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Gold Rush San Francisco
1,728 words... siting blanket-wrapped corpses in hurriedly dug holes on river bars. At least fifteen hundred travelers died along the Oregon Trail in 1949. (Mark 56, 57) Nearly all the routes on the trail led the traveler to the Sierra Nevada's. The ones that didnt led through Death Valley. Either the mountain range or the desert had to be crossed in order to get to the Sacramento Valley or Los Angeles, respectively. Both routes had their challenges, and climatic changes were always a factor in which the t...
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Book Club Working Conditions
1,012 wordsThe book, The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell depicts the life of miners in 1930 s Britain. The 1930 s in Britain were rough unless you were part of the upper class. The miners and others of that stature were suppressed, by taxes, by other classes, by just about anyone and anything you can possibly think of. It has a very socialistic point of view. Along with Orwell, there were a good number of men in Britain with the same view. The man that published the book, Victor Gollancz, was a social...
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U S Government U S Army
408 wordsIn the early 1860 s the Oglala Sioux leader Chief Red Cloud fought to keep the U. S. Army from opening the Bozeman Trail, which led to the Montana gold fields through Sioux hunting areas in the Dakota Territory. Between 1866 and 1868 Red Cloud and his allies besieged forts along the trail until in 1868 the U. S. government agreed to abandon it. Red Cloud signed the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie Wyoming on April 29, 1869. The U. S. government agreed to close the Bozeman Trail, and in the treaty inc...
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Coal Miners Arnold Palmer
1,187 wordsImagine being woken up in the early morning and having your life be changed by a single horrific even. This situation was like no other coal disaster. This was the result of the irresponsibility of big business not caring for the well being of regular citizens. This case was a first in that the coal miners were not the victims, but their families were. The coal miners were not going to sit around and let this go by, they are ready to fight back. On an early February morning in 1972, one of the c...
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Blue Jeans The Ultimate American Icon
1,452 wordsGold was discovered in California in 1849. This resulted in more than eighty thousand Americans rushing to California. The pioneering spirit spread and by 1890, the Wests population reached nearly 17 million. The west became the most racially diverse part of the country. All were in search of a better life for themselves and their families, seeking what would become known as the American Dream. During this time innovation and creation were prompting remarkable growth in industry. New products th...
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Industrial Action Trade Unions
542 wordsIt is difficult to see how anyone could deny that all workers should have the rights to strike. This is because striking gives workers freedom of speech. This is justifiable, because Britain is a democratic nation. My first reason supporting the motion that workers should be allowed to strike is in order to bring to the fore poor safety conditions. For instance, in the nuclear power industry, any breaches of safety can have tragic consequences. If the employees are exposed to nuclear material, t...
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Brave New World Happiness
1,333 wordster> With reference to the text, discuss Mustafa Monds statement: The secret to happiness is liking what you have to do. Mustafa Mond is presented to us as one of the Ten World Controllers in Brave New World, of that Utopian, communal and stabilized world, set six hundred years into future. This new world that contradicts the world we live in today, eliminated the Freedoms that we depend on: the freedom of choice, the freedom of thought, religion and being. They have chosen to conditio...
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Coalwood Homer Hickam Jr
1,769 wordsHomer Hickam, Jr. had a dream too big for his small coal mining town of West Virginia, however, with the collective will of he and close friends, he fulfilled his dream. Coalwood is located in the southern most tip of West Virginia in McDowell County. It was a coal mining town founded by George Lafayette Carter in the early 1900 s. Carter built the model town of his time, if a man was willing to come to Coalwood and offer his complete and utter loyalty to the coal company, he would receive in re...
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Iron Ore Nineteenth Century
1,315 wordsIntroduction If you look on a map of global population density, you can see four or five major concentrations of people: East Asia, South Asia, North America and Europe. Many of the cities that developed in Europe grew on coalfields as a result of the industrial revolution. But today the factor coal become more and more unimportant and the people in the coal industry are facing huge problems. The highest rates of unemployment can be found in former coal and steel making communities. Their mines ...
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000 Short Tons Ways To Detect Copper
699 wordsBlake Adams Period 3 Grade 8 2 / 5 / 97 Copper is a mineral. it is not a plant or a animal. Copper is a metallic metal. It can never be broken down into different substances by normal chemical means. Copper was one of the first metals known to humans. People liked it because in it's native condition, it could easily be beaten into weapons or tools. Copper has been one of the most useful metals for over 5000 years. Copper was probably used around 8000 B. C by people living along the Tigris and Eu...
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California Gold Rush Native Americans
706 wordsSocial institutions, frail to begin with, similarly often crumbled under continuing pressure. Competition and the lack of organized legal or social structures very soon combined to foment an environment of lawlessness -- claim-jumping, theft, fraud and violence - that has endured as the stereotyped Wild West. The miners were not bound by the laws of Mexico, nor as yet by those of any of the States. Almost from the first, miners had convened democratic meetings when it was necessary to settle cla...
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Risk Of Developing Lung Cancer
987 wordsRadiological Determinant of Water Asbestos is a general name applied to a cluster of silicate minerals consisting of thin, divisible fibers in a parallel arrangement. Asbestos was found in water and appears to be dangerous to health. Different criteria are used to recognize asbestos fibers, depending on the context. In general, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulate as fibers those particles of the regulated mineral classes longer than 5 m in length. Asbestos fibers do...
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Religion In The Paintings Of Van Gogh
1,333 wordsReligion in the Paintings of van Gogh Nowadays, perhaps, it is difficult to find the person to whom name Vincent Van Gogh would be unfamiliar, the Dutch artist, who created his masterpieces at the end of XIX century in France. He has been not recognized as great artist by contemporaries, but at descendants has got unprecedented popularity. Canvas of his brush, after hundred years after their creation, became not only one of the most expensive products of the modern art, they, at last, have been ...
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Gilded Age Native Americans
817 wordsThe Gilded Age The Gilded Age was considered to be the time of the greatest economic, territorial, industrial, and population expansion in American history. It began with the 1876 election of Rutherford B. Hayes. The Gilded Age put the main basis of the American society as a multinational diversified society due to increasing immigration. Such phenomena as prejudices and racial discrimination were the typical features of the Gilded Age. What is more, they were founded during the Gilded Age. The ...
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Second World War Margaret Thatcher
2,448 wordsCompare and Contrast of the 1950 s and 1970 s UK Economy Historical writing about the British Welfare State has tended to stress the eventual triumph of collectivism over individualism. History of United Kingdom economy after 1950 s is a story of linear development and progress. However, this story was put under question by the apparent reversal of the late 1970 s, which began with Labour prime minister James Callaghan's speech of 1976. In his speech, he told the Labour Party's Conference that g...
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Coal Miners Million Dollars
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Cry The Beloved Country Arthur Jarvis
901 wordsCry the Beloved Country Opinions founded in prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. (Jeffery) The theme of the book Cry, the Beloved Country revolves around the idea of prejudice causing violence. Throughout the book the author shows how the laws of white men caused many South Africans to resort to stealing and even murder. The book is divided into three portions, each with its own theme. The first portions shows how work forced many poor Africans to migrate from rural area in...
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Decision Making Process Coal Miners
3,681 wordsPower serves to create power. Powerlessness serves to re-enforce powerlessness (Gaventa, 1980: 256). Such is the essence of the on going relationship between the Powerful and the Powerless of the Appalachian Valley where acquiescence of the repressed has become not only common practice but a way of life and a means of survival. In his novel Power and Powerlessness, John Gaventa examines the oppressive and desperate situation of the Appalachian coal miners under the autocratic power of absentee l...
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Wilde Visited Whitman Tour Of America Lecture
1,620 wordsTour of America In the early 1880? s, when Aestheticism was the rage and despair of literary London, Wilde established himself in social and artistic circles by his wit and flamboyance. Soon the periodical Punch made him the satiric object of its antagonism to the Aesthetes for what was considered their unmasculine devotion to art and in their comic opera Patience. Wilde agreed to lecture in the United States and Canada. Wilde was given the paradoxical opportunity to characterize and popularize ...
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Quality Of Life Hearing Aids
1,127 wordsThe invention of batteries was considered a great discovery by affecting our lives. Has it affected our lives for good or for bad, since the discovery of batteries in around 1800? Before the time of invention a number of discoveries had previously been made. Floriano Caldani (1756) observed that frog legs could be made to contract when a near-by static machine was discharged. Luigi Galvani (1786) rediscovered this phenomenon and apparently unaware of similar work by Jan Swammerdam more than a ce...
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