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    earthquake shook San Francisco, California. Though the quake lasted less than a minute, its immediate impact was disastrous. The earthquake also ignited several fires around the city that burned for three days and destroyed nearly 500 city blocks. Despite a quick response from San Francisco's large military population, the city was devastated. The earthquake and fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and left half of the city's 400,000 residents homeless. Aid poured in from around the country…

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    4- Where and how the change comes to Jose’s life? When Jose goes to college and takes many humanity classes, practices critical thinking and get introduced to race relations, he realizes that looking like a Latino or being a Latino doesn’t bother him anymore. He is neither proud nor ashamed of who he is. His racism toward himself has soothed. But he was still strange to himself and his origins. Until he tried out a Latino student organization in his college called Unidad where Latino student…

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    American Public University System May 24, 2015 HIST102: American History Since 1877 Professor Robert Young The earthquake of 1906, although only lasting less than a minute caused an extensive amount of personnel and property damage not only from the quake, but the fires that followed. Many of the citizen affected by the incident refused to leave the city creating additional chaos. Rebuilding began almost immediately and within three years restored as the economic hub of the west. The…

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    good economically. Everyone had a hard time when they made their way across the lands in America for better resources and a new start. All the immigrants were given a hard time as they live their life in their new home. From 1830s to 1850s, Mexican immigrated from Mexico to California for many different reasons because it caused a major impact within American History because it forced the US through tough times like Manifest Destiny, daily life in new lands, start of a new war and an end to the…

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    born in Akron, Ohio to Dell and Sonya Curry. His birth name is Wardell Stephen Curry II. He mostly grew up in Charlotte, Carolina. Dell played in the National Basketball Association, or NBA, at the time. He learned how to be great like he is today from his father. His mom was a volleyball player in college and she taught Steph basketball when Dell went on road trips. Wardell also has some nicknames today. These are Baby-Faced Assassin and Chef Curry. During life, Curry had some obstacles in his…

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    Yuma Irrigation Project

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    irrigation has been used to his greatest advantage to grow crops on fertile soil in just almost anywhere from the desert oasis of the Nile River in Egypt to China’s lush Yellow River Valley. The exponential success of the Yuma Valley Irrigation Project is one of these stunning examples of this technological feat that is as old as mankind itself. However, this was not possible without utmost support from the U.S. Government, the superb diligence and persistence of its engineers and the peoples of…

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    California enters its fourth year into the devastating drought. Local forests face looming wildfire threats. The drinking water supply of local communities are beginning to deplete. Farmers are unable to use a large portion of their land to plant crops. Many California residents have no access to water for drinking and showering. Sparkling lakes and rivers now run placid and dry. Throughout this four-year deprivation of water and struggles with mitigation efforts, I remained completely ignorant…

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    America more land. It presented the United States with new types of land and elevated the population. The Westward expansion migration led to more important events of American history., some of the important event it led to are the gold rush in California, Texas becoming a United States state, the Mexican American war, and the Battle of Alamo. These four individuals are only a few people who are important or were involved in the westward expansion migration. Nevertheless they each had an impact…

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    Personal Narrative

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    As all of us might know, being residents of California, an earthquake can be a terrifying thing small or big. Losing assurance from the ground, something we never think about, but always rely heavily on, can really have traumatic affect one’s self. For as long as I can remember, my core family was made up of my three older brothers, my dad, and last but not least my beloved mother. They were my ground who I rarely thought about but relied on constantly. However, my world shook when I heard there…

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    Texas Got It Right

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    crystal clear in the book called “Texas Got It Right” published on October 16, 2012 by Melcher Media and foreword by Walter Isaacson. What’s more, exhausted, over-managed states like California, New York, and Illinois missed the…

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