Billy Barker Research Paper

He had no common sense, and he had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness. He made a lot of mistakes based on arrogance. I don’t admire him at all for his courage nor his noble ideas. Really, I think he was just plain crazy,” shows that Shaun believes Chris had no common sense in his doing for leaving society for the wild. I agree with Callarman’s position of thinking “ he had no common sense” and that he was “bright and Ignorant” because Chris thinks he did not have much to offer in his society, ditched all his possessions to take a trip into the Alaskan Wilderness and did not have much common sense or survival skills.

Nature did not care if these men live or not. One of them named Billie drowned at the end of the story. He was the hardworking man from the whole crew. But nature seems very indifferent to him and for his struggle. According to the narrator, “When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important” (Sec 6); this quote shows nature does not give any importance to people.

He also broke his bicycle chain while testing the windmill. He looked for another chain to use that was stronger. The last way that he demonstrated determination was that people didn 't believe him, and he ignored them. People kept on calling him crazy because he would be in the dump all day but he ignored them, and kept building his windmill. When William’s windmill started to work, and the crowd was surprised William said “I told you I wasn 't mad.” (Kamkwamba 201) William didn 't just demonstrate determination; he also demonstrated

Crooks is not used to getting visitors, so Lennie coming into the barn was a surprise. At first, Crooks says, “‘You ain’t go no right to come in my room’” however, he finally says, “‘Come on in and set a while...Long as you won’t get out and leave me alone, you might as well set down’”(Steinbeck 68-69). Racism creates a segregation at the ranch which leaves Crooks all by himself in the barn, which can sensibly make him lonely. The loneliness that racism creates makes life really boring for Crooks because he rarely has someone to talk to. To add, Crooks mentions that he has learned over time that “‘If [he] say something, why it’s just a nigger sayin’ it’”(Steinbeck 70).

The Cowardly Lion’s inability to make a dent in the Tin Woodman exemplifies Bryan’s inability to make a dent in factory worker support: “He struck at the Tin Woodman with his sharp claws. But, to the Lion’s surprise, he could make no impression on the tin” (p. 51). Focusing only on free silver and ignoring foreign policy ended up being detrimental to Bryan’s campaign. In the 1900s, foreign policy with China and the Opium Wars emerged as the main issue. Corresponding to how the Lion “fell asleep” in the poppy field where opium grows, Bryan too “fell asleep” in a political sense by never focusing on this issue, and ignoring foreign policy.

Samuel Brannan became a pioneer, printer and most importantly a merchant which made him become California’s first millionaire. Quickly after Samuel Brannan found out about the discovery of gold that was made, he made a newspaper called The California Star. The newspaper that he created ended quickly because it lost all of the readers to the mines. He later decided to create a newspaper and bring it to the East knowing he could make a lot of money off of it. By August 1848, people from the East were getting newspapers daily about the gold rush, which brought them slowly to Sutter’s Fort.

She gets into a nursing home, where she falls in love with a man (Aubrey), whom she knew from when she was young. Fiona completely forgets where she lived, where she’s from or that she has a husband who visits her quite frequently. When Aubrey gets taken home, Fiona falls into depression and refuses to eat and walk. In the end, Grant brings back Aubrey to the nursing home and the novel closes with Fiona temporarily remembering his husband and the vow they made before she got into the nursing home. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia.

Kane is eighteen years and lives with his mother Jane. They live in a home in Loong Land. When Kane was only ten his father on a detective mission got into an accident. Kane became depressed and began seeing his father a year later at the age eleven. His mother tried to get him checked to see if there was a problem with the child, but the doctor kept saying there isn’t any and seen things from losing his father.

He soon became tiered of his brother’s abuse causing him to run away from his home New England in 1723 to start a print shop in New York He failed to set up a shop and walked to Pennsylvania where he would become homeless and run out of money. He soon after found a job as an apprentice printer. Franklin was doing so well that the governor of Pennsylvania promised to setup a print shop for him if Franklin traveled to England to buy fonts and printing equipment. Upon traveling to London and buying the equipment the governor abolished his promise and Benjamin was stuck in England for several months. Before traveling to London Benjamin had been living with the Read family.

After being judged and treated terribly for so long, he is racist to himself. This act of self-racism/self discrimination shows the reader how unequal Crooks feels. Another key factor is that he is not born into slavery like most African-Americans at the time. This quotation shows that Crooks is not like what he calls the “southern negro.” Now at the ranch, he is looked at like a southerner, being the only black man on the ranch. For his skin being a different color from the others, he is secluded into his own room, he is not allowed to play cards or go out with the guys, and has no one to open up to or speak

The novel starts off with an injured Confederate soldier, Inman, from the Battle of Fredericksburg. Inman was tended at a hospital but decides to leave at night to return to his lover, Ada Monroe, at Cold Mountain, North Carolina. Ada on the other hand did not live a glorious life at home. Her father soon dies and she is left to take over her father’s farm called the Black Cove. With the help of her friend, Ruby, the two women worked to make the farm in good condition.

When he found the gold, he was working to build a water-powered sawmill owned by John Sutter. They tried not to tell anybody but word got out very quickly. In December 1848, President James Polk announced during a speech that there was more gold in California than people had previously thought. Miners came by the thousands across land, and sea to find the gold and the journeys that

He was paid a low wage of $1.20 per week. Carnegie slowly moved his way up with jobs and soon he got a job in a sleeping car company. This led to Carnegie’s early success in the railroad business. During the Civil War, Carnegie invested in oil, worked in transportation for the U.S. War Department and became interested in the steel and iron business. When the Civil War ended, he focused more on the steel business and decided to pursue a career in the