Journey to the West

was a cut off called the Cimarron Cut Off, at which, there are two options in pursuing the Trail. One Trail heads in a North Westerly direction following the Arkansas River further into Colorado, whereas the other cuts across open land to the South West before following the Cimarron River. Both of these Trails leave their respective rivers crossing them at their easiest points and converge at Fort Union, near the Mora River and head into Santa Fe. From the accounts I have read the majority of…

story of the African slave and the description of El Dorado, the utopian land free of all immoral practices, Voltaire shows his condemnation of the injustices of slavery and serfdom that were reflected in his own society. While Candide is on his journey to rescue his love, Cunegonde, he meets a slave lying on the side of the road. The man is missing both…

was adapted to the screen by Sean Penn in 2007. The film follows the true story of Christopher McCandless’ expedition across North America and his time spent in the Alaskan wilderness where he died alone. During the film viewers are taken along a journey where they see the main character search for his true place in the natural world independent from the trappings of a normal suburban life. The movie is beautifully filmed and seductively draws us into the attraction of the American wilderness…

those of African descent to ancient rivers. The poem holds significant examples of African heritage by the use of mentioning different rivers the Euphrates, Congo, Nile, and Mississippi River and Abraham Lincoln are all used in context to Africans journey to America, slavery, and all the stepping stones along the way. Hughes wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in 1920 at the age of seventeen while on a train to visit his father in Mexico. “Hughes was a young man when he wrote this poem. He had…

ivory. Mansa Musa achieved many goals such as expanding the trade routes, centralized control and most of all for the remarkable pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. Which promoted Islam and encouraged education. On his journey he took camels, elephants and a lot of servants. Also, during the journey gold was passed out to everyone…

Pilgrimage could be a journey to a sacred place and could be undertaken for a non-secular reason. These area unit acts of piousness and will are undertaken in feeling for the very fact that doomsday had not arrived, and to make sure salvation, whenever the end did come back. Since…

CANIFORNIA GOLD RUSH The California Gold Rush was during the Westward Expansion. It had caused people to move west. James Wilson Marshall was the person who started the gold rush. The discovery was at suttersmill on January 24, 1848 James Wilson Marshall, is a carpenter originally from New Jersey. He found flakes of gold in the American river at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California. The Gold Rush had impacted California. For example, the gold rush was the largest…

At the beginning once Pope Urban II announced plans for the First Crusade, peasants and knights alike rushed to embark on the journey to recapture the eastern lands taken and occupied by the Muslim armies. The church helped draw up such large commitment of people, it would tell those that participated in the war that they would result in God forgiving them of any sins committed…

donated all of his money to charity, gave himself the alias, ‘Alexander Supertramp’, and briskly set off to venture into the wilderness of Alaska. With these events of his life left behind, McCandless embarked on symbolic journey, not just to live off the wild, but use his journey as an emblem of a modern day transcendentalist that he set out to be. McCandless used this expedition as a way of his self-proclaimed statement of not adhering to society’s boundaries. McCandless was a self-reliant,…

mainstream success. She has tackled music, movies, and the stage with noteworthy success. She has acted in a number of good movies, Bandslam, Beastly, Sucker Punch, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Spring Breakers, and Machete Kill. Vanessa Hudgens was born on December 14, 1988, in Salinas, California, and stayed with her parents along the West Coast. She was to parents mother, Gina and her father, Gregory Hudgens. She grew up with Stella Hudgens. She temporarily joined Orange County High…