The Emigrants

In the middle of the 19th century, the Oregon Trail was the main pathway for American emigrants who were searching for new lands. While most Oregon bound traveled a route that passed by landmarks, Missouri, Kansas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Idaho, and Oregon there was never one set of wagon ruts leading west. The route was considered too demanding for the women and children or covered wagons to navigate.In 1836 that's when it all changed by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. BothWhitman, took a small party of

The New England and Chesapeake region being settled mainly of people of English descent by the 1700’s evolved into two different colonies due to many contributing factors such as purpose, religion freedom, political voice, and economic benefits. Although all coming from England & heading to the New World, how they established and founded their colonies distinctive from one another yields many reasons. John Winthrop led the English Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the New World embarking

Due to religion being historically inherited from previous generations, many families moved to the New England colonies; these colonies had an abundance of women and children. One source, the Ship’s list of Emigrants Bound for New England, written in Weymouth on March 20, 1635, listed those who migrated in large family groups to the new world. This source lists “Joseph Hull, … Agnes Hull, … Joan Hull, … Joseph Hull, … Tristram, … Elizabeth Hull, ... Temperance

war. Along with many other Iranian women's memoirs regarding similar experiences in Iran, Satrapi reflects on the burden of using memory to represent experiences a large group of people lived through. She depicts the experience, common to all emigrants, young and old, of being seen as a foreigner in her new home country and in her home country once returning. For example, when Marjane alters her whole appearance in Austria and begins to deny her Iranian heritage, she overhears a few of her peers

lands abroad” (Corkery 29). Scally, on the other hand, also maintains that an Irish identity is important to those emigrants travelling to North America, as “in mind though not in body” they never left Ireland (Scally 235). Yet, they “all had shared in a common experience at the moment of their departure,” which Scally insists is the first of their kind (Scally 235). Irish emigrants were no longer bound to the communities that held them in, but were now aware of a much

Critics often argue that Upton Sinclair, author of many classic American novels including The Jungle, was cynical and bitter even. However if one were to dig just a bit deeper they may realize that Sinclair was spot on in his idea that this “American dream” that our country sells is actually a work of fiction. In his book The Jungle, Sinclair, points out the flaws of the American dream. Many immigrants traveled thousands of miles aboard, cramped, disease infested, ships with hope of coming to this

there, which was really disrespectful, so it made the Indians livid and attack. (Merrin p. 147) Pioneers would disrupt some Indian tribes, even if they went as far as the Rocky Mountains, just because they didn’t like the Indians. (Capps p. 153) Emigrants would cross over on the Indian’s lands and kill off thousands of buffalo and a few of them they didn’t even eat, they just let the buffalo sit on the side of the road and rot. The Indians would starve because the settlers did this. (Capps p.163)

An informational cascade has the potential to uproot regimes and kick out rulers in an astonishingly short amount of time. In broad terms, an informational cascade is a network of people that can produce a collective outcome with the passage of information. People will always be influenced by others and there are many cases in which a rational individual will imitate the choices of others even when their modus operandi suggests an altogether different behavior. This is what Susanne Lohmann describes

devastated humanity, closer analysis shows that it led to cultural diffusion across the world, therefore Jewish culture and traditions reached Shanghai. Prior to the Holocaust, Shanghai developed unique conditions that later made it more accessible to emigrants fleeing from the volatile conditions of German-occupied Europe. Because Shanghai was the location of China’s largest port (Gutman 1346), it bordered the East China Sea, and therefore it was more easily reached by many Jews coming from ocean routes

many believe “...that there is too many people come here,” (30-31) and follows with a logical explanation as to why this fallacy exists. Downe recalls the momentous time during which he entered the States and proclaims “...there was more than 1000 emigrants came in the day after I landed... But there is plenty of room yet, and will for a thousand years to come” (31-35), protesting the notion that could inhibit his wife’s consideration of his plea to her. As a result, he discredits an argument he anticipates