A Journey of Thousand Miles Essay

The Trail of Tears and Cold-Blooded Sufferings “I fought through the Civil War and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.” Quoted by a Georgian militiamen during the gathering of Cherokee Indians, he describes how horrible this removal was on the Native Americans that once lived in the Cherokee Territory. (Document D) Once the Cherokee were rounded up, they were sent to travel the Trail of Tears to the west side…

Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie depicts a society where much of its culture has been lost to the Americans. Only powwows, great wakes, and rampant poverty withstood the test of time for the Spokanes. The combination of these two novels, and the journeys that Joe and Junior go through, illustrate the chaos that has become fundamental in the interactions between these two groups. As Junior formed connections in Reardon, he had to overcome social barriers and an identity crisis that led him to…

People are not always who they seem to be. Scarlett is a sixteen-year-old girl who has been captured by a cult called Eternal Light. Eternal light believes that if they sacrifice Scarlett, it will give them a path into the afterlife. Noah is another teenager who is part of Eternal Light; he tricks Scarlett into being captured by finding a way into her heart. When Scarlett notices what is happening, she feels betrayed by Noah and cannot even look him in the eyes without her heart tearing into…

A man spoke about what he saw along the journey and was mesmerised by people that were so consumed in their own thoughts, only them and their God. “I witness grown men crying like children, completely oblivious to who is standing next to them.” (Javed Aslam, 2015). Another man described the experience…

Eight million five hundred thousand and fifty-four soldiers died fighting in the Great War. One-hundred sixteen thousand five-hundred and sixteen United States soldiers died. Many of my friends dads went away and never came back. My dad did come back, so I was considered a lucky one but what I went saw while he was gone changed me forever. When the Lusitania in May my father was furious. After the United States declared war on Germany two years later , like many other of my friends dads, he…

Focusing on the lives of those who traversed the waters of the Atlantic aboard slave ships bound for the Caribbean and America has proven to be a task by historians in recent years as more and more is added to the already growing historiography of the Atlantic slave trade, but most importantly, the lives of the Africans who were the focus of this European endeavor. Stephanie Smallwood’s book Saltwater Slavery is a testament to this ongoing research. In her book, Smallwood focuses on a narrow…

for the Indians: either submit to American rule, or be legally subject to “abandon the graves of their fathers,” and forced to travel thousands of miles to “seek a home in a distant land,” (Jackson, 1829, para. 5). The Americans forced the natives off their land so that they could take it for themselves, and the brutal relocation of natives proved lethal to thousands. We have this idea that we (“normal” Americans) are above the Indians. Because we took their land, forced them off their land,…

onto discovering new techniques on flying space crafts. Most of Wiles work is supported by other recent articles for example if you read “NASA’s Journey To Mars” you will find them still working on a way to travel from Earth to Mars in the ISS(International Space Station) and her paragraph on “Why Mars” has supporting details in it from “NASA’s Journey To Mars”. Even though this article is two years old it has very reliable information in it. What is different about this article is Wiles never…

Tears, was a massive forced migration of many Indian tribes in the southeastern United States in the mid 1800’s. The Indian Removal Act caused a massive disturbance in the Native American tribes of the southeast United States. In the early 1830’s thousands of Cherokee Indians lived on a vast expanse of the southeastern United States, however, in the end of the 1840’s hardly any remained as a result of the Indian Removal Act (History). The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President…

The Trail of Tears is the journey the Indians took after being forced by the federal government to leave their land and move west because white settlers wanted their land to grow cotton. The government forced the Indians to walk thousands of miles on foot to a reserved territory across the Mississippi River. This event is important because so many Native American lives were lost during the walk due to starvation, exhaustion and disease. The Civil War began April 12, 1861 after the Confederate…