy was found at the House of Faun. This power and novelty of this work is achieved by the sense of movement caused by positioning of horses and diagonal spears. Furthermore, it opens a new period in Hellenistic and Roman mosaic art because it is made from tesserae and not from pebbles.
Battle of Issus is a Hellenistic floor mosaic. It was made near 310 BC by Philoxenos of Eretria. The artwork was lost and nowadays mainly known by a copy found in the House of Faun in Continue reading...

Men come and go. It is only a few who leave behind a legacy for the future to ponder and act. They live a valuable exemplary life worth remembering throughout the human civilization for what they achieved against what they had. Alexander was one such king who left behind a legacy, which reflects human achievements in a scale never accomplished before. Alexander is an ideal inspiration for the contemporary youth leaders of today. His life proves the importance of knowledge in diverse spheres, character, planning and management and what the combination of all these could achieve. Today history records Continue reading...

Vinton G. Cerf, 4/1/12. “The Internet is Not a Human Right.”

Introduction

The article by Vinton touches on the uprisings experience in the Middle East and together with North Africa in the month of June 2012. He mentions a tool that was extensively used to facilitate and enhance the demonstrations. This is so since individuals used internet to spread the uproar during the events. The massage was able to spread far and wide through the resourceful mode, Internet. Strong issues then come into play regarding the use of internet. There is definitely a high bar set for anything to be Continue reading...

Judging from the number of tickets that were sold and the surprisingly large audience on the Friday of 20TH September at the Kay Center, there is no doubt that the Anda Union has etched a name in performance arts. The Wind Horse performance that was hosted by the Clarice Smith Center was a 90 minutes musical celebration of a passionate and captivating debut that thoroughly enchanted the expectant audience. The sweeping performance and show of exotic and unique talent was well worth the ticket prices that went at around $28- $35 for senior citizens, subscribers, regulars and UMD staff, Continue reading...

Gallantly seated on a seemingly striding horse was the statue of George Washington at the Boston Pubic Garden. Its historical backdrop could reportedly be traced 157 years ago in 1857 when a sculptor by the name of Thomas Ball was allegedly commissioned to create it . Cast in bronze, the statue of George Washington’s face slightly veers to his left, with an apparent serious look at the spacious expanse of the magnificent garden. He is donned in a military outfit of his time with the prominent sergeant hat, an overcoat, and a sword protruding from his vestment. His right Continue reading...

Aristotle opens his argument by stating that, ‘by saying that happiness is the main good achievable’, is a commonplace expression, and a clearer explanation of what it is was still required. This would be possible if first, the function of man was ascertainable. Aristotle proposes that in order for humans to achieve eudemonia, the overall good, they must have a function and the good must lie in the function undertaken. The function of a teacher is to teach; and a good teacher is to teach well. The human being has a function, and the human good depends on the Continue reading...

The elements of Picasso’s Guernica include: As viewed the scene appears to be inside a room. To the left there is an end, its open and a bull with a wide eye is standing above a woman carrying a dead child. She seems to be grieving. At the center, is horse which falls in pain with a large wound on its side. A hidden human skull overlying the horse and a bull appearing that gores the horse from below appear hidden in the art and are formed by the horse. A soldier is seen beneath the horse. He Continue reading...

Literature Review of War Horse

Nearly the winner of the Whitbread Book Prize in 1982, War Horse is a fantastic story of the horse's bravery and devotion. The intent of this literary evaluation is to present the themes of the novel War Horse and explain how they brought the story to life in War, Horses and Human Nature. War is the central theme throughout the novel that brings a vast amount of conflict. The Horse and narrator of the story is a compelling way to show human compassion and love on a level that is profoundly human. Therefore, Human Nature abounds in the development Continue reading...

In the book “Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors” by Stephen E. Ambrose, the lives of these two great historical rivals are revealed. Ambrose revealed a clash of two cultures during the Civil War of Little Bighorn, on June 25, 1876. The titular characters in this historical event are Crazy Horse, a Native American warrior famed for his resistance to the colonial forces, and General Custer, a white American cavalry officer renowned for his escapades into the Western frontier. The subtitle to the book gives an impression that the eponymous characters’ lives run parallel Continue reading...

In the book”Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors” by Stephen E. Ambrose, the lives of these two great historical rivals are revealed. The author intends to reveal a clash of two cultures during the Civil War of Little Bighorn, on June 25, 1876. His two main characters being Crazy Horse, a Native American warrior, and General Custer, a white American cavalry officer. Through Ambrose’s revelations one can gain a better understanding of their character by comparing and contrasting these two warriors, revealing both their triumphs and failures.
Culture played a big part Continue reading...

‘Instructor’s name’

Hollywood Indians- A Man Called Horse
‘A Man Called Horse’, is a movie directed by Elliot Silverstein, made in the year 1970. It is based on the novel of the same title published in the year 1968, by Dorothy Marie Johnson. The story of the film is about an English man named John Morgan, portrayed by Richard Harris, who goes on a hunting trip in the interior West of the USA. He is captured by a Native American tribe headed by Yellow Hand and he is made a slave/horse to a woman named Buffalo Cow Head. Morgan’s various Continue reading...

Carson McCullers’ short story “The Jockey” was first published in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, a collection of short stories, in 1951. The 1950’s in America were a tumultuous time, and McCullers could clearly feel the tension and strain of the changing societal tides when he wrote “The Jockey.” “The Jockey” tells the story of three characters: first, Bitsy Barlow, the titular jockey, but also Sylvester the trainer, Simmons the bookie, and finally, the “rich man” who funds the horse racing outfit. The interactions between these four characters are very symbolic, and are demonstrative of the divide Continue reading...

This bronze statue is approximately 7 inches tall, with very strong lines formed by the flat shapes of the legs and neck. These lines flow into cylinder shapes that form the tail, head, and body. The space under the horse is expanded beyond that of a real horse, shifting the proportions from an actual horse. The ears are oversized and pricked up, giving a feeling of attention and energy to the animal. The stand of the statue includes triangular holes making it look like the horse is standing on rocky ground. The combination is a very geometric and modern-looking Continue reading...

Quote 1: You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.
This quote is said by Charlie and was designed to explain how gross ones characters might have become especially when they receive comments in regard to their character flaws especially from a person they had presumed to be having more flaws than they already have. Charlie the charismatic senator who is famed for outsourcing funds for arms in Afganistan against, Russia is talking to the president about the state of situation affecting the Continue reading...

Human beings make use of economic goods and services in an effort to satisfy their recurring wants while firms while utilize factor inputs in the production process. The purchase of goods and services by these two economic entities that is firms and households constitute consumption at that particular time. Different individuals consume at different level depending the amount of income they earn. The rich are seen to have a higher purchasing power and thus after they adjust their savings and consumption levels, they still consume relatively more than low income earners. The trends of consumption behaviors of all commodities Continue reading...

“A Country Doctor”

A moment of extreme frustration can often be the catalyst that sets in motion a series of reflections about our past. Whether or not we change the course of our lives as a result of this newly gained understanding depends on many other factors; what is important is the new level of consciousness that has been reached.
“A Country Doctor” by Franz Kafka gives a powerful account of how a village doctor is powerless to take the morally correct decision to save his servant girl from the sexual abuse of a man; instead, the doctor allows himself to be Continue reading...