The Emigrants

Racism is a broad topic, that umbrellas more complex interactions in a given society of race-based worldview with stereotyping, prejudices, and discrimination. Racism when slavery was present had a different effect on the people back then. Black African Americans felt as if the only way to gain their right was to hold their ground and let no one break you. Most of the time it resulted in violence, but coming from the White counterparts being angry at black African Americans standing up for what…

State of the Union message to Congress and confirmed the discovery of Gold in California. People from all around the world started seeking for gold. In 1848, Henry Simpson’s book included the best routes to California in his best-selling book “The Emigrants’ guide to The Gold Mines”. Hundreds of thousands of people traveled to the Gold Mines alone within America. Americans were not the only ones immigrating to California. Word of the Gold Rush spread to Hawaii and Mexico, then toward South…

Late 19th century American art was influenced by a number of art movements such as, impressionism, realism, and symbolism. Some artists were inspired to create genre paintings to enforce their significance in subjects from everyday life including figures, landscapes, and objects. These scenes of everyday life in America did not, however, include people of color. Thus, this segment of the population was being portrayed in an infelicitous angle due to the prejudices of the period, with biased…

In 1959, the Cuban Socialist Revolution brought Fidel Castro (1926-) to power and a flood of Cuban emigrants fled to the United States. According to research conducted by Portes and Manning in 1986, migration came in waves, with the first being of a wealthier class, bringing considerable assets with them. Along with having access to economic capital,…

John Locke, an English philosopher, once said, “All men are naturally in a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.” A person’s idea of freedom can be completely different from someone else’s even if both people live in the same country. One person can think of freedom as being economically independent and another person…

During the mid 1800’s, Westward Expansion dramatically increased and permanently shaped the United States of America. The Gold Rush, trade with Japan, and the end of the Mexican War lead people to travel to the west coast. Many people gained freedom and opportunity by coming to America in the mid 1800’s; however, others encountered misfortunes along the way. The Donner Party traveled to the West Coast in hopes of creating a better life. The Mormons Pioneers traveled west to join the Church of…

divorced woman, Fanny moved back to California and Stevenson was in distraught. In 1879, he went to join his love in California, but upon his arrival, he was ill and penniless, after a romantic honeymoon, this moment was recorded; in “The Amateur Emigrant” in 1895. After all…

Why Didn’t the Jews Leave? When Hitler was elected to be leader he seemed like to the type to make everything better, which everybody was looking for at the time, but within a couple months that all went downhill. As the days got longer the Jews felt more and more APPREHENSIVE knowing something was going to happen but couldn 't do anything about it.Hitler was the type of person who caused pain for pleasure. During the Holocaust, many countries enforced laws towards emigrating citizens out of…

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what is has to say” once said by Italo Calvino, expresses that although numerous years could pass after a novel was written, a true classic shall never stop connecting to its readers. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is one of those classics. The historical drama is set in 1775, at the start of the American Revolution, where Lucie Manette is reunited with her father, Dr. Manette of Beauvais, after learning that he spent 18 years in a…

The idea and shaping of the Great Turtle Island or so called ‘Americas’, was a long-lasting period characterized with a lot of transformational changes. The period known as ‘the colonial era’ was a period characterized with massive changes, as well as the people immigrating from all four different continents: Europe, Africa, South America and North America. The interaction and “unity” among the different majorities, were people dependent on classification like race, class and gender. The…