Miner

third person showing the challenges the miners faced on their journey. A Woman Who Went to Alaska is also in third person showing the challenges of the government, such as high fees and taxes the miners had to pay. Both pieces, “Klondike Gold Rush” and A Woman Who Went to Alaska are written in third person, and they both show the struggles miners faced in the 1897 gold rush. FIrst, “Klondike Gold Rush” uses third person POV to show the challenges the miners faced on their journey. It was a…

National Football League team, but the 1849 miners, people who left their home for California. Everyone knew about the Gold Rush by 1849 and California’s population had tripled with a total of about 90,000 people compared to 36,000 in 1848, and that was within a few months. The population increase also helped California become a state, since California no longer belonged to Mexico after the Mexican-American war of 1848 and was now just a territory. Being a miner during the Gold Rush wasn’t quite…

European miners a ‘chance’ to press taxes or an excuse to drive them off. This can also develop into accusations against the Chinese miners which they would have to face unjust consequences. It’s likely that petty complaints like this lead to extremely serious attacks which an attack in July 1857 was an example of one. A group of European miners went to a Chinese camp trying to drive them off, however, it only…

Chris Hamby proved that muckraking does still exist today. His article “Breathless and Burdened” exposed that law firms such as the Jackson Kelly law firm has cheated thousands of miners of benefits for black lung disease. Chris Hamby’s article shows that muckraking does still exist in 2016 in newspaper as demonstrated by Chris Hamby’s article “Breathless and Burdened”. Chris Hamby is the author of “Breathless and Burdened” and a noted journalist. Chris Hamby went to the University of Missouri…

The “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” is a sardonic piece by Horace Miner that exposes Western civilization’s misconceptions of the behaviour and way of life of other cultures. He demonstrates how an etic or an outsider perspective can influence the perspective on the undetected culture. Miner introduces the Nacirema tribe who are to be perceived as an uncivilized culture with barbaric rituals. He highlights a few of the Nacirema body rituals which include the focus on the appearance and health…

Ludlow Massacre on April 20, 1914, miners in Colorado were experiencing working in harsh conditions and low pay. The conflict between the Colorado miners and the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation was an ongoing dispute about the miners wanting higher pay and better living and working conditions. A non-compromise was reached when the miners stopped striking and the militiamen got what they wanted. As a result of the Ludlow Massacre, the miners acquired laboring rights…

April 20th 1914, the national guard was called to shoot upon a tent city of miners in Ludlow, Colorado which killed a total of nineteen people; including two women and eleven children. Could the bloodshed and unjust killing of innocent women and children could have been avoided if not for the treatment of the corrupt government and business executives? By standing up for what they believed to be their rights, the miners of Ludlow, Colorado were unjustly treated and eventually slaughtered by…

Los Mineros was the name given to miners who resided in Clifton-Morenci between 1903-1950 and who managed to unionize and obtain equal pay after years of fighting with both the mining company and themselves. Their battle stretched for five decades and was affected by numerous events ranging from the Mexican Revolution to World War 2 each affecting them in a unique way and pushing them forward. The Mexican Revolution in 1910 was one of the first major events that influenced Los Mineros struggle…

There are three main causes for the Westray disaster. The mine was very hazardous, but they still reopened it in 1991. Then in 1992 the mine exploded. The first cause was not enough training for the miners or management. Second cause was not enough stone dusting at the Westray mine. Third cause was the miners were too intimidated to come forward about the dangers and the provincial inspectors weren't willing to act. For these reasons it made it very unsafe for the men to be working in the mine. …

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