The Emigrants

The first migrants into America faced multiple challenges including conquering the land, battling natives tribes in a bid to secure settlements, while at the same time trying to stay true to their religious, entrepreneurial, and socio-ethical roots acquired in their former lands back in Europe. Through their writings, the soldier, administrator and adventurer John Smith, Poet Anne Bradstreet and Governor William Bradford depict an America whose lands were initially hard to subdue and inhabited by a people wary of the settlers who kept coming in droves by ship. Disease, hunger, and natural calamities wiped out many of the pioneer settlers. Infighting and unclear leadership structures weakened the collective economic and entrepreneurial exploits of the early migrants. The question of how to engage with the native tribes loomed large, with some colonies seeking alliances with native tribes, while others designate them as sworn enemies. However, despite a untold of challenges and against great odds, the settlers eventually created colonies, identified and legislated laws to govern them, and formed cultures and traditions that would become the cultural identities of the future American nation and its people. Despite the deaths, disease and desperation that characterized the lives of the pioneer settlers into America, a culture of self-discipline and self-drive, a belief in the divine ordination of their pursuits, as well as a sense of unity among themselves spurred them to conquer…

4-5). Being this obvious about one republican beliefs was rather dangerous in Britain after the September massacres and the abolition of the monarchy (ibid.). Just as many of her contemporary women poets, feminism was apparent in all her work, also “The Emigrants”. The poem was inspired by the French Revolution and it expressed sympathy for the refugees who tried to escape the events in France. In this poem, her sensibility is clear, as it is full of values of compassion and anti-violence. She…

In The Emigrants, the characters know only one home, and therefore the landscape only represents what they know. It includes both positive and negative aspects of this home, but as time goes on and life gets harder for them, the negative aspects outweigh the positive ones, and the home only becomes a place for leaving. At sea, the characters are stuck in an in-between landscape, where they are neither in the place they left, nor the place they are traveling to. The landscape reflects this in a…

How would you feel if you were traveling somewhere and then you were suddenly attacked by a group of religious people? This happened to a group of emigrants in 1857, as they traveled through Utah, heading for California. This group of emigrants were massacred by a group of Mormons in a valley known as Mountain Meadows. The conflict between the Mormons and emigrants passing through Utah territory was significant because of the Mormons strong beliefs to obey their leaders, leaders also encouraged…

There were certain constituents that emigrants were required to make before becoming a citizen due to the various laws put in place by European governments. These constituents were to try to prevent people from renouncing their former allegiances, which allowed European powers to retain their authority over the former residents. For example, the Syllabus of Errors , a statement issued by the Roman Catholic Church on December 8, 1864, stated that all “children of the Catholic Church” should…

Overtime, multiple people of different races and ethnicities have been treated unfairly, same goes for the travelers from different countries seeking a new life. Most of the time those emigrants become slaves, and in all honesty.. It’s unjustified. No group or single person deserves to be disrespected just for their race or background, especially since they are coming to this new country for a brand new life and a fresh start, but coming just to be disrespected and being treated unfairly doesn't…

On my way to his apartment. It was a total different world to me. From the rural village of India to the capital of the world. The tall buildings, different variety shops, expensive cars, people with different cultures. The first moment I became an emigrant It was a transition from my sorrow to struggle. The survival struggle every emigrant faces when they arrive. Days turn into months I knew I need an income to support my father and my needs. Being a new emigrant to this country. I knew it…

where to go influenced by the many pamphlets and books on various regions, Wisconsin had several of both. With or without a destination in mind, the potential emigrants had to decide which of their possessions to take with them, what supplies to buy for the voyage, and what assets would need to be sold. The consequences that needed to be weighed could have been what conflicts could arise from religious or government affiliations. With religious affiliations, an emigrant might have to cut their…

stem.” Jim was one of many characters who took time to observe the nature of the West. As a result, the American West offered a great deal of new landscape for the settlers of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s to admire. Moreover, the early American West was a place which many emigrants came to, and the young ladies from these families often ended up with similar jobs. In “My Antonia,” Antonia is the object of admiration in the novel; she is a Bohemian immigrant bearing the last name of…

Orozco 2005; Twum Baah 2005). According to 2008 Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates, Ghanaian migrants can be found in more than 33 countries around the world. After West African countries, the most important countries of destination for Ghanaian emigrants are the United States (7.3%) and the United Kingdom (5.9%) (DRC, 2007). Estimates of the Ghanaian emigrant population range from 1.5 million (Twum-Baah, 2005) to 3 million (Black et al., 2003) The 2010 population census estimated a total of…