Answer:
She shows the contrast between the stereotypical image of the cowboy and what a real cowboy is like.
Explanation:
In <em>About Men</em>, writer Gretel Ehrlich writes a short essay about her experiences living in a ranch, and compares what she knows about real cowboys with how cowboys are popularly portrayed. In the media, cowboys are shown as rugged, stern, tough men; but in her experience, cowboys are soft-hearted men who deeply love their family and their animals.<u> In the three first sentences of her essay, she shows this contrast between the stereotypical image of the cowboy and a real cowboy through the contrast between the </u><u>Marlboro Man</u><u> and the </u><u>Wyoming</u><u> landscape</u>: the Marlboro Man is shown as a typical tough cowboy, while the Wyoming landscape is a place of beauty and solace. She argues that the landscape is more representative of the true character of a cowboy than the Marlboro Man is.
Answer:
The motives for Spanish exploration was to find Northwest Passage, which they believed was a direct and efficient route to the Orient - home of spices, silks and wealth.
Explanation:
The Spanish explorers were in search of mineral wealth, looking for El Dorado (the City of Gold) and they aspired to spread Christianity.
the granite sierra nevada mountains and the volcanic cascade range
the heavily faulted and earthquake prone coast range
