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A Place, a People, a Dream: The Californian Dream Paradoxes The Californian Dream can be regarded as one of the most paradoxical concept in history. The story and paradoxes written by Rawls is strongly supported by the anonymous accounts in many scenarios. Although the anonymous accounts limit itself to only the gold rush era, it still depicts some of the things mentioned in the story written by Rawls. To the weather of California, the reality of the gold rush, and the population growth

The ‘Fort’ also known as Sutter's fort was built by a Swiss immigrant named John Sutter more than 100 years ago in California at the time 1839. He became a Mexican citizen and then received a land grant of about 50,000 acres in the Sacramento Valley. John Angus Sutter was born in Europe to Swiss-German parents in 1803. After several financial reverses, like millions of others in Europe during that time, Sutter set out to make his fortune in America. After a series of adventures that ranged all

Thousands of people migrating west, new opportunities coming their way, heading towards the gold found in San Francisco. After gold found in the state of California, thousands of people came over there to mine the gold and get rich, making the Gold Rush largest migration in world history. So many people came to California that the state became the most diverse state in the United States. Although there were positive attributes to the Gold Rush, the Gold Rush mostly had a negative effect on America

The California Gold Rush, 1849 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/californiagoldrush.htm The gold rush of 1848 was a journey of dreams. Thousands left their families behind to seek a better, more financially secure life. A time so long ago that what we learn about it today is mostly from history books. But then one day you are lucky enough to come across something as simple as a letter. This letter is a small bit of history that opens up a window into the life and journey of a gold seeker.

overland to San Francisco and surrounding areas by the end of 1849. The non-native population of California territory was over 100,000, compared with the pre-1848 figure of less than 1,000. Two billion dollars worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush peak in 1852. On January 24, 1848 James Wilson Marshall found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma California. The miners extracted

What is it like to go to San Francisco As I egress out of the San Francisco International airport I find myself in an entirely contradictory environment from which I had recently departed. This difference becomes apparent when I leave the regulated atmosphere of the terminal, when I am confronted with the smell of the ocean and the remarkable difference in temperature. I quickly shuck my coat and sweat shirt, revealing my t-shirt underneath. I smell the ocean and feel a swift breeze. My experience

The neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of the best-known cases of recent gentrification. Prior to the gentrification taking place, Williamsburg was known for being a warehouse district that also doubled as an enclave for Hispanic and Hasidic Jews (Our Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Brooklyn Public Library). However, in 2005, zone changes were approved that allowed for more housing to be created in Williamsburg and made it so that only light manufacturing could take place in Williamsburg (Curran

Alcatraz a high security prison on an island just two miles off the edge of San Francisco there many of the United States toughest criminals, were sent there to do hard time on the rock. (Hopkinson 7-8) Alcatraz was a military prison before it was a federal penitentiary after World War 2 ended, the people of the United States wanted a super prison. Somewhere that they could send the worst criminals to rot. The prison of Alcatraz was operated from 1935-1963.There were many escape attempts but all

The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a period in American history which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.[1] The news of gold brought—mostly by sailing ships and covered wagons—some 300,000 gold-seekers (called "forty-niners", as in "1849") to California.[2] While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush also attracted some tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The effects of