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    Barbara Leigh Werner Everest University Online California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mistake Recently a Federal Judge has court ordered California Officials to reduce the California Inmate population that is crowding their State Prisons within a six month time frame. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is again disappointing the California people and creating a newly revised strategy to drain the pockets of several California tax payers as anemergency solution to their current

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    To begin chapter one of The Sociological Imagination‚ ‘The Promise’‚ Mills explains the state of the everyday man during the 1950s. He describes this state as one of both imprisonment and helplessness. On one hand‚ men are restrained by the habit of their own lives: they go to their job and are an operative‚ and then are a family-man once they arrive home. There are many restricted jobs that men carry-out‚ and a look at man’s everyday life shows that men cycle through these different jobs. However

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    The Gold Rush established California as a place for life in the fast lane. It has been 150 years since that most significant event in California and the nation’s history. In 1848 a cry rang out that uprooted homes the world over and sent ships to the sea‚ wagons to the Northwest and hopes and dreams skyward. The cry was GOLD and the California Gold Rush was on. The Gold Rush had a profound impact on the settling of California. Hundreds of thousands came to find gold‚ and many of them stayed. San

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    How do we keep Lincoln’s Promise? We keep Lincoln’s promise just as he said- "malice toward none"‚ "charity for all"‚ and to "care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan". Taking care of our veterans can go a long way. Many veterans go through hard times returning home or even on duty. "Malice toward none"... This is a promise we can all work on. We can all get along and treat all people with respect. This especially goes towards all veterans. They have fought

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    The Drought In California

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    Third‚ the drought in California causes the environment to change. Drought affects our environment in many different ways‚ both temporary and permanently. For the temporary impact‚ since plants and animals depend on water just like us‚ we may lose a lot of food supply. However‚ drought can impact our environment in the most serious way‚ and it will last very long even when the drought is over. The permanent impact that created by drought may include such as‚ loss of wetlands (moisture)‚ wind and

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    After reading page 1-77 of Serafina’s Promise I understand a lot of thing and what people in Haiti had to happen. This story is around Serafina and her family. Manman‚papa ad Gogo. Then you meet Serafina’s friend Nadia and Julia Mary. The story starts when Serafina is looking for water. Her mother was pregnant at the time the doctor told her that she need to eat more because the baby heartbeat are weak and that she was going to bring her a present tomorrow. The next day the baby die. Serafina and

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    California Democracy

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    What is democracy? And most importantly is the United States and California Democratic? One of the first societies that exercised democracy was Athens. The Athenian people were democratic and valued political affairs. Thought out 594 B.C.E to 338 B.C.E democracy in Athens flourished. To the Greeks‚ democracy meant that the people ruled (L). Now we define democracy as popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is when the people are the ultimate source of authority and the government does their bidding

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    California Budget

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    California Budget Crisis Rozlyn Brown Comm/215 BSDC0TEBB5 Michele Watson   Poor money management of the State of California has caused people to suffer. The global recession has caused California and many other states to plummet. In the Los Angeles Times California deficit is said to be $25.4 billion according to the states chief analyst. The state of California has taken drastic measure to fix this problem. Fixing the problem includes layoffs

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    God's Promise Sparknotes

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    One of the ways that the narrator is communicating the importance of God’s Promise is through Rahab’s important speech in verses 8-14. We know that Rahab has done something really nice for the spies‚ but we do not know why until this portion. Now‚ she goes up to the roof to explain to the spies why she has helped them. Her confession is unexpected because she is a prostitute‚ but she claims YHWH as God and describes the miraculous things she had heard that God had done for them. In referring to what

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    Mills The Promise Summary

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    C. Wright Mills article “The Promise” is a very influential article. Consider a time when something happened to you and in some way or another it affected someone else what would be the explanation for that? Mill’s defines “sociological imagination” as the ability to understand the relationship between life‚ history‚ and society. The article has three main components: (1) Society - our traditions and values (2) History - the way things have become (3) Biography - the story of our life. As discussed

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