better living conditions. Some went to escape problems. Others went for adventure and to seek new experiences. The Oregon Trail migration‚ also known as the Oregon-California Trail migration‚ is one of the most important events in American History. The Oregon-California trail was a 2‚170 mile route from Missouri to Oregon and California that enabled the migration of the early pioneers to the western United States. The first emigrants to make the trip were Marcus and Narcissa Whitman who made the trip
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alongside Cesar Chavez during the United Farm Workers’ grape boycott” (L. Buada‚ personal communication‚ August 1‚ 2017). In 1978‚ when a clinic for the United Farm Workers closed its doors‚ Buada along with her nursing degree from the University of California‚ San Francisco and a box of sterile gloves‚ stood in the parking lot of the clinic to help those being turned away. Buada is a firm believer that “good health can fight poverty” (L. Buada‚ personal communication‚ August 1‚ 2017). By 1980 Buada has
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and other cultural performances. The sponsors are Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco and Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Executive Committee and Japanese-American community organizations including Japanese Benevolent Society‚ Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California‚ Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California‚ Japan Society of Northern California. Other sponsors include Toyota‚ UnionBank and Safeway. The purpose of the Cherry Blossom Festival continues
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Oregon Trail was a route of wagon trains bringing settlers from all over the united sates to the Oregon or California in 1840 to 1860s. It is one of the most important events in the history of the United States. Unlike other trails like Santa Fe Trail‚ most of the pioneers in Oregon Trail were settlers rather than traders. Pioneers usually travelled in family groups rather than individually (The Overland Trail‚ page no. 503). The trail was the only appropriate route to get to the west coast. It
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in 1917‚ Louie Zamperini was an Olympic athlete‚ a castaway ‚ and a war hero. He was living in California as a are these your words? petty street thug‚ until he had a your word? revelation that eventually led him to become a track star. However‚ as World War II broke out ‚ not even that could keep him from being drafted. The story of Mr. Zamperini’s courage begins in a small town in Southern California ‚: Torrance. There he grew up your word? scavenging the town for any trouble he could get himself
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m. A Day Without a Mexican The movie “A Day Without a Mexican” is a comic movie that shows how California would be without the help of Latinos workers. When a mysterious pink fog surrounds the boundaries of California‚ there is a communication breakdown and all the Latinos disappear. The film represents in a sort of comic way the concerns about immigration in California. It clearly highlights the idea from how Americans are dependent on Latinos. The main point of the film is what
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The Sierra Nevada mountain range stretches across the eastern side of the state of California. The range begins in the south at the Tehachapi Pass near Bakersfield and stretches north to Lake Almanor. The Sierra Nevada range is 400 miles long‚ north-to-south and has an average width of 70 miles wide. It was formed through subduction when the Pacific plate slid under the North American plate. The range is made up of deeply imbedded rock otherwise known as batholiths. The eastern slope of the mountains
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Leo Hart: Unsung Hero of California “[The school that Leo Hart built] gave us pride and dignity and honor when we didn’t have those things. The school did a great deal to cause us to believe we were special‚” said Carlton Faulconer‚ an Oklahoma migrant that graduated from Hart’s school. The Dust Bowl was a time where the mid-South states were plagued by dust storms. Families fled the area and most of them wound up in California where the current residents thought they shouldn’t be educated. Leo
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their presentation of “Air Pollution 101.” With California in a drought‚ problems develop in the water for consumption as well as the water for agriculture‚ a big factor in the profits that the valley receives. Water companies are then forced to dig into the aquifers‚ or naturally forming underground water supplies‚ which have caused the land to sink. All of these environments in the San Joaquin Valley have been affected greatly by the drought in California and have resulted in ill effects to the valley
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The Chicano Movement also known as El Movimiento played a major part in the American Civil Rights Movement. This movement began to take place in the 1960s and ended in the 1970s. The term "Chicano" was used as an insulting label for the children of Mexican migrants. In the 1960s the word "Chicano" came to be accepted as a symbol of self-determination and ethnic pride. Many groups came to be about with the word chicano. In order to effect social change‚ Chicanos felt it was necessary to enter politics
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