...the Journey The California Gold Rush affected the individuals involved in many ways. Many people had traveled to California for one thing. Gold. They went for the gold because of the money that came along with it. Men had left their jobs and families to travel to California by sea or trail. The individuals of the Gold Rush faced many challenges traveling to California such as diseases, lack of supplies needed, and time it took to get there within the environment they chose to travel. One of the many challenges faced in the Gold Rush was sickness and disease. Different travelers faced different illnesses. In the text it states, “Often people tied themselves to their beds to keep from being tossed about. Seasickness abounded.”...
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...Is Manifest Destiny necessary for America’s growth? This question has posed a large debate for many people. However you may think, there are many reasons as to why Manifest Destiny was justified. Reason one being that moving westward caused America to prosper and grow because of economic opportunities. Secondly, our country spread its democracy and cultural ideas to different people groups. Lastly, there was a population increase in the country, not only Americans, but immigrants started to flee to America in hopes of finding a new job and a new life, and to gain wealth. Ultimately, there are many reasons as to why Manifest Destiny was justified. The gold rush was possibly one of the largest events in America’s history that led to many economic...
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...him information about our deal about wood supply. The trip was taking five months now and I was getting pretty bored. People in the ship were dressed up as if they were going to go to work in the forest and had strange tools and machines. I wondered what this was all about. But I only wanted to tell Mr. Sutter all my stuff and go right back to my home in England. Then, all of a sudden, our captain said,"San Francisco! California spotted at last!" I was relieved and happy that the journey was short. It took me about two hours on horseback to get to Mr. Sutter's mill. I had to tell him about my agreement to the deal...
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...Thomas Sammartino Professor Hargraves College Writing 1005-004 16 February 2015 Lambeau Field Lambeau Field is one of the most iconic and historic football stadiums in America. Only few have had the opportunity to visit the “frozen tundra” first hand and experience the greatest football city in the United States. Being a lifelong Packers fan, it has been something out of my wildest dreams to go to Lambeau Field and experience a Packers game in person. Experiencing the Packer fans, the different kinds of foods and aromas, and seeing the players perform right in front of my eyes is what made this experience so memorable. Watching the Green Bay Packers play live at Lambeau Field was one of the most memorable moments of my life. The most passionate fans I have ever seen are the Green Bay Packers fans. Ever since I stepped off the plane in Green Bay, the only colors I saw were green and gold. The Green Bay local supported their Packers to the point where it looked like people were from a different planet if they were not wearing the teams colors. Game day for the Green Bay fans is like Christmas in other cities. Not one person is working and everyone is either at home preparing for the game or at Lambeau tailgating at the crack of dawn. There is one Packer fan who takes it up a notch for his passion for the packers and that is St. Vincent Lombardi. Dressed in a green robe with gold accents and packer logo on his hat, this fan dresses as a bishop with the name of one of the...
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...Public Speaking Made Fun: A Workbook Copyright 2011 1 Informative Speech – Topic Mapping Today I would like to talk to you about _____________________________________________. Topic By examining _______________________________ , ____________________________________ , A B _________________________ , and it is my hope that you will have a better understanding C of _______________________________________________________. Topic 2 Learning activity created by: Todd L. Wirth, Ph.D. 3 Circle the most appropriate advice that Speech Bear should dispense based on the context clues. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Advance preparation Positive thinking Practice, practice, practice Learn to use an extemporaneous style of speech Avoid chemicals as stress or anxiety relievers Use movement Seeing public speaking as a conversation, not as a performance Exercises for stress/anxiety relief 4 Circle the most appropriate advice that Speech Bear should...
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...the idea of the miners in the 1869 Gold Rush. From 1954 to 1967, the 4-foot high, 180 pound burro draped with a red wool blanket, inscribed "CLEMENTINE,” or "GOAL RUSHERS” was the 49ers mascot for 13-years. She was a very friendly sort who followed her master obediently down the sidelines, bending her head in the direction of an imaginary dandelion, or lifting her head toward the crowd when she heard cheering or booing sounds. "When I was...
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...during childbirth. Although Caroline was born in Northampton, her father was born in a village just south of Northampton, Wootton. Her father was a pig dealer and fattened then sold them for money. When her father died, Caroline was only 6. It had affected her childhood a lot. She then had to move into one of her siblings households as they quite older. She had 15 other siblings to move into. (Wikipedia) At the age of 22, 1830, she married Archibald Chisholm who was a Roman Catholic serving in the East India Company Army. When Archibald became quite ill, they moved to Windsor, Australia because of better conditions for Archibald’s health. The couple set sail for Sydney, arriving, October 1838. When they settled at Windsor, they went for trips to Sydney. When they were walking around, they were aware of the difficult conditions emigrants faced when arriving in the colony, but, she was more concerned about the young women who were arriving without money to spare, they...
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...progressing, and embracing all of the better cultural aspects the Europeans brought with them. We had formed a government and society that equaled that of the most civilized cultures of the day. Unfortunately, when gold was discovered in 1830, in Georgia, outsiders began began a campaign called the period of “Indian removals”. It began from the orders of the U.S. Supreme Court (“[Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it now if he can.” – Andrew Jackson). Men, women, and children from our tribe and many others, were rounded up for the “removal” from our homes and our property by the orders from the President. We had become a subordinate racial group. Because our cultures were not the same, and obvious physical differences, we were treated as someone less deserving of what we had, therefore it was just taken from us. (Cherokee Nation - The Official Site of the Cherokee Nation, n.d., p. 1) We were all herded by bayonet point into a forced march that lasted for 1,000 miles and ended at a place called the “Indian Territory”, which is now the state of Oklahoma. We lost many of our people to death during the time in the internment camps and once we arrived we lost even more from the journey’s effects. After recovering from the long trip, we soon re-established ourselves in our new...
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...immigrants who immigrated to America have had stressful impacts from their parents and society because of their parent’s expectations of a perfect child who succeeds in school, and the society’s rejection of their ethnicity. From the old days until now, millions of people around the world have decided to immigrate to the United States in search of a better life. The reason why Chinese people immigrated to America due to the rumors of opportunity to gain higher wages jobs within America which would help support their families who were struggling to survive in China. According to Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1848, the Chinese immigrants came to California for the opportunity to obtain gold from the Gold Rush (32). The Chinese immigrants had not planned to stay in America, but were there only to obtain enough gold to buy land in China for their families. The Caucasians, who were already living in America, were cruel to the Chinese foreigners. Some Chinese immigrants were killed and beaten...
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...The California Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the gold fields and rich farmlands of the Golden State during the 1840s and 1850s, the greatest mass migration in American history. The general route began at various jumping off points along the Missouri River and stretched to various points in California Oregon, and the Sierra Nevada. The specific route that emigrants and forty-niners used depended on their starting point in Missouri, their final destination in California, the condition of their wagons and livestock, and yearly changes in water and forage along the different routes. The trail passes through the states of Missouri, Kansas Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and California. Before the trail was blazed, the Great Basin region had only been partially explored during the days of Spanish and Mexican rule. However, that changed in 1832 when Benjamin Bonneville, a United States Army officer, requested a leave of absence to pursue an expedition to the west. The expedition was financed by John Jacob Astor, a rival of the Hudson Bay company. While Bonneville was exploring the Snake River in Wyoming, he sent a party of men under Joseph Walker to explore the Great Salt Lake and find an overland route to California. Early settlers began to use the trail in the 1840's, the first of which was John Bidwell, who led the 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson Party. In 1842, a member of the Bidwell-Bartleson Party returned to Missouri on the Humboldt...
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...The Dawes Act wanted to dismantle the reservation policy put in place and grant lots of land to the head of each Native American household. The Dawes Act was unsuccessful as the Native Americans were given poor farming and grazing land, and would have lost all rights to gold and silver deposit. Another devastating blow to the Plains Indians was the massacre of the buffalos, which once freely roamed the Great Plains. Without the buffalo, many clans faced severe handicaps in their daily life. In the 1880s the trials of the Sioux clans continued to grow. Many of the Sioux attempted a ritual called the Ghost Dance to bring back the buffalo and replenish their lands. The ritual was unsuccessful and many of the Sioux began moving to allotted reservations. In 1890, miscommunication between the U.S. Army and the Sioux would result the Battle of Wounded Knee. Over 300 Sioux, many unarmed, and 25 American soldiers were...
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...next to my cousin and Angeline was going to sit next to my big sister, Maica. Angeline told me that she was feeling fine until Maica was starting to get scared and she was telling Angeline “oh my god”, “I don’t think I can do this”, or “we’re gonna die”. Angeline started panicking but she couldn’t do anything anymore because we were already about to drop upside down. Angeline didn’t have fun at all since she didn’t feel comfort since Maica was giving her a hard time not being scared. Angeline was so scared to go in any rides ever since what happened to her in X2 and it wouldn’t been that way if my big sister told her that she can do it. Angeline was scared to go on every ride, even in Disneyland. We went to Disneyland for our eighth grade field trip and she wasn’t hanging out with me because I wasn’t as close to her friends. So apparently she didn’t had fun because she didn’t ride any rides and she didn’t get to experience how fun it really was. If she said no, she wasn’t getting in, she wasn’t getting in. Not until, we went back after four years during January. The night before we went, I...
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...A Tale of Three Lions Haggard, Henry Rider Published: 1887 Type(s): Short Fiction, Adventure Source: http://www.gutenberg.org 1 About Haggard: Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under the Reverend H.J. Graham but, unlike his older brothers who graduated from various Public Schools, he ended up attending Ipswich Grammar School. This was because his father, who regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much, could no longer afford to maintain his expensive private education. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private ‘crammer’ in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, which in the end he never sat. Instead Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer. It was in this role that Haggard was present in Pretoria for the official announcement of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal. In fact, Haggard raised the Union Flag and was forced to read out much of the proclamation following the loss of voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty. As a young man, Haggard fell deeply in love with Lilith Jackson, whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employment in South Africa...
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...Americans • Settlement of the West • The Bonanza West • Conclusion: The Meaning of the West The Native Americans: • Life of the Plains Indians • Indian Policy • Finial Battles on the Plains • The end of tribal life • “saving” The Indians • Hellan Hunt Jackson • NA Contributions 1877 is the beginning of “modern” American history. Hayes was president and some feel he is a fraud Most people live on Eastern Seaboard. Many overcrowding. Manufacturing and limited land space. People want to live west but the Indians were there…. In 1867 Horace Greeley urged people in NYC to move west “if you move west you will crowd nobody and not starve” because nobody was there but there were over QMil Natives living in the West. The gold rush started and disturbed the native western population. 1: Life on the plains for NA. 2/3 of them lived on the great plains. It’s one of the most hazardous at the time. They knew how to survive. The plains Indians depended buffalo. They can kill and take only what they need and use the entire kill. The Whites left the carcass. It was used by them for clothes, tools, food, shelter, ect. Before the horse the NA would hunt them by running them over a cliff or scaring them into a trap. The Spanish introduces the horse to them. They discovered that it was a great work and hunting animal. They were migratory and would travel with the food source. Some tribes would be sever thousand people but would break into smaller bands of 500...
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...[pic]Top of Form Aboriginal Australia [pic] Find out how you can connect with the world’s oldest living culture. Discover it the same way Aboriginal Australians have passed it down for at least 50,000 years - through art, dance, myths, music and the land itself. See Aboriginal art and contemporary dance in the cities. Or head to the outback and listen to Dreamtime myths of creation by the campfire. Let Aboriginal Australians help you understand this ancient land and its spirituality and wonder. Six special places you can connect to Aboriginal Australia [pic] Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory Visit Uluru and you’ll see why the rock and surrounding land have such huge spiritual significance for the Anangu Aboriginal people. According to their creation myths, ancestral spirits formed Uluru, which lies in Australia's red centre like an enormous, moody heart. Aboriginal guides will share these ancient tales as you walk around the rock’s base. Just 32 kilometres away is another sacred site - Kata Tjuta. You’ll be awestruck by these steep, rounded, russet domes over 3,500 hectares. [pic] Kimberley, Western Australia Featuring vast horizons and ancient gorges, the Kimberley region is one of the world’s last great wilderness areas. See Wandjina figures painted in caves and the mysterious Gwion Gwion paintings. Ride a camel on Broome’s breathtaking Cable Beach and 4WD the red-dirt road along the Dampier Peninsula. Learn the legend of the orange and black beehive...
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