Sawmill

The Women’s Movement began in the late nineteenth century were women wanted to break the unfairness of women issue of voting, lack of education, could not get jobs or own property, and getting married at young ages. Kate Chopin was one of the feminist American writers in the nineteenth century. Chopin break her silent by writing her first novel At Fault, which was rejected by Belford. “When Belford’s rejected it, Chopin, forty years old and eager for literary recognition, published it on her own…

Have you ever related to something in a short story or novel in some way? Connecting to the text can give a deeper understanding of what the author is trying to convey. When reading “Listening to My Father,” I could relate to the views the author had of his father. Even though both parents lived in a different time era, Dirda’s dad had similarities and differences in lifestyles and traits like my own father’s. They were different in their ideals of self improvement, but were hard working men who…

When signing up for this course I was unsure about how I felt I would relate to the people and the places that we would learn about. As a person who searches within books, articles and movies for a relatable moment it took me some time to figure out how I fit into the history of slavery, or if I fit into it at all. As I began reading the assigned books and watching the assigned movies I still didn’t feel the connection, until we got to ‘Gone with the Wind’. This movie about the south in one of…

time engagements were not expected to be that long; and engagements are even shorter now. Henry and Clara only waited to get married because Clara’s mother thought she was too young (Bio 1). After the marriage Henry supported his family by running a sawmill. In 1891 he returned to Detroit with Clara, and started his engineering career (LifeOfHenryFord 1). Ford and Clara grew their family 2 years later by having their first child, Edsel. Ford was still an engineer at the time, and he was living…

Segregation of Whites and African Americans began during the 1800’s, but was reinforced with Jim Crow laws after the final verdict of the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. This case started the “separate but equal” policy (Woodward and Litwack). “Separate but equal” meant that Whites and African Americans could not do anything together, but were supposed to have equal facilities. African Americans found that their facilities were not equal and they were treated as second class citizens. During…

As time fades into history all aspects of life change. The United States past is truly two different worlds compared to present day America. In Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s, A Midwife’s Tale the drastic difference between women now compared to women during the erection of the United States is shown through the journals of Martha Ballard. The journals take place between 1785-1812 right in the thick of the creation of the United States. Laurel Thatcher uses the journal excerpts to show what it was…

According to the United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization, an estimated 16 million acres of forest are being lost each year globally to deforestation (FAO 5). Contributing factors include agricultural expansion, logging, development, and other human activities. In order to put this into perspective, the World Wildlife Fund describes this as an equivalent to forty-eight football fields of forest being lost every minute (WWF 1). This is alarming, because even though for many of us, major…

A brief summary of the book The book gives a description of the events associated with the discovery and mining of gold in California, the immense migration of people the events brought in the area as well as the lifestyle of the gold miners and the mining towns. The book gives a comprehensive examination of the historical implications of the Gold Rush in California. It begins with a description of how life was in California before the Gold rush as well as the European colonization in America,…

The California Gold Rush is arguably one of the most important events in United States history. The gold rush caused what is considered to be the largest mass migration in United States history, bringing in 300,000 people by 1855, 25% of whom were immigrants from other countries. Not only was California rich in people, it was rich in gold. Approximately 750,000 pounds, two billion dollars’ worth, of gold was extracted from the earth from the time gold was first found in 1848 to the time the rush…

The Northern colonies (Massachusetts) was economically, morally, and socially superior to the Southern colonies (Virginia). The Virginia and Massachusetts colonies couldn’t be more different; they were founded on completely separate ideals, they had different ways of producing revenue, and they were inhabited by completely different people. Although the colonies were immensely different, they also had some similarities; both colonies showed great violence towards Native Americans and both…