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San Francisco Chronicle World War Ii
1,344 wordsThe novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles looks into the life of young men on the verge of adulthood. Some of them are not able to cope, while others deal with life and make the best of it. The novel does an excellent job of portraying life during World War II, as seen through the eyes of a young boy. The story takes places in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the Devon School. It opens during the summer of 1942. In A Separate Peace, the main character, Gene, starts to feel as though him and Phineas (...
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Bride Comes To Yellow Sky Verbal Irony
936 wordsIn the mockery of a Western type story, Stephen Cranes The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky has a simple story line with great meaning against inflexibility. With outlandish humor Crane takes the town of Yellow Sky and their marshal Jack Potter through the change of time, proving nothing can stay stagnant. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky is an ironic comedic literary archetype. The characters of Cranes story closely resemble ones found in an ironic comedy with no central character. Jack Potter plays the ...
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Jack London Pacific Ocean
554 wordsJohn (Jack) Griffith London (1876 - 1916) was born in San Francisco, California. His mother, Flora Wellman, came from a wealthy family. As an infant, Virginia Prentiss, a major mother figure, raised Jack in Jacks childhood, an ex-slave. She was obligated to care for Jack because Jacks mother was ill. In his teenage years, Jack worked very hard jobs he served on a fish patrol catching poachers; he pirated oysters on the San Francisco Bay; he sailed the Pacific Ocean on a sealing ship; and he join...
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747 wordsOn November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens was born, Samuel Langhorne. Four years later the family moved to Hannibal, the place Clemens spent his boyhood years. His town was located on the bank of the Mississippi River to which the boy had strong ties. The steamboats on the river made Clemens dream of becoming a steamboat pilot. One short year after his father's death in 1847, Samuel became apprentice to printer Joseph Ament, the publisher of the Missouri ...
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Pulitzer Prize Los Angeles
850 wordsTony Kushner was born in New York City, Manhattan, New York in 1956. He was raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Both of his parents were musicians, and they encouraged him to follow his dreams seeing that he took interest in theatre at a young age. Hes Jewish and practices the gay lifestyle. He was educated at both Columbia University and New York University. He received degrees in medieval studies and in theatre. Hes currently living in New York City. Kushner started writing his plays in the ear...
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Los Angeles Times Crack Cocaine
524 wordsThe CIA says it has not found any record of a relationship between itself and Nicaraguan drug dealers or others who allegedly operated a 1980 s cocaine ring in California and funneled the profits to a CIA-run guerrilla army. The intelligence agency's assertion was contained in documents filed Monday in U. S. District Court in San Diego. A copy of the filing was made available today by the CIA. William H. McNair, the information review officer for the CIA, said a search of agency records found no...
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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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The Central Valley Agricultural Coalition
1,422 wordsThe Central Valley (also known as the Great Valley) is one of the most developed farming communities in the United States, and possibly the world. It is over four hundred and thirty miles long, and an average of fifty miles wide (about the size of England). It is totally enclosed by mountains including the Sierra Nevada. It is about one of the worlds largest valleys stretching from Redding to Bakersfield. It has two main water supplies, which are the Sacramento (from the north) River, and the Sa...
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Started Talking San Diego
1,357 wordsThis is story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down I like to take a minute just sit right there, Ill tell you how I became in love with the girl around the way. In the summer of 1995, I met this beautiful Mexican girl that just moved on my block. I was only in 5 th grade and she was in 6 th and 1 year older than I was. I met her threw my friends that I played with everyday on my block. When I walked outside one day I saw this unfamiliar girl coloring with my friends on the sidewa...
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Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
980 wordsThough Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Evelyn Waughs Decline and Fall are written by two different authors, they share similar content and themes. In The Sun Also Rises, Brett desires Jake but cannot commit as a result of Jakes impotence. Similarly, in Decline and Fall, Margot cannot commit to Paul because of his time in jail. Both men seem to be infatuated with someone who does not share the same interests in their relationship. These relationships are hollow, showing no emotion and ...
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Alfred Stieglitz Los Angeles
1,198 words? Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few creative artists of today. He has recreated the matter-forms and forces of nature; he has made these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of the work. His work illuminates man? s inner journey toward perfection of the spirit. ? Ansel Adams, Date Unknown Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) may seem like he was a confused man in trying to find his photographic goal (s). Just like many other photographers, both of his time and now, he strove to find what tr...
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Northern Hemisphere Food Shortage
875 wordsThe gray whale decline has been an eminent problem for many decades. There are numerous reasons for the gray whales to be in decline. Some of these reasons include the whale hunting that occurred in the mid 1860 s into the early 1870 s on the coast of California (Jones, pg. 173). There are, to this day, two countries that continue to ignore the whale moratorium (Busch, pg. 103). Another reason is the dead gray whales washing up on the shores of the West Coast, which is probably due to their food...
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1,025 wordsFarewell to Manzanar Research Paper Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatuski Houston, is a book about the author? s personal experience before, during, and after her internment at Manzanar. This research paper will provide a brief description of the publication of the book, a brief synopsis of the novel, and give a critical evaluation of the novel. The San Francisco Book Company first published this book in San Francisco, in October 1973, nearly thirty years after the author? s experience. Cond...
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Ian Malcolm Jurassic Park
762 wordsThe premise of the novel is discovering the ability to recover and clone fossilized dinosaur DNA from the abdomen of fossilized gnats and mosquitoes preserved in amber (fossilized tree sap). There is a high degree of biotechnological applications as these procedure are explained. The novel has basically three underlying themes: 1. The latest theories on the behavior of dinosaurs and their biological relationship to modern day bird The theory of chaos and the problems with mans attempt to control...
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Garcia Marquez Santiago Nasar
857 wordsThere are many different forms of imagery, simple forms, complex forms long forms and short forms. Imagery when used correctly can turn a good book but if used incorrectly it can tear a story apart. The most effective form of imagery is one that allows the reader to quickly picture the image the author is trying to portray. If the image requires too much thought it often disturbs the flow of the passage. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's images were extremely effective, they create lasting impressions in...
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Charmian Kittredge San Francisco First
568 wordsJack Griffith London was born in San Francisco in 1876 his mother was of a wealthy background, her name was Flora Wellman. His father may have been William Chaney, a journalist, lawyer, and major figure in the development of American astrology. Because Flora was ill, an ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss, who was a major mother like figure while he grew up, raised Jack through infancy. Late in 1876, Flora married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran. The family moved around the Bay area ...
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Jack London Physical Ability
1,171 wordsI would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time Jack London Jack London fought his way up from a life of hard, factory labor in Oakland, California, to become the highest pai...
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Jack London San Francisco
633 wordsJack London was a prolific writer, one of the most widely read American writers of the early 20 th century. During his short life, he wrote fifty books, plus many articles and short stories. Besides being one of the most widely read authors, he was also the highest-paid. However, Jack London did not spend all of his time writing. Besides being an author, he also was a gold prospector, a homeless, a pirate, a sailor, and a factory worker. London was determined to live an adventurous life: I would...
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University Of California Left Side
923 wordsPerfect Perfect Pitch Perfect Pitch Perfect Pitch is the ability to identify any musical note without comparison to a reference note, and is a talent displayed in a small amount of people. What causes it is a question which has attracted a lot of attention lately. Scientists are asking them selves if it is a learned ability or are we given this unique talent through our genes. MRI scans in test have shown an enlarged portion of the brain present in individuals gifted the ability of perfect pitch...
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19 Th Century Puerto Rico
615 wordsThe Caribbean before the landing of Columbus served almost as a bridge between the north coast of South America and Florida for the Amazonian tribes in the south and the north american inhabitants. When Christopher Columbus on his second trip in 1493 landed in Puerto Rico and claimed it for Spain, he found the island populated by as many as 60, 000 Arawak or Taino indians, which for the most part, were friendly compared to the Carib indians in some of the more southerly islands which were warlik...
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