Journey to the West

during the gathering of Cherokee Indians, he describes how horrible this removal was on the Native Americans that once lived in the Cherokee Territory. (Document D) Once the Cherokee were rounded up, they were sent to travel the Trail of Tears to the west side of the Mississippi River. After traveling over the Mississippi, they were on the land given to them by the United States government which is today known as Oklahoma. When they arrived, they had to start all over again and built up their…

continent … the journals of Lewis and Clark provided the introduction to and serve as the model for all subsequent writing on the American West”(404-405). The expedition started the beginning of welding a path that would help the United States become one of the most powerful countries on the planet. Their journey helped many future settlers cross over to the west, and made a huge impact across many…

The Westward Expansion Migration While migrating west about fifteen thousand immigrants,which is approximately fifteen percent, are estimated to have died on the Oregon Trail.The Westward Expansion Migration was the migration of about seven million people to the west via the Oregon trail, in 1803 through 1840. The expansion gave America more and new types of land, which includes more farmland.The expansion also doubled the size of the United States and helped the population grow. The…

twentieth centuries, artistic interpretations of the west sparked westward movement of people. A nineteenth century painting by Albert Bierstadt named the Oregon Trail (1869) depicted the west as a serene wilderness providing hope and the promise of a fulfilling life. In contrast, the photograph Lakewood California by William Garrett (1950) and a painting by John Gast called American Progress (1872) shows a more industrialized view of the west. An article written by Joshua Johns named A Brief…

nothing about that either. Each man finds his way already marked out for him and he can change nothing of it. (Naine, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali 15) “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and “Sunjata: A West African Epic of the Mande Peoples” are both epics that follows the lives of two heroes as they embark upon a journey throughout their lives facing different trials and tribulations which leads them to becoming great leaders. In “The Epic of Gilgamesh” the protagonist, Gilgamesh, is depressed…

Manhua Journey to the West, a graphic novel by Zhang Guangyu in 1945, is a nod to the Chinese classic Journey to the Wets by Wu Cheng'en written in the year 1592. It is written around the reign of the KMT and during the second Sino-Japanese War. From which Zhang uses the style in which Journey to the West was written to "implicate" poke fun of the government and their policies. How does Zhang Guang use the classic Journey to the west to explain the events around 1945 circa China? Why does he…

that changed. The Native Americans, including the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and many more, were forced to move west to make more room for the settlers. The settlers also wanted the land to themselves so they could make a profit off of it. Many of the Native Americans suffered from starvation and diseases while moving west and they died. This journey is known as “The Trail of Tears”. The United States committed an act of genocide to the Native Americans by ignoring their…

at Jamestown, Virginia, to help in the production of profitable crops like tobacco. A majority of the slaves entered America through the West Indies after a period of seasoning then reexported to Chesapeake or the Lower South. (Making America, 81) Roughly 11.9 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic to the West Indies. (Gilder) However, the journey through the infamous Middle Passage reduced these numbers by roughly eighteen percent (Making America, 83) decreasing the arrival of…

The path that we were to follow traversed “Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountain steep.” By completing this journey, we would be helping our country because, “All the rest on us depend…”. While on the trip, here would be no grand feasts, or long rests. The food available to eat would not be great and we would have to sleep on the ground. Again, Whitman explained…

“The Wizard of Oz” play was about a girl named Dorothy, who goes on a journey with a scarecrow, a tin man, and lion to see the wizard of Oz. On this journey she encounters many people, some friendly and some not. Dorothy and her friends go to see the wizard each for their own purposes, but all had intentions of stopping the Wicked Witch of the West. There are many entertaining scenes in this play. Two of them are the flying monkey scene and when she first arrives in Oz. When Dorothy first…