THE DEVIL IN SALEM VILLAGE In 1630, the Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay colony to create a model Christian commonwealth for others to emulate. However, fifty years later the Puritan movement was dangerously in jeopardy of losing its following. Many of the youth had become alienated from their parents’ lifestyles and beliefs and had become “increasingly preoccupied with material pleasures and comfort.” (Morgan, 45) The Puritans also lost the royal charter to govern their colony freely from English rule, virtually ending their fifty-five year independence. Madness soon began, with King James II attempting to regain rule of the colony, conspiracies of witchcraft being thrown around in Boston and Salem, and the Puritans realization of murdering dozens of innocent civilians. During the year of 1685, times grew increasingly tough for the Massachusetts citizens.
The first voyage consisted of discovering Cuba and sailing on the coast while making short excursions inland. Columbus saw trade and profit could be made off the Indians while also converting them to Catholics. Six months after Columbus’s first voyage, he sets off again on a second voyage which seventeen vessels, twelve hundred men, and six priest. They set up the first European settlement on the Atlantic side, but Columbus wasn’t satisfied with this, he still wanted to push west to reach the shores of Asia. Running out of supplies and the crew about to go on mutiny, Columbus turns the ships around and only if he went about fifty more miles, he would have discovered that Cuba was an island.
My mom and brother can’t wait to get to America so they can get a decent paying job and so they can feed me and Brad, my younger brother. We are on our way to the boarding harbor where we will get on the ship to America.
Taylor Duchesneau Soc.376/Maes 09-25-14 Integration Paper: “The Jungle” The story of the Rudkus family (along with close friends) in The Jungle illustrates what happened to so many immigrant families in the early twentieth century who came to America with dreams of working hard and building a better life. Jurgis Rudkus along with some family and friends decide to leave Lithuania and migrate to America in hope of finding good jobs to build a better life. After a long trip to America, that exhausts almost all the money they had saved, they arrive in Chicago’s packing town district where they have been told they would find jobs. Almost immediately they begin to understand that finding work is a competitive and oversaturated market and
The waft of dead fish below deck burns her nose. Even the food is foul enough to make her feel like vomiting. These miserable conditions made Hana rethink whether or not America was a good idea still. Just when she thought the worst was over she reached Angel Island, the last step to America and freedom. On Angel Island many other Japanese woman and immigrants were lined up outside of buildings.
In the book Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder, we follow a man’s journey from Burundi to the United States and back. Deogratias, in his attempt to escape the war and memories of his slaughtered family, travels to New York seeking refuge. With no friends, family, or knowledge of the English language, Deo must start a life in New York, starting at the bottom of New York City’s “hierarchy.” There was no doubt that in his journey, which actually begins before his trip to New York, Deo would experience compelling encounters that would change his life. The encounter I believed was most compelling was with the Hutu woman that saved Deo just when he had given up trying to survive. What made this encounter so compelling was that Deo was a Tutsi, and the Hutus and Tutsis were in the middle of a raging war all over the country.
In this folktale, Weeping John is constantly sick because he is worried about how his family will survive after his death (Gold 148). Because he is sick all the time, he is unable to perform his work well, and the neighbor farmers hesitate to give him work. A doctor happens to pass by where John was sitting. The doctor tells him that if he does not kill his worry, that his worry will kill him. The doctor then invites John to his house
Christopher Columbus Traveling to India around the southern tip of Africa was dangerous and difficult. An Italian sailor by the name of Christopher Columbus proposed finding a new route by sailing west. Columbus thought that if they sailed west, they would eventually circle the globe, and arrive in Eastern Asia. For seven years Christopher Columbus traveled around Europe looking for someone who would finance his journey. The monarchs of Europe made fun of him, saying that it was too risky and dangerous to attempt such a voyage around the globe.
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PILGRIMS The Pilgrims were a group of pioneers who left their home and endured a numerous amount of challenges to come to America during the early 1600’s in search of freedom to pursue their religious practices without interference from the government or other outsiders. The Pilgrims arrived in America in 1620 after surviving a long journey. They were 102 people with little knowledge of how to establish a new colony in a new land. While they had a large amount of struggles just to get to America and to survive once they arrived, over time the Pilgrims established a successful colony at Plymouth in Massachusetts and developed their own culture, communities, and way of living in this new land. They did not
(Page 272) He returned to school the following morning. His fathers disapproved of him dropping out; the fathers influence on the son was enough to make him change his decision. The mother was not pleased but this and could not believe her own son would "choose useless books over the parents they gave him life." (Page 272) This lead to influencing the narrator to join his father on the boat when his uncle left his father in order to support his growing family. He told his father that he would "remain with him as long as he lived" and continue to fish with him.