San Francisco‚ which then had a population of approximately 400‚000 people. The massive main temblor‚ having a 7.7–7.9 magnitude‚ lasted about one minute and was the result of the rupturing of the northernmost 296 miles of the 800-mile San Andreas fault.The quake was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and inland as far as central Nevada. One important characteristic of the shaking
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Change is a natuChange? Yes‚ change.ral part of life. It can evolve in you‚ your family‚ your friends and even your job. Throughout the story “New African” by Andrea Lupe; you see clearly that change is visible. When you read this story though‚ you see‚ in the most heated moments‚ the change in views and opinion. There are certain circumstances in this story where there are two major changes in view happen; first with Sarah‚ then her brother. Sarah‚ the main character‚ has an internal view.
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5/2/13 Nick Essay Block: D Stingo As a teenager we tend to focus more on relationship ‚ and or crushes and who we associate with. We get so caught up in who we’re involved with we tend to get controlling‚ and care way too much. Almost like Nick Andreas in the novel “Breathing Underwater” by Alex Finn. This book shows that when you keep things in and grow feelings quickly it could impact your life. The main character in this book was Nick ‚ he was the usually teenage kid ‚ good grades ‚ popular kid
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People ran from there houses and some stayed inside the buildings and were crushed. The people who ran in the streets were killed by toppled buildings falling from above. There fire department was efficient but the water pipes that go down the San Andreas Fault were severed. The fire could not be stopped because there were now water until the next couple of days. Gas mains blew and caused massive fires all around the city. The city was in the middle of a great economic boom and almost all was lost
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the east-cost‚ earthquakes riddle the area. Just like how tornados are very common to us. Many parts of this disaster are very common to earthquakes that occur all around the world. There is a fault near the San Francisco area‚ the San Andreas Fault. This fault has been the birth place of many earthquakes striking this area for hundreds of years‚ and was for the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. The earthquake’s
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Struck Today?" National Geographic. National Geographic Society‚ 13 Apr. 2006. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0413_060413_earthquake.html>. Schulz‚ Sandra S.‚ and Robert E. Wallace. "The San Andreas Fault." The San Andreas Fault. USGS‚ 24 June 1997. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/safaultgip.html>.
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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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