...Escape to the California Gold Rush Yellow fever, malaria, and cholera are all disease that people in present day US don’t get often, but many pioneers caught these nasty diseases on there long, hard trek to California. In 1847, the US defeated Mexico in their fight for California and other territory in the Western US. One year later in 1878, the first nugget of gold was found in California as US territory. This gold nugget sparked millions to take the long trek to California seeking riches in gold. Many people traveled by boat coming from China, Peru, Mexico and many other places along with the settlers of the East in the US. The pioneers during the trek to the California Gold Rush had faced numerous challenges on there way to California including...
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...The gold rush of the 1850’s symbolized America’s quest towards westward movement, challenges of life on the frontier, and the impact it had on California’s growth. As a result, the gold rush strongly influenced the shaping of American History. Many people that had heard of the gold rush in the 1850’s moved right out there as fast as they could to get their hands on that gold. Once the people got out there they wouldn’t return back to the east. As a result, the gold rush strongly influenced the shaping of American History. James W. Marshall’s finding of gold on January 24, 1848 led to the expansion of the West Coast and the beginning of a new state, California. Marshall discovered gold in a mill on the south fork of the American River, and seeing that it was John A. Stutter’s mill he wanted the gold kept quiet and the press kept out of it for a while, but by March it was revealed. By May the rush had started and men who headed for the streams flowing westward from the Sierra Nevada depopulated San Francisco, Monterey, San Jose, and other California communities. By the time summer was there, Californians joined by few men from Hawaii and Oregon were already in search for the gold without competition from the gold seekers who would soon descend on the gold country. By the time August came around the news had already hit the East when the New York Herald published a report. In December of that same year President James K. Polk notified Congress of the gold discovery and the whole...
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...industrial work in Yosemite, the homeland to the Native Americans (The Ahwahnechee). The americans were taking an interest on all the different landscapes and parks around the United States, but it all started with Yosemite. On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall was the first to find flakes of gold in Sutter’s Mill of the Sierra Nevada...
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...Diseases on the Oregon Trail “You have died of cholera.” Children growing up while playing the Oregon Trail video game are familiar with these words. The Oregon Trail was extremely dangerous, and difficult to survive. Although you have probably heard of the diseases travelers faced on the famous trail, do you really know what they are, their effects, and how doctors ‘treated’ them? Travelers expanding westward not only had to avoid harsh weather, injury, and Native American attacks, but they also had to regularly fear fatal diseases. Cholera was the main killer on the Oregon Trail. “Spread through contaminated food or water, cholera released an enterotoxin that effectively flooded the intestines with excess water. This led to continual watery...
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...vast herds of buffaloes and horses. The buffalo herds provided the Native Americans with food, clothing, and buffalo hides were made into shelter. Horses were used to corral and hunt buffalos, as mounts during wartime and service animals when the clans moved across the Great Plains. The Native Americans lived in family groups called clans, which were ruled by a council of its eldest members. As the Civil War ended, many Americans began looking towards...
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...The California Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the gold fields and rich farmlands of the Golden State during the 1840s and 1850s, the greatest mass migration in American history. The general route began at various jumping off points along the Missouri River and stretched to various points in California Oregon, and the Sierra Nevada. The specific route that emigrants and forty-niners used depended on their starting point in Missouri, their final destination in California, the condition of their wagons and livestock, and yearly changes in water and forage along the different routes. The trail passes through the states of Missouri, Kansas Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and California. Before the trail was blazed, the Great Basin region had only been partially explored during the days of Spanish and Mexican rule. However, that changed in 1832 when Benjamin Bonneville, a United States Army officer, requested a leave of absence to pursue an expedition to the west. The expedition was financed by John Jacob Astor, a rival of the Hudson Bay company. While Bonneville was exploring the Snake River in Wyoming, he sent a party of men under Joseph Walker to explore the Great Salt Lake and find an overland route to California. Early settlers began to use the trail in the 1840's, the first of which was John Bidwell, who led the 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson Party. In 1842, a member of the Bidwell-Bartleson Party returned to Missouri on the Humboldt...
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...Regionalism Phaedra Rosengarth ENG302 November 29, 2010 Judith Glass Regionalism Literature which highlights a specific geographical setting and the history, manners, and folkways of the area in order to shape the lives of the characters is known as regionalism. The foothills and central coast regions of California are described in detail in the stories, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” by Bret Harte and “The Joy Luck Club,” by Amy Tan, and the poem, “The Purse Seine,” by Robinson Jeffers. “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte is set approximately halfway between the mining camps of Poker Flat and Sandy Bar, located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, during the California Gold Rush in November 1850. The main characters are the Duchess, a prostitute; John Oakhurst, a gambler; Mother Shipton, a madam (who owns the prostitute Duchess); Tom Simson, a very innocent young man; Uncle Billy, a thief and drunk; and Piney Woods, who is Tom Simson’s bride-to-be. The best description of the original camp site is “a wooded amphitheatre, surrounded on three sides by precipitous cliffs of naked granite, sloped gently toward the crest of another precipice that overlooked the valley” (Perkins and Perkins, 2009, p. 1179). This shows how rugged and steep the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California are. The inhabitants of Poker Flat hope to improve the town by banishing a group of undesirables: expert gambler John Oakhurst; a prostitute known as Duchess; her madam, Mother Shipton;...
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...Allende and Alvarez: Two Different Worlds Learning to become someone who is independent can be a difficult road. For that reason, books create role models that inspired us. By looking at individuals who rise up against injustice or refuses to follow society, we learn to be brave and courageous. Julia Alvarez’s In the time of the Butterflies, portrays a beautiful story about four young women who are not stereotypical wives and mothers. They do what many men did not have the courage to do which is to stand up to Trujillo, and make a difference. Through their stories, we see individuals who in spite of danger are able to continue to preserve through their hardships in order to stand up for what they believe in. Not only are headstrong individuals presented in Alvarez’s novel, but also in Isabel...
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...A Tale of Three Lions Haggard, Henry Rider Published: 1887 Type(s): Short Fiction, Adventure Source: http://www.gutenberg.org 1 About Haggard: Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under the Reverend H.J. Graham but, unlike his older brothers who graduated from various Public Schools, he ended up attending Ipswich Grammar School. This was because his father, who regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much, could no longer afford to maintain his expensive private education. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private ‘crammer’ in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, which in the end he never sat. Instead Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer. It was in this role that Haggard was present in Pretoria for the official announcement of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal. In fact, Haggard raised the Union Flag and was forced to read out much of the proclamation following the loss of voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty. As a young man, Haggard fell deeply in love with Lilith Jackson, whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employment in South Africa...
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...Term Definition Ethnic group A group of people bound by an ethnic relationship. Anti-Semitism A hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group. Islamophobia A fear of the Islamic faith and race. Xenophobia Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange of foreign. Persecution The act of harassing or punishing someone in a manner designed to injure, grieve, or afflict. To cause to suffer. Religious group A group that focuses belief of a God or a worshipful diety. Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) o Christianity • Evangelical Protestant • Mainline Protestant • Historically Black Churches • Roman Catholic • Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) • Jehovah’s Witnesses • Orthodox (Greek, Eastern) o Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform) o Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana) o Islam (Sunni, Shia, Sufism) o Hinduism • Racial/Ethnic groups (based on divisions in U.S. Census Bureau documents) o Asian (Asian descent) o Black (African descent) o Hispanic and Latino (South or Central American descent) o Pacific Islander (Polynesian descent) o White (European descent) Part III Answer the following questions in 150 to 250 words each about the religious group you selected: • How does your selected religious group...
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...CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA An Interpretive History TENTH EDITION James J. Rawls Instructor of History Diablo Valley College Walton Bean Late Professor of History University of California, Berkeley TM TM CALIFORNIA: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY, TENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2008, 2003, and 1998. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890 QFR/QFR 10987654321 ISBN: 978-0-07-340696-1 MHID: 0-07-340696-1 Vice President & Editor-in-Chief: Michael Ryan Vice President EDP/Central Publishing Services: Kimberly Meriwether David Publisher: Christopher Freitag Sponsoring Editor: Matthew Busbridge Executive Marketing Manager: Pamela S. Cooper Editorial Coordinator: Nikki Weissman Project Manager: Erin Melloy Design Coordinator: Margarite Reynolds Cover Designer: Carole Lawson Cover Image: Albert Bierstadt, American (born...
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...problems in mass privatization—asymmetric information and imperfect property rights—still remain. In many transition economies, investment funds have been assigned an important role during both the implementation phase of mass privatization and the post-privatization development of financial institutions and capital markets. In the implementation phase, investment funds were expected to amass necessary data about companies and to develop the portfolio management expertise to make informed investment decisions. Moreover, endowed with a pool of voucher capital (coupons) accumulated from citizens, investment funds could invest in a large number of companies and thereby diversify their own risk as well as that of their investors. Thus, investment funds were developed to help speed the process of mass privatization while ensuring that individual investors had equitable access to opportunities to invest in newly privatized companies. Investment funds were also expected to contribute to the creation of private property rights and to capital market formation in the post-privatization environment. A potential danger of mass privatization is widely dispersed share ownership in privatized companies, which the architects of mass privatization recognized could result in a control vacuum: large numbers of investors with only small stakes in companies would be unable to monitor their...
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...as are given in the story of Nausicaii and the visit of Telemachus to Menelaus. They are used with admirable skill to enliven the story and make it seem real, never to hold it up or divert the readers attention from the main issue. When the victorious Greek Fleet put out to sea after the fall of Troy, many a captain, all unknowing, faced troubles as black as those he had brought down on the Trojans. Athena and Poseidon had been the Greeks' greatest allies among the gods, but when Troy fell all that had changed. They became their bitterest enemies. The Greeks went mad with victory the night they entered the city; they forgot what was due to the gods; and on their voyage home they were terribly punished. Cassandra, one of Priam's daughters, was a prophetess. Apollo had loved her and given her the power to foretell the future. Later he turned against her because she refused his love, and although he could not take back his gift-divine favors once bestowed might not be revoked—he made it of no account: no one ever believed her. She told the Trojans each time what would happen; they would never listen to her. She declared that Greeks were hidden in the wooden horse; no one gave her words a thought. It was her fate always to know the disaster that was coming and be unable to avert it. 212 MYTHOLOGY When the Greeks sacked the city she was in Athena’s temple clinging to her image, under the goddess’s protection. The Greeks found her there and they dare not lay violent hands...
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...questions of who belongs? Who stays? And who goes? Are often widely debated topics by citizens of the United States? It has also been a focal topic in presidential debates. Others made reference to the DREAM Act by claiming that the political parties fail to address the heart of the immigration problem. Immigration has impacted the United States socially, economically, and politically. Like Global migration, interregional migration also creates issues, in the United States. Introduction The topic of immigration can be broken down into many different categories, to deal with different aspects that affect people. Many Americans are of the opinion that America is for Americans and immigrants are not welcome. History teaches us that the Indians were the first set of people to live on this wonderful land. This means that all the other groups are descendants of immigrants. It is known that America was built by immigrants, which means this...
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...PROJECT ON COUNTRY BRANDING: BANGLADESH PERSPECTIVE SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY SUBMITTED TO: ISHTIAQUE ARIF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SOUTHEST UNIVERSITY SUBMITTED BY: NAME | ID | MD.AMRAN AHAMMED BHUIYAN | 2008110000092 | MD.ABDULLAH AL-MASUD | 2008110000106 | A,K,M JAHANGIR KABIR | 2008110000074 | MD.MISKET HOSSAIN | 2008110000099 | BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY As a student of introduction to Branding (MKT-4164) we have conducted a report on country branding. This report is based on branding Bangladesh. We have tried to give our maximum afford to complete this task. We focus our report including the most beautiful place in Bangladesh & historical place of Bangladesh. We made the main focusing point of branding Bangladesh is “beautiful Bangladesh”. INTRODUCTION A brand is the identity of a specific product, service, or business that can take many forms, including a name, sign, symbol, colour combination or slogan. The brand is the personality that identifies a product, service or company. Some people distinguish the psychological aspect, brand associations like thoughts, feelings, perceptions, images, experiences, beliefs, attitudes, and so on that become linked to the brand. Branding Bangladesh as "Beautiful Bangladesh". We like to see our country as a popular tourist destination, but definitely not at the cost of making compromise...
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