Manifest Destiny is “the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.” Which means, that even when we kicked Indians out of their own land, it was okay. It was justified, for our own selfish needs and wants. Other things were involved with Manifest Destiny, like the gold rush. January 24, 1848 was when James Wilson Marshall found flakes of gold near Coloma, California. That immediately started a gold rush, people would come over from everyone to get California gold, those people were named 49’ers.
The movie Avatar is placed on a third world called Pandora. The people of that planet are Na’vi. In this movie scientist got together and came up with a way that you could transform into Na’vi through a machine. If you were originally a human turning into a Na’vi you were called an Avatar, them being an Avatar was not permeant you were only one when you were asleep. Scientist’s mission was to better understand the Na’vi. Pandora was full of magic but under the surface was a very expensive rock that the United States wanted, so when scientist went to Pandora so did military. Military’s mission was much different from the scientist, they wanted the Avatars to give up their rock. To do so they tried offering them stuff but the Na’vi didn’t want any of what they were offering, so the military responded with bull dozers and machine guns. The military forced the Na’vi off their own land, in their own planet. …show more content…
Indians during Manifest Destiny were like the Na’vi, they were both forced of their land. That’s how I looked at the comparison of Manifest Destiny and
The movie Avatar is placed on a third world called Pandora. The people of that planet are Na’vi. In this movie scientist got together and came up with a way that you could transform into Na’vi through a machine. If you were originally a human turning into a Na’vi you were called an Avatar, them being an Avatar was not permeant you were only one when you were asleep. Scientist’s mission was to better understand the Na’vi. Pandora was full of magic but under the surface was a very expensive rock that the United States wanted, so when scientist went to Pandora so did military. Military’s mission was much different from the scientist, they wanted the Avatars to give up their rock. To do so they tried offering them stuff but the Na’vi didn’t want any of what they were offering, so the military responded with bull dozers and machine guns. The military forced the Na’vi off their own land, in their own planet. …show more content…
Indians during Manifest Destiny were like the Na’vi, they were both forced of their land. That’s how I looked at the comparison of Manifest Destiny and