My name is Percy Whitesville. I was born on October 12, 1830 to my parents Jean and Joe Whitesville. I grew up on a poor family farm my daddy owned in West Texas. My mom schooled my sisters and I since we had no way getting to the nearest school, because my daddy used the horses for work.
There was talk about gold being found in Colorado and California so my friend Jack Piles and I headed west. We stopped in Colorado and panhandled in the Colorado River. We did not find much so we decided to head to California. It was 1848 and we bumped in many Indian tribes but tried to stay near the cities and main road so we didn’t get killed. When we got to California there were several foreigners. There were many different colors of people and languages. I’ve only seen one black man in my life and that was the only other foreigner I have ever seen. When we got to San Francisco there were so many people and haven’t seen so many people in my life. We started mining, and man did we find a lot.
I saved up my gold wealth so I could find a pretty girl a settle down somewhere in the country. My partner Jack spent his on anything you could name. Gambling, prostitutes, alcohol, and he just not doing as great. Whenever I found my gold, I traded it in for a banknote at the San Francisco mint.
I had so much money so I didn’t know what to do with it. I saved almost every penny of it. I found some land to settle on and built the house I have always wanted. I found a woman to marry and we had
potential loss of life is at hand, such as the case during the Chilean mine collapse of 2010. Communication to the various audiences must be taken into account as to how you word and deliver the communication. When communicating with the family members of the trapped miners, one must place themselves in the families position. What emotions must they be feeling in a time like this? Most likely, their loved one(s) who are trapped are the sole providers for the family. They may not have life insurance and…
is the story of coal miners trying to form a union and is up against a big Coal Company as well as the notorious Baldwin Felts detective agency. Joe Kinnahan comes to Matewan on a train as a secret union organizer for the United Mine Workers. He sneaks into living in the home of Elma Radnor a coal miners’ widow. Kinnahan’s insertion was a key into the start of forming a union, educating the miners and establishing order in the mobilization in the forming of the coal miners union. Joe went from…
100ART-B501 Mount Pleasant Miners Summer Term, 2008 07/30/2008 A snapshot of history, or fine art – Nancy Brown takes us on a journey to Grizzly Flats, California with her 1993 quilt titled: Mount Pleasant Miners. Brown utilizes her skills as a quilter, superb design elements, and the title of the piece to bring life to this cloth masterpiece. The quilt was originally created as a tribute to her grandfather who worked for 17 years as a blacksmith and later…
goodbyes to family as they headed off to yet another dark day at work deep in the San Jose copper mine in northern Chile. Little did they know it would be the last time for nearly two months they would see the light of day. These same blessings of life they most likely took for granted earlier that day - to be able to stretch out, to bathe, to eat, and to walk around in the comfort of their own homes - would be taken from them unexpectedly later that same day. Some time around the…
The Chilean Miners Seaula T. Pisimaka BCOM/225 December 20, 2014 Michael Korman The Chilean Miners The Chilean miners. On the fifth of August two thousand and fourteen, 33 Chilean miners were stranded under two thousand miles of mountain. The mine tunnels caved in. With no communication between the miners and the rest of the world, there’s no knowing if they are alive or not. As the race against time starts with families hoping and praying, the rescue begins. Could you imagine yourself in the…
civilization anywhere is considered normal except for those within the society. A culture that goes by the name “The Naciermas” are magic ridden people that believe in perfection of the body but in fact they represent American culture as a whole (Miner 171). The idea behind using the term “Nacierma” originated from American Anthropologist Horace Miner’s article “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”. He wanted to show Americans can be abnormal yet hiding the fact the name “Nacirema” is American in reverse…
Brief Overview The story of the Chilean miners was heard around the world and was definitely a suspenseful story that, for the most part ended well. Everyone emerged from the collapsed mine physically healthy to promises from their government of bright futures and better lives. Sadly those promises did not pan out. After being failed by their government and facing the broken promises made to them, the miners are trying to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives and…
with nature and animals. Why did settlers continue to push westward? Because settlers wanted more land. They also wanted to colonize near mining spots and gold. Why was the destruction of the buffalo so detrimental to the Native Americans’ way of life? Because the Native Americans relied on the Buffalo for survival. ( food, clothing, tools, etc.) Song Discussion Q’s What two clues do you find in the lyrics that indicate that this song is about gold mining? She mentioned that she came from a…
In “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner, describes fictional tribal people in a highly developed economy enriched by their natural habitat that are living in the U.S. and have a particular behavior where most of their days are spent performing rituals to an extreme by while adoring them in front of a sacred shrine. Miner describes this shrine as a boxed chest that has charms and potions from the medicine man, this to be considered a doctor and the chest as the medicine cabinet in a bathroom…
Violet Kayaga Cultural Anthropology Estelle Kennelly Body Rituals of the Nacirema Analysis Horace Miners article Body Ritual among the Nacirema offers great insight into the relevance of Anthropology to modern society by way of satire. The article characterizes the Nacirema people of North America, “discovered” by Miner, and their perceived obsession with the human body. The author claimed to analyze rites and rituals among the Nacirema people. Upon realizing that the word Nacirema read backwards is American…
