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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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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Japanese-American farmers. These individuals saw internment as a positive means of uprooting their Japanese-American competitors. California experienced a wave of anti-Japanese prejudice‚ in part because of the concentration of new immigrants. The San Francisco Board of Education separated Japanese students from Caucasian students. The Board ordered 93 Japanese students in the district to attend a segregated school in Chinatown. Japanese Americans weren’t the only people to be interned during WWII‚
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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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The first electric streetcars in San Francisco began operation in 1892 under the auspices of the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway. At that time‚ it was estimated that it cost twice as much to build and six times as much to operate a line with cable cars as with electric streetcars. By the beginning of 1906 many of San Francisco’s remaining cable cars were under the control of the United Railroads of San Francisco (URR)‚ although Cal Cable and the Geary Street Company remained independent
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to have been able to visit different cities all over the world‚ but only two of them have completely captivated me‚ San Francisco‚ California and Miami‚ Florida. Even though these two cities are located in the same country‚ both have many differences such as in the public transportation‚ food-population‚ and lifestyle. Both cities have public transportation‚ but in San Francisco is more convenient and people give more use to it because you can find a stop in every corner‚ and also because there
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based Missions all throughout California was a way for them to maintain ultimate social‚ political‚ and economic control. Spanish explorers arrived on the border of California during the 16th century. The very first Franciscan mission was built in San Diego during 1769. By 1833‚ twenty two Spanish Missions existed from Southern California to Northern California. Native Americans made up about one-third of those who lived and worked at the Missions. There were an estimated 310‚000 Indians living in
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