The Gold Rush

Prosperous is the definition of my name, little did my parents or I know that it wasn’t going to be earned easily. I am the child of a refugee family that migrated to America fourteen years ago to escape threats of murder at the vicious hands of the Taliban. Boarding a plane and landing in an unknown city with unknown people was my new home. Upon my arrival in this big country with the large populated cities and bright lights left me gripping my father’s shirt tighter. Living in this…

unhealthy. They became obsessed with material goods. The expected more than what they needed. In “The Golden Touch” Midas begged for the golden touch. When he received the golden touch, he couldn’t even eat or drink. Everything he touched turned to gold. He wasn’t able to touch his daughter, or hug her. The elf even warned him that it was be a curse to him. Then he wanted the curse reversed, so he had to give the elf all of his belongings. In “La Rinconada” corporations took advantage of the…

Cal and Frida decide to move from somewhere in LA to a city that is less crime and is more calm where nobody knows them and they can run away from their horrible past in LA. They decide to move and live in the middle of nowhere basically in the wilderness where their if few to no people around. I think they decided move because they were scared that what they had done was going to catch up to them and turn their lives to misery again. They then start to describe how different and amazing the…

Gold is widely used in modern day medicine to treat disorders. This is because gold is very resistant to bacteria. Bacteria are microscopic single-celled organisms. Bacteria are prokaryotes, meaning the entire organism consists of a single cell with a simple internal structure. The DNA of a prokaryote is neatly packed in the nucleus. The bacterial DNA floats freely in a twisted thread-like mass called the nucleoid. Gold is unaffected by almost everything. The only materials that can affect gold…

King Midas and the golden touch In the myth “King Midas and his golden touch’ by Anonymous everything the king touches turns to gold. Midas ,a king who loves gold, is sad because he loses everything with the gift/curse. From Midas’s experiences the author conveys an important message; be grateful for what you have and don’t be to greedy about the things you need. There are many examples of the message in the story. First Midas had everything he needed in his life. “He had everything a king…

The first use of money was processed in 700 B.C. The Lydians were the very first culture to value a specific material and call it a “coin.” Soon after the Lydians invented what we know as money, other cultures around the world began to mint their own coins with certain values. The whole world eventually heard about this new creation. It was easier to trade goods, get items, and it brought people into thought of making businesses. According to the Dictionary, money is “the assets, property, and…

find” (Hurston, “Gilded” 671). When Joe initially talks about Slemmons, she is uninterested, telling her husband that she “is satisfied wid [Joe] jes lak [he] is” (Hurston, “Gilded” 672) and does not want him to change. But after hearing Joe talk about gold and money, Missy May cheats with Slemmons, betraying Joe. Literature set in this time period rarely features wives cheating on their husbands. This unusual twist is enough for Missy May to turn into a quiet, remorseful woman. Her life was…

3.1. Green photosynthesis of gold nanoparticles using aqueous extract of Baker’s yeast: One aim of the present study is the development of an improved method for derivatization of metabolites existed in aqueous extract of Baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). This procedure facilitates identification of metabolites in Baker’s yeast extract and its utility for the synthesis of nanomaterials. The preparation of trimethylsilylenol ethers of metabolites was performed by treatment of the extract…

1A, Mercantilism is the belief of trade where you show countries wealth by gold. Mercantilism encouraged exports and discouraged imports. This theory was flawed because it believed the only way to improve one’s country was at the expense of others. Which lead to restricted international trade and paying colonies almost nothing for their exports and charging heavily for their exports. 1B Absolute advantage refers to the ability of a country to produce a good or service better than any other…

Introduction Silver, like gold, is found in a native state; frequently too it occurs as an alloy containing gold, which is recognized, when the silver is dissolved in nitric acid, as the black sediment or oxide of gold. Arsenic and antimony are found also alloyed with it. Several of the ores of lead and copper contain silver. As silver is a precious metal often used for coins, its mining has historically often been lucrative. As with other precious metals such as gold, newly discovered deposits…