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    would have to agree that only one day without Mexicans in California would result in a domino like affect of events. The State depends on the labor and leadership of Latinos more than it knows. The picture this article paints and not so far fetched. Even though some may think it to be exgarrated‚ and would prefer Mexicans to go back to Mexico. The things is they might want to consider the facts. I believe there is people in California or better yet the United States that do not realize the impact

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    San Andreas Fault Zone The San Andreas Fault Zone is located in San Francisco‚ California and is more than 800 miles long and at least 10 miles deep. The San Andreas Fault is the drifting boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. It splits California in two from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. San Diego‚ Los Angeles and Big Sur are on the Pacific Plate. San Francisco‚ Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada are on the North American Plate. There was an earthquake along

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    Espinoza 1  Jonathan Espinoza  Professor Gomez  California Studies 110  15 November 2014    The Journey of the Donner Party  Westward expansion was popular in the 1800’s due to the idea of  the “Manifest  Destiny”. The Manifest Destiny was a political movement that encouraged the people living in  the east to expand westward and establish settlement all throughout the lands of the west. Along  with the many others who wanted to move west‚ the Donner Party too wanted to benefit from the  western lands

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    Dust Bowl- Frank Manies

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    area of the United States were very poor‚ causing people to move westward bound. Frank Manies was one of those people. Now a retired schoolteacher residing in Tulare‚ he left his home in Oklahoma during times of struggle for a chance to come to California and experience a new and improved way of living and working. Frank Manies grew up in a small town in Stephen County‚ Oklahoma. Being the second youngest in his family of 6‚ Manies endured many hardships‚ such as dealing with osteomyelitis and

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    he San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of California. It covers 7 counties which are Kings‚ Kern‚ Stanislaus‚ Merced and Fresno. The San Joaquin Valley is known as the #1 producing region in California for its variety of fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. The Valley is 250 miles long and bordered on the west by the coastal mountain ranges. Even though a lot of the valley is rural there are a lot of urban cities here in the valley. I want to tell you about the five

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    Kearny west from Fort Leavenworth with 1‚700 men to invade and hold New Mexico and California. Kearny captured Santa Fe and then divided his forces‚ sending a large contingent south under Alexander Doniphan. Doniphan would eventually take the city of Chihuahua. Meanwhile‚ the war had already begun in California. Captain John C. Fremont had been in the region with 60 men: they organized American settlers in California to revolt against the Mexican authorities there. He had the support of some US navy

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    South Lake Tahoe‚ California. Douglas Strong‚ Tahoe: An Environmental History. (Lincoln‚ NE: University of Nebraska Press‚ c1984)‚ pp 22-31. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency‚ About TRPA: Mission Statement. Online. Available: http://www.trpa.org/Mission.htm. Accessed: June 1‚ 2005. U.S. Forest Service‚ Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit‚ Lake Tahoe Federal Advisory Committee. Online. Available: http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/ltbmu/local/ltfac/. Accessed: June 1‚ 2005. U.S. Census Bureau. California Population of

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    Mexican American Rights

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    miles of land and additional 30‚000 square miles purchased for 10 million dollars. Today‚ this makes up southwestern states of Arizona‚ California‚ Nevada‚ Texas‚ Utah‚ parts of Colorado. Close to 80‚000 Mexicans chose to stay with the land and the U.S. promised to give rights to the Mexicans who remained in the new territories of New Mexico‚ Texas and California after two years. These Mexicans were supposed to become full U.S. citizens and be given the privileges of the citizenship. Most of the

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    Abstract Arnold Schwarzenegger is a socialized charismatic leader who paints a strong vision for the future of California and has become a model leader for the 21st century. Quite simply he has been a leader in every field he has entered. Schwarzenegger displays several of the competencies required for leadership. Schwarzenegger’s most important foundation competency is the change competency. Governor Schwarzenegger recognized global warming was real and something needed to be done. Schwarzenegger

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    Invasive non-native plant in Southern California I research some information of Iris Pseudacorus which is commonly known as Yellowflag Iris. It is native to Europe‚ Western Asia‚ and northwest Africa. Especially‚ Pseudacours is one of two iris species native to British Island. It was brought to Canada and the U.S in the early 1900s in order to use as an erosion control plant such as used in sewage treatment cells. In recent decade‚ the plant is used in landscaping and sold through garden and

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