The novel Ordeal by Hunger was written by George R. Stewart. Stewart was a professor, novelist, and American historian. Ordeal by Hunger was written about the Donner party and their westward movement. Environment and nature played a huge role in what happened to the people traveling. The Donner party is the most famous westward movement tragedy ever.…
At the beginning of the 19th century, two men, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began a three year journey from St. Louis, Missouri westward toward the Pacific Coast. The expedition west brought forth many challenges including spring storms that flooded the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Throughout the journey out to the Pacific and back to St. Louis, Missouri, the threat of Native American confrontation persisted. Along the way, both Lewis and Clark encountered frequent dangers and life threatening obstacles. At the beginning of their expedition west, Lewis and Clark were met with torrent rapids on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.…
Agency Introduction The name of the agency is Social Model Recovery Systems (SMRS) and they have twelve locations that consist of residential treatment programs, prevention programs, and outpatient care clinics in both Los Angeles and Orange Counties. I was placed at the River Community residential treatment program located in Azusa. I had my interview with the Program Director, Justin Womer. Travel to Agency…
The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition was historically important because these men were the first people, not Indians, to explore much of Utah gaining information on the people that they met and the land itself. The Dominguez-Escalante Journal it the accounting of the expedition traveling thru Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. Father Dominguez and Father Escalante’s party included “twelve Spanish colonials and two Indians”. The Mexican Government enlisted a catholic priest, Francisco Dominguez to find a better way to get to the Catholic Missions in Monterey California from Santa Fe New Mexico. Father Dominguez asked Father Silvestre de Escalante to write in detail about this journey.…
The people on the Donner party are from the plains of Illinois, they are farmers. They don’t really have experience with the new terrain of the west. In order to reach California they had to pass by deserts, canyons, and mountains. It was difficult for them to go through these land features, there whole life they had been farmers, these lands were new to them. Before this tripe they didn’t know that there was such thing as a salt lake.…
It was a beautiful Friday afternoon. The May weather was perfect, with a slight refreshing breeze. Excitement was in the air as we all prepared for the 23 hour drive to Colorado. This was going to be the trip of a life time for our family. This much awaited trip had everyone on the edge of their seats.…
The Donner Party a story about eager emigrants traveling to a destination where they can start a new life, but with territory still unexplored they faced tragedy and death. Ethan Rarick the author of Desperate Passage, displayed the factual events from the journey of the Donner party, but also mentions his own scenarios where the Donner Party went wrong. The book captivated the inner circle of the Donner party with their best moments and their worst moments. A destination to California for a new life, led to friendships and cannibalism, but this journey portrayed the hardships each person had to make and scarifies they needed to survive. Desperate Passage could have been avoided, but the shortcut they took changed every individual who followed…
What is Manifest Destiny? Most people never even heard of it to tell you the truth. Manifest Destiny was a movement during the 1800's when people from the East of America would move to the West. You probably heard of the Gold Rush or the Louisiana Purchase. They were all part of Manifest Destiny.…
Oregon Trail Traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1800s was a dangerous journey. However,the danger wasn't from Native Americans as you might think. As a matter of fact,many records show that Native Americans helped,many of the travelers along the way. The real danger was from a disease called cholera that killed many shettlers. Other dangers included bad weather and accidents while trying to move their heavy wagons over the mountains.…
Media plays an important role in today’s society, from the shows we watch on television, the music we listen in the radio, and to the magazines we read. Let’s say most people have goals and expectations for their future. They set specific requirements, they work hard, and hope for the best. However, individuals happen to set their goals based on media and advertisement that is approached to the world. “In the Shadow of the Image” by Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen, is a piece developed to describe the constant effects of advertising representation throughout our lives.…
Did you know that over 500,000 people traveled the Oregon Trail? The Oregon trail had a effected America in many ways, including the population change, manifest destiny and the beginning of land expansion. The Oregon Trail was an insanely hard Trail to complete. About 20,000 people died trying to complete it.…
Seventy-eight point two years. This is the average American life expectancy. Seventy-eight point two years for a person to make their life memorable, meaningful. The average person, unlike famous literary figures, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson will spend this time perturbing over what they have yet to accomplish, but is this the best way to spend these precious years? These poets argue no.…
Imagine for a moment that you have to climb to the very top of a large, daunting mountain with the goal of eventually seeing the world from a new perspective. It is not that simple though because you are also unable to use any equipment or information to guide you in the task. Conversely, there is another person who, before beginning the exact same climb, already has an extensive knowledge provided to them for the venture, and additionally, they have high-tech equipment to make the journey easier. They have done this before. Obviously, this would be rather unfair.…
It starts out in a conversation with a child asking what grass is. The line of answer is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Whitman 2747). When we die, we are buried in the ground. We are returned, in a sense, from whence we came. God did form Adam, the first man, from the earth.…
Walt Whitman’s idea of the American Dream cannot be summarized into one sentence. It in its entirety is more complicated than that. Although complicated, Whitman’s American Dream still exists in today’s society. Whitman views the American Dream as a call to arms, a mandatory action that Americans must take.…