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National League American League
1,176 wordsBaseball is an immensely popular American game, known as the "national pastime, " played between two teams of nine players each. The basic implements used in the game are a leather-covered ball, wooden bats for hitting the ball, and gloves for catching it. Baseball is played on a large scale in Latin America, Japan, and other places besides the United States, but it is in the United States that it thrives most both as a participant's and spectator's sport. It is played at its highest level in th...
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University Of California Tobacco Industry
471 wordsOn May 12, 1994, a package containing 4, 000 pages of secret internal tobacco industry documents arrived at the office of Professor Stanton Glantz at the University of California, San Francisco. The anonymous source of these "cigarette papers" was identified in the return address only as "Mr. Butts" -- presumably a reference to the Doonesbury cartoon character. These documents provide a shocking inside account of the activities of one tobacco company, Brown & Williamson, and its multinational pa...
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California And Arizona Seventeenth Century
1,372 wordsThe early explorers who came ashore and saw the naked Indian woman and believed they were the Amazon women of another continent named California. What is the history of California and Arizona? Most people think of the 49 ers and the Gold that they found in northern California during the 1800 's. The 49 ers were not the first of the colonial settlers it was the Spanish with the aid of the Catholic church. With the expeditions of Cabrillo, Cortez, and men like Blonaquez they set the foundation for...
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Janis Joplin Port Arthur
1,324 wordsBlues legend Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19 th 1943, the eldest child of parents Seth and Dorothy Joplin. Janis was born and raised in the small Southern petroleum industry town of Port Arthur, Texas. Her father was a canning factory worker, her mother a registrar at a local business college. Her non-abbe rational upbringing coupled with the atmosphere of Port Arthur at the time; generally restrictive, intolerant, and un nurturing must " ve made even Janis' early childhood difficult. By...
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Westport Ct Greenwood Francisco Jossey Bass
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Strength And Courage Herman Melville
1,352 words... original component. According to these editors and compilers the character of Jane Mac Crea, a young woman who was abducted and murdered by the Indians, served as a source of inspiration for the death of Cora Munro. The truth is that Cooper read many captivity narratives and it is logical that he chose relevant aspects of such kind of quasi-mythical American figures in order to enrich a narrative dealing with an important episode of the history of the U. S. A. The most important genre of The...
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San Francisco Science Fiction
1,080 wordsDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K. Dick, the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, was born in 1928 in Chicago, but he lived most of his life in California. During 1952 - 1982, Philip wrote 36 novels and 5 short story collections. Philip K. Dick died in 1982 in Santa Monica, California. Philip had a rocky emotional life. He was involved in many bad marriages and was addicted to drugs. He would go through times of great creativity, then fall into times when he wouldnt write at...
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San Francisco Didn T
243 wordsDianne Day isn t as famous as Mary Higgins Clark but she had a childhood similar to her. When she was a baby in Mississippi her father died. Dianne went on to live with her grandparents and they also were not a well-financed family. When Dianne was seven she rejoined her mother was now remarried. At age eight, a little more than a year after she reunited with her mother in San Francisco she wrote her first novel. It was thirty-five pages long. The inspiration for writing led to a B. A. in Englis...
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Don Giovanni San Francisco
1,398 wordsOn Saturday October 16, 1999, the Market auditorium played host to the San Francisco Opera and their production of, Don Giovanni. The San Francisco Opera features the world s major operatic talents in its annual season. The San Francisco Opera Center represents a new era in which young artists of major operatic potential can develop through intensive training and performance. Fortunately, for the people of Southern California, these professionals came to us. Don Giovanni, a classic opera created...
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University Of California Rocky Mountains
1,660 wordsGary Snider the American Poet A spiritual man, conscious of nature and his surroundings. He recognizes good and evil, and struggles to find his own special place in the realm of all other men. He searches far and wide for places of interest, upon arrival, he hopes to find a solemn sanctuary for man and nature. Gary Sherman Snyder, the son of Harold and Lois Snyder, was born in San Francisco, California, on May 8, 1930. The Family moved quite a few times before they settled down in Portland, Oreg...
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San Francisco Drug Users
452 wordsGo ask AlicAlice, the writer of the diary. Shes 15 years old when the story begins. Her real name is not known. Mom, her mother, and Dad, her father, a university professor. Alex (andrew), her sister. Tim, her brother. Gran, her grandmother, and Gramps, her grandfather. Roger, a schoolmate with who she is in love for some time. Jill Peters, a schoolmate at her first school. Gerta, Beth, Fawn, friends she meet at her new school. Jan, Marcie, drug-users at her new school. Richie, Ted, pushers. Bil...
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Civil Rights Movement Haight Ashbury
2,204 wordsThrough out history Hippies Hippies Through out history many generations have gone by that have made an impact on more than all of its ancestors. The decade from 1960 to 1970 was definitely one of those eras. The people didnt follow the teachings of its elders, but rejected them for an alternative culture, which was their very own (Harris 14). People no longer had content to be figures of the generation that pursued them, instead young people longed for change. The changes affected lifestyles, v...
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Easily As One House Made Of Dawn Culture
694 wordsMarcia Keegan's book, Enduring Culture: A Century of Photography of the Southwest Indians, beautifully portrays the Pueblo cultures strength. By juxtaposing antique photographs from the early 1900 s, with photos of the same scene taken as much as a hundred years later, Keegan powerfully demonstrates how the Pueblo culture has endured the torment of the ages. In Moma days The House Made of Dawn, we see how these fragile customs and rituals managed to survive a century of momentous change. Through...
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Maya And Bailey Uncle Willie
785 wordsIn the beginning of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Marguerite, later known as Maya begins to tell the story of her childhood. When her parents divorced, they sent her &# 038; her brother, Bailey to live in Stamps, Arkansas with their Grandmother (Momma) and their Uncle Willie. The kids go to school in Stamps and work in the store that Momma and Uncle Willie own. One year, while they were in Stamps, their father came to visit. When he was getting ready to return to California, he asked the kids...
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Jack Kerouac Beat Generation
1,393 wordsBorn: Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac Born: March 12, 1922 Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts Died: October 21, 1969 Place of Death: St. Petersburg, Florida Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac, a French-Canadian child in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Ti Jean spoke a local dialect of French called journal before he learned English. The youngest of three children, he was heartbroken when his older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever at the age of nine. Ti Jean was an intense and seriou...
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Joe Dimaggio Baseball Players
674 wordsWhere have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Whats that you say, Mrs. Robinson? Joltin Joe has left and gone away. (Mrs. Robinson, Simon and Garfunkel). On March 8, 1999 with the passing of Joe DiMaggio America may have lost one of the great baseball players and American symbols of our time. Baseball has produced many icons, but it has only produced one Joe DiMaggio. I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was ...
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San Francisco State Ravi Shankar Handy
545 wordsJohn Handy Have you ever heard of John Handy? Probably not around here, but he is a well known person in San Francisco. Handy has done such things as taught jazz, played straight-ahead bebop, and led bands. John Handy was born in 1933 in Dallas, Texas. Not much is known about his childhood, until he moved to Oakland, California in 1948. After that he enrolled in San Francisco State College in 1952. Soon after being in college, he had to serve in the army from 1953 to 1955. Following the army, Ha...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism House Un American Activities Committee
1,759 wordsLawrence Ferlinghetti's Politics I hope I wont seem too politically incorrect for saying this but after immersing myself in the writings of the guilt-obsessed asexual Jack Kerouac, the ridiculously horny Allen Ginsberg and the just plain sordid William S. Boroughs its nice to read a few poems by a guy who can get excited about a little candy store under the El or a pretty woman letting a stocking drop to the floor (? Literary Kicks? ). For casual reading, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetry is cheerf...
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Levi Strauss San Francisco
844 wordsLoeb Strauss, whose name was later changed to Levi, was born on February 26, 1829, in Buttenheim Bavaria in Germany. He was born to his Jewish parents Hirsch Strauss and his second wife, Rebecca Haas Strauss. His father, was a dry goods peddler who traveled around the country selling dry goods. Hirsch Strauss had five other children Jacob, Jonas, Louis, Role and Mathilde from his first wife, who had died several years earlier. Loeb and his older sister Fanny were the two children Hirsch had with...
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Brother Francisco Francis Marcelino
238 wordsThe catalyst for the intense drama that follows is this scene: One exasperated monk, trying to instill discipline in a beloved orphan boy, conjures up a rule. He exclaims, You must NEVER climb this stairway! to the attic. The monk, Brother Francisco, is the dominant parent-figure, among the twelve Italian Franciscan monks, in an Hispanic land, who have adopted the youngster, Marcelino, at infancy. Marcelino, being a child, curious, mischievous, climbs the stairs. In the attic, what he finds ther...
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