For my creative task I’ve chosen to write a newspaper article about the 1848 California gold rush. My aim is to show, how following the American dream was praised by Americans and even more, that people were happy if someone had succeeded in their pursuits. The event brought many people from America and all around europe to California is hopes to find gold and thus materialize their dreams of success. At the time, most immigrants travelled from Germany and a bulk of them took part in the gold rush, encouraging more foreigners and the like to come to America to pursue their happiness. I’m trying to mimic the style of the 1850s newspapers and to portray the emotions people might have had about the event but it is rather difficult to accomplish in an article. The article is published in the newspaper The Californian which was shut down in the 1849 because its entire staff had left for the gold fields and this exactly depicts the sort of determination surrounded “The American Dream”.
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Highly important from California! – Great excitement among the people!! – Gold region inexhaustible!!! – A new people and a gold forest!!!!
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He got an ounce! She found a nugget! Mr. Daniel sold his dust for $3,400,000! – this message is clear and now thousands of people every day go, by any means necessary, to the gold fields of California to sift sand and mine rocks to finally get rich. We don’t condemn, god forbid, write letters, call for more, because from where there is plenty must be given to where there is need. Just yesterday we met Mr. Daniel, who had sold his gold dust for three milion, he told us he was the scum of the earth, but now a rich man and promised to spoil the streetkids as rotten as his teeth. Fare thee well Mr. Daniels and let god guide thine charitable hand. We can all but sing in