...hotel located at 63rd and Wallace. I was able to attend the opening ceremony of the Chicago World's Fair, and boy it was crowded. I have never seen this many people gathered in one place. President Grover Cleveland was also at the fair and pressed the button signaling the opening of the Chicago World's Fair. The one thing that surprised me the most was this ride called the Ferris Wheel. I have never seen anything like it before, it is like a big wheel that spins in a circle and you can ride in it. For every person that road in the Ferris Wheel they received a free sample of Cracker Jack, which was weird version of popcorn. The second day of the fair I was interested in seeing a show called Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show which was located right next to the fair. A lot of people attended the show, and it was worth the money I spent. I also visited the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building which had many sorts of art. The ones that really caught my attention were the exotic art which seemed to be very popular. I also got to visit a very unique invention called the clasp locker. It is suppose to change the way we close things like on clothes. Their were far to many extraordinary attractions that I could describe and all of them were fascinating. I think the Chicago World's fair will change society and bring our nation closer together. The importance of some of the attractions such as the clasp locker will affect society in multiple different ways and in the future be known...
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...101 ranvhOutline Thesis: The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was great in part to performers like Will Rogers and Bill Pickett. I.Introduction A. Opening remarks B. Thesis statement II.Will Rogers A. Childhood B. Joins ranch C. Life after ranch and death III. Bill Pickett A. Childhood B. Joins ranch C. Steer wrestling D. Life after ranch and death IV. 101 Ranch Wild West Show A. Will Rogers' contributions B. Bill Pickett's contribution V. Conclusion The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was a great, if not the greatest wild west show of all time. Its diversity and showmanship gathered thousands of people from around the world to watch and be amazed at the spectacular show that was put on. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show combined the thrills of the Wild West with the acts and performances found in a circus; from trick riding and roping to elephants and their trainers (1927 Show Roster, 2013). The 101 Ranch Wild West Show traveled the world and many people got to bask in its glory during its hay day. The show was a masterpiece put together by visionaries and it brought many people jobs and even stardom. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was great in part to performers like Will Rogers and Bill Pickett. Will Rogers was born on the 4th of November in 1879 (Biography, 2013), in the area that is now Oologah, Oklahoma. He was part Indian descending from the Cherokee tribe (Rodeo Star, 2013). Will Rogers...
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...The Buffalo Soldiers were free slaves and they found in the American war. They formed on September 21, 1866 and in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. No one knows how the Buffalo Soldiers got its name. They say that the Indians gave the name, but no one knows for sure. Their goal was to protect settlers when they traveled west, for freedom, for their beliefs, and wanted to gain respect. The Buffalo Soldiers usually camped near Pine Springs and Choza Springs. The Buffalo Soldiers fought in American Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, Border War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. They fought for freedom. The Buffalo Soldiers could join for 5 years and they were paid 13 dollars each month. The Buffalo Soldiers wanted...
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...Some skill acts were sharp shooting (with a pistol and rifle), wing shooting (with a shotgun), roping, and trick riding to showcase star performers. These skills showcased how they survived the frontier west. Wild West shows also had a circus band that was called the “Cowboy Band” and they set the stage with appropriate music for the scenes. The role of Indian people was both essential and important in the Wild West Shows. In the big shows they generally were treated and paid the same as other performers. The Indians that were in the show traveled with their families and earned a living off the shows. Buffalo Bill encouraged them to keep their culture and rituals. Soon Buffalo Bill was too old and couldn’t get on his saddle by himself and he knew it was time to...
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...had the good fortune to meet her. She is considered the world’s greatest woman rider.” Taylor relates incidences in Tad’s background, that shaped Tad’s ambition and aspirations that helped established her as an icon for women, not only in the world of rodeo but also for women in all walks of life in that era. In paragraph one Lonn Taylor writes, “She was born in Cody, Nebraska in 1902, she later settled in Fort Worth and considered herself a Texan.” When reading this article, there is an understanding of Tad’s life and how it was shaped from the different places she explored as she competed in rodeo events. Paragraph five of the article shows us how she started out in the rodeo circuit. Taylor states, “Tad Lucas was a cowgirl’s cowgirl. She left Nebraska at the age of sixteen and joined “California” Frank Hafley’s Wild West Show…. First [appearing] on the Western rodeo circuit in 1922, winning prizes at Belle Fourche, South Dakota; Pittsburg, Kansas; and Fort Worth.” It is obvious that being a cowgirl was important to Tad and she poured a great deal of energy and enthusiasm into the sport. Mr. Taylor provides us with information on the golden age of rodeo where Tad Lucas earned her fame. Taylor tells us, “ in the twenties and thirties, she was one of the most...
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...Kody Miller 11/4/14 Rough draft The Wild West was a wild place full of many gunslingers that may have helped form the west. With the west being a wild and dangerous place there were many people that were involved in shaping the west, but mainly Doc Holliday was a huge contributor to the formation of the west. Doc Holliday’s life in the west and his parents and their occupations and Holliday’s occupations threw out his life. The early life of Doc was very interesting and he helped shape the west. Holliday was born August 14, 1851. He was a dentist by trade. He was born with a cleft palate, and he had to have corrective surgery. Holliday moved away for a while but then he moved back to the south to begin his dental career. But at age 23 he fled to Dallas, Texas....
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...westering pioneers. The first Codys in America were Huguenots who fled France for the Isle of Jersey to escape religious persecution. By 1698 they owned land in Massachusetts. Isaac was born in Ontario in 1811 and grew up in Ohio. Twice widowed, he wed schoolteacher Mary Bonsell Laycock in 1840 in Cincinnati. She was descended of Pennsylvania Quaker pioneers. With Martha, Isaac's five-year-old daughter from his first marriage, they moved to Scott County, Iowa, where six of their seven children were born: Samuel, 1841; Julia, 1843; William, 1846; Eliza, 1848; Helen, 1850; and May, 1853. Only prolonged illness kept Isaac from striking out for California during the gold rush. After the accidental death of Samuel in 1853, the Codys headed west, moving briefly to Missouri then to Kansas where Isaac supplied hay and wood to Ft. Leavenworth and traded with the Kickapoo Indians. Another son, Charles, was born in 1855. Isaac, a man of principal and an active civic leader, was stabbed in 1854 while making a speech against slavery. The attack did not deter him from his economic or political activities, but its lingering effects led to his death in 1857. Bill ("Willie" to his family) and Julia supported and cared for the younger children and their ailing mother. Martha left to marry and died shortly thereafter. Bill took a job as a herder and mounted messenger with Russell, Majors, and Waddell, the Leavenworth freighting firm and organizers of the Pony Express. A year later he accompanied...
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...Reality Eclipsing Romance The American Cowboy, by reason of his picturesqueness, was a prime subject for entertainments like the Wild West show. However, the limitations of popular entertainment caused William Cody to stress the cowboy’s attractive charm to the exclusion of other qualities. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, formed in 1883 and lasting until 1913, romanticized versions of a time and place, and shaped the myth of the Wild West, including the glamorized image of the cowboy. When the world spun into the twentieth century, millions of people believed they recalled the American Wild West because “they had seen it, full of life and color, smoking guns and galloping horses, presided over by the most recognizable celebrity of his day: William F. Cody, or Buffalo Bill.” Spectators accepted the vivid personal memories that the Wild West show generated as historical truth. Although William F. Cody claimed that the motive behind Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show was to preserve “The Great West that Was,” his dramatized and inaccurate portrayals belied the true portrait of the American Cowboy to the public. At one time or another, William Cody performed the duties of a U.S. Army Scout, Indian Fighter, rancher, businessman, and world-renowned entertainer, but still, Cody never actually worked as a cowboy. Cody claimed that he staged his memories, “in the hope of giving permanent form to the history of the Plains” However, he contradicts this claim with his account of the obsession...
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...Annie Oakley “Get your gun!” That is what Annie Oakley was known by. Oakley is known as the greatest performer with a gun of all time. If you gave Oakley a gun she could do amazing things with it that no one had ever done before. Annie Oakley impacted the citizens of the United States because she proved that girls can do anything guys can, helping with World War 2, and being in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Phoebe Anne Mozee (later nicknamed Annie) was born in Ohio on August 13, 1860 to Quaker Jacobs and Susan Moses. She grew up a very poor farm girl. Her father died of pneumonia so Oakley tended to her mother and her siblings but spent most of her time at a farm near by. She was overworked and abused severely by a farmer. When Oakley was young she enjoyed trapping birds, then later learned how to use a gun. As young as she was she knew that she would someday be a professional shooter. As early of being 15 years old she was known as a”dead shot” with a pistol, meaning she could do almost anything with a gun. Due to her father dying and having to stay home to tend to her mother and siblings she didn’t get full education as...
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...contribution of American Studies to scholarly interpretations of the past. Richard Slotkin is part of a group called “Old West” historians who ascribe to the Myth-and-Symbol School when interpreting American history. This thought-process stresses a collection of popular sentiments of the Frontier era in order to create an environment that has some structure. A result of this approach is that it allows continuity to the reader when studying the frontier. For instance, Slotkin notices in his analysis of “The Adventures of Col, Daniel Boone that: “Filson creates a character who becomes the archetypal hero of the American frontier, copied by imitators and plagiarists and appearing innumerable times under other names and in other guises -- in literature, the popular arts, and folklore -- as the man who made the wilderness safe for democracy” (Slotkin 268-69) This shows how his character became an archetype to himself and all other frontiersmen. Because of this, the circumstances may change in the frontier, but its actors do not. As Slotkin describes the character of he furthers this argument and identifies “the most distinctive trait of Boone’s character was his love for the wild land” (Slotkin 298). While this approach is valuable due to minimal historical documentation, its methodology is intrinsically too simple to be taken seriously. Additionally, “Old West” perspectives usually only interpret the traces of the “white imperialist”. However, starting in the 1960’s a new wave of...
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...SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE FACULTY OF FORESTRY AND NATURE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT SPECIAL PROJECT PROPOSAL TITLE: OPPORTUNISTIC SAMPLING AS A TOOL FOR SURVEILLANCE OF PARASITIC DISEASES IN WILD ANIMALS; A CASE OF MIKUMI NATONAL PARK STUDENT NAME: KIBONA, Juma A REG. NUMBER: WLM/D/11/T/0057 A SPECIAL PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BARCHELOR OF SCIENCE IN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT FROM THE SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, MOROGORO – TANZANIA SUPERVISOR: Prof. E.K. BATAMUZI 2013/2014 0 Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................. 2 1.1 BACKGROUND OF INFORMATION ............................................................................................. 2 1.2 Statement of the Research Problem .................................................................................................... 4 1.3 OBJECTIVE ....................................................................................................................................... 6 1.3.0 General objective ............................................................................................................................. 6 1.3.1 Specific objectives ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS...................
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...were too scared to go outside of their homes. Based on detailed cases analysis, the detective Richard, who was well known in Police Department, judged that these cases were more likely to be done by a certain person or a same group, because these series of cases were stupendously similar to each other. All the decedents were surgeons from many hospitals in this town. And all the surgeons were killed through some sharp tools like scalpels, and their corpses were abandoned in the wild field by the murderer. These incidents caused a impact on all the surgeons in this town, and they felt frightened. They did not know if these nightmares would fall upon their heads. The only one point that confused Richard was that all the crime scenes were left in a undisturbed wild field. He wondered if the surgeons who had been killed had appeared obediently followed the murderer to the wild field without a struggle. The more surprising thing was that policemen could not find any trace of wrestling in the crime scenes. Why surgeons did not try any possible way to resist with the murderer? Were they are bewitched by the murderer? Multitudinous questions plagued Richard. When it came to the surgeons, Richard did not have good feeling for them. One year ago, on a cold night, Richard’s wife Vivien suddenly felt great pain that from her stomach. At that time, Richard was chasing several criminals in the wild field. She had to come alone to the hospital when she was suffering. Nobody...
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...plants and animals, settlement in permanent small villages and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving. This article compares and contrasts how the Neolithic people use a number of strategies in New Stone Age. The New Stone Age followed Paleolithic Period and it precedes the Bronze Age. During the Neolithic Age, different kinds of animals were tamed, which showed their relationship with the humans just as in the Old Stone Age. For example, first, dogs were wolves that hunted the humans at their campgrounds. They came to realize later that the wolf puppies could be tamed and coached to hunt other wild animals. The dog’s strains that grew eventually showed skills in controlling herds like sheep. In addition, the first domesticated animals were sheep, goats and pigs in the Middle East around 8500 and 700 B.C. (Lavin, 2011). However, the horned wild cattle, which could defend themselves and could run faster, were not tamed. On the contrary, some archeologists argue that domesticating animals were in the beginning motivated by spiritual views rather than the wish for clothing and a new source of food,...
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...Running head: Art and Architecture Analyzing Art and Architecture HU300 Art and Humanities: 20th Century and Beyond Art and Architecture I have lived in California for three years, have visits San Francisco numerous times and it was not until this past weekend that I saw the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco for the first time. We took the trip to show our foreign exchange around and show her the beauty of our area and I was surprised to find myself in amazement not only that I did not rush to see such a thing before now, but the beauty and history of the building (pic. 1) as well. In the center is a large dome topped structure surrounded by intricate detailed carvings beautiful landscaping surrounds the front towering columns, stretching from each side is 200 feet of shorter square buildings with columns across the front. (pic. 2) As you stroll through the structure you see detail and beautiful carving in every corner and every inch, (pic 3) in the main Dome, when you look up, you’re surrounded by statues of angels looking down at you from every direction making you feel like you’re the center of their attention. (pic. 4) In the year 1915 architect Bernard R. Maybeck was given the task of creating a Palace of Fine arts for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, its sole purpose was to exhibit works of art. Bernard R. Maybeck used a classicism approach and chose the theme of a Roman style ruin with a romantic feel and Greek decoration. When Maybeck...
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...Globalisation NIKE – just do it Introduction Nike, Inc. is an incorporated company that designs, develops and markets worldwide athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories. Nike is the biggest seller of athletic footwear and athletic apparel in the world and creates designs for men, women and children. Nike employs both traditional and non-traditional distribution channels in almost 200 countries with primary market regions in the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas. Nike has some 20,000 retailers worldwide including Nike factory stores, Nike stores, Nike Towns, Cole Haan stores and Web sites which sell Nike's sports and leisure products. Nike markets its products under its own brand, as well as Nike Golf, Nike Pro, Nike+, Air Jordan, Nike Skateboarding, and subsidiaries including Cole Haan, Hurley International and Converse. Nike accounts for 33% of the global market share in the athletic footwear industry. Nike sponsors many high profile athletes and sports teams around the world with the highly recognized trademarks of Just do it (www.nike.co.uk). GLOBALISATION: Globalisation is defined as the micro- phenomenon where there are a free flow of capital efficiency, technology and other factors of production which promote world welfare in its strides. (Nande and Dias, 2007.,p.2) KEY DRIVERS OF GLOBLISATION: there are three main factors which motivate the globalisation of markets and production which are explained as under: Falling barriers to trade...
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