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wife and brother in-law found gold in Yukon Territory. The location was suggested by Robert Henderson, a prospector grubstaked by a French-Canadian agent for Alaska Commercial Company, who previously found gold at this location. When news reached San Francisco and Seattle in July of 1897 tons of prospectors rushed to find gold in Alaska. The news reported that nearly $1,139,000 had been found in gold. Over 100,000 prospectors collected money to fund their journey north. Of the…

San Francisco 2.0: A Rhetorical Analysis San Francisco 2.0 is an HBO documentary film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi. Alexandra Pelosi is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker based out of Manhattan that was born in San Francisco. In the film, she explores the effects of gentrification and the widening wage gap caused by the tech industry on certain demographics and neighborhoods in the city. She interviews people caught on both sides of these issues like…

The Californios started to expand into california in 1821. A californio is a spanish speaking catholic born in between 1769 and 1848. They rode horses and started their journey from mexico. Before the missions, they were all very deep into the catholic religion. They have lived that way for their whole life, and they wanted for other people to live the way they did. They spent days and often got many blisters from riding from place to place. They always moved north and never down south. They…

One of the most well known of all prisons in America is Alcatraz. Located 121 feet above sea level, in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, this prison sits on only 22 acres of land. Alcatraz was nicknamed “the rock.” The Rock held some of the most notorious criminals, murderers, and gangsters in the United States. Some of these people include Al Capone, Robert “the Bird man of Alcatraz” Stroud, and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. Alcatraz is such a famous prison in America’s history because of its…

head to California. This included many people from the US and some even from other countries. This caused the population in San Francisco to skyrocket from 1,000 people in 1848 to over 20,000 by 1850. As immigrants started making their way towards California, they could only take one of two routes. One was a six-month sea route all the way from New York to San Diego or San…

cell phones and social media. Once the news of gold was discovered and spread throughout the world there was an increase of population in San Francisco. The city of San Francisco consisted of a merely 200 people at the beginning, since California was far West from the East coast, but increased to about 36,000 people during the Gold Rush. This also forced San Francisco to expand and build new buildings and infrastructure…

San Francisco, in northern California, is a hilly city on the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It's known for its year-round fog, iconic Golden Gate Bridge, and cable cars, but is at risk for a major earthquake. San Francisco is built on the north american plate with it moving against a transform boundary, with the Pacific plate. A transform boundary is when two plates slide against each other, causing many earthquakes since San Francisco is on the west…

hosting a concert that had artists from the house music record label 100 percent silk. 36 people were killed in that fire and it is said that is was the deadliest fire ever in the history of Oakland. It was the deadliest in California since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Nobody knows exactly what caused the fire but it was such a bad warehouse because of all the safety hazards and that’s why it was abandoned. The founder Derick Ion Almena didn’t know there were people there. It is said that…

Gentrification, as an idea, seems good and philanthropic. The goal is beneficial for the community in most economical, political, and social aspects. Everybody wants to live in a safe, economically stable, and thriving neighborhood and to be able to provide that same lifestyle to others. However, the process of gentrification, and actually putting those ideas into practice, have been met with unfavorable protests, backlash, and seen some negative results. I vote No on Proposition 555 for a few…

an EMERGENT coast as its coastline is increasing yearly. CALIFORNIA’s COASTAL REGION California's Coastal Region is along the west side of the state and it is longer than 800 miles or 1287 kilometers .California has two natural bays they are San…