The Wild Bunch

battle, though a victory over the Anglo invaders, was temporary and short-lived. By September 5, 1877 Crazy Horse was dead, Sitting Bull was in exile in Canada and "…in all the Great Plains, from Canada south, there was no longer a free tribe or a "wild" Indian. It had not taken long; in 1840 the boundary of the permanent Indian Country had been completed and the Great Plains were to belong forever to Indians. A mere thirty-seven years later every solemn promise had been broken and no bit of ground

Decemeber 25th, 2016: A day filled with overly excited children and stressed out parents who are preparing for the events to come that day. After eagerly ripping through tons of wrapping paper that early morning, my family and I started our journey to the little town of Sobieski. The town may be extremely small and only have a population of less than two hundred people, but it is one of the most significant cities in my life. We soon arrived at my second home, my grandparent’s house, in the next

class. I reckon we’re wilder, too. Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace almost like hoods.” this shows that even though the Socs are much more wild the greasers are still considered the bad crazy hood people. Ponyboy didn’t like being a greaser

A lot of it had to do with my busy family and my Mom’s strict belief in teaching me independence from a young age. I even began to pack my own lunches. One scorching summer day I noticed a bunch of neighborhood boys playing baseball outside. Even at three years old I loved boys and begged my mom to let me join them. Before I left, I made myself a snack to bring along. The door slammed as I ran out into the day with a small square lunchbox

“What is that? You sneaky…but…that lithe and sinuous snake. Why would he lie?” “Why does he do any of the crap he usually pulls? He’s horseshit” “This was different, he seemed weird, I just thought the wild onion tea gave him the trots again… what was that about?” “We would have found out if you’d have had some patience and let me hear who he called right after we got out” “It’s not my fault you’re always falling behind, I got used to keeping your track. Now come on sneaky Mr. Dorian, your thieving

Essay on The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel about a man who tries to win over a woman he had lost many years ago. Jay Gatsby is the hero in this novel because he stands out amongst the rich. Unlike the rest of the rich people in this novel Gatsby has moral values, and the rest of them can only grasp things of material value. Gatsby spends his whole life trying to hide the fact that he wasn’t like the others. Gatsby never fits in among them because what he perceives of them is all

out who I was, but not through a test or operation, but through how I looked. I see myself in Charlie because he thought he needed to change himself for people to like him. My dad always tells me and my sister, “You girls have it a lot better than a bunch of other kids.” And I think that him telling me that brings out my best qualities when I face difficult situations. My response is always something like, “I know, I know”. I feel that Charlie's experience with the surgery impacted him and his life

Picture this, you are teenager growing up in Los Angeles, on your way to school and you turn on the radio. “Yo thanks for tuning into to the hottest radio station in the streets of LA. Up next we got N.W.A. with their new single Appetite for Destruction.” That was common for nearly every person who lived in LA and enjoyed hip-hop music. During the early 90s and late 80s, West coast hip-hop was dominated by the gruesome realities of gangster rap and g-funk. Rap at the time was intense, authentic,

Chapters 2-3 When Hester Prynne is first introduced in the novel, she comes off as a young woman who has lost all control of her life due to her adultery conviction. In the beginning, Hester appears as one of the stronger characters in the story, as seen by her bravery on the platform in which she is sentenced to stand on for three hours in front of the town. She is described as a woman whose "beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped” (46) and throughout

Women of today or of the 21st century have the privilege of working, having an opinion and the right not to be ruled by men. However, women from the 19th and the 20th centuries were dependent on men, because only men were able to work good wages. The only job a woman had was to either be a housewife and mother or to be a prostitute. Nancy is a girl from Great London from the book ‘Oliver Twist’. She is a prostitute and a thief and she is the girlfriend of Bill Sikes. Curley’s wife is a girl from