... Some choose that they would go and claim their own land. In the spring of 1859 somewhere around 100,000 people left for the hills of the Rockies in the hunt for gold. As many as half of those people didn't even make it to Colorado. A lot of the other people either turned back or died on the way. Most of the people who did make it returned home without the riches that they came for. The people that returned home were called "Go Backs". The other men stayed behind and continued panning or opened up shops in nearby towns. The picture that the newspapers portrayed Colorado as a rich place for gold. Newspaper reporters traveled to Colorado to see what all of ...

... government surrendered, unconditionally, to the United States. The rest of the world rejoiced as the most destructive war in the history of mankind came to an end . All while the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki tried to piece together what was left of their lives, families and homes. Over the course of the next forty years, these two bombings, and the nuclear arms race that followed them, would come to have a direct or indirect effect on almost every man, woman and child on this Earth, including people in the United States. The atomic bomb would penetrate every fabric of American existence. From our politics to our educational system. Our indus ...

... Much With Us (1802) emphasizes a world being plagued by materialism while steadily losing its spirituality. He used Greek mythological figures to symbolize that the nature the ancients enjoyed could not be destroyed by the Industrial Age. Wordsworth, and Coleridge, described nature in an exclusive way because landscape was the main principal in their works. "Mind of Man," as Wordsworth observed, was a poets' response to the natural scenes that inspired their thinking. Despite all of this, nature commonly was the focus of Romantic painters. Romantic painters rebelled against the objectivity and composure of the prevailing Neoclassic style. The art is colorful, expres ...

... wife Abby move to Memphis Tennessee where is located. At this time Mitch and Abby had no idea that they were under close surveillance by Mr. DeVasher. Mitch also has yet to learn that is a cleaver cover up for a Mafia controlled money laundering operation. Mitch later visits his brother Ray in jail, who refers him to a detective by the name of Eddie Lomax. Later Mitch goes to the Caimans on a business trip and was set up have sex with a hooker that appeared to be in distress. While Mitch was gone Eddie Lomax was killed. When Mitch returns, Tammy, Eddie’s secretary is waiting to meet him to let him know about what had happened. Mitch then went on another bu ...

... it three of the passengers riding on the commuter train overpowered him. But by then it was too late, the car looked as if it had been painted red. This crazed gunman had shot 25 people. Six of them died and nineteen of them were injured. Carolyn McCarthy’s son Kevin, was among the passengers who were wounded and her dead husband Dennis was found slumped over his lap. Kevin was the most severely wounded of the survivors. He was left partially paralyzed as a result of the Long Island Railroad Massacre. The mass killing that went on in that commuter train was a tragedy with such extreme dimensions that, yet despite all the misfortune the outcome had an opt ...

... history should be explored by music lovers. And I think people are short-changing themselves if they do not take a step back to understand, or even appreciate where things came from." (Biography 1). Amid the mayhem, Metallica endured its share of hardship and tragedy (Metallica). “The road, the horrors, the deaths, the breakings of arms, and burnings, they ware just challenges for us,” explained Hetfield (Metallica). Through it all they set the standard for no compromise, straightforward heavy-metal mastery (Metallica). Metallica rose from garage band to global stadium phenomenon on their own terms. During the 1980’s dedication to a phenomenon known as hea ...

... in Indochina and the relationship of America towards Australia and vice versa ( focusing primarily on America's role in the conflict). This supports Siracusa's other work "America's Australia : Australia's America" which takes a more direct focus on the Australian American relationship (Chapter Three), hence its Title. In keeping with the main focus of the War, American involvement, McMahon deals with this concept in fourteen tightly written and easily comprehendable Chapters. This results in identifying the problems and the outcomes associated with the War. The outcomes of these problems associated with the War primarily manifested themselves on the battlef ...

... life. Cosette’s influence on Jean Valjean is welcome and realized most by Jean. Cosette influenced Jean with her need for love and a father figure. When Jean first met Cosette, he realized her reaching out for someone to fill in these missing spots in her life. As Jean took care of Cosette he gave her a loving, elder, trustworthy, male role she has been waiting for for support and stability. The time they spent together warmed both of their hearts with the feeling they longed for. “Jean Valjean felt his own happiness grow with the happiness which he caused Cosette”(139). Cosette’s influence on Jean made both his feelings and life better and more barable. Jean f ...

... created a fear of its spread across Europe, and to America. Palmer tied this fear to that of immigration. He denounced labor unions, the Socialist party, and the Communist party in America, as being infultrated with radicals who sought to overturn America's political, economic, and social institutions. Palmer exasperated this fear in Americans and then presented himself as the country's savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer raids thousands of aliens were deported and even more were arrested on little or no evidence. Their civil liberties were violated, they were not told th ...

... the theater of tomorrow. The left wing turned away from realistic plays that search for and provide answers to social problems or questions. Instead it seeks the what is the point? the where am-I going? and the what is my identity?(Gottfried 57). They think of theater as an art not a business. Because it is looked at as an art there are not limits to the content , no right or wrong. Boundaries were erased. Julian Beck, a far left winger, looked at life through art and saw life itself as unrealistic. In 1946 Julian Beck and his partner Judith Malina found the . Located in New York, the performed poetic dramas and plays by dramatists of the avant-garde( 463-464 ...