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A Place, a People, a Dream: The Californian Dream
Paradoxes
The Californian Dream can be regarded as one of the most paradoxical concept in history. The story and paradoxes written by Rawls is strongly supported by the anonymous accounts in many scenarios. Although the anonymous accounts limit itself to only the gold rush era, it still depicts some of the things mentioned in the story written by Rawls. To the weather of California, the reality of the gold rush, and the population growth of California, Both stories compliment each other as they both accurately describe the lifestyle of California in the 1850’s and beyond.
Growth as a situation described in both stories, as both writers talked about California was one of the fastest growing state and the most populous. The present population of the country is set down at 45,000. Some 12,000 more are yet to arrive… ( Anon. 38.) This shows that the population during the Gold Rush was least to say booming, also described......

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