The Bell‚ California corruption trial pertains to a group of city officials who misappropriated more than five million dollars of public funds (CNN Wire Staff‚ 2010). These officials were receiving compensation for conducting phantom meeting‚ wrote their own employment contracts without the approval of the City Counsel‚ and authorized approximately two million dollars in loans to their selves (CNN Wire Staff‚ 2010). To grasp the corruption of the city officials we need analyze the median annual
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The Golden Rush was the digging struggled with success and failure. The gold of California was the attraction to the eyes of the world; the perfect land with all the possibilities to get richness in a short time. Argonauts undertook a dangerous journey to arrive after several days in California‚ some of them did not make it to their destiny for hunger or diseases. Others took advantage of the situation and made business such selling jerked beef‚ blankets‚ medicines‚ axes‚ and many items necessaries
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California Trip Ever since my mother had me she always talked about California and how she used to live there and how much she loved it there. She was always talking about going but we never got around to it. During my freshman year‚ about one week after the second quarter ending and over four years of planning‚ we decided to go. Our plane left from Minnesota at 5:35 AM so my dad and I just stayed awake because we were leaving our house to go to Minnesota at one. It
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“Hotel California” “Hotel California”‚ released in 1977‚ is a very famous and awarded song by the Eagles from the album with the same name. Band members‚ Glenn Frey‚ Don Henley‚ Bernie Leadon‚ Randy Meisner and Don Felder‚ were interviewed several times in order to enlighten the mysteries surrounding the lyrics of the song. Most conjectures coincide on the fact that Hotel California refers to the American Dream‚ its darkest side‚ excess‚ materialism and the loss of innocence‚ among others. We can
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California River Report The Colorado River has been become the main source of fresh water to the south west. It is what has turned the desert of the south west into a fertile farming area. It has brought life to Nevada and California when before it was impossible. The Colorado River is now being over utilized and if there were some unseen disaster this would put millions of people out of fresh water. They use the River as a plumbing system meaning that they channel the water and divert it all
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California Shoshone are a Native American tribe that lived in central California‚ along the eastern border‚ at the base of the Sierra Nevadas. Their location dictated their lifestyle. Their houses were made in a cone shape using slabs of bark or brush. They also had sweathouses that they used to keep their skin clean. The main foods of the California Shoshone were pine nuts. They occasionally hunted buffalo‚ but relied more on salmon fishing‚ deer‚ and small game. as well as roots gathered by
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was arrested on weapon charges. The Riley v. California case was argued April 29‚ 2014 and decided on June 25‚ 2014.The main issue in this case was how the police officer searched his phone without a warrant then arrested him and if this action violated the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment clearly states that “The right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers‚ and effects‚ against unreasonable searches and seizures…”.
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Migrant mother‚ Nipomo‚ California 1936 is a great picture captured by Dorothea Lange. The picture in black & white and the woman about like thirty years old with her three children. Black & white is showing countless artwork and showing past phase. The woman with her three children; the two children with both arms by turned their face showing they are starved. Other children on her lap it is a baby and he/she do not know about anything. The mother looks tense and waiting for somebody such as happiness
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Partly because of the most congested urban areas Californian has one of the worst air qualities. Accorind to California High Speed Rail Authority website in 2010 alone green house gas emissions in the U.S. totaled 6‚821.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). Central Valley residents in particular have seen increase in aspiratory ailments. The State Legislature passed Global Worming Solutions Act in 2006‚ which is aimed to reduce statewide emissions by 2020 to 1990 level (17 %). High-Speed
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The sound of the ocean is a form of relaxation but for me‚ I like to call it home. Ventura is a small county located in the southern part of the California and for the past twenty-two years it has been my sanctuary. The other two years of my life I spent in a smaller town called Irapuato‚ Guanajuato‚ Mexico. This was my birthplace and home to my parents until they made the decision of migrating directly to Ventura County. Within Irapuato City‚ there are small ranchos or ranches‚ located on the outskirts
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