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The Mexican American War The topic is the Mexican American war. Some of the people who were involved were Zachary Taylor, James K. Polk, and Robert F. Stockton. Many battles took place in the Mexican American war. It was a war that Mexico lost. It lasted two years from 1846 to 1848. The Mexican American war was so important in American history because we won what is known today as New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Texas, and western Colorado which Is part of the western expansion.…

The Wave, written by Todd Strasser, takes place in Palo Alto, California at Gordon High School in 1969. The story begins in Mr. Ben Ross’s history class as he introduces it as a game. Soon Mr. Ross adds a chant, symbol, logo, and a name, The Wave. Students love The Wave and listen closely to Mr. Ross, often chanting their slogans, strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action. A student in The Wave, Laurie Saunders, begins to become skeptical about the wave…

Mexican War of 1846. He lead U.S. forces into Texas territories and the Rio Grande at the command of President Zachary Polk. Taylor’s contributions to the war consist of a series of successes throughout both the Texas and Mexican territory, including Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterrey and Veracruz in Central Mexico. Taylor was considered…

that location again. Your second year of work, Wells Fargo will typically relocate you one more time. I am currently in Chicago, however I am being transferred to Palo Alto, California this upcoming year. Wells Fargo does ask for your preferences of living location, so they do not typically put you somewhere you do not want to be. Palo Alto was my first choice and they gave me the position. 1. This interview made me certain that I still want to go in the Human Resource field. Talking with…

The UCSF Medical Center has launched an automated-robot controlled pharmacy at two UCSF Hospitals. Once computers at the new pharmacy electronically receive medication orders from UCSF physicians and pharmacists, the robotics pick, package, and dispense individual doses of pills.Machines assemble doses onto a thin plastic ring that contains all the medications for a patient for a 12-hour period, which is bar-coded.The pharmacy system, has prepared, so far, 350,000 doses of medication without…

Would you rob and steal from the those beneath you or would you give back to the community that your were once a part of and that raised and nurtured you to be who you are today? This is what we face when we decide to join the economic race for success. These people can often sympathize with the lower classes from which they came from and would graciously give back to their community. Other people who were born into wealth often take what they have for granted and drain others of what little…

important person in the army. Zachary was in the army for 4 decades. He was a Major General. Zachary Taylor was a war hero. He helped win half of a million square miles. Zachary Taylor won lots of wars. Two of the many wars that Zachary won were Palo Alto and Monterrey. Zachary Taylor was a great leader in the army. Zachary Taylor was a great president. Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States. He was president after James K.…

Steve Paul Jobs was a historical risk taker. He was born February 24 1955 in San Francisco. He died on October 5 2011 Palo Alto CA. His parents gave him up for adoption soon after he was born. Steve Jobs was a historical risk taker because he made Apple stores, bought Pixar and he left Apple. Steve Jobs was a risk taker because he opened Apple stores. This was a risk because it was a different kind of store. It cost him a lot of money to make all of stores and even more money to pay the people…

Did you know that we breathe two gallons of air every minute? In a day that equals a total of 3,400 gallons. What you are breathing in is air pollution. Air pollution is hazardous and it affects the health and the environment. According to the U.S National Library of Medicine, air pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. One of its major reasons for air pollution is Ozone, a gas. We get chemicals into the air from factories, dust, pollen, car emissions, and mold spores.…

This paper is about Douglas Engelbart. He invented the mouse which we still use today and is said to be one of the fathers of technology and the development of the computers we use today. The point of my paper is to explain how Douglas Engelbart was and is one of the fathers of technology. Douglas Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925 in Portland, Oregon. After finishing high school in 1942 he was drafted in the U.S. Army to fight in WWII as it came to an end. After that he returned to Oregon…