What do we learn about Jin's new life, in comparison to his life in San Francisco's Chinatown. People don't accept his culture, so he is very lonely and isolated. students and teacher judge him for being different.
Follow. This booklet explains why oil was the real cause of the First World War, and explains the economic and geopolitical interests behind all the major players of this war. Moreover it compares the first Great War for oil in 1914 with the oil wars of 2014 in Syria and Iraq one hundred years later.
In 1859, Colonel Edwin L. Drake was hired to drill for oil, a novel idea at the time, at what became Titusville, Pennsylvania. Drake s Folly eventually struck oil and began producing hundreds of barrels each month. The discovery touched off an oil rush nearly as intense as the earlier gold rush in California. Thousands of hopeful men poured into western Pennsylvania, hoping to strike it rich. Later discoveries were made in West Virginia and Ohio. Cleveland and Pittsburgh became leading refinement centers.