Peoples Temple in San Francisco

Gold, it’s what everyone hopes to find someday, well in California it was found. On January 24, 1848 James Marshell discovered gold in California. The word got out so people from California came in and started searching for gold, word got out to the east they wanted proof. Then the government went out to look and it was confirmed real gold. It was reported in many news papers around the country and that’s how the California Gold Rush began. Challenges faced during the California Gold Rush were…

there original destination. We know this because an inmate that helped them escape told the media that they told him there plan and they were going to angel island. The raft that they made was made out of raincoats that were donated or stolen. Some people argue that the raft was not sturdy enough to take them clear to Angel island but the mythbusters proved that it was possible by making a raft out of the same stuff that they did and it worked for them so why couldn't it work for frank morris…

Introduction to Corrections July 20, 2017 Look out onto the San Francisco Bay and you see a big rock that is approximately 22 acres with some abandoned architecture on it. Well, that there is Alcatraz Island. Before Alcatraz became the tourist attraction that we know of today, it was used differently throughout the course of California history. First, the light house was placed there and it was used to guide people in and out of the foggy bay for the first 125 years of its discovered…

In all circumstances, there is an audience - be it a packed auditorium, with people pushing to sit close to the front of the room, spell bound by every word escaping the speakers lips, or a quiet setting, where the only audience is the individual, speaking to himself. Regardless of the size or location, words are impactful to whomever they’re delivered. Admired are the individuals who realize a moment to persuade and seize it readily. Harvey Milk is one such individual. Milk’s role as a…

BOTANICAL GARDENS Photograph 1: Giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, (Lindl.) J.Buchh. (sequoiadendron giganteum, 2017) The giant Sequoia is the world’s largest tree it is native to California, when the tree is mature its bark is a red/ brownish colour. The physical characteristics of the giant Sequoia include, its ability to resist forest fires due to its extraordinarily thick bark which can grow to 6 meters wide, fire is a huge reason young giant Sequoia trees die. The bark of the tree…

have been amazing. During 1849, people in California began mining gold and unlike today where small amounts were found, these people were finding huge amounts of gold. This is what eventually led to the gold rush of 1849 when the largest mass of people in history began to move into California to get some gold for themselves. Many ended up leaving everything they had to go on a journey to California to get richer. Overtime, modes of transportation increased to allow people to easily travel across…

On the early Saturday morning, October 3, 2015, I took the Blue and Gold Ferry from pier 41 of San Francisco to Angel Island to attend a Nikkei Pilgrimage organized by the Nichi Bei Foundation. Since I grew up and got educated in San Francisco, Angel Island is not a strange place for me. Throughout the years, I have taken many school field trips to Angel Island to learn about the tragic history of the island. I have learned about the “Chinese’s Angel Island experience” so I am familiar with the…

the Shoshone, the Paiute, the Washoe, and the Mohave inhabited Nevada before the arrival of Europeans. They lived in dwellings call wikiups, and lived off the land, while they also hunted and fished for subsistence. In the 1700s, the Spanish friar Francisco Garcés was the first to arrive in the region. It was the 1800s before other Europeans ventured into Nevada, with notable fur trapper Jedediah Smith traversing the state into California, and a year later, fur trader, Peter Ogden journeyed down…

In 1967, my great grandmother settled in San Francisco from Nicaragua, a small country in Central America. The atmosphere of San Francisco at this time was one of acceptance and peace, stemming from the Summer of Love and the Haight-Ashbury culture. Coming from a poverty-stricken country, and having visited before, the Bay Area was an opportunity for a new life, better conditions, and job possibilities not available at home. Unfortunately, lack of a basic education and understanding of American…

London’s official name is John Griffith Chaney. He was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. When Jack was a boy, he was part of the working-class and worked very hard as a teen. Jack’s first experience of writing was when he had his stories published in the Overland Monthly. His first famous book he published was The Call of the Wild, and other famous novels by him are White Fang, Martin Eden, and The People of the Abyss. Jack married Bess Maddern and had two children named…