(6b) Another reason people were moving west is that many people wanted to escape the racism that was happening in the east. Those people who were trying to escape racism were called exodusters. (oi) Moving west was a good option in the 1800’s because there were so many reasons to travel. Reasons such as to discover gold and riches, get rich land, and escape racism. One more reason is that it was easy to travel on trains.
In “No Name Woman” Maxine Hong Kingston learns from her mother that she once had an aunt who became pregnant, but killed herself and the baby in the family’s well. The aunt’s husband was gone for years-- like most of the men in the village, he was trying his luck elsewhere because the village crops were suffering from drought—and the baby was illegitimate. On the night the baby was born, the villagers raided the house. It was nearly destroyed. The family cursed the aunt; she became a “ghost” as if she was never born.
It sets up the story and makes the setting easier to picture and the terror of the heirs fearing they’re next more real, easier to feel their emotion. “It is understood that the next of kin is Sir Henry Baskerville, if he be still alive, the son of Sir Charles Baskerville’s younger brother. The young man when last heard of was in America, and inquiries are being instituted with a view of informing him of his good fortune.” Pg. 22 This sentence introduces Henry Baskerville to the readers and gives some background. It helps to understand where he first fits in the story, “Within the last few months it became increasingly plain to me that Sir Charles’s nervous system was strained to the breaking point.
Death brings tribulations to people. “Okonkwo did not taste any food for two days after the death of Ikemefuna.” (Achebe, 63) Okonkwo kills Ikemefuna, although he considers Ikemefuna to be one of his sons. The death of Ikemefuna prevents Okonkwo to act normal, bringing him into failure of completing essential tasks. He stops eating, which causes him to cease from working and managing his family. She had borne ten children and nine of them had died in infancy, usually before the age of three.
The Way West Beginning in the early 1800’s, Americans began to look west. The start of the first railroads to the Pacific began and the path was anything but easy to navigate. The draw for expanding the railroad was not only the ability to travel faster and move goods throughout the country, but the railroad also gave people a sense of freedom to move about the lands of this vast country. With the larger populations of cities like New York and Boston building up and becoming more heavily crowded, many people were searching for a way to move outward where there was more space and more freedoms including mining, farming, and natural resources. Before the railroad, the only means of travel was by wagon, horseback, or boat.
She grew up, always in the shadows of her older, talented, funnier brother. Longing for the acceptance and the following her brother had, she strived to be more like him. Vance hitting the local rock scene, and later on to be the developer of the Saturday Night Live Play-Do character “Mr. Bill”, was not an easy act to follow. The parents of the DeGeneres’s divorced when Ellen was only between the ages of 13 to 16, and her mother Betty re-married to Ellen’s step-father, Roy Gruessendorf which led them to relocate to the small town Atlanta, Texas.
As the consequence, his father should work very hard to recoup some of their earlier asset as a farmer, carpenter and real estate speculator. Whitman family has own huge love to America, at least that’s the legacy from their family to young Walt, who reflected their own love to their country by naming Walt’s younger brothers with American founder fathers such as, George Washington Whitman, Thomas Jefferson Whitman, and Andrew Jackson Whitman (one of those name is Freemasonry Brotherhood member). When Walt Whitman at three years old, Whitman family moved to Brooklyn, his father hoped to take advantages of the economic opportunity in New York at that time. At seventeen years old Walt Whitman turned on teaching, he was teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in Long Island as his first job. But in 1841, he built his mind on journalism, he started a weekly paper called the Long Islander and later he returned to New York City and in 1848 he become editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Droughts, floods and disease are all made worse by global warming. My region's poverty limits the ability of my family to recover and adapt to these conditions. In 2006 the government declared a state of emergency after two and a half years of drought. Lack of rain has resulted in our food dying. My father can’t grow healthy crops to sell anymore.
This has seriously jeopardized the food supply, leaving millions in danger of starvation. “(-fao.org/news/global/GW0105.) “Not only is food scarce, but each day children as young as six are sent to collect water from taps or wells up to three hours away. Villagers say that up to 50 children have died this year due to a lack of nutrition. The drought also hit hard in the south part of the country, where British troops are fighting an insurgency.
In that moment I still didn’t believe her. It took me a few months to realize that my big sister wasn’t coming back and that I would never see her or hear from her again. Then 6 years later, there was a twist in my life. My brother’s dad decided to give me Robin’s real sister’s phone number. I had so many feelings running through me at one time.