Urban Safari

1238 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Importance of family and family values

Urban Safari

There are times when having a brother with twenty more years of age, experience, and wisdom, can adversely effect your credibility. This is especially true at nine years old. I found this to be the case one Christmas day many years ago when my brother Tom came home for the holidays.

It appeared to be the start of a special Christmas, for my brother was coming to visit. I was even more excited than usual for a nine-year-old boy at this time of year. I wondered what new presents would be under the tree? In the past, Tom always got me such neat stuff. I could hardly wait to start shaking the gifts and guessing.

As usual, I was up before dawn, tearing into my gifts with all the fervor with which the drowning seize life preservers. My folks, along with my brother, had now joined me in the gift-opening ceremony. Saving the best for last was out of the question; it was the gift from my brother that I tore into first.

My dreams had come true. My prayers were answered. There it was, bigger and shinier than anything in the display case of any Western Auto store in the world. It was a B B gun. Finally, I had entered the ranks of the big kids. The prestige of such a gift! I anticipated the glory of shooting my first bird. This was truly a present for a twelve years old, maybe even a teenager. While reveling in my grandeur, I hadn't noticed that my Mother was watching with obvious disapproval. Apparently she had other plans for the B B gun.

"You can't shoot that thing in the yard!" she barked. "You'll have to go to the riverbed." With those words, I was instructed to leave the B B gun under the tree with the less attractive presents. "You can open your other gifts now. Tom will watch you while we go visit Auntie Mabel, and don't forget, leave the B B gun alone," Mom ordered.

No sooner than they were out the door my brother grabbed the gun and headed towards the back yard. "Where’re you going?" I asked. "To test your gun out before Mom and Dad get back" was his reply. I thought this was a grand idea.

Our back yard was full of potential targets. My brother's first choice was two cases of empty mason jars my Mom used for canning fruit.

Show More
Related

  • Response Of Socialism To Classical Liberalism

    748 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...h he had favored central banking for most of his life, in 1970 he had begun advocating denationalizing money. In his opinion private enterprise’s that issued distinct currencies, he argued, would have an incentive to maintain their currency’s purchasing power. Which would then mean that customers could choose among competing currencies. Now, whether they would revert to a gold standard or not was a question that Hayek was too much of a believer in spontaneous order to predict. With the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe at the time, some economic consultants had considered Hayek’s currency system as a replacement for fixed-rate currencies.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Feet In Smoke

    1259 Words  | 3 Pages

    John Jeremiah Sullivan in Feet in smoke experiences growing a connection through music, using guitars with his brother who is seven years older than him. John believes an age difference like that can make siblings strangers. This statement he provides in this story is something I completely agree with. I have an older sibling we are fifthteen years apart and it was hard connecting with her on several levels. We were never close with one another growing up because of course

    Read More

  • Polanyi versus Hayek in the Topic of Market

    1065 Words  | 3 Pages

    In order to better explain his beliefs, Hayek first presents a problem. This problem is that society has a common misconception of there being a single economy with a unified hierarchy of ends determined by that economy (Hayek 1976, 108). This implies that markets within the economy have a single end in the context of that unified hierarchy. This view, however, is in error because markets, in actuality, serve not one end, but the interests of all members in the market (Hayek 1976, 108). In order to compensate for the misconception and assumed meaning of “economy,” Hayek developed a new term, “catallaxy.” Catallaxy is a concept that describes numerous interrelated economies rather than just one whole. “It is the special kind of spontaneous order produced by the market through people acting within the rules of law of property, tort, and contract (Hayek 1976, 109). This is what makes up the...

    Read More

  • Sarah Vowell's Shooting Dad

    161 Words  | 1 Pages

    The details Sarah Vowell uses in paragraphs 18-19 of “Shooting Dad” describes her Father by explaining the history behind his passion for firearms. Vowell infers, that her family ancestry includes moonshiners, confederate soldiers, and notorious murderers (167-168). For instance, Sarah Vowell’s great grandfather is John Vowell who fought alongside pro slavery fighter William C. Quantrill (Vowell 168). Secondly, Vowell concludes that father’s passion isn’t just for the firearms themselves, but also for the history of firearms in America and within Vowel family (168). For example, Vowell’s father hypothesized that John Vowell may have been a hired mercenary in Bozeman where settlers used the “Big Horn” cannon to attack local indian tribes, which

    Read More

  • Frederick Douglass: The Life of an Abolitionist

    887 Words  | 2 Pages

    Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in February of 1818 in Maryland to a slave woman and a white man. 1 He was separated from his mother as an infant and the only thing that he knew for sure about his father was that he was white, although he thought it was a possibility that his father could have been his master. 2 He stayed with his aunt and grandparents when he was a young child until being sent to a ship carpenter in Baltimore for the next eight years of this life. 3 It was in Baltimore that Frederick learned to read and it was also there that he first heard about abolitionists. 4 After those seven years, he was sent back to the country where he worked for a slave owner and was constantly beaten and starved. 5 This horrible treatment led Frederick to want to escape, which he was finally able to do in 1838 when he fled to New York City where he married and changed his name to Frederick Douglass. 6 Soon after, he settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. 7

    Read More

  • Does Playing with Guns as a Child can Affect your Adulthood

    1352 Words  | 3 Pages

    Guns can be viewed in one of the two common perspectives; Tools meant for self-preservation in the presence of a dangerous entity. The other view could easily be lethal weapons, which cause fear pain and suffering. No matter what stand a person has, it is a fact that guns have the ability to damage, ruin, and end lives. Firearms can be seen everywhere from television, to video games and even in real life most commonly strapped to the waist of a licensed officer. Though, having little to no direct danger as real guns, can toy guns be as big of a problem being a gateway to the real thing. Toy guns come in many forms and are easily attainable by people of every age and most popular among young children. Can the developing mind of a small child exposed to guns be tainted towards accepting them as a regular everyday item, down playing on the devastation that comes attached to it?

    Read More

  • Economics: Keynes vs. Hayek

    1730 Words  | 4 Pages

    Papola, John. “Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two” – YouTube. YouTube –

    Read More

  • John Maynard Keynes: Monetarism Vs. Austrian

    849 Words  | 2 Pages

    Frederick August Hayek was one of the more important figures of the school of Austrian Economics, a school of tho...

    Read More

  • From the Road to Serfdom

    1839 Words  | 4 Pages

    From The Road to Serfdom, how and why does F.A. Hayek denounce all forms of planning or collectivism? What is so superior to laissez faire or capitalism and why?

    Read More

  • B2C And B2B Marketing Comparison

    966 Words  | 2 Pages

    The difference in marketing is that a B2B seller tries to differentiate itself from its competition by marketing its value towards its specific market as one that will save the buyer companies a great deal of time and money by automating as much of their supply chain as possible. They do this through the traditional offline methods of advertising, tradeshows, field sales, etc. along with websites that provide customer only access to their accounts and inventory. In addition, e-mail marketing and other communications using the supply chain channels is effective. B2C also uses traditional offline methods along with the integration of online tools such as interactive websites, email marketing, online communities, pop-ups and banner ads. B2B may also utilize some of those mentioned for B2C and vice versa. The goal of any marketing program for either one is to find the combination of integrated online and offline tools that can produce maximum sales, minimum expense and maximum profit.

    Read More

  • B2B Vs. B2C Marketing

    1319 Words  | 3 Pages

    When a company is creating its strategy for marketing, they "must consider both the nature of their products and the nature of their potential customers" (Schneider, 2004, p. 156). What a company is trying to sell or who they are trying to sell it to will help to determine how they market their product or service. A B2C site aims to sell its product or service to an individual end user, so they "organize their websites from an internal viewpoint, that is, according to the way that they arranged their product design and manufacturing processes" (Schneider, 2004, p. 158), which is a product based strategy. They may include categorized lists of all their available products and/or services on their website for users to search through, making it easier for customers to find what they are looking for. An example of this type of marketing strategy is the OfficeMax website, where there are several different categories of office supply materials, each with its own products. A B2B site, on the other hand, is based on a consumer based strategy. Because they have to meet the exact needs of a variety of different types of customer, they cannot base their marketing on a few products or services. Instead, they need to be geared to working with the client to provide their customized needs.

    Read More

  • The Study of Modernism and Globalization

    1760 Words  | 4 Pages

    ...es is paradoxical. Even though the obsession for security is mostly noticeable in Europe and the United States (that is, in nearly all of the most developed countries) and can be explained by both economic deregulation and the rise of individualism, those are still the safest societies that can be found. Thus, Bauman suggests the existence of a dynamic of fear, by which fear would be an inner process, meaning that it needs almost no external factors in order to grow. It seems that the more precautions are taken by those states against uncertainties, the more their vision of the outside world is darken, seeming always more threatening and dangerous, leading them to take more and more defensive measures (2007:22).

    Read More

  • The Birth Of My New Brother

    830 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...ave me a bright pink gift bag stuffed with shiny silver tissue paper to open. Inside was a shirt that read “I’M A BIG SISTER!” I put the sister shirt on and saw everything differently. “Today marks an important day and you’re going to hold your brother even though you’re nervous, you’re going take responsibility and be the best caring, loving sister you can be”, I said silently to myself.

    Read More

  • Business-2-Business Vs Business-2-Consumer

    1698 Words  | 4 Pages

    B2B and B2C are very similar, in fact, "B2B typically takes the form of automated processes between trading partners and is performed in much higher volumes than B2C applications". (Reference.com, 2006). As B2C is "the retailing part of e-commerce and is often contrasted to B2B. (Whatis.com, 2006). B2B and B2C each has five classifications in which businesses fall under. B2B classifications are; "company web site, product supply and procurement exchanges, specialized or vertical industry portals, brokering sites, and information sites". (Whatis.com, 2006). B2C classifications are; "direct sellers, online intermediaries, advertising based models, and fee based models". (Reference.com, 2006).

    Read More

  • Traditional National Security Essay

    1077 Words  | 3 Pages

    People decided that the traditional concepts of national security were not enough, and did not necessarily reflect current values or the needs of the people. Traditional concepts of national security place the nation-state at the center of the playing field, and use military and economic power to protect the state’s political and physical sovereignty from external threats. Human security places individuals at the center of the playing field, and focuses on issues that are both transnational and local.

    Read More

More about Urban Safari

Open Document