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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
1,806 words... ge coach for Denver, Colorado. Along the way, he stopped at Fort Griffin which, at the time, was the center of a flourishing cattle industry. Approximately two thousand hunters and cowboys annually visited Ft. Griffin. Their money and existence attracted gamblers and prostitutes alike, quickly giving Ft. Griffin the reputation as the craziest town in Texas. Docs stay was cut short when he was again arrested for gambling which was more than likely, a sign of showing a newcomer unwelcome ness ...
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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
824 wordsTombstone is a movie set back in the 1800 's whenever people were allowed to carry guns and murders in the towns were a usual thing. This particular movie includes several legends of the "Old West", such as Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Texas Jack, Johnny Ringo, and several others. Doc Holliday was the calm sarcastic type, who was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Because of Doc's addiction, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis which often made him sick. Doc's wife was a party-type girl, with no car...
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Civil War Federal Government
1,299 wordsIn the beginning moving West was the majority of the barriers and obstructions that the setters had to face. Indian attacks, blizzards, tornadoes, flash floods and just being ill prepared among and numerous other hard ships took many settlers lives and were tough to over come. The journey was across a uniform, dusty, wind-swept, treeless nothingness. The temperatures would very a lot between 110 and below freezing. Not to mention that there was no trees for shade or cover from the storms. In thi...
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Robin Hood Hero Or Criminal
1,130 wordsMany people consider Robin Hood a hero. He was definitely a hero to the peasants of Nottingham. After all he stole from the rich and gave to the poor. If I were poor he would have been my hero, too. But to the rich people of Nottingham he was nothing more than a criminal. I'm sure I wouldn't think too highly of someone that stole my money. What Robin Hood never took into consideration was that even though the outcome was good the course of action he took wasn't right. So was he a hero or a crimi...
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Elderly Woman Long Time
1,623 wordsfollowed her instincts, she would have saved herself from the cruel At the beginning of the chapter, Hardy foreshadows that fate will not be kind to Tess. He states that she was leaving Marlott, "the Green Valley" of her birth, and moving towards an unknown "grey On reaching her destination, Tess is shocked to discover that Mrs. D'Urberville is blind. She also finds the elderly woman to be cold and uncaring towards her. Tess learns from her that in addition to tending the Trantridge fowl, she is...
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Bomb Was Dropped Cats Cradle
1,291 wordsCat s Cradle (I was wrong it wasn t like the song) The narrator of Cats Cradle, John, once set out to write a book, titled The Day the World Ended, about the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. For purposes of research, he wrote to Newt Hoenikker, the midget son of Felix Hoenikker, the Nobel prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. He asked Newt to describe what he remembered from the day the bomb devastated Hiroshima. Newt replied to say that he was only six ...
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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
4,776 wordsThe story of John Henry Doc Holliday is somewhat different from what most people think. He served no government. He wasn t the victim of social oppression. He was not one who you would want to be your enemy. He was on of the coolest killers ever to snatch a gun from hiding. This is the story of his life and his legendary friend ship with Wyatt Earp. Doc was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic...
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Movie Tombstone Friendship Friendship Comes In Different Forms Wyatt
409 wordsIn The Movie Tombstone, Friendship Comes In In The Movie Tombstone, Friendship Comes In Different Forms In the Movie Tombstone, Friendship Comes in Different Forms Friendship between two people can come in many different forms. In a companionship you could just be acquaintances, where at one time or another someone might have done something for you that might have changed your life for the better. To this individual you feel as if you owe them a favor in return. For this reason you would always ...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Write A Poem
1,693 wordsAll Things Censored: The Poem NPR Doesnt Want You to Hear by Mart? n Espana Source: web I was an NPR poet. In particular, I was an All Things Considered poet. All Things Considered would occasionally broadcast my poems in conjunction with news stories. One producer even commissioned a New Years poem from me. " Imagine the Angels of Bread" aired on January 2, 1994, in the same broadcast as the news of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. But now Ive been censored by All Things Considered ...
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Doc Holliday Shakespeare Play
2,158 wordsIn the 1940? s, protagonists and antagonists were easily distinguished in America? s Western-style films. However in John Ford? s film, " My Darling Clementine" , which depicts the famous story of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday? s character is portrayed as an elusive, somewhat ineffective man. Not until one of the final scenes does the viewer have confirmed that Holliday is actually a fair and just man. He then becomes a member of the protagonists with the Earp brothers, although remaining a...
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