San Jose Mercury News

his racketeering (doing illegal business) charges. The two newspaper articles I researched were from “The New York Times” and “The San Jose Mercury News”. My two newspaper articles explain who he is and the latest news on his trial. I am going to compare the articles and see how he’s portrayed. The first article is called, “Who is “Shrimp Boy” Chow?” and it’s from the San Jose Mercury News by Howard Mintz. In this article, Mintz gives us some basic facts on the “Asian organized crime figure”.…

In the San José Mercury News article “San José Council Considers Immediate No-cause Eviction Policy,” the author Ramona Giwargis reports about the City’s final decision to approve an ordinance that would limit no-cause evictions to residents who are renters in the city (Giwargis, 2017c). On April 18, 2017, the San José City Council voted 6-5 to narrowly approve a policy that would make it illegal to evict occupants for no-cause. Under the Tenant Protection Ordinance (Ordinance), landlords are…

observations, it is also evident that East San Jose has a large amount of homeless people walking…

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor heralded an unfortunate era for Japanese-Americans due to the decisions made by the United States government. At the time, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decried the attack as an event “which will live in infamy,” unanimously uniting the Houses of Congress behind him with a declaration of war against Japan (Roosevelt). With the military and navy ordered to use “ all measures...for our defense,” a policy of internment for Japanese-Americans emerged…

one to four page full color ads that show pictures of different products on sale, their cost, and the deal offered. The ads for the Fremont branch shows up in most all of the major newspaper chains, including The Argus, East Bay Times, and San Jose Mercury News. In local search engines, Fry’s Electronics is on the first page of results for electronics stores in Fremont, but there is nothing that distinguishes their services from other stores. Mobile Fry’s Electronics has a website that is…

“The golden agouti, like the rhinoceros, was in need of companionship” (Martel, 108). While the book never sounded as if it were written by a child, it was certainly not on the level of William Shakespeare. It was just right. “Tears flowing down my cheeks, I egged myself on until I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life fighting in my hands” (Martel, 231). The language wasn’t written in a bland, distasteful manner. Every single word had a meaningful purpose, just as a member of a…

their involvement in the cocaine epidemic in 1980’s. Before I write about the cocaine epidemic of the 1980’s. We should look at the involvement of the CIA in earlier drug rings. In Southeast Asia during the 1950’s the CIA wanted to overthrow the new Communist China so they started and funded the Nationalist Chinese army to start a war. The Nationalist Chinese army then became a part of the Golden Triangle as opium…

Throughout the world non-renewable resources are extracted from the earth 's surface such as oil, copper, gold, iron, by mining industries daily. Mining companies are located anywhere around the world but Latin America specifically has many resources that Mining industries want. The most popular places; Peru, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina have the largest amounts of mines and exportation of resources, but even though these are the largest in south America, mines are found in small…

letters that they would write to each other. Cecilia stuck with Robbie through everything, the accusations of rape and all she knew he was innocent and she wanted everyone else to believe he was too. Upon release from prison Robbie was faced with the new problem of adapting to a battlefield. Robbie was not a warrior or fighting man, even when accused of the rape he didn’t lash out in rage. This was a playing field not meant for a man with his head in books. Robbie’s enlistment forced him into…

The CIA’s Shadow: Contras, Drugs and Lies By the mid-80s, a series of official and journalistic investigations that assured the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the Nicaraguan Contra and cocaine trafficking, came to light. This studies claimed that the government of Ronald Reagan, US President at the time, had illegally helped an army of counterrevolutionary mercenaries in Central America. However, and despite the conclusive evidence, the intelligence service executed a…