the Wild - Emma Chen The Call of the Wild by John London tells the story of Buck, a housedog who is stripped of his comfortable lifestyle and kidnapped to pull sleds along the cold and unforgiving lands of Yukon in Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. Exposed to “the law of Club and Fang” as he sees a friend get ripped apart by other dogs, Buck soon begins to get in touch with his primitive instincts which were hidden away during his captivity. The book was unique in the way that while…
When word got out about Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie, and George Washington Carmack finding gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in August 1896, their discovery sparked one of the greatest gold rushes in history: the Klondike Gold Rush (“What Was the Klondike Gold Rush?”). Jack London, famous for his novel The Call of the Wild, was one of thousands of stampeders that made their way north in hopes of getting rich. Through the theme of the indifference of nature in his short stories,…
end of the gold rush in 1855, 300,000 people had moved to California. Considering the population of the U.S. at the time was just over 23 million, the amount of people that moved to the west was incredible. We know that a lot of people did move west to California, but the real question is why did the U.S.…
This investigation examines the historical question of “to what extent did the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874 lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876?”. The key sources chosen to support this investigation are a book of compiled historical information from the United States Department of the Interior and an interview of a Native American woman that lived through both the Black Hills Gold Rush and the Great Sioux War. These are relevant because one has access to an extensive database of government…
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Mississippi is still a modern day commercial asset even though the steamships have been replaced by gas powered tugboats pulling 30 barges at one time (Schaetzl, 2015).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…