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Introduction: California is a golden, magical state! The “Golden State” is its nickname because it comes from the California Gold Rush and the state flower, the golden poppy. When you think of California, you think giant redwood trees, the golden gate bridge, Hollywood, sandy beaches, businesses, and best of all, gold. Many famous people come from California, like our former president Richard Nixon and the first female astronaut Dr. Sally Ride. California is even the birthplace of one of the…

Jack London was an American writer, author and journalist who lived from 1876 to 1916. Some of his famous works include The Sea Wolf and Call of the Wild. Born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, he was raised in Oakland, California, by his mother and stepfather. Jack London is considered to be a great writer. In his teenage years, he worked many different jobs. In his spare time, he read travel books and novels at the library. Eventually, he told his mother a story of what happened one day…

bigger and bigger with people and when that had happened California was getting rich and richer. The spark ignited the gold rush occurred in May 1848 when Sam Brannan, a storekeeper in Sutters Creek, brandished a bottle filled with gold dust around San Francisco shouting gold! Also California’s population increased from 15,000 to more than 100,000. As everyone should also know…

Jack Moore is man who puts a smile on everyone he meets. A 72 year old loving retired man who has had all sorts of jobs from tossing newspaper on people’s front door to bagging at the local Jewel Osco, even delivering pizzas and being UPS driver. Growing up was very difficult as he was put up for adoption at the age of 1 because his mother did not feel like she was ready to raise a child. His father was a drunk beat dad, who did not care about him either. To avoid never seeing him again, Jack’s…

Alcatraz Summary Alcatraz Was built on July 1, 1934, and ran for years then started to cost the U.S too much money and to repair. It was estimated to be 1-3 million dollars to fix. (Alcatraz facts) Alcatraz was one of the toughest prisons in the world. Alcatraz was the high maximum security prison. The toughest punishment was to be in a room pitch black and a hole in the ground to go to the bathroom, no mattress but at night time, and one meal a day. (Alcatraz Facts) Alcatraz has gardens when…

Journal Entry 3: Gentrification in New York After migrating to the United States from Puerto Rico many Puerto Ricans found themselves living in uninhabitable buildings (Suarez 277). “ By 1955 seven hundred thousand Puerto Ricans had moved to the continental United States, and most of them went to New York” (Suarez 275). During this time the New York City was being rebuilt in other words gentrification was occurring. According to the Merriam- Webster Dictionary gentrification is defined as the…

first reason why I think that California should not build this seawater plant is because it is too expensive. The text states “The project is expected to cost $1 billion.” This is a lot of money. The text also states that “Customers in the city of San Diego will help pay for the plant through their water bills, which could go up by $5 a month” this is very expensive, especially since water bills are already so expensive, along with all your other house bills. This is one reason why I think that…

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…

In the great mystery about the Alcatraz escapees is one of the most creative jailbreaks of all time. The question is did they make it alive or did they die in the process? Based on the evidence I believe that they lived and that they escaped. I think that there plan worked. The first pieces of evidence comes from a video called “ did frank moore survive?” it says that there was a raft and footprints leading away from it on Angel Island. Angel island was there original destination. We know this…

persuade and seize it readily. Harvey Milk is one such individual. Milk’s role as a rhetorician can be likened to that of Socrates in Plato’s The Trial and Death of Socrates, and his speech works to address his historically situated audience, the San Francisco City citizens and government, and their largely anti-gay mentality, through…