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James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, discovered gold in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Although it was not the first time gold was found in California, this event caused the most migrations of people to California because it had the most substantial evidence that it was real. This was because Sam Brannan brought three wagon loads of gold to the nearby town of Coloma, which resulted in the news of gold being spread through the state, the country, and ultimately the world.…

Mississippi is still a modern day commercial asset even though the steamships have been replaced by gas powered tugboats pulling 30 barges at one time (Schaetzl, 2015). A gold deposit found in the Sacramento Valley was another physical geographic factor that contributed to the expansion of the United States. In 1848 the discovery of gold nuggets in California started a stampede of prospectors to the west increasing California’s population from 800 non-native citizens in 1847 to 100,000 by the…

-How The Wolf Became The Dog- Do you ever wonder how the friendship between dog and man all began? Around 35,000 years ago on planet Earth, many things were different unlike today. Men and wolves would fight for food and survival . Earth was a harsh environment, do to the fact that it was very cold at that time period. In addition to these harsh environments a friendship grew between wolves and man. -The Understanding- Scientists have started to grow and understanding of how this friendship…

London’s novella Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck’s transformation from a domesticated pet on a vast Santa Clara Valley estate to the primal killer he becomes in the bitter regions of the Klondike wilderness. London delivers Buck’s journey in a plot consisting of only three simple, but major, events and uses settings and narration to tell the story in a way that allows a reader to easily become invested in Buck’s character from the viewpoint of a loyal and lovable pet, as well as, that…

A Deluge of Tears: Ajah under the Sea Video Audio 1 The camera walks through lightening, thunder and darkness, an image of a polar bear confusedly seated on a melting ice cap, appears. It moves very rapidly showing roaring sea. Bloated rivers, sunken cities and settles down on a signboard with the inscription “Welcome to Lagos Nigeria: The Land of Aquatic Culture”. Moves on from there to settle on another sign “Welcome to Ajah Eti-Osa LGA, Lagos. The destruction of the earth is no longer a…

One night many thousands of years ago, Og and his hunting buddies were sitting around a fire that illuminated a small spot in what must have been a huge, dark, and very scary world. As long as the fire burned, wolves, bears and saber-toothed tigers remained at bay. But Og noticed a small wolf hovering at the edge of the light. He threw a small Mastodon bone at the wolf to scare it off. But to Og's surprise, the wolf picked up the bone and brought it back! Og repeated the toss several times and…

In Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog, the story is narrated by a loving dog, Enzo. Written by Garth Stein, the novel focuses on life from a dog’s point of view. The book is a special adaptation for young people of the New York Times bestselling adult novel The Art of Racing in the Rain. Taking place in present-day Washington, Enzo decides that when he dies and returns to Earth as a human that he wants to be just as great as his beloved owner. In the very first chapter of the novel, it…

The Naturalist work, “To Build a Fire” by Jack London excels in the Naturalist idea of determinism. This means that what could happen, most likely will happen. Through the character’s treacherous journey in the snow and frigid temperatures we can see two pieces of masculinity exemplified by our author, the fighter’s mentality, and man’s stubbornness. The main character’s masculine fighter’s mentality demonstrates his will to never give up, and shows men’s perseverance through a Naturalistic view…

The " big bad wolf". Once upon a time there was a lonely wolf. This wolf roams around in the woods all day every day. His name was Benard Wolfington. His parents left him when he was a young pup, so now he stays here in these woods not knowing anywhere else to go. Travelers pass through the woods, from time to time, and Benard tries to talk to them but they ignore him and carry on their way. This upsets the wolf. When the wolf gets upset he lets out a howl and the wind from his breath blows the…

Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North is a silent ethnographic documentary following a family of Inuits living in the Arctic Circle. Regarded by some as a turning point for documentaries, it serves as a ground for debate around representation and ethics of documentary film. In 1922 Flaherty set out to record the previously unseen lives of the Inuit in snowy Alaska as they struggle to survive in such a harsh environment. Flaherty spent 16 months living with Inuit where he staged sequences of them…