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    The California Gold Rush research essay The California Gold Rush was a huge event. The Gold lured hundreds of thousands to California for the start of a new land and for the search for gold. But it wasn't easy for everyone to find gold. The miners there had hard times finding gold. Not all of them even survived either, many of them took long hours and days to mine gold. The miners would become sick to and it would spread everywhere. This research explaining what the miners had to experience…

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    The gold rush began as a rush to the area and the discovery of tons of fairly generally rich deposits along the creeks and gullies in the area, especially Meroo Creek, Louisa Creek, pretty actually Long Creek, Dalys Creek, Clarkes Creek, Campbells Creek, and Oaky Creek in a subtle way In the early 1850s between 124 and 156 kilograms of gold for all intents and purposes particularly are exclaimed to for the most part basically be mostly specifically sent away from the field every fortnight under…

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    A fierce green fire coming from a wolf’s eyes. When I first read this piece by Aldo Leopold, I interpreted the “fierce green fire” as something that the wolf felt. I saw this fire as pain and anger. To me, the pain and anger was so strong, that it was felt and seen as a “fierce green fire.” However, when analyzing further into the reading, I understood the “fierce green fire” as a will to live. The situation that the wolf was in was one of stress, danger, anger and probably confusion. I think…

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    Maycomb endures the coldest winter in a very long time and everyone was doing what they could to stay warm. Atticus said “...the temperature registered sixteen, that it was the coldest night in his memory, and that our snowman outside was frozen solid” (91). Everybody bundled up and kept their fireplaces and stoves going in every room that had one. Late at night, Atticus woke up Jem and Scout to get them outside to see that Miss Maudie’s house is in flames. Scout and Jem stood down by the Radley…

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    discovery of gold in California in 1848. The news of gold quickly spreads across the United States and around the world. Its spark has brought thousands of people to leave their family, work and home in order to search for gold. The California Gold Rush affected so many people that some was able to become successful, while the rest was unsuccessful in their life and lives in poverty (Sheafer 5). This has made modern economists wonder with question that if people knew that they’ll end up taking…

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    In the versions of, “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, the text is a more realistic representation of the man’s struggle for survival. When the man is drowsing off into a death of freezing, the narrator describes what the man is feeling in that moment. “Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known” (London, page 12). In the text the reader can better understand this moment of death then in the film because in the story he does die…

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    share a theme of persevering in harsh environments. The short stories both utilize this theme through the narration on the surroundings of the protagonists; The harsh cold, or the threatening jungle. Jack London based his writing on the 1896 Yukon Gold Rush, which was a mass migration to Canada and Alaska. The main character in the story is described as a “newcomer” and is in search of his friends in a mining camp, which alludes to the fact that this man is a migrant on his way to mine for gold.…

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    In the mid-1930s, there was a large influx of migrants from Midwestern states into California. Large numbers of farmers fleeing the Great Depression and drought within the Midwest sought a new life in California. Despite heavy advertising within drought stricken states that affirmed pickers were in high demand in the San Joaquin valley, migrants received no warm welcome in Kern County upon their arrival. The term “okie” was used by California residents and some politically motivated writers to…

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    The famous gold rush occurred in California when a man by the name of James wilson marshall discovered the precious metal on his property better known as Sutter’s Mill. Mr. Marshall tried to keep his discovery as low as possible. However, eventually news spread about the gold and it spread fast. Newspaper after newspaper covered the story of the immense amount of gold buried in the rivers of California.What was a small discovery eventually evolved into one of the most controversial events of…

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    Millions of people have migrated to the United States in search of a better life. Until the middle of the 19th century, most of them came from England, Ireland and Germany.23 The “melting pot” metaphor was used to describe the heterogeneous society of immigrants with different cultures becoming more homogeneous through blending together all the races.20 Chinese immigrants joined this mass migration to America in three waves, beginning in the 1840s and extending to the present era. During these…

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