The main reason the Spaniards even bothered to interact with the Native Americans was to achieve their main goal in America, to find gold and other valuables. In some areas where they found valuables, they first tried to cheat the Native Americans out of their treasure. The Native Americans gave up some valuables out of generosity and a slight apprehension, for they wondered if the “white men” who rode on “deer” (horses) were gods. Soon enough, they saw through the Spaniards and saw them for what they really were, greedy, selfish men with nothing but a greedy desire for riches. They attempted to drive them away by attacking them.
In the early years of the gold rush, NSW and Victoria were the gold attracting places in Australia and attracted a lot of diggers. A lot of people came for gold for many different reasons such as, to make money and have a new life in Australia others came to find gold and return back to there countries and use the money from the gold for their farms and families. Most migrants came from the United Kingdom, less than 15,000 migrants came from European countries. The people that migrated to Australia didn’t all get along, they were all searching for the same thing and digging for gold some of them fought each other for being in the same area that they were digging in and others stole from each other for the gold. There were thousands of people digging for gold so it was very crowded and people were angry and frustrated and annoyed, some people ended up rich and others didn’t find anything.
They believed that Montezuma had offered his valuables freely. This interpretation of the events illustrates the Spaniards’ attempt to appear virtuous and showcases their need to embellish their success in retrieving gold. Meanwhile, the Aztecs believed Montezuma was forced into this offering: “The Spaniards questioned him closely and then demanded gold.” The Aztec explanation of the events suggests a distrust in the Spanish and demonstrates their belief that the Spaniards’ arrival destroyed their society. The discrepancy between the two accounts is due to the biased viewpoints of the writers. The truth, however, can be found in-between the two stories.
What effects did the discovery of Gold have on California and the USA? The Gold Rush changed almost every aspect of California and the USA for better and for worse. The majority of people that came to California were brave souls willing to trek mostly uncharted territory, but now the Gold Rush attracted many people from other parts of the world. Towards the beginning the early settlers received the best luck in finding gold and unfortunately, those who came later had a much harder time finding free space to mine and pan along with any gold left to collect. This extreme rush of money not only inspired people from all around the world to come to California, but also invited many businesses.
Climbing the hill is an alone and possibly a treacherous process. Harte is demonstrating the difficulty in getting to California. Emigrants could take one of two ways, over land or by ship, both of which there are risks of disease, stress, and death. Harte uses his description of the camp and describes the setting of the camp in detail to draw upon similarities in the experience of Emigrants in getting to California in the story. Secondly, The luck of roaring camp symbolizes the gold rush through its characters.
Steinbeck’s book ‘The pearl’ is about the story of poor Mexican family, danger strikes the family and Kino (the man of the family) finds a pearl that he thinks is a way out of the incoming danger. At the beginning of the novel, the pearl that Kino finds is described as large as being incandescent and as "perfect as the moon"; by the end of the novel, Kino looks at the pearl it is "ugly, gray, like a malignant growth." The pearl in fact turns out to be a poison; Kino gets lost in his own greedy and resorts to awful extremes. The effects of the pearl will be explored in this essay. Throughout the book Kino changes immensely.
This story is about two main characters, Butch Cassidy, a clever and talkative leader, and the Sundance Kid, who is a close partner of Butch and a good shooter. They rob trains successfully, but finally escape from lawmen to flee to Bolivia to start a new life by robbing banks. This film won Oscars for original screenplay (William Goldman), original score (Burt Bacharach), best song ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," by Mr. Bacharach and Hal David) and cinematography (Conrad L. Hall). Hill shows in his movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," the western with wildness and civilization vividly by sophisticated cinematography, unique plat and characters, and wonderful soundtrack. In this film, one of the points that is rated highly is its advanced cinematography by Conrad L. Hall.
Zerkow was greatly obsessed with gold and riches. The same obsession for money was in all of the characters. Zerkow was viewed as a "lost" soul and Trina as a proper young lady, yet they were both almost exactly alike. Here are some quotes on greed. "Miser, nasty little old miser.
At the time, many noted on how discovery of gold and diamonds in the region lead to war such as the Manchester Guardian (source 1) and Lloyd George (source 2) though these few were overshadowed by the vast majority of influential figures and newspapers at the time. The Manchester Guardian, often regarded as a socialist paper, took a strong liberal stance before, during and after the war. It is not surprising that the newspaper would take this stance especially after the break down of negotiations which occurred shortly before this article was published; the paper would have seen this as a breach of basic human rights as the Boers were willing to agree to terms to stop the war. The paper also was not blind to the profits that were potentially to gain by British intervention this lead to the concept of the war being “waged on behalf of capitalists” but as it is a radical liberal newspaper which has a reader base to satisfy so this may be a dramatization of the spirit behind the statement likewise when the statement reads “[in regards to the war] not in the real interests of the Empire” which is clearly an overstatement as the war would increase the Empire’s land ownership and give a large monetary increase making it able to further its own agenda. These ideas are not mentioned in Joseph Chamberlin’s address to parliament just 6 months before stating categorically that the war is in both the best interests of the Empire by “going to war in defence of the principles upon which the British Empire has been founded.” but also in the defence of the British people residing in
This was a costly mistake. The greedy Spaniards wanted the gold and treasure the Aztecs collected. Reid wrote, “Gold, silver, and jewels were what they had sailed all the way from Spain to find” ( 25). Schaffer 2 Another factor contributing to the Aztec’s fall was Spain’s superior weapons. Stein points out, “The Aztecs were known for their skills as warriors.