are still talking about it today. I have heard a lot about the earthquake and I know that it occurred on October 17‚ 1989 at 5:04pm and that it lasted 15 seconds. The earthquake was 6.9 on the Richter scale and was caused by a slip along the San Andreas Fault. People felt the earthquake for miles‚ from north of San Francisco to far below Santa Cruz. The earthquake killed 63 people‚ injured 3757 people‚ left 10‚000 people homeless and caused over $6 billion dollars of damage. It was a big one!!
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The Three Little College Students Once Upon a time‚ there were three piglet sisters who decided to take the next step in their life a go to college. After twelve years of grade school the felt that going to college was greatest achievements of all. The three piglets’ names were: Jasmine who was majoring in Nursing‚ Vanessa who was majoring in Criminal Justice‚ and Elizabeth who was majoring in Accounting. They all had outstanding grades so there college of choice was USC. Before they knew it
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Five Times Free- Andrea Yates On June 20‚ 2001 while her husband was at work‚ Andrea Yates committed what some might perceive as the most repulsive crime in history. She systematically drowned her five children in the family bathtub‚ while feeling nowhere close to remorseful. After committing the crime she picked up the phone dialed 9-1-1 and calmly-too calmly- ask the operator to send the cops. What they found upon arrival was a woman sitting silently on the living room couch‚ while her five children
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approaches to learning a language by students. We will discuss some of those‚ and then this essay will design a one-on-one conversation class for a specific Mexican student in MM2D level of the IMAC school. Student Background: Our student’s name is Andrea Lizeth Quintero‚ who was born in Mexico and speaks Spanish as her native language. As a level MM2D in her English classes and possessing an interest in learning French‚ she is not the only one in her family with an interest in foreign languages;
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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake is widely believed to be the most significant earthquake of all time with regards to destruction‚ loss of life‚ and subsequent learnings. On the 110th anniversary of the April 18th‚ 1906 earthquake‚ we delve into how our understanding of earthquakes has developed and how this particular earthquake helped further our understanding. In 1906 San Francisco was a thriving city of 400‚000 and an important economic and trading center of the U.S. west coast. On April 18th
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“Art is never finished‚ only abandoned.” Leonardo da Vinci stated this‚ and can be applied to many aspects of his many carriers. It was both a literal and philosophical quote‚ as he was an artist‚ along with being an inventor‚ a scientist‚ an aviator‚ a geographer‚ a sculptor‚ and a military engineer‚ along with many other professions. Leonardo da Vinci was an important figure in the world of aviation because he was the man who invented the first concept for the first helicopter‚ as well as building
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Earthquakes Lab Assignment Lab Assignment in “Quiz” format to be completed online Read the Introduction to Earthquake Hazards and Human Risks lab in your lab manual and complete Activity 16.1 and 16.4. After completing this lesson’s laboratory reading assignment‚ answer the following questions that refer to Lab 16: Activities 16.1 and 16.4. The questions have been reformatted to be included as a Quiz in GoVIEW. Make sure you read the discussions in the lab manual related to each one of the questions
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can make the buildings also tip and lean. Los Angeles was built on a myriad of transform faults that include Santa Monica fault‚ the San Fernando fault‚ and Northridge/Santa Barbara fault. Even though these faults are not as well-known as the San Andreas Fault‚ where it margins are between the Pacific and North American plates that cross Southern California. Los Angeles is sitting near at least 60 known faults. The earth still moves frequently in these smaller less known areas. One example of this
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as the Long Point Eureka Heights fault system. Houston however has no recorded history of earthquakes appearing within its borders‚ so it’s safe to predict that no high magnitude earthquakes will occur in this city. San Francisco lies on the San Andreas Fault‚ where high intensity earthquakes have frequently occurred. In the past two hundred years‚ multiple earthquakes with a magnitude 6 or higher have occurred within or very near the city of San Francisco. The most notable of these was in 1906‚
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San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24‚ 1797 by father Fermin Lasuen. It was named after john the Baptist. It is located 17 miles north of the city of Salinas in the town of San Juan Bautista‚ 4 miles off U.S. highway 101. The church was destroyed in an earthquake in 1803. The people were sad. They were sad because they had a plan to make it better. Father Arroyo was the first person to make a dictionary for native Americans. It was painted by Thomas Doak. He was a sailor from Boston. He jumped
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