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Mattel Creations is an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945, 71 years ago. The headquarters of the company are located in El Segundo, California. The company was founded by Harold Matson, Elliot Handler, and Ruth Handler. Harold Matson and Elliot Handler were the original founders, and Harold sold his share to Elliot because of poor health. Ruth Handler took over Harold’s roles. Elliot and Ruth Handler were married and developed other toys such as Barbie, Chatty Cathy…

Memo topic: Poverty rates among children living in California Children make up 23.1 percent of the U.S. population and they disproportionately experience poverty in the U.S. compared to other age groups and California is one of the states with the highest child poverty rates. Child poverty has profound educational, health and economic consequences now and in the long term not only for individual children but also for the entire nation. Poverty can alter children’s developmental trajectories in…

Throughout the last several decades, sea level rise has become an issue that is affecting many areas around the world. According to National Geographic (n.d.), “Scientific research indicates sea levels worldwide have been rising at a rate of 0.14 inches per year since the early 1990s. The trend, linked to global warming, puts thousands of coastal cities… and even whole islands at risk of being claimed by the ocean”. The three main factors that have been causing this global sea level rise are the…

Section #119. Water Management and the Drought in California Water management has been a problem in California’s history since the first settlers moved to California. With most of the water located in the north and eastern parts and most of the population in the southern, desert part of the state, problems were guaranteed to occur. However, in the past five years, a drought has plagued most of the western United States and especially, California. An especially strong La Niña coupled with low…

Cannabis in California contains some law-based on, legal, and cultural events surrounding use of cannabis. According to Proposition 215 (prop 215), a law that was passed in 1996, made medical marijuana legal to patient. In the article, the author says, “California NORML Patient's Guide to Medical Marijuana” it says “Proposition 215, makes it legal for patients and their designated primary caregivers to possess cultivate marijuana for their personal medical use” (Paragraph, 1) This gave people…

Alameda County resides in the East Bay of California and is the fourth most racially diverse county in the United States (Narula, 2014). It comprises of 14 suburban cities and several unincorporated communities with an overall population of 1,610,921 and more than 12% are seniors aged 65 and older (175,320). Geographic isolation between some cities and an ever aging population makes public transportation a concern for the county and it’s stakeholders, especially in regard to the seniors and…

One of the major problems that I think California has is how it’s over populated. I love it here, but that is one of the reasons why I’m thinking of moving in the future. Having an enormous brings problems such as the need for more food, water, products, etc. Needless to say, this means that more things will be waited and more damage occurs. We the people, haven't been doing a good job on recycling to maintain our world, with more people, I see this problem I see this problem increasing. We…

again for moving out toward the front from Sunan to Ping Yang without permission, and lastly for striking a Japanese officer who supposedly stole the fodder for London’s horses. After he returned from Japan, from 1907 to 1909, London sailed from California to Australia. Throughout the sea adventure, London became sick a myriad of times. He had severe dental problems as well as recurrent lapses in his immune system. Not letting his poor health deter him from traveling, London continued to go on…

bipartisan commissions to help choose Supreme Court justice’s judicial appointment. Judges need to be able to make decisions they believe to be fair, regardless of whether voters agree with them. The selection of judges to state courts is variable. In California judges and justices gain office in a different process and regularly have to go through an election. There are two major…

legislative decision to make gambling a misdemeanor in 1913 quickly forced gambling, drinking, and racetrack industries to Tijuana in the 1910s. Due to moral outcries from Christian groups and the government's insistence on its citizens’ moral behavior, California drove out these industries leaving wealthy individuals and patrons to look for other venues to gamble. Thus, Tijuana and other border towns along the southwest quickly adopted these industries. Prior to 1913, Tijuana primarily had a…