Red Dead Revolver Essays

  • How the Western Film Genre Has Developed over the Past Century

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    The Western film genre is typically set in a secluded village in the middle of the desert, normally in the American West. The setting includes wooden buildings, tumble weed, cacti, trains, horses and carriages. The storyline for western films is usually the same, namely, a hero travels to a remote village, usually on a horse, and brings peace to the warring villagers. In a traditional Western film the clothing for the hero is usually a white hat, (this is to show purity). The hero would also

  • Theme Of Paul's Case By Willa Cather

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    cannot have grown in the snow, Paul was in the misguided place, red represented the sadness and disillusionment opposite his teachers. When Paul enters the faculty room, he tries to outwit the teachers by dressing up for the interrogation just as criminal’s dress for judgment. He represents a past life which he yet holds on to. He entered the room "suave and smiling" He thought he looked good as he was dressed. The opal brooch and the red carnation are Paul’s trying to pretend to have class. They distract

  • Descriptive Essay: Infection In The US

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    me. But here I am lying on the ground with blood oozing from the horrendous bite mark on my thigh and the disease slowly chisel away what little sanity I had left in this screwed up world. My back is against an old, dowdy, run down Jeep and my revolver lied just an arm's reach away. I looked down at my shoulder to see a knife sticking through it and the car door. You could say it was the only thing keeping me from getting up and walking away but it’s wasn’t. What little sanity I had left was

  • Jfk Assassination Research Paper

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    Brennan “was unable to identify Oswald ‘for sure’.” Oswald was also given a test to detect gunpowder residue on his hand and cheek; his hands were found to possess the substance, but his cheek came back negative. This suggested that he may have fired a revolver, but not a rifle; therefore, he could not have been the one to shoot JFK from the window. These speculations and ideas lead theorists to believe Oswald was

  • John Dillinger Biography Essay

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    identification, one of Dillinger’s friends pulled a gun, shot the sheriff and beat him until he was unconscious. They left the sheriff to die, locked up the deputy and sheriff’s wife, and freed Dillinger. They also stole several machine guns, rifles, and revolvers, a quantity of ammunition, and several bulletproof vests. Afterwards John and his group preformed multiple bank

  • John Dillinger

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    John Dillinger On June 22, 1903 a man named John Dillinger was born. He grew up in the Oak Hill Section of Indianapolis. When John was three years old his mother died, and when his father remarried six years later, John resented his stepmother. When John was a teenager he was frequently in trouble. He finally quit school and got a job in a machine shop in Indianapolis. He was very intelligent and a good worker, but he soon got bored and often stayed out all night. His father began to think

  • Literary Analysis Of The Sniper

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    opinion on the conflict taking place, using various literary techniques to catch the reader’s eyes. His overall structure contributes to development of themes in the theme in the paper. A single country torn apart by civil war causes the streets to run red with the blood of one another. A Republican sniper awaits on a rooftop while an enemy’s armored vehicle pulls up. He awaits firing his rifle because the steel is impenetrable by his bullets, finally a man emerges and is killed immediately by the sniper’s

  • Clara Barton: The Heart of American Red Cross

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    Introduction From childhood to death Clara Barton dedicated her life to helping others. She is most notably remembered for her work as a nurse on the battlefield during the Civil War and for the creation of the American Red Cross. Barton was also an advocate for human rights. Equal rights for all men, women, black and white. She worked on the American equal Rights Association and formed relations with civil rights leaders such as Anna Dickensen and Fredric Douglass. Her undeterred determination

  • And Then there were none.

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    Two policeman, Sir Thomas Legge and Inspector Maine, discuss the perplexing Indian Island case. They have reconstructed much of what happened on Indian Island from diaries kept by various guests. It is clear to them that the murderer was not Blore, Lombard, or Vera. When they arrived, the police found the chair Vera kicked away to hang herself mysteriously set upright against the wall. We learn that Isaac Morris, who hired Lombard and Blore and bought the island in the name of U. N. Owen, died of

  • In Cold Blood Research Paper

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    Homicide/Firearms/Robbery In Cold Blood/Red Handed The First 48 Hours video that I have chosen is “In Cold Blood” and “Red Handed.” Because I have chosen this video I decided to do my topic on homicide, firearms, and robbery. I will discuss each one of these. I then will tell how it played a role in the video. I then will explain how it all comes together to help solve the crime. So let’s get started. First is homicide. What does homicide mean? Homicide is the killing of a person (human being)

  • Death on the Nile by Hercule Poirot

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    Death on the Nile by Hercule Poirot "Death on the Nile", a Hercule Poirot murder mystery, takes place in England for the first part of the story and along the Nile River aboard the S.S. KARNAK for the rest of the book. Agatha Christie tells the story in the third person narrative. The protagonist and main character is Hercule Poirot, the world-renowned, brilliant Belgian detective who has solved numerous difficult and complex cases. Before his escape to England during WWI, Poirot, a

  • Distorted Reality Essay

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    Though they were both too young to become official Red Cross nurses like their mother and older sisters, they would play games of billiards and checkers with the soldiers in an effort to lift their spirits. In February of 1917, Anastasia and the rest of her family were placed under house arrest at the Alexander

  • The Catcher In The Rye Creative Writing

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    Billy staggered to his feet. He was met by the apoplectic gaze of the landlady. She was staring daggers at him. Her gaze, however, didn’t frighten him in the least, the baleful gun in her hand was what terrified him. It was an unremarkable looking revolver with a worn, nicked wooden grip and a dull yet formidable looking

  • Left The Dog-Personal Narrative

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    said. His face looked sad with his old eyes as though he was watching memories. As they walked through the woods, Jim thought it would be a good time to talk to him, a true father and son moment. The gun used .308 Federal Ammo, which came in a little red box. The 10x scope was black with dials on the side and top to adjust for distance. While looking into the scope you would notice an x and y-axis with notches to help calculate the wind and bullet drop. This was going through Edward's head as his father

  • The Rosewood Massacre

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    Settled in 1845 Rosewood Florida was mainly used for lumber where it got its town name from a red color cut of cedar wood. Rosewood had both African American and caucasian settlers. In 1890 the pencil mill closed down because of Rosewood losing its population of trees. Most of the caucasian settlers moved to Sumner where they farmed citrus and cotton. In 1900 almost all of Rosewoods population was African Americans. And almost all of Sumner’s population was caucasian. The two towns were ok they basically

  • Compare The Speckled Band, The Red Headed League and Silver Blaze as Examples of Detective Fiction

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    points, and concludes with a startling or unexpected solution to the mystery, during which the detective explains how he or she solved the mystery. Formula that includes certain elements such as, a closed location to keep the number of suspects down, red hearings spread around the stories to keep the reader entertained yet interacted. A detective is vital in an effective detective story because arguably there would not be a story and a detective to restore law and order and the villain/criminal

  • Why Is Leonard Peltier Guilty

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    testimony, violence at Pine Ridge, evidence and new testimony. There were also many lies and story changes that discriminated and slandered Peltier. Some of the new and made up evidence against him was a FBI report of the Vehicle, from being a red pickup truck to a red and white van, ballistics, Peltier did not ever meet Ms. Poor Bear, three teenager's testimony of seeing him shim shoot the two men in addition Poor Bear was not at the ranch when it all took place. However, Peltier was convicted to two consecutive

  • Creation of Suspense in The Monkey's Paw and The Red Room

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    Creation of Suspense in The Monkey's Paw and The Red Room In The Monkey's Paw written by W.W. Jacobs and The Red Room written by H.G. Wells, there are many similarities and differences in the ways the stories are written and suspense created. For example, both stories belong to the horror genre where the supernatural appears due to human interferences, and both have a fast and frantic climax where the characters' lives are put in jeopardy. However they do differ in places, one of the key

  • Tulsa Race Riots

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    was when Roy Belton killed Homer Nida a taxi car drive. On August 21, 1920, Nida was driving two white men and one white woman to a dance in Red Fork. While driving Nida notice something unusual about his passenger. Just before Red Fork, as Scott Ellsworth writes that Nida was clubbed on the head by on of the men with a revolver (30). They got outside of Red Fork were Nida was then shot in the stomach by one of the men in the car. Roy Belton a white former telephone company worker took a rid...

  • Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges

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    that solves the mystery. But even in less high-profile positions, geometric shapes are pervasive: The Hotel du Nord is a “high prism;” the paint shop that serves as backdrop for the second murder displays “yellow and red rhombs”; the harlequin-costumed kidnappers sport “yellow, red, and green rhombs… diamond designs.” And consider the “rectangular” water in the adjoined dock basin, and the “rectangular belvedere of the villa of Triste-le-Roy; the “quadrilateral jail,” and “that perverse cubicle