San Francisco

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…

Alcatraz is an Island located 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco, California, United States in the San Francisco Bay. The Island was originally developed for a lighthouse, a military fort, a military prison, and a federal prison. This was like this from 1933 until 1963 and has since been changed to an official National Historical Landmark as of 1986. It is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Areas and is open to tours. Out of the 1576 prisoners on Alcatraz, only a few were…

Escaping Uncle Sam’s Devil Island The Federal prison known as Alcatraz, is in the chilly waters of California’s San Francisco Bay. It housed some of America’s most difficult and dangerous criminals during the years 1934 to 1963. For over thirty years Alcatraz Island was the main destinations for the nation’s most violent criminals. Criminals like Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and Robert Stroud, also known as The birdman of Alcatraz. With ninety guards working round the clock, including…

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…

Having the sensation of feeling rich and being the first ones to mine gold must 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.…

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…

There were many escape attempts from Alcatraz, although most ended with the prisoner being caught or killed. With 14 different escape attempts involving 36 different men, its amazing none escaped. In one attempt called the Headstrong attempt by the Bureau of Prisons, a man named Joe Bowers tried to climb a fence at the edge of the island. After refusing to come down, he was shot and eventually died from his injuries. In another attempt, James limerick, Jimmy Lucas, and Rufus Franklin attack…

The most famous escape to ever occur at Alcatraz resulted in a battle. On May 2, 1946, five prisoners teamed up to plan an escape. Bernard Paul Coy was the head of the plan and was joined by Joseph Cretzer, Clarence Carnes, Sam Shockley, and Miran Thompson. On May 2, Joseph Cretzer covered himself with axle grease and started to climb the West End Gun Gallery. When he reached the top, he placed a bar-spreader between two bars and was able to make a ten inch opening to squeeze through. Cretzer…