Municipality of San Juan I. Proponent : University of Batangas through the Center for Research‚ Publications‚ and Extension and the Batangas Heritage Center II. Duration : January 2013 – June 2013 III. Implementing Agency : University of Batangas through its agencies and the Municipality of San Juan‚ Batangas through the Office of the Mayor and the Municipal Council IV. Funding Agency : Municipality of San Juan‚ Batangas
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Juan Ponce de Leon Juan Ponce de Leon was born around 1460 in San Tervas de Campos‚ Spain. He was the first Spanish explorer to arrive in Florida. In 1493‚ Ponce de Leon and Christopher Columbus sailed together on Columbus’ 2nd voyage to America. They had settled on an island named Hispaniola‚ which is present day Dominican Republic‚ where Ponce de Leon had become governor at. In 1506‚ he had discovered an island close by named Borinquen‚ and during his time here‚ he found lots of gold. Once
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The Juan De Fuca tectonic plate is found on the west coast of North America. It is next to the North American plate‚ and according to America’s Tectonics‚ the Juan de Fuca plate is getting subducted under it. This plate is made of oceanic crust‚ but it is also basaltic in some areas. It was named after the pilot and sailor‚ Juan de Fuca‚ an explorer from Europe in the 1600s. The Juan de Fuca plate has a divergent boundary in the Juan de Fuca ridge. New material is made by the Juan de Fuca ridge
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Baseball player Alex Rodriguez went from having a salary of twenty nine million to ending his career shortly‚ all because of the embarrassment of using Performance Enhancement Drugs (P.E.D.). He was caught using a banned substance and it cost him a season of baseball. Performance Enhancement Drugs are any type of drug that an athlete can take to increase the abilities or performance of themselves. The punishments for violating the Drug policy in sports should be intensified because of the damage
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The book has a direct connection between the hardships Latinos faced economically and military in their perspective countries. By reading this book it is clearly stated that Latinos are on the verge of becoming the largest minority group in America. Juan Gonzalez presents a devastating perspective on U.S. history rarely found in mainstream publishing aimed at a popular audience. Few of those countries were immigrants from Puerto Rico‚ Mexico‚ Dominican Republic and Central Americans. Gonzales develops
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Modern day competition caused many people experience bilingual education. Richard Rodriguez‚ the writer of “Aria‚” is one of them. Rodriguez refers “private language” as his native language and “public language” as what he will use at school. His “private language” is Spanish and his “public language” is English. He argues that it is unnecessary for student to be taught in two different languages. He said‚ the foreign language that will be taught diminishes the value of the native language; lower
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historians failed to mention was all of the patriots who were involved‚ leading up to the Alamo and those who fought after. One of these patriots was Juan Sequin‚ who ended up paying for his patriotism with banishment‚ and being marked a traitor. It would be many years after his death before the full story of what this man‚ and others‚ actually achieved. Juan Sequin was born in what is now known as San Antonio Texas‚ his family can be credited with settling this area. At the time our present day San Antonio
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In 2010‚ Gaby Rodriguez‚ a junior from Issaquah‚ Washington decided to fake a pregnancy as a social experiment for her senior board project. She faced many internal as well as external challenges from her peers‚ her family‚ teachers‚ and the media along the way but the end result made it all worth it. It seemed that teen pregnancies ran in the family‚ Gaby’s sisters‚ mom‚ and grandmother all became pregnant as teenagers. Even though she had a great reputation and maintained straight A’s‚ no one
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The selected work is "Golfe Juan‚" an oil-on-canvas painted by French artist Raoul Dufy in 1927. The painting measures 33" X 40" and is currently housed at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. In the painting‚ a single tree is rooted on a foreground terrace with a view of a seaside village that extends out onto a peninsula. Dufy utilized numerous formal elements to give "Golfe Juan" depth and interest. Lines are abundant in the painting‚ adding depth‚ texture‚ shape‚ and even for separating large
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Hello‚ I am touching base regarding TaiJuan’s credits. TJ attended summer school he needed .50 credit which he completed. TJ also‚ needed Geography 9 needed .19 credits he completed .24 in summer school. When he completed those credits he was moved into Civics 9 and US History 10A. From my understanding Champlin Park students completes Civics in the 9th grade however‚ in South Washington Public Schools (Park High School) students do not complete Civics until 12th grade. TJ completed both night
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