Peoples Temple in San Francisco

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the April 2015 Nepal earthquakes were two of the most devastating and destructive earthquakes in history. The two natural disasters were very similar in the way they had prepared beforehand, responded immediately after and the aftermath and destruction caused from each shakedown. While they were similar on many counts, they also differed in varying ways. The San Francisco earthquake in 1906 struck on April 18th and was a milestone in earthquake research.…

One quarter of the Dominican Republic’s population of 10.4 million (2.6 million) but compared to the United States where 0.04 percent of 319 million are playing (14 million). Although there is a huge difference in the number of people playing baseball the percentage of people playing in the Dominican Republic is ridiculous. Knowing players and where they’re from is not an easy thing to remember as there are 1200 players in the MLB. This year for Canada it was the biggest year for baseball.…

The 66 year old individual that suffered from lung cancer was once an important component in Major League Baseball. Albert Bluford “Rube” Walker Junior was a Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs in addition to a lifelong minor league and major league coach for several teams: the Los Angeles Dodgers, Washington Senators, New York Mets, and the Atlanta Braves. Son of Albert and Beulah Walker, the elder brother to Verlon Lee and Leslie Boyce; Rube was another child to carry on their…

strained muscles or even broken bones, steroids would also give the sport more of an edge like Major League Baseball fans are looking for and because it is also wrong for people to think steroids are a bad thing when they have not experienced it. Steroids can help a player grow to be a better player in baseball. ¨We let people do far more dangerous things than play football and baseball using steroids like bungee jumping or to ski more advanced slopes I don 't think we need to go down a path…

The game has become America’s biggest sporting event. Over 114 million people watch the Super Bowl (Pallotta “par.” 1). The commercials during the breaks are also a big attraction for most viewers. More parties are thrown for this event than any other event. People tend to eat as much food as on Thanksgiving during Super Bowl parties. A Super Bowl watch party was held at George’s on the Texas State University campus. People engage in the Super Bowl as a source of entertainment, but the ultimate…

technologies’ information by setting up an underground Internet called the Xnet. The story of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow follows Marcus, also known as W1n5t0n, his fellow Xnetters experiencing a major culture shock after a terrorist attack on the San Francisco Bay area revealing many similarities to George Orwell’s 1984. Computer code, being Harajuku Fun Madness, convinced Marcus and Darryl to cut school to meet up with their friends Van and Jolu. To be able to leave school without…

An inspiring major change happened to the world when jack Roosevelt Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947. Being an African American man he did not have as many rights or privileges as a Caucasian man would have had during that time. Mr. Jerry Robinson and Mrs. Mallie Robinson had five children, jack being the youngest. Jack r Robinson, is well known by the name of Jackie Robinson. His middle name is in honor of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who had…

helped raise the popularity of baseball, affect the quality of the sport, and changed how society views the game. In the beginning of its time, baseball was looked down upon from upper class business men who never associated themselves with it. People considered baseball as a boy’s sport and not a career…

even enjoy talking to those who don’t really care at all about sports. Many people have told me multiple times that they don’t care to hear it. But, if you asked me what my favorite sport to watch is I would tell you that I love watching all of them equally. If you ask me what sport was on television or who was playing, I could most likely tell you. If you told me that the Boston Celtics, New York Yankees, or San Francisco 49ers was playing, I would tell you to switch to all of them. Those are…

Misty Danielle Copeland was born on September 10, 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri. Even though she was born in Kansas City, she was raised in San Pedro, California. Misty was very late in starting ballet studies, but it didn’t stop her. Usually, ballerinas start studying when they are three or four, but Misty was thirteen when she took her first ballet class. When she unlocked the magical world of ballet, Misty was coping with the fact she was living in a shabby motel room with her five siblings…