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Joshua Hendy Iron Works was a large equipment manufacturer since the gold rush days. Among many other pieces of heavy machinery, Hendy manufactured the large water cannons and pumps that were used for hydraulic mining in the Sierras. After getting shaken out of San Francisco by the 1906 Earthquake, the company settled in Sunnyvale. The once thriving company of over a thousand employees was barely afloat by the middle of the Great Depression with about 60 people employed. That all changed…

King’s Life “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.” was edited by Clayborne Carson. Carson went to his first civil rights demonstration and he saw King for the first time at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Two decades later, Carson was requested by Mrs. Coretta Scott King to become the director of the King Papers Project. He accepted the offer and became enveloped in King’s writings. The book is compiled of the autobiographical writings King published and edited…

When people who live in Arizona think of South Mountain, they tend to think of family hikes and the beautiful wildlife in the area. Sadly, this perception of South Mountain may not be the same for future Arizonans if the expansion of the 202 Freeway takes place. The expansion of the 202 Freeway should be stopped due to the environmental impacts it would have such as the destruction of natural land and wildlife in that area. Another concern for the expansion of the 202 Freeway would be the…

Global warming has always been a thought in the back of scientist heads and they knew that it could eventually happen because of the heating of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, but in the early 1990’s, scientists had discovered that global warming was quickly becoming an issue on Earth and according to many researches, 97% of those scientist say that humans are the reason for it. According to the PBS documentary, “the climate has gone up 4-5 degrees in just the last fifty years in Alaska,…

Think about what it is like to live in a world where you can get sick from just breathing air, the air that you breathe every single day since the day you were born. Imagine one day having to walk outside wearing a mask for the rest of your life to make sure you don 't get sick. Even worse, imagine looking out of your window and not seeing any form of life. Everything has died due to air pollution and acid rain. This paper is here to talk about an issue that is becoming a huge problem around…

Conserving and managing natural resources and wastes are national priorities. From unplugging your television, to riding a bike to work, there are many ways in which we can sustainably manage natural resources and wastes. Natural resources are what makes modern life possible for us, and it may seem impossible for some to cut back because of how much more convenient it may be. Conserving and maybe even, “going a little prehistoric” will come in handy once we are using less, and preserving more.…

2.3.2 Case Study – The Equinox Scarborough, (Scarborough, 2009) Summary The Equinox development is a 3.14 acre site, and was originally vacant without any road access in the core of the Scarborough Centre. Scarborough Centre is primarily a business and civic district today; it is an emerging growth centre anticipating dense residential and mixed-use development. Surrounding the site include: an office building; the Scarborough Centre Rapid Transit Station; the Scarborough Town Centre Shopping…

“why’d you do that?” I turned around and saw my little sister, rubbing crusties out of the corners of her tired eyes. Like always she was holding her midnight blue tattered auto sales t-shirt that had once belonged to our father. I walked over and scooped her up into my arms. “why’d you do that?” she asked again, pointing at the bouquet of crisp dead roses sitting in the top of the overflowing garbage bin. “They’re no good anymore peach, all shriveled up and falling apart. I’ll pick some up…

1.) The purpose of the book Black Like Me was to show that racism and discrimination cannot be fully understood until you live in the skin of another race. The book explores and supports the idea that racism is not something that can be fully grasped from observing or from a viewpoint other than those who are being discriminated against. Racism cannot be understood through statistics or simply a book stating facts. People from a different race cannot just sit back and assume what it is like to…

b) (15 points). Which of these nine boundaries have already been crossed? What are the potential impacts of crossing those boundaries? 1. Climate Change. We are putting too much greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and on the verge of massive climate change. Some potential changes are it is three times more likely nitrogen will get into the atmosphere than the earth can sustain. Increase in the loss of major ice sheets, accelerated sea level rise and abrupt shifts in forest and agricultural…