The greatest devastation resulted from the fires that quickly followed the quake. The initial tremors destroyed the city’s water mains‚ leaving firefighters with no means of combating the growing blaze‚ which burned for several days and consumed much of the city. The earthquake occurred at 5:13 a.m. local time‚ with its epicenter offshore of San Francisco‚ which then had a population of approximately 400‚000 people. The massive main temblor‚ having a 7.7–7.9 magnitude‚ lasted about one minute
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Texas Hist Test Review Key Terms : Teotihuacan‚ 100-600 (Mayan) Cahokia‚ 800-1100 Chaco Canyon‚ 850-1150 Tenochtitlan‚ 1300-1521 (Aztec) Inca Empire‚ 1200-1533 Key Terms week 2 : Reconquista‚ 1492 First Contact Cortés in Mexico‚ 1521 Pizarro in Peru‚ 1532 New Spain‚ 1535 Cabeza de Vaca & Estevanico‚ 1536 Coronado‚ 1541 de Soto‚ 1542 Caddo Indians – "techas" St. Augustine‚ 1565 Santa Fe‚ 1609 La Salle‚ 1684 mission & presidio system Nacogdoches mission‚ 1716 San Antonio de Valero
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I come from a Mexican family. I have four sibling‚ two older sisters‚ one younger sister and one brother. My mother and father were both born and raised in the city across the Calexico border‚ Mexicali‚ Baja California‚ Mexico. They were both raised by deeply engrained Mexican families and followed many of their culture’s traditions. Both of my parents come from very humble families and sadly‚ one of these cultural aspects of having been born into poor Mexican families was that as soon as one
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end of the book. She adapted to many drastic and immediate changes throughout her journey which includes her witnessing her village being destroyed‚ the voyage on the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to North America‚ and accepting the fact that she was a slave and overcoming it. Aminata was born in Bayo in Africa; she was raised by two loving parents and had many friends such as Fomba and Chekura‚ who were with Aminata for some parts of her story. Aminata learnt many things from her parents which contributed
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The sparks of the Mexican Revolution began during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Díaz would focus on the small number of wealthy people who owned lands‚ rather than on the impoverished people working these lands. Francisco I Madero was the one who called for rebellion against Díaz‚ who was forced to resign and flee Mexico on May 25‚ 1911 because of his poor leadership. Mexico had seen the rule of long-time dictator Porfirio Díaz crumble under the weight of scandal and abuse of power (Marcovitz
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civil war by demoralizing‚ degrading and insulting African Americans. In Beloved‚ the slaves were dehumanized throughout the story. There were many instances where a slave was demoralized‚ degraded or abused. There were many instances where one would "get the bit". In chapter seven‚ Paul D explains how he had the bit in his mouth. "I couldn’t... I had a bit in my mouth" (Morrison 69). This is an example of a slave being physically abused. Paul D said this statement when Sethe confronted him about the
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failures‚ workers’ strikes‚ agitation of middle class reformers‚ dissatisfaction of large landholders/capitalists) 1910: Francisco Madero (reformer‚ not revolutionary) attempts presidency‚ Diaz arrests him and he flees to Texas 1910: Written in jail and published in Texas‚ Madero created the Plan of San Luis Potosi‚ assuming provisional presidency‚ calling for free elections‚ and vaguely referring to return of peasant land taken by rich. (These land reform policies attracted Emiliano Zapata to
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Retail Business Owner Natural Disaster and the Business Owner People make difficult decisions in business everyday. People that make these decisions have to stand by them. The situation in this assignment‚ speaking of hurricane Katrina‚ I have mixed feelings on the business owner Brian decision. From a person on the outside looking in perspective‚ I felt he was wrong for raising the prices of the hotel rooms. But in reality‚ I had to put myself in the shoes of the business owner. In this situation
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I had to hurry up and feed my slave‚ I took a rabbit I found hunting the other day and fed it to the psychotic man beast. He was 7 feet tall and walked on all fours a very disfigured face and ripped muscles. He completely devoured the rabbit when I threw it to him. I knew I needed to be at work in 5 minutes so I got in my car and took the allies to the school building. I pulled into the parking lot and went on into the building and down to my
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Mitch Carlson Steve Russell CRIM 331 Case Brief #1 Salinas v. Texas Facts & History On the morning of December 18‚ 1992‚ two brothers were shot and killed in their Houston home. Police were called by a neighbor who heard the gunshots‚ and then seen a “dark colored” car fleeing from the house. It was later found out that defendant‚ Genovevo Salinas‚ was at the residence where the murders took place the night before December 18th. When officers went to Salinas’ house‚ they arrived to a dark blue
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