Comparing Accounts The Story of an Eyewitness Video link at thinkcentral.com Magazine Article by Jack London Letter from New Orleans: Leaving Desire Magazine Article by Jon Lee Anderson VIDEO TRAILER KEYWORD: HML8-410 What is the role of a WITNESS? RI 1 Cite textual evidence to support inferences drawn from the text. RI 6 Determine an author’s purpose in a text. When events such as natural disasters‚ crimes‚ and wars occur‚ it’s important that a witness describe what happened so that others
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According to history books‚ Francis Drake declared that San Francisco Bay was claimed by England‚ he named it “Nova Albion” (New England). He was first attacked by Latin American Natives. Expecting to refuel and repair his ship (The Golden Hind) Drake halted in an inlet along the California drift. Once on shore Drake
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the long silence. Yes‚ for me at that time‚ America was truly just Hollywood and Disneyland on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. But soon enough‚ I would find out the real America by myself. Before I knew‚ I was already breathing the air of San Francisco‚ my first stop. The Hip-Hop music coming from the radio was really loud‚ and people were trotting. I could even feel the fast beat of that city in the car. Something was not in that rush though — the pigeons. They were taking a walk leisurely on
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The Architectural History of the California Missions (1769-1823) You may already know that there are 21 missions today in the state of California. Starting in San Diego all the way past San Francisco‚ the missions remind us of an earlier time when the Spanish were colonizing Alta California. The California missions were started because the Spanish king wanted to create permanent settlements in the area of the New World called Alta California. The decision to create Spanish missions in California
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Chapter 25 and 26 Context: Mayas feelings when returning to mother starts to appreciate San Francisco transitions between the two cultures Characters: Momma: Always reaches to religion Maya: admires the way momma adjusts to the culture sorrow was confirmed to gloom at separating from bailey for a month (214) Naive to the new culture The fact her mother is human is important cause humans make mistakes too Bailey: Traumatised from the experience of carrying a dead body “Bailey was talking so fast
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Chinatown What is the central theme of Chinatown and what key symbols and motifs are used to develop this theme? Fashioned as a great film nior the 1974 classic; Chinatown is a crime drama in which central themes coincide with the idea that the world is an inherently corrupt place where men of vice conquer over the helplessness of the innocent and ignorant. Plot‚ characters‚ and setting mark this piece as a neo film nior. However it is the use of pessimistic tone‚ also found common in many
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The way to hope and success was not not what every individual expected. Gold fever floated people oversea mouth to mouth and walking 3000 miles. Hundreds of large to small towns sprang out. Especially San Francisco‚ the boom town. Every single man had their own skill. Some left their job for hope and could use their skill to make a profit around the gold mine area. Surprisingly entrepreneurs popped up and a new technology got invented. Decades after decades
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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 Francisco became the great emporium of the Pacific. The Gold Rush also had a tremendous impact on the culture. It spawned such words as pay dirt‚ prospector‚ lucky strike and bonanza that became popular during that time. Hollywood capitalized on it
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One early morning in 1962‚ Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin broke out of Alcatraz prison. Using nothing but a raft fashioned out of raincoats‚ the three men traveled out into the foggy San Francisco Bay‚ never to be seen again. This was over 50 years ago‚ but the escape is still significant today. Society today still cares about the escape from Alcatraz because of its presence in the media‚ Alcatraz’s reputation as “escape-proof”‚ and natural human curiosity. First of all‚ the
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Sex and Social Movements in San Francisco Social deviance and San Francisco go together like peanut butter and jelly. From the California Gold Rush to current social justice movements‚ the city has offered a place to foster new ideas and shelter outcasts. In a time where men dominated the public sphere‚ madams of the Barbary Coast were still able to have financial agency. Later down the line in the 1960’s‚ San Francisco provided a platform to reanalyze conventional norms in an era of political unrest
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