Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

Chinese - American Immigrants There are two topics I would like to talk about: education and immigration. Education played a crucial role in my life. Education is important to improve the level of national knowledge, update the living standards, get a decent work, gain a comfortable life, and help others. When I came to the United States, as a new immigrant I encountered many problems. For example, nobody could tell me how to do paper work, how to look for a good college and how to find a good…

Motives Towards The Civil War The Civil War was a defining event in American History. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s there was major turmoil across the western territories due to expansion of slavery. The South’s view of slavery saw it as an essential to their nation. Since, America could not have made any growth without the help of slaves. On the other hand, the North’s view on slavery saw it as an inhumane way of life. So, this created some hefty tension between the North and the South. The…

He was a robust crossbreed living in the lap of luxury in California before being taken away and being sold into a horrid sort of “dog slavery.” He was beaten into the submission of man, after which I thought that Buck would try to make his way back to the Santa Clara Valley. He seemed to have evolved from a civilized pet into a dominant, savage, beast throughout his time in the Yukon. He adopted a cruel kill-or-be-killed way of thinking, which helped during his fight with Spitz. He ultimately…

Intelligent people don’t come around so often, but when they do we take advantage of their knowledge. Charles Darwin, English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection once said, “ It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change”. Throughout the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London, the main character Buck was the prime example of evolution throughout the novel. Going from a typical pampered house dog,…

Gold In Utopia Every country in the world recognizes gold as a very valuable metal that people desire. The value of gold is immense because it is malleable and ductile, it is used in many industries, and it has had a high value since ancient times. Although most people perceive gold as an extremely treasured item, Thomas More presents a vastly different perception of gold in the book Utopia. Thomas More was a philosopher in England and the advisor of King Henry VIII but was killed after not…

These discoveries led to a gold rush, where more than 500,000 Australians, Europeans and Chinese rushed to Victoria to take their claims to a fortune built on gold. Courtesy of the gold rush, Melbourne has been turned into one of the world's richest cities. Despite these major achievements, Melbourne has also been lucky enough to witness many of the dramatic…

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.” (Yann Martle) As the quote from Yann Martle shows above, you can tell that a major theme in Jack London's classic book Call of the Wild is that adaptability is essential for survival, which Buck goes throughout the whole story. At the beginning, buck has to adapt to the hostile…

People have been living in yosemite for as long as eight thousand years. One of the most famous people was John Muir. Born in Scotland in 1838, Muir immigrated to Wisconsin with his family when he was 11 years old. After he was nearly blinded by an industrial accident, John Muir found himself driven to learn everything he could about the world. He briefly studied natural sciences at the University of Wisconsin but, ultimately, chose to spend his lifetime enrolled in what he called the…

literature, and thematic meaning in their works. Jack London wrote "Love of Life" and "To Build a Fire," with these ideas in mind. London uses a lucid style, many movements of literature of his time and deliberate thematic ideas in his many tales of the gold rush. According to http://www.biography.com/people/jack-london-9385499, Jack London was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. He was originally named John Chaney, but his mother was married to John London, so his name…

California Gold Rush California gold rush was founded by James Wilson in January 1848 in the American river northeast of president day Sacramento while constructing a saw mill. This is every important event in California there is still even probably gold. Something like this might change how we see California. Some people might not care but gold is very expensive and can lead to big money. This discovery was reported in the San Francisco newspaper in March but caused a little stir but…