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However, the next article I’m going to talk about gives us the exact locations where the quake hit California areas. This article named, “The California Quake: “I Don’t Want to Die in Here”: Disaster Areas…” This article was written and published in the New York Times in 1989, which is a while from the actual event. This article clearly describes 7 counties that affected by…

My book is The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch. It is a book with lots of action and adventure. The genre is futuristic fiction and is about two armies fed forces and path forces going to war to control America. The main protagonist is a 13 year old named Cal. He and his brother get captured by path forces when he was eight. The path is a religion that gives people "The Choice" which is a way of recruiting. You join or die. Cal tries to escape the path and go back to his home in New York, but he is…

happening to the water in California? Where is it going ? How to save it ? Nowadays people say “ California's currently in its fifth year of severe drought.” But people forget to ask themselves is what exactly lead California to that position and why is it going through severe droughts. California’s water is distributed in three major places; 1- The urban with 10%. 2- Environment with 50%. 3- Agriculture with 40%. Second, the environment. Where 50% is distributed through california depending up…

The Chrysanthemums is a short story by John Steinbeck. It tells a story of a strong women named Elisa Allen and her husband Henry who live on a ranch across the Salinas River where winter has come, where the sun is blocked by a “grey-flannel fog.” At the beginning, Henry begins to negotiate a sale of thirty head of cattle, while Elisa Allen, his wife, and the main focus of the story, attends to her chrysanthemums in her garden. While handling the flowers, her husband comes back with great news:…

bottle collection. Elmer lives on the property, and he tends to interact with his visitors. The attraction is home to over 200 bottle trees along with other antique art. 2.Chandelier Drive Thru Tree Part of the Drive-Thru Tree Park in Leggett, California, the Chandelier Drive Thru Tree is a large costal redwood that stands at 315 feet tall. But the tree's most unique feature is the giant hole that is…

Jaycee Lee Dugard was a nine year old girl who was kidnapped by a stranger at age eleven. Phillip Garrido was the mans name. She was kept captive for eighteen years, kept in a backyard moving from a barn, to a house, different rooms. Being so young and taken would be the worst, not getting to be with her family. Phillip had a wife named Nancy, they treated Jaycee like their daughter. Jaycee later on got pregnant two times. She now has two beautiful baby girls that are growing up with her. While…

United States. Now there are less than 900. Most lookouts were built in the 1930s and 40s. Many of them were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Computerized lightning detection systems and air patrols have in large part replaced lookout structures. Furthermore, there are more forest visitors now than back in the day, and most of them have cell phones to report a fire when they see smoke or flames. In severe fire seasons, as we have recently experienced in California, some…

heart of Silicon Valley in Northern California. San Jose has the third largest population in California. San Jose is unique because it has a very congested high rise city area as well as suburban and small communities within the city. During my research, at Building Resilient Regions Institute of Governmental Studies, I saw that San Jose was ranked 87th on the RCI list. (RCI) I chose the city of San Jose because I am originally from the East Bay in Northern California and I was not impressed…

The state of California is having major troubling with a water drought. California is running out of water and for that is it causing people to have to move away. There is no one trying to control water use. Anything that is grown or made with water with water, prices are going up for. For example, fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk, etc. used to be most, $1.29 now days are $2.49-3. We go on record for several years now with more land than lakes and rivers. According to the article on website,…

mudslides—both in general and especially during this predicted El Nino year which could cause millions of dollars in damages (Ceballos, 2015). Monterey County has a long history of flooding (Adami, 2015). Rain poured for 45 days all over California in 1862, and the state went bankrupt due to the financial stress the flooding damage caused (Adami, 2015). In 1995 a flood occurred more localized in Monterey County; the Salinas River flooded to 30.29 feet-- that is about four feet deeper than…