Cariboo Gold Rush

The Cariboo Gold Rush took place between 1860-1863 in the Cariboo Mountain region. The Cariboo Gold Rush began when people from The Fraser River Gold Rush saw gold in the Horsefly River. After the news spread of the gold near Barkerville, gold-seekers were attracted and they came for the gold. The promising discoveries of gold were made at Williams, Lightning and Lowhee creeks. Barkerville, Camerontown, and Richfield were established 125 kilometers southeast of Prince George. Barkerville is the only

The Gold Rush in British Columbia (B.C) marked the beginning of Canada’s multicultural society. It saw the mass immigration of foreign workers (particularly those from China and other Asian nations), dispersion of Native Americans, and intrusion of poor and middle class europeans seeking riches in the rumoured “El Dorado”. The exhibit attempted to argue these points through its much anticipated “Scholarly Insight” panel, titled Why study a gold rush? The panel identifies three key themes regarding

VU21481 Student Name: Yating Chang Student ID: GEC000007P Task1 1.Tahiti 2. a) The sea was dangerous. b) The winds did not always blow in the right direction for the sea travel. c) It was such a long way it was difficult to bring enough food and water. 3. a) Many people in Europe thought that in the Southern Hemisphere. b) It must be a great big country but no one really knew much about it. c) People loved the idea of sea adventures and new discoveries. d) England was very interested in setting up

Chaplin The Gold Rush , is a silent comedic film about going after the American dream and the hardships one must endure while trying to survive against all odds. As usual Chaplin plays his famous character , the tramp , a dim-witted under dog. He is a lone prospector who falls in love with a dance hall girl. Chaplin effectively used mise-en-scene for cinematic communication in server scenes in this film. In this film, viewers see hardship through the perspective of disillusion and starved gold hunters

At some point in someone’s life the struggle with day to day activities can seem never ending. Modern Times is a film that shows how the ever changing life we live can take a toll on how we choose to live. The tramp, Charlie Chaplin, goes through many hard times in the course of this short film. He worked in a labor intensive factory, got caught in a machine, spent time in jail, failed at several jobs, and finally found his calling of being an entertainer. The woman he was going to spend his life

Modern Times stars the Tramp. He is a little fellow alone in a nascent society of other immigrants and vagabonds and petty miscreants. Now a factory worker, the Tramp is an Everyman, and his antagonist is society itself. The enemy is named in the movie's title. This movie was Society and the movement of modern technology tower over the common man, making humans only appendages of machines. For example, the "Billows Feeding Machine" sequence, for instance. Thanks to a mechanical salesman that speaks

In the initial scene in Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, the tone is set with an establishing shot of a large crowd accompanied by a score of trumpets. Following this shot, a title card says “To the people of this city we donate this monument; ‘Peace and Prosperity’.” (Chaplin, City Lights). This title card establishes what a large, authoritative man, presumably the mayor, is relaying to the enthusiastic crowd below him. As he speaks, all that the film’s audience hears are inarticulate buzzing noises

do not convey the same idea at all. This train of thought concerning the gold mine can be completed with the family’s planned direction (from Montana to Florida) and the real destination. They wanted to move to Florida in order to escape and to obtain a life of better quality, but they end up staying in a motel in Rock Springs (Wyoming). At the first sight, the city could be prosperous because there is a gold mine there but the characters in the cab get to know that the place is inhabited

You see this in his favorite film, The Gold Rush. While briefly mentioned in the biopic, this is one of his greatest accomplishments and Chaplin is quoted as saying that he hopes The Gold Rush is the film he is remembered most for. The movie is about the human race surviving through even the most difficult of circumstances. Inspired by the photo of men crossing Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush and the stories of the horror-fated Donner Party, Chaplin created

A Dog’s Life: A Dog Eat Dog World Due to the strong comedic performance of Charlie Chaplin in his iconic film A Dog’s Life, many forget the dark socio economic crisis that Chaplin was seeking to unveil throughout the film. To elaborate, this film was first released in the U.S. in 1918, the same year that World War I ended, so while the humor portrayed through Chaplin’s character, Tramp, may have eased the sensibilities of a tired and war-torn country, the whole film had dark socio economic undertones