The Emigrants

Since the emergence of the genus Homo, the hominins went through great patterns of evolution over generations. Through series of adaptations, the genus Homo spread in various geographic locations and eventually emerged as anatomically modern humans. With the allele frequency changes that evolved in the genus Homo, there is key evidence that microevolution led to macroevolution. From speciation to extinction, the modern synthesis helps us explain not only the mechanisms of evolution and the…

In March 2011, a pro-democracy protest broke out when some teenagers were arrested and beaten up for drawing a “revolutionary slogan” in a city of Syria. The protest did not stop since then, and pro-democracy people made effort to make their president Bashar al-Assad step down out of dictatorship. Their protest failed every time as the President Bashar al-Assad crushed all those who opposed to his ruling. He sent tanks with trained men to kill the people who did not agree with him. President…

People ranged from high-ranking officials and celebrities to emigrants traveling to live in the United States. 700 of the passengers were third class, which made up most of the passengers on the boat. Some people traveling third class paid less than $20 to make the crossing to the United States. If you were traveling…

Ahmet Cevher Sancaktutar Arthur Easlon World History date George Donner was born in North Carolina in March 7th 1784.George Donner had three brothers and three sisters altogether He lived in Kentucky. Later he moved to Sangamon County, Illinois. In hopes of a new life, Donner wanted to move to California. In April, 1846 Donner , Tamsen (his third wife) and his five daughters, later, his brother, Jacob Donner, Elizabeth ( Jacob Donner’s wife) and their seven child also joined. James Reed was the…

A popular Masterpiece theme opens the world of England in the 1900’s. Julian Fellows’ Downton Abbey follows an English blue-blooded family through the 20th century and the many relationships and historical events that happen within it. Downstairs, viewers get a glimpse of a servant’s life with all the turmoil, trials, and tribulations that come with maintaining a household. Upstairs, viewers follows an aristocratic family who strives to keep the fortune within their name. Downton Abbey not only…

Devastating and Drastic, the Irish Potato Famine changed Ireland in a variety of ways. Farmers and regular people were starving to death due to the lack of healthy potatoes. The people in Ireland were extremely dependent on potatoes and when the blight came the economy went down. As the fungus spread throughout the country, people began to lose their main source of food. Since the people in Ireland depended on the potato, it made the population cripple with the lack of a healthy food. The Irish…

Americans subjected the Cherokee to harsh treatment and force migration during the Jacksonian era known as the Trail of Tears. The controversy and debate surrounding Cherokee removal reached national level and is often cited for President Andrew Jackson’s hate for Native Americans. The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents edited by Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green provides a collection of documents dealing the controversial issue of forced migration of the Native Americans…

A cohesive understanding of the relationship between people and landscapes encourages the appreciation of both the protagonists and composers experience of life. An individual’s significance of a landscape may be inspired through evoking personal memories, or generated in removing restrictive boundaries. However, whilst these experiences prove diverse, there are often representations of archetypal figures that relate to all, thus shaping the relationship between people and landscape as similar…

At a time when tension was high between America and England there were many who rose to defend their mother country, and James Chalmers was one of such people. In his political writings he explored America’s motivation for war, and the likelihood of America winning any such war with such meager manpower and lack of tactical reasoning. The following points are arranged in a comprehensible order, made so that the reader can confront the flaws in America’s plan to go to war with England with…

Ideas and myths shape people’s everyday lives. They determine aspects of being, such as the way one talks, the way one writes, and even the way one thinks. These “myths” are simply ideas that are generally shared throughout the public, about a place or thing. One of these myths was the myth of freedom in The New World. Freedom is the right to make independent choices about one’s life, without restriction by law or by tyranny, and The New World was the land west of Europe, comprising North…