Dressage

Lian Wolfe Professor Salazar ENC 1102 2 February 2014 Kohmann Dressage: A Discourse Community When a community comes together with a common interest and goal they are considered a discourse community. Our whole life we have been part of some discourse community and have not even realized it. Discourse communities are all around us in different forms; from businesses to schools to clubs, we see a discourse community everyday of our life. Even though discourse communities are everywhere we go, these communities have certain boundaries they follow, not even realizing, to be considered a good discourse community. As John Swales stated “I would like to propose six defining characteristics that will be necessary and sufficient for identifying…

Not many people have heard of Eric Lamaze, a horse rider par excellence. Horse riding isn’t a very popular sport in India, but it is an Olympic event. Lamaze is an Olympic Gold Medalist, and has won several other competitions including the Equestrian Grand Prix. Early Years Lamaze was born on April 17th 1968 in Montreal, Quebec, which is located on the Eastern Coast of Canada. Lamaze was raised there by his grand- mother and by 15 dropped out of school, to work in the horse industry under top…

The Day I Became More Courageous and Learned To Face My Fears I was sitting in the ambulance at the MHJA horse show in Ohio. “Can you move your eyes back and forth?” The nurse had asked me. I did as I was told. The nurse was listing many symptoms that she thought I might have, if I had a concussion. “I’m going to shine a light in your eyes, and all you need to do is look at me,” She said with a concerning voice. They said I appeared to be dazed, and I had late responses. That was the last…

Dressage, It actually has nothing to do with dresses or dressing. Many people have no idea what dressage is. Dressage actually involves training a horse. There are many steps to training horses dressage which depends on the horse's age, breed, and demeanor. First, you would start out picking out a horse that will fit your needs and wants. If you're a “green rider” you wouldn’t want to get a “green horse” because it would create a lot of frustration because a “green horse” has little or no…

Research Article - Racial profiling as dressage: a social control regime The article “racial profiling as dressage: a social control regime,” written by Laura J. Khoury, examines the strategy of racial profiling as a form of social control. The author starts with a n introduction to the topic, stating that racial profiling was first used in the 1970s, as a method to prohibit drug trafficking. She establishes that “racial profiling is the use of race in conjunction with space as key factors…

The Pony dressage is an equestrian training process, which in short called as the English style of riding a pony. The word dressage comes from the French word “dresser” which means “to train”. Horse riding and dressage is the world’s oldest sporting event useful to determine horse’s flexibility, durability, attentiveness to balance and support. Through dressage the rider gently communicates with the horse through the support of the seat, spur, restraining aids of seat and driving aids of the…

Warmblood, Belgian Warmblood, Akhal-Teke, and Trakehner) The Friesian breed is a tall and all around big breed. They are very pretty and can be used for many different types of sports and activities. The Friesian horse is actually a European warmblood. These horses can be found in doing sports like pleasure riding, dressage, and maybe some light farm work. These horses are on of the only European warmbloods that have not been bred to be jumpers. Some people still like to jump these horses on…

pictures with one horse in each. The pictures tell different stories about these horses. The first horse is a horse used in dressage competitions, which is an English discipline, and the second horse is used in circus scenarios. These horses have many similarities and differences comparing their animal rights and five freedoms. First comparing the animal rights of these two horses. First, the horse on the left is used in dressage competitions, which a competition to show off the movement of a…

growing up is the first time I fell of a horse. I can still picture the scene in my head, starting with the horse spooking and running towards the fence, to the point where I fell off and could see the hooves right above my head. As a six-year-old child this fall should have scared me from riding a horse again, however it ended up having the opposite effect. It made me love this sport, and I was determined to continue riding, despite the reluctance of my parents. Ten years later, as I put my…

as well. There are many different events in both English and western equitation. Some western disciplines include but aren’t limited to; western pleasure, reining, cutting, roping, working cow horse, western riding, barrel racing, pick up men, and trail riding. English disciplines on the other hand are much more refined. Classical dressage, dressage, english pleasure, eventing, field hunter, foxhunting, hunt seat are just some English disciplines. English disciplines are different than that of…