Donavan Hoffman American History Pd. 5 What is the motivation for heading out west? Heading out west was very popular back in the 1800s‚ as well as a huge step for the american people. The Louisiana Purchase almost doubled the size of the United States‚ which provided so much land to explore. So when it comes to the motivation‚ there are many varying reasons. Reasons varied due to differences in the type of person‚ or what that person’s occupation was. For instance‚ someone who was a farmer differentiated
Premium Native Americans in the United States United States American Civil War
West Side Story transfers Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to present-day New York. The love story of Romeo and Juliet becomes that of Maria and Tony. The feud between the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues is re-created in one involving two teen-age gangs‚ the Jets and the Sharks. The famous balcony scene of the Shakespeare drama transpires on a fire-escape of an ugly New York tenement. The curtain rises on a bleak scene representing a warehouse. For the next five minutes not a word is spoken
Premium Gang
My family takes a trip to the same place about every two summers. The ride isn’t always fun to get there because it is 2 and a half hours away. The trip is in Philadelphia Mississippi‚ where we go to Geyser Falls water park. It is always hot‚ a cool breeze‚ water slides‚ pools‚ birds‚ food‚ and many people. My family really enjoy going to the water park during the summer. We usually take about 3 days of vacation. When you arrive at Geyser Falls parking lot it is always full and is hard to look
Premium English-language films Family Mother
Chris Naylor U.S. Expansion and The Dodgers Move West Baseball in Brooklyn has been in existence since the 1800s with the Brooklyn Grays‚ but the name that most people remember when they talk about Brooklyn is the Dodgers. Most people remember the Dodgers for their great play and also for a man by the name of Walter O’Malley on moving the Dodgers to Los Angeles. This move was made possible by the political maneuverings of New York City and Los Angeles‚ families moving away from big cities to the
Premium Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball New York City
The Classical and Medieval West The Medieval period ‚ this is a period beginning at about 5th century to the 15 century. The 5th century would put it in the era the last Emperor of the West Roman Empire abdicated in favor of the Emperor of the East Roman Emperor‚ but it is also referred to as the date of the "fall of Rome." From the 5th century East Roman Empire would lasted nearly another thousand years‚ and finally fell in 1453. bringing rise to the Byzantine Empire. But the important thing
Premium Gothic architecture Roman Empire Middle Ages
itself‚ comes with a price. Mike‚ a hardworking father of two‚ and the main character of Hanif Kureishi’s short story “The Decline of the West” from 2010‚ is an example of one who suddenly finds himself in a very precautious situation when he loses his job after both he and his family have been used to his rather substantial pay. In The Decline of the West‚ Hanif Kureishi employs a limited third-person narrator‚ which is bound to the main character‚ Mike. As a result of this choice‚ the reader
Premium Family Short story Protagonist
Texts such as Journey to the West and Tales of the Marvelous all possess a majestic element and aspect to them. Thus‚ the Taoist representation of the human body’s alchemic potential can be derived through the supernatural portrayal of martial arts described these texts. In many stories
Premium Han Dynasty Taoism Chinese philosophy
The * For my comparative study I focused on the importance of decision making within texts. The text that I am going to focus on is the play The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh. This play was first staged in 1997 and is part of a trilogy which focuses on the lives of the people of Leenane a ficitonal rural village in Galway. The play focuses on the lives of two bacholar brother’s Valene and Coleman who are both bitter and grumpy about their lives have ended up. Leenane is a hell on earth a place
Premium Decision making Cognition
Discuss and analyses how did Chinese attitude towards the western world change between 1880s and 1920s‚ and what are the major impetuses for this major transformation. Wilson Lu 1030700031 After the defeat by the British Empire in the First Opium War in 1820 led to the Treaty of Nanjing (1842)‚ under which the cession of Hong Kong and opium was legitimized. The so call sinocentrism ebbed and flowed with China’s might and glory. The foreign trades were growing quickly due to China’s wealth
Premium China People's Republic of China Qing Dynasty
power‚ this caliphate survived for a long period of time. The rise to power was taken place because of a great military leader named Sonni Ali. This person was known to have “magic powers” and expanded the Songhay territory across the Niger Valley‚ west to Senegal and east to
Premium Mali Empire Africa