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    Cannery Row Dbq

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    novel of less than 200 pages first published in 1945 paints you a very clear picture of what life was back in those days. The book is a profound reflection of the American dream in Monterey California; all it takes to perfectly picture the tone, grit, and color of the town is the first paragraph. “Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and…

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    Kevin Day: A Short Story

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    then act a different way, but true value is found when you follow through with your words.” It is this very same attitude that led to Day helping the ill at Community Hospital Of Monterey Peninsula in Monterey every Sunday. He decided to assist at the hospital because of the type of community he saw on the Monterey…

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    through different states. Another experience I had was being there and seeing my Grandma and Grandpa. I also experienced how Mexico looked and how much fun it was in the city. When I first went to Mexico I took a bus from Florida Down to Mexico, Monterey which took about a week to get there. On the way there I passed by Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. On my way too Mexico I passed through Alabama which I had never been too, I seen a lot of towns and a bunch of farms all around.…

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    Jimi Hendrix eclipsed everyone at the International Monterey Pop Music Festival of 1967 when his "Strat" set fire. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was a relatively unknown act in the United States in mid-1967. But the band's profile was elevated after their performance on June 18, 1967, as part of the Monterey Pop Festival in California, full of stars. Towards the end of the group set, Hendrix threw light fluid into his Strat, lit…

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    (Commission 2011) The CRJC manages community education on restorative justice issues. It reviews and evaluates restorative justice needs, services, facilities and special concerns. (Supervisors 2014) The commission consists of 19 members representing Monterey County: Probation Department, victim representatives from all five districts, District Attorney’s office, public defender, school educators, business community, faith community, non-profit, student, chief of police, state corrections,…

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    In the article in source six, “Responsible Use of Social Media,” by The Monterey County Office of Education, it states that students can help delete negativity on social media by posting positively, reporting anything inappropriate, informing adults about negativity online and blocking inappropriate people (Monterey County Office of Education 9). These movements could be useful to prevent cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is an act of harassing someone…

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    Unnecessary Gender Items It’s not unusual in today’s society to be filled with stereotypes and gender inequalities. Are these gender inequalities becoming a norm in today’s society, or has it always been the norm? When you’re at the store, what do you notice? Items seem to be connected to just a single gender, but some of them can become a little more sexist than you’d actually believe. Feminist would find many of these items degrading according to their outlook that women are created equal to…

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    Hundreds of thousands of people migrated to California pursuing gold. The first man to find Californian gold was James Marshall, a carpenter building a sawmill for John Sutter on the American River. Both men agreed to keep the treasure a secret to protect their land, but newspaper and store owner Sam Brannon caught wind of the discovery. He walked up and down the streets of San Francisco with a small vial of gold telling people he had found it in the American River. By the end of 1849, less than…

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    and California first newspaper, “Californian” was a weekly newspaper that appeared in Monterey on August 15th, 1846. Walter Colten and Robert Semple formed a partnership to publish the newspaper and a found an old printing press and Agustin V. Zamorano imported the printing press to Monterey from Boston. “Californian” weekly newspaper was written in English and Spanish and continued to be published in The Monterey until May 1847. California gold rush expanded journalism in San Francisco, 132…

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    Nick Pisano Biography

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    Nestled in the Los Gatos hills, off Glen Una Drive, and down a semi-private road, lives Nick Pisano and lovely wife Susan. Living there with them are their three dogs, Bella, a Rhodesian Ridgeback and Paris and Paula, brother and sister Shih Tzu’s, and from time-to-time, Nick’s mother comes to visit. Their home was built in the later 1800’s and was once a part of the Glen Una Ranch, Nick purchased their home in 1973 and is only the third owner of this property. The Pisano family arrived in the…

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