Essays on Rancher

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The article titled “Armed Group Vows to Continue Occupation at Oregon Refuge” is a recent article that appeared in the New York Times dated Jan 3rd, 2016 by Johnson Kirk and Healy Jack. The article covers protests that have began peacefully at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon near Burns. The protests were against the sentence that was imposed to an old rancher Dwilight and his son, Steven Hammond, who had settled fires on federal land (Johnson & Healy, 2016). The United States government has developed a set of laws and conditions, which are to be followed, when dealing ...

In his book ‘The Time it Never Rained’, Kelton describes an environment that is very harsh especially to ranchers. The drought that hit the area during that time was very severe, and the worst recorded in Texas’ history. The descriptions given in the book well suits Texas, a state that had problems with water. Drought was a common phenomenon in Texas, and the inhabitants knew this. Texas is a place that expects drought at any time. The areas geography is such that the humidity and the aridity are always at war. In almost every decade, Texas experienced droughts. However, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture imposes regulatory on agricultural goods as a way of putting restriction on certain commodity supplies and raise the consumer price. Import barriers are used extensively by the sugar industry. It significant to note that through trade barriers, the prices are high and as a result of high prices, the consumers are hurt more because they are forced to buy fewer products at a high price. According to USDA there is a trade barrier in the sugar industry so as to protect the producers from competition so that they can increase their returns to scale (usda.gov). Though the government ...

The issue of racism within most communities in America has been a challenge for a while. The blacks have been the biggest hit in terms of racial discrimination as they suffer the most. In the book what is white trash, the authors have defined the term vulgar multiculturalism as the phenomena that proceed from whiteness in a manner that subjugates nonwhites. The performance by the white rap artists that are christened blackness has offered a different dimension to this notion. The artists try to bring out a genuine theme in their performance that highlights the plights of blacks within most societies.

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The original cowboys were all white. Meaning, they were all Caucasians. However, long before they came into being, there were already other cowboys on the making. This was in Texas where a group of slaves worked in ranches. The period was the early nineteenth century. As was discussed above, cowboys mainly gained prominence in the late nineteenth century. Black slaves were mainly born into slavery, but they later gained a life away from slavery in the ranches. This is where the thesis of this paper is deduced. Black men became cowboys so as to avoid the discrimination and shame associated with ...