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The Chinese, Jews, and Irish immigrant were different by their culture and their physical features. The immigrants culture was frowned upon and looked exotic to Americans. All of them were discriminated for following a different religion, playing different gambling games, speaking a different language, wearing different clothes and styles, eating different foods, celebrating different holidays, etc.. One example from the Chinese immigrants that was unacceptable to the Americans and part of the…

his own personal experiences. The Call of the Wild is inspired by London’s many voyages to the frigid Northeast parts of Canada known as the Klondike in search of gold. London’s main character in The Call of the Wild is Buck, a pampered yet robust domestic dog of mixed breed in southern California. Buck is stolen amidst the Klondike Gold Rush in order to be sold as a sled dog in the colder Northern territories. Throughout his journey, Buck experiences atavism, or in simpler terms, he “devolves”…

Only some people can succeed in the face of adversity when others can’t. This means that only some people can persevere through tough times. Perseverance is when people keep trying though the hardest points in life at the time. Buck and Bill Gates have a lot in common when it comes to perseverance. Buck succeeded in the face of adversity when no one else could. He persevered through seeing his friends get shot, and being beaten. Also when his whole team fell into the ice and died. His…

Jack London, a substantial American, author was replete with venture and erraticness. He grew as a destitute child, but that didn’t block his future as a great author. He dropped out of high school, started enduring bad habits, and got arrested for vagrancy. London, an author of many short stories, novels, and fiction writing, was a prodigious author when it came to his writings. “In his brief life, London sought adventures in the far corners of the world, from the frozen Yukon to the South…

small bits of gold eventually led one of the biggest economic influx in America. After Marshall and Sutter confirmed that the flakes were really gold. At first, they tried to keep the discovery under wraps, both because they didn’t want the word of gold on his property to get around and he didn’t technically own the land on which the gold was found. Inevitable the word of the gold did get around. A lot of people thought it was a joke or a rumor, but one of Sutter’s worker took a vial of gold to…

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,…

“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…