In the short story Pot of Gold by Cheryl Albury she explores the dynamics of friendship‚ family and the limits one will go to in the name of love . In the story A man by the name of Jacob is on the verge of freedom. He reminisces about his prior years in prison‚ his family and his best friend and former jail mate Cyril. Jacob and his group of friends‚ including Cyril would spend their Saturday nights at “endurance café” drinking rum and sharing jokes. One night‚ Cyril proposed an offer to Jacob at
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The Gold Rush is an important event in the history of California. The Gold Rush led to an increase in population. The spread of gold craze came over the whole country and even the whole world. Hundreds of thousand of gold seekers rushed to California‚ hoping to makes their fortunes by land or by sea. They were Americans‚ Europeans‚ South Americans and Chinese. Even soldier and sailor deserted by hundreds to find gold. The gold craze spread to Hawaii‚ Oregon‚ and Utah and even to Mexico‚ Peru and
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Black Gold The film Black Gold was a very interesting and eye opening film. The film focuses mainly on the coffee growers in southern and western Ethiopia. The movie shows closely the journey that Tadesse Maskela goes through to promote his union- Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union. The union was developed to cut out the middleman in the processes of trading and exporting the coffee beans. Tadesse Maskela also attempts to secure a living wage for the coffee farmers that her represents‚ and
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Gold Digging Gold mining is one of the most destructive industries in the world. It can displace communities‚ hurt workers‚ destroy environments and contaminate drinking water. Water and land become polluted with mercury and cyanide which endangers ecosystems‚ animals and people. the health of people and ecosystems. Toxic mine waste contains many dangerous chemicals including arsenic‚ cyanide‚ lead‚ acids‚ merry and petroleum byproducts. Mining companies worldwide dump toxic waste into
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How did the Australian Gold Rush effect Australia’s immigration and multiculturalism? During the gold rush period‚ immigrants from all around the world came to Australia to find wealth and riches in the gold fields. The majority of these immigrants came from England‚ Ireland‚ Scotland‚ Wales‚ America and Germany. But the largest foreign contingent was China with over 40‚000 coming to work in the gold fields. The Chinese worked in large groups with one leader who was in charge. They worked hard and
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Mer·cy‚ noun: kindness or help given to people who are in a very bad or desperate situation (Merriam-Webster). That is the definition of mercy and the key point in the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. Throughout the book there are many different cases brought up of poor‚ innocent‚ African Americans who face a corrupt criminal justice system and are put on death row for crimes they did not commit. Although this was in the past‚ it is still happening in today’s criminal justice system and there
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Tuscaloosa City Schools (TCS) Executive Director of Human Resources‚ Deron Cameron‚ presented the West Alabama chapter of the American Red Cross with a check totaling close to $8‚000 on Wednesday‚ September 13. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced that Friday‚ September 1 would be College Colors Day throughout the state to celebrate the start of the college football season. The schools used that day to ask students to wear their school colors and bring in money to donate to hurricane victims‚
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#1- The author Bryan Stevenson writes Just Mercy which is about a mix of a bunch of wrongly convicted people who are put on death row. Bryan Stevenson being an attorney had faced an enormous amount of cases with wrongly convicted people. Stevenson writes the book in a very serious tone and to the point. This is because he wants the reader to really feel the frustration and anger that him and the convicted person felt during the trials. Stevenson states in the book “We have a system of justice in
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environmental impact. The city of the Gold Coast has made many strives towards becoming a more sustainable area through contributions made within the built environment like increasing sustainable transport‚ however‚ the city has struggled with some issues surrounding their built environment‚ like their rapid urban sprawl. Ecofriendly transport has been an important sustainable initiative in the Gold Coast for some time now. With approximately 2.6 million trips daily in the Gold Coast area alone the congestion
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The Gold Standard The gold standard‚ a monetary system‚ directly links a currency’s value to that of gold. For the country that on the gold standard‚ if they want to increase the amount of money‚ they have to expand its gold reserves as a condition. Because the supply for global gold grows only slowly‚ it becomes an effective way to prevent the government overspending and create inflation. Many countries‚ such as the U.S.‚ using the gold as their currency in the past even
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