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Labor Union History In California
883 wordsThe various labor movements in California have been among the most important in our nation. As a state with a tremendously diversified economy, California's workers are employed in every industry imaginable; from our huge agriculture base, to our docks, to aerospace, to construction, to the entertainment industry-the list is endless. And in each industry, workers struggled to organize themselves into collectives to shape the labor landscape of California. Some of California's labor movements hav...
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1,457 wordsThe late 1960 s and early 1970 s represented a great deal of things to a great deal of people. To the San Francisco Bay area, as well as the rest of California, the late 60 s and early 70 s represented terror, fear, and death. What started out as a seemingly random, but brutal murder on the night of October 30 th, 1966, turned out to be the start of a series of horrific murders that would span 2, 500 suspects, 56 possible victims, and over 400 miles. On the calm, cool night of December 20 th, 19...
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Younger Sister San Francisco
1,266 wordsEver since I was a young kid I have always been interested with aircraft. I was so curious of how airplanes fly. I remember taking my toys apart to see how it works. As a kid I wanted to go to the airport to watch the airplanes land and fly and pondered how this happens. Other kids wanted to go to the amusement places. As I grew older I became more and more interested in aircraft and the technology behind it. I always involved myself with aviation early on. I read books and magazines on aviation...
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California Gold Rush San Francisco Bay
2,773 wordsCalifornia Gold Rush By: Don Gibson The California Gold Rush Shortly after the acquisition of California from Mexico a man by the name of John Sutter arrived in East San Francisco Bay in 1839. Born in Germany he had to leave because he was unable to pay his creditors. With plenty of charm and letters from friends he convinced the Mexican governor of California to award him a land grant of more than 50, 000 acres. John Sutter built a stockade and a fort and soon after became referred to as Captai...
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People With Aids Medicinal Marijuana
897 wordsMarijuana-for-AIDS Study? The first domestic study of marijuana's effects on AIDS patients is expected to begin in May in San Francisco. While this preliminary study is designed to focus on whether marijuana is safe enough for AIDS patients to use, it is the first clinical trial in 15 years that would obtain any data whatsoever on marijuana's medical effectiveness. On September 18, 1997, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announced that it would give Donald Abrams, M. D. , a grant to st...
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Closet Scene Kill Claudius
3,370 wordsHamlet went through various emotional states because of different unfortunate circumstances that confronted him. Yet Hamlet never went so far over the edge so as to not come back from reality, yet for reasons psychological, he procrastinated actions that he should have taken, until it was too late. I will first discuss Hamlet, the origins for his queer behavior and if it twas feigned or not. In the first act we see that Hamlet is a sort of idealistic man coming back to the world from university ...
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Helter Skelter San Francisco
1,127 wordsPIG was the word smeared in blood on the door at 10050 Cielo Dr. on August 8, 1969. Beyond the door lay the bodies of Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Vote Frykowski and Jay Sebring all with multiple stab wounds and bullet holes. A couple of them had electrical cords around the necks and were hanged from the rafters of the Tate residence, the rest of the house had blood on the ceiling, blood on the walls, and blood on the floor. The following night at 3301 Waverly Dr. came the discovery of more bodi...
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Fee For Service Board Of Directors
2,219 wordsHMOs: The Health Care of the Beast Many people are concerned about rising health care costs. In reaction to this, some individuals and companies are gravitating toward the assumed lower prices of Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) health plans. HMOs spend billions of dollars each year advertising their low cost services. While these savings look good on paper, there are many pages of small print. The explanation after the asterisk indicates that not only do the HMOs lack lower costs, but they...
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Hunter S Thompson Loathing In Las Vegas
1,961 wordsIn the late sixties a young journalist and free-lance novelist named Hunter S. Thompson (HST) emerged with a new, crazed and exaggerated brand of reporting. It was sooner or later referred to as? Gonzo? . HST? s own definition of gonzo has varied over the years, but he still maintains that a good gonzo journalist? needs the talent of a master journalist, the eye of an artist / photographer and the heavy balls of an actor? and that gonzo is a? style of reporting based on William Faulkner? s idea ...
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Caged Bird Sings Don T Worry
1,352 words1) Summary of Character Traits a) School smart (Maya is smart. When she moves to San Francisco from Stamps, Arkansas, she is skipped a grade. ) b) Caring sister (she always talks of her devotion to Baily) c) Determined (she wants to get a job with the streetcar company and she keeps bugging them until they finally give her a job) d) Proud (she lives with the junkyard kids instead of going back to her father? s; she slaps Dolores for calling her mother a whore) 2) Appearance a) African American, ...
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John Muir Forest Lands
1,557 wordsJohn Muir's Trail in History John Muir was a man of great importance in the history of the United States and in the preservation of its beauty. His tireless efforts to protect natural wonders such as Yosemite Valley demonstrated his undying love for the outdoors. Muir took a stand against the destructive side of civilization in a dauntless battle to save Americas forest lands. The trail of preservation that Muir left behind has given countless numbers of people the opportunity to experience natu...
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Life On The Mississippi Huckleberry Finn
799 wordsMark Twain Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was born in Florida, MO, on Nov. 30, 1835, and he died on Apr. 21, 1910. Through this pen name he achieved worldwide fame during his lifetime as an author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death his literary stature has further increased, with such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner declaring his works particularly Huckleberry Finn major influence on 20 th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in...
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Samuel Clemens Mark Twain
607 wordsSamuel Clemens was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. This was the home of his later characters Tom Sawer and Huck Finn. In these books he incorporated such features that really existed in Hannibal; features such as Holidays Hill, Bear Creek and Lover? s Leap. Clemens described the residents of Hannibal as happy and content with the lives they led in their small town. In his late teens, Clemens left Hannibal on a riverboat to become a printer in St. Louis. He moved up in the ranks of printi...
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420 wordsSamuel Clemens was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. This was the home of his later characters Tom Sawer and Huck Finn. In these books he incorporated such features that really existed in Hannibal; features such as Holidays Hill, Bear Creek and L In his late teens, Clemens left Hannibal on a riverboat to become a printer in St. Louis. He moved up in the ranks of printing and moved to New York and eventually to Washington D. C. Clemens remembered how much fun he had had on the riverboat and...
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Samuel Clemens Mark Twain
585 wordsMark Twain s Western Adventures Samuel Clemens began a 57 - year habit of traveling around the world in 1953 at the age of seventeen when he first left his home in Hannibal, Missouri. It was not until 1861 that he began his western adventures when he accompanied his brother Orion to Nevada. The adventures that he experienced during this trip and other trips to the West became the basis of some of Mark Twain s future writings. Samuel Clemens actually adopted the pen name of Mark Twain in 1963 bet...
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Lot Of People Herbert Hoover
1,298 wordsMasterminds of the Hoover Da Imagine creating a dam 726 feet high and almost 1, 244 feet long. Critics said it couldnt be done that it was impossible. To many people it was a challenge of great magnitude. From Herbert Hoover the president of the United States in 1928, to a 69 year old guard, the Hoover dam was created. The only way to under stand the Hoover dam is to know its masterminds. During the early 1920 s when the legislation was thinking of authorizing a building of a dam on the Colorado...
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Maya And Bailey Maya Angelou
1,232 wordsMaya Angelou is a phenomenal woman. She was born into a devastating decade, that suffered numerous tragedies. Not only had society shaped her as a woman, she has also shaped our society and influenced many lives. She is still living today, yet I believe her legend will never die. Furthermore I will share with you what motivated her and some of her gratifying experiences. How she was effected by society, and what she did about it. Also how the time period she was born into made her the extraordin...
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Caged Bird Sings Contemporary Literary Criticism
2,130 wordsHer life was never easy. From the time she was born, Maya Angelou was subjected to racism, rape, grief and dehumanization. She based enough emotional stress in a time frame that most people dont experience in a lifetime. Yet she prevailed. She forced herself to become stronger. And in doing so, she produced writings, which in turn, helped others to become strong. Her experiences and the lessons learned gave her confidence to be a teacher, a preacher, and an inspiration to millions. Maya Angelou ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Maya Angelou
796 wordsMaya Maya Angelou Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981. She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nomination. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and del...
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San Francisco Chronicle Listening To Music
2,277 wordsMozart and the Mind Music appears to be one of the fundamental activities of mankind. In nearly every country around the world people are dancing, singing, jiving, or chillin to their favorite tunes. There is just something about the variations of musical notes all mixed together that can alter the way we act, feel, and even think. It is generally agreed that music causes some kind of increased arousal in those who are the least bit interested in it and are listening with some degree of concentr...
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