Would you mind
If I hurt you?
Understand that
I need to
Wish that I
Had other choices
Then to harm the
One that I love
What have you
Done now?
I know I better
Stop trying
There's no use
DEnyin
I won't show
Mercy on you
Now
I know I should
Stop believeing
There's no retrieving
It's over now
What have you
Done?
What have you done
Now!?
I have been waiting
For someone like
You
But now you're
Slipping away
What have you
Done
Why does fate
Make us suffer?
There's a curse
Between us
Tween me and you
Would you mind
If I killed you
Would you mind if
I tried to
Cause you have
Turned into my
Worst enemy
You carry hate
That I feel
It's over now
What have
You done
What have you
Done now
I have been
Waiting for
Someone like you
But now you are
Slipping away
What have you
Done now
Why does fate
Make us suffer?
There's a curse
Between us
Tween me and you
I will not fall
Why let it go?
We will be free
When it ends
I have been
Waiting for
Someone like you
But now you are
Slipping away
Why does fate
Make us suffer?
There's a curse
Between us
Tween me and you

Why do you seem
To haunt me
Everywhere I go?
Even though you're
Gone
Your prescence still
Lingers here
My wounds won't
Heal
My tears drip sore
There was too much
That time could
Not erase
You wiped away
All of my
Tears
Through all of
The years
You made me rise
When I fell
I still feel your
Arms
Around me
Even though you're
Gone
My wounds won't
Heal
My tears drip sore
There was too much
That time could
Not erase
I can still see
Your face
It haunts me
Everywhere I go
Why can't I
Let you go?

Found myself today
Found myself and
Ran away
But something pulled
Me back
A voice of reason
I forgot I had
All I know is that
You're not here to
Say what you always
Used to say
But I won't give up
From this moment
To my dreams
I'll stay strong
I won't break down
Cause sooner then it
Seems
Life turns around
Seeing that bright
Light
Shining on my destiny
Shinig all the time
And I won't be
Afraid
To follow everywhere
It's taking me
All I know is that
Yesterday is gone and
Right now
I belong
From this moment to
My dreams
So I won't give up
No I won't break down
Sooner then it seems
Life turns around
And I will be strong
Even if it goes wrong
When I'm standing
in the dark
I'll still believe
Someone's watching
Over me

When Jack London wrote the book, Call of the Wild, he wrote it in a way that would make us think about what the call was. This is what the call is. The call of the wild is about returning to our survival instincts and living as our earliest ancestors did where only the strong survive. A dog named Buck answers this call and transforms from a pampered poodle into a hardened canine that may have been greater than the fierce wolf.

The call of the wild is about living by instincts. The being does not have any ties to anyone but itself. This being is living as nature and their ancestors genes intended for them. They are wilder and fiercer than any wild animal because the being has gone back to acting like their earliest ancestors when survival was a daily thing to accomplish. The being would be described as living up to their racial heritage to the fullest extent.

A dog named Buck answers the call of the wild and he goes from being a pampered favorite in sunny California to a hardened dog that was better than the wolf. When Buck first gets to Alaska, he does not want to be a sled dog but after learning the law of “fang and club,” he starts to learn how to survive in the wilderness like digging a hole in the snow to keep warm. Later on he leans to enjoy working as a sled dog and that humans can’t always be relied on as in the case of Mercedes, Charles, and Hal. Buck then learns what it’s like to love somebody so much you would do anything for them like he did for John Thurston.

Buck first began answering to the call when he made his first kill which was the lead dog, Spitz and Buck became the dominant primordial beast who had killed and found it good.
Towards the end of the story when Buck was rescued by John Thurston, we learn that due to his heritage Buck looks like a massive wolf and that he has great speed and cunning just like a wolf. When he grows tired of catching small prey like fish, he decides to go after bigger prey which happens to be a bull moose that he takes down on his own. When the Yeehats kill John, Buck no longer has any ties to the humans and joins a wolf pack to live up to his racial heritage.

So in all, the “call of the wild,” is about living as our ancestors did. A dog named Buck answers this call and he answers the call to become one with the wolves. Jack London did make you think about the “call “ really hard and that is what he probably intended.

I can't believe
It's really you
Been so long
You look good
I hear you're doing
Really well
Don't ask me
Let me tell
You how
I've been since
You left
Do you remember
All the times you said
You'd call me
Cause I remember
All the reasons people
Warned me
Now I hear you
Sayin that you
Still adore me
But if think
I'd get back with you
Then you can just
Love me love me
Feed the flames
If you want me
Back again
Burn to the sky
Baby, can you
Play with fire?

In this world
You tried
Not leaving me alone
Behind
There's no other way
I'll pray to the gods
Let him stay
The memories ease
The pain inside,
Now I know why
All of my memories
Keep you near
In silent moments
Imagine you'd be
Here
All of my memories
Keep you near
Your silent whispers,
Silent tears
Made me promise
I'd try
To find my way
Back in this life
I hope there is
A way
To give me a sign
You're okay
Reminds me again
It's worth it all
So I can go home
All of my memories
Keep you near
In silent moments
Imagine you'd be here
All of my memories
Keep you near
Your silent whispers,
Silent tears
Together in all these
Memories
I see your smile
All of my memories
I hold dear
Darling, you know
I'll love you
Till the end of
Time
All of my memories
Keep you near
In silent moments
Imagine you'd be here
All of my memories
Keep you near
Your silent whispers
Silent tears
All of my memories

Katie Locke
American Studies
December 9,2007


Jesse Redheart is the great grandnephew of Chief Joseph. He has a wife and six kids. He used to ride broncos but he gave that up to train and breed Appaloosas. He lives on the Lapwai reservation in Idaho. Jesse rides horses the same way his ancestors used to which is by knotting handmade reins around the muzzle. All of his kids ride, including the youngest. Jesse wears a Nez Perce outfit that he inherited from his grandmother. There is a war bonnet of black and white turkey feathers in front by a row of dyed red feathers. White ermine tails stream from the beaded headband. The buckskin trousers and jacket are adorned with beads of blue,white,red,and yellow. He has 28 Appaloosas.


There are many ways to tell what an Appaloosa looks like. One of them being that they have striped,durable hooves, that are wide at the heel. They have a long head with a flat profile, with mottled skin around the nose and eyes. With the eyes, there needs to be a white are around the iris. A deep, narrow,and medium chest with long, sloping shoulders. The long,muscular,medium neck and muscular agile legs. Appaloosas usually have a tapered tail. Many Indians liked this because the tail wouldn’t tangle in thorns and brush. But even with all these qualifications, an Appaloosa can’t be registered unless he has spots with the skin color being the same color as the spots. Their height is from around 14.2- 16 hands high. The weight is from 900- 1150 pounds. They are known for having a fast easy walk called he “ indian shuffle .“ There are five different coat patterns. Leopard, white with dark spots; Snowflake, white spots all over the body but concentrated over the hindquarters. Another one is Blanket, where the quarters maybe spotted or white; Marble, a mottled pattern over the body, and Frost, white specks on a dark back ground.


There are two different stories that tell how the Nez Perce got the Appaloosa and thus began the history of the Appaloosa. One story is where a Dutch ship was sinking and the stallions swam a shore to the northwest coast and the indians found them and bred them to their best mares. The second story is most likely the true story. When the Spaniards came, they brought horses with them and the horses escaped and made their way to Idaho. It’s been debated about when the Nez Perce started breeding the Appaloosa. Some say the 1500’s and others say the1700’s. One thing is known though, the breed got it’s name from the Palouse river. Apparently, the reasons why the horses were always of the highest quality is the Nez Perce either traded or gelded horses that were not at the set standard. Because of these standards the Appaloosa was described by Meriweather Lewis as being “ An excellent race. They are lofty, elegantly formed and durable.”


One of the reasons why the Nez Perce choose the Appaloosa is because they liked bright colored horses. They could have chosen the Pinto,Paint,or the Palomino for their mounts, but they created the Appaloosa so it would be their own. From all the years of careful breeding they created an Appaloosa that had a distinguished appearance. For one thing, theirs hooves were really strong and could stand up to the pounding of the hard earth and the jagged rocks that littered the ground. They made good mounts for racing and hunting. A good reason why they were such good buffalo mounts is because they were versatile and had good endurance and temperaments. Appaloosas are also very willing and intelligent. For trading an Appaloosa, you could get anything you wanted like a wife or enough food for the winter!

Chief Joseph was fine breeder of horses and a good chief. He made a famous speech with the words “ From the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.” He was told to give up the land by the whites but he wouldn’t sell the land and that decision escalated into a war. He did eventually move onto a reservation. As the Nez Perce were moving to the reservation, some of the warriors killed settlers and that sent the Army to destroy them. Joseph and his band tried to flee to Canada and they almost made it, except the Army reached them first. He surrendered with the condition that they gave up their horses and they did. Joseph often thought about the horses they had given up and quoted “ somebody has got our horses.” He died in 1904 from a broken heart.