California History Vocabulary July 1769: Spanish Gov. chose to settle in California in San Diego 1542 official welcoming for Spanish to California October 12‚1492: Columbus’ expedition to find treasure for queen Isabella 1517 Spanish created civilization where the Native Americans were 1519 Cortez comes to shore at the FIRST Spanish city Vera Cruz Aztec- Montezuma was the god there at the time Cortes came to America -Montezuma sent 13‚000 pounds of gold to Cortes to leave his land.
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As many people know‚ California has been experienced drought for more than 5 years. However‚ most of people don’t realize California drought is a big environment disaster. The drought affects the agriculture directly‚ so that a lot of famers experience the loss of their products. According to the BBC news‚ California drought has already made more than 50‚000 people turn into unemployment‚ and the California drought also cause the economic loss accumulated to 2 billion Dollars. Other than that‚ the
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California Water Drought The State of California is in its worst water drought to date‚ many are affected by the water shortage including farm crops‚ and small cities. The management of the states water resources are not up to standards; however; their efforts of water conservation are improving. The state of California has issued state-wide regulations for water use‚ but many cities are taking it a step further. The City of Fresno is in a stage two storage contingency plan‚ which regulates outdoor
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Katie Waddle English 12‚ 3 Mr. Decker April 5‚ 2013 "A Supermarket in California" by Alan Ginsberg addresses Walt Whitman‚ who as it becomes evident throughout the poem‚ is Alan Ginsberg’s poetic hero. Ginsberg looked up to Whitman for many reasons. Ginsberg was a bisexual or homosexual Jewish man‚ and Whitman was also thought to have been bisexual or homosexual. Ginsberg portrays Whitman’s style and his legacy of writing by continuing Whitman’s poetic assault to industrialized society and
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California is in a drought and farmers believe our only option is to take water from under the ground. But‚ groundwater depletion is causing a lot of bad things to happen. It is making the layer of clay above collapse‚ when the clay collapses the dirt above gives way and sinks. This sinking causes sinkholes and is very dangerous. The sinking also damages pipes‚ buckles walls of irrigation canals‚ and cracks homes. Although the sinking is already a big enough threat the water in general could
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something it had never experienced before. How did the California Gold Rush Impact
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Bibliography: King‚ Martin Luther‚ Jr. I have a dream. 28 Aug 1963. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. The Peaceful Warrior. Pocket Books‚ NY 1968. Memphis Educational Computer Connectivity Alliance. http://www.mecca.org/crights/dream.html University of California Regents V. Bakke‚ 438 U.S. 265 (1975). Finlday.com 18 Nov 2002 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts United States Constitution. Amendment XIV‚ Section 1 Brunner‚ Borgna "Bakke and Beyond: A History and Timeline of Affirmative Action." Infoplease.com
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separation of California. It is important to recognize the situation of people and environment as a whole in order to overview the driving forces and comprehend the barriers that Oxy faced to implement the mentioned change. Senior management foresaw the future of the company as a two separate companies by allocating the experienced personal and focusing in the area of expertise by building trust and commitment as a crucial adaptation for change (Mullins 2010). Oxy was founded in 1920 in California and the
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Harper Lee used the Tom Robinson character to prove the injustice of the Scottsboro Trail. I: Intro II: About Tom Robinson’s case III: About the Scottsboro case The Scottsboro Boys case was among the most important in the history. It was taken to the united states Supreme Court twice. IV: About the Similarities The two trials share similarities in their setting‚ characters‚ and outcomes. The story of the Scottsboro boys is very similar to the case of Tom Robinson in the story To Kill
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In "California: A People‚ a Place‚ a Dream‚" James J. Rawls states that the California dream is a dialect in which a synthesis or new dream is formed from a paradox and promise. These two things are joined together to form the new dream. The promise for a better life and the paradoxes of expectation‚ growth‚ and plenty are at the center of the dream. The dialectic helps the paradoxes‚ a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory; find a resolution by creating a new dream that has the
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