Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

A fierce green fire coming from a wolf’s eyes. When I first read this piece by Aldo Leopold, I interpreted the “fierce green fire” as something that the wolf felt. I saw this fire as pain and anger. To me, the pain and anger was so strong, that it was felt and seen as a “fierce green fire.” However, when analyzing further into the reading, I understood the “fierce green fire” as a will to live. The situation that the wolf was in was one of stress, danger, anger and probably confusion. I think…

Maycomb endures the coldest winter in a very long time and everyone was doing what they could to stay warm. Atticus said “...the temperature registered sixteen, that it was the coldest night in his memory, and that our snowman outside was frozen solid” (91). Everybody bundled up and kept their fireplaces and stoves going in every room that had one. Late at night, Atticus woke up Jem and Scout to get them outside to see that Miss Maudie’s house is in flames. Scout and Jem stood down by the Radley…

California so quickly that its population has risen from about 10,000 to 100,000 in a short time. This was because of the discovery of gold in California in 1848. The news of gold quickly spreads across the United States and around the world. Its spark has brought thousands of people to leave their family, work and home in order to search for gold. The California Gold Rush affected so many people that some was able to become successful, while the rest was unsuccessful in their life and lives in…

In the versions of, “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, the text is a more realistic representation of the man’s struggle for survival. When the man is drowsing off into a death of freezing, the narrator describes what the man is feeling in that moment. “Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known” (London, page 12). In the text the reader can better understand this moment of death then in the film because in the story he does die…

surroundings of the protagonists; The harsh cold, or the threatening jungle. Jack London based his writing on the 1896 Yukon Gold Rush, which was a mass migration to Canada and Alaska. The main character in the story is described as a “newcomer” and is in search of his friends in a mining camp, which alludes to the fact that this man is a migrant on his way to mine for gold. In Connell’s narrative, it was written in 1924 around the time of the…

In the mid-1930s, there was a large influx of migrants from Midwestern states into California. Large numbers of farmers fleeing the Great Depression and drought within the Midwest sought a new life in California. Despite heavy advertising within drought stricken states that affirmed pickers were in high demand in the San Joaquin valley, migrants received no warm welcome in Kern County upon their arrival. The term “okie” was used by California residents and some politically motivated writers to…

The famous gold rush occurred in California when a man by the name of James wilson marshall discovered the precious metal on his property better known as Sutter’s Mill. Mr. Marshall tried to keep his discovery as low as possible. However, eventually news spread about the gold and it spread fast. Newspaper after newspaper covered the story of the immense amount of gold buried in the rivers of California.What was a small discovery eventually evolved into one of the most controversial events of…

with the Chinese in order to supply the demands of the Industrial Age.16 The first major wave of Chinese immigrants arrived after 1848, searching for gold, employment, and freedom. Chinese migrants called the western regions of North America, especially San Francisco, Gold Mountain22 to refer to their dreams of becoming rich. The discovery of Gold and other valuable minerals in the Sierra Nevada mountains set off waves of migrations to Northern California from the Eastern United States and on…

London uses a diverse amount of literary techniques like figurative language and metaphors to portray how Buck overcomes challenges of the snowy northern regions. Near the conclusion of the novella Buck becomes a beast and is the king once again. The novel The Call of the Wild helps us to realise how easy it is for someone to change character and mind set. It also helps the reader to understand that there is a beast inside all of us and we can choose to show it or not and to be…

different states into California for seeking “Gold” as their new future lives. According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, it was an agreement between two countries…