There has not been a bigger earthquake‚ or even one that comes close to the size of the San Francisco earthquake. That shook San Francisco‚ California with a magnitude of 7.8 that horrific day‚ in the year of 1906. The people of San Francisco had no idea of what was going to happen to their city on that day. Everything was about to change for the people of San Francisco‚ California. The San Francisco earthquake was completely devastating for the people. Leaving many in the aftermath homeless with
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Mission San Luis was found to be the only settlement besides St. Augustine to house hundreds of Spanish residents among the Florida’s native people for at least three generations. It was known to early Europeans as the Apalachees native “Capital” village which was active from 1656 to 1704. In 1656 the Apalachee Indians decided to move their village to the second highest hill in present-day Tallahassee‚ where Mission San Luis is currently located off Tennessee Street. Using groups of palm-thatches
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colonization resulted in a destructive genocidal impact on the San people. Thousands of San died in the hands of Dutch settlers‚ one of the main groups of settlers being the Trek Boers. During the immense agricultural growth in the Dutch Cape Colony in the late 1700s‚ a surplus in crops caused many settlers to turn to stock farming. These farmers searched for broad grazing grounds for their livestock and ventured further into San territory. The San people were not content. They viewed the Trek Boers as intruders
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and more than 1m of Burma’s 46m-strong population are unaccounted for. Most people also know that Burma is the setting for an extraordinary political morality tale—Asia’s beauty and the beast. While the world’s most famous political prisoner‚ Aung San Suu Kyi‚ has been forced to fight for democracy behind the locked gates of her home in University Avenue in Rangoon‚ the country has been slowly strangled by a secretive junta whose fiscal policies are drawn up by astrologers. There was thus great
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California State University of San Bernardino California State University of San Bernardino (also known as the coyotes of CSUSB) is a large‚ public university and liberal arts college. It was created in 1960 but opened until 1965 and it has more than 17‚000 students attending this school. This coed college is located in a small city in a suburban setting called San Bernardino‚ California and is primarily a commuter campus. It offers certificate‚ bachelor ’s‚ master ’s and doctoral degrees. The
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1 | Page . Attention Step . When will you eat next? Will you be eating dinner tonight? . Need Step . Today‚ there are over 446‚000 people that are going hungry in San Diego County. http://sandiegofoodbank.org/hunger-in-san-diego/ . A story of a fellow San Diegan and her family who are also having hunger problems. 1. Alejandra in her late 20s moved in with her sister Marisol‚ her husband‚ and her three kids to help take care of them. 2. Marisol worked days and Alejandra nights
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Sex and Social Movements in San Francisco Social deviance and San Francisco go together like peanut butter and jelly. From the California Gold Rush to current social justice movements‚ the city has offered a place to foster new ideas and shelter outcasts. In a time where men dominated the public sphere‚ madams of the Barbary Coast were still able to have financial agency. Later down the line in the 1960’s‚ San Francisco provided a platform to reanalyze conventional norms in an era of political unrest
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The first electric streetcars in San Francisco began operation in 1892 under the auspices of the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway. At that time‚ it was estimated that it cost twice as much to build and six times as much to operate a line with cable cars as with electric streetcars. By the beginning of 1906 many of San Francisco’s remaining cable cars were under the control of the United Railroads of San Francisco (URR)‚ although Cal Cable and the Geary Street Company remained independent
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Due to the local naval bases and the strong maritime trade‚ the San Francisco Bay Area became one of the leading centers for the development of radio and radar. Bell Labs was back east‚ in New York and New Jersey‚ but around the San Francisco Bay was perhaps the highest concentration of amateur or “ham” radio operators anywhere in the world. These amateur enthusiasts were constantly figuring out better ways to send or receive a radio signal. Around 1920‚ there were many local‚ mostly young‚
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