Emigration

discovered by Sutter and Marshal and the discovery of gold could not be kept secret. News of gold being discovered spread like wildfire across the nation and around the world (Erik Lecture, 1/27). Susan Lee Johnson discussed in her chapter On the Eve of Emigration the experiences of the diverse groups of people such as the Chileans, Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, African-Americans, French, and Chinese who migrated to California in search of gold. Many of these groups of people risked their lives to…

Haiti is another extremely poor and poverty-stricken country that has struggled to develop due to their lack of a stable economy mixed with their vulnerability to natural disasters. These catastrophes consistently and aggressively occur without enough time for Haiti to repair from their last disaster. (Ex, the repercussions of the 2010 earthquake were never fully accommodated for, let alone the aftermath that hurricane Matthew has now forced upon Haiti). Consequently, 60,000 Haitians were…

The term Religious wars is known as such from a series of eight conflicts that developed in France during the second half of the sixteenth century and in which Catholics and Calvinist Protestants clashed, known as Huguenots and by extension applies to conflict unleashed in Europe in the seventeenth century, whose causes are including religious reasons The immediate result of the war, and yet would last for nearly two centuries, was the consecration of a Germany divided among many territories.…

In the book “Why Ireland starved: a quantitative and analytical history of the Irish economy, 1800-1850” the author Joel Mokyr tries to assess why the Great Famine of Ireland from 1845-1852 was so disastrous. Mokyr is an economic historian and as a result, the book is from an economic perspective and does not consider other factors outside of the economy as causes tot the famine. The majority of the book focuses on the lead up to the event and it is not until the last chapter when Mokyr…

In the book “Faces At the Bottom of the Well” author Derrick Bell writes different fictional stories that tackle the permanence of racism in the United States. Bell was a professor at Harvard Law School, where he left his position to protest against the absence of African American women on the faculty. Him being such a prominent scholar from Harvard Law, in each story he added legal analysis to look at each issue from a different perspective. Bell main argument in this book is that “Racism is…

Hostile American attitudes towards Asian immigration, especially the Chinese, remained continuous throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Following political unrest and economic pressures in China, thousands of Chinese immigrants moved to the western regions of the U.S. in search of work. With this movement between 1850 and 1890, more than 300,000 Chinese immigrants entered the United States. Similarly, this migration was accompanied by heightened anti-Chinese sentiment and ethnic discrimination…

a characteristic use of the familiar blues chord progression. Historically, the popularity of blues coincides with the rise of the commercial recording industry, the introduction of “race” records aimed at black record-buyers after 1920, and the emigration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Many of the earliest black American recording stars were blues singers. The first blues songs to be recorded, often called “classic blues,” were jazz-influenced songs in a vaudeville…

William Cullen Bryant and Philip Freneau, two poets, were both infatuated with land that was untouched by humans and its unending beauty. This infatuation and their descriptive poems gave America it’s own original art. William Cullen Bryant describes America’s beauty in one of his many poems called “The Prairies.” In this poem, he describes the vastness of America saying, “The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye/ Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase the sunny ridges” (13/14). He goes…

driving force is what some economists call “global labor arbitrage”: the efforts by firms in Europe, North America, and Japan to cut costs and boost profits by replacing higher-waged domestic labor with cheaper foreign labor, achieved either through emigration of production (“outsourcing,” as used here) or through immigration of workers. Reduction in tariffs and removal of barriers to capital flows have spurred the migration of production to low-wage countries, but militarization of borders and…

In today story is about "comparing the Holocaust to Armenia". Today I'll be talking about comparing the holocaust to Armenia. First, I'll be talking about aggressor and target group. Second, I'll be talking about what actually occurred. Final, I'll be talking about what were the outcome of the Holocaust. The aggressors was Hitler and his German soldiers that did the bad things. They did bad things to the Jews and their family's. They were killing them, making them go into the death showers, and…