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    Have you thought what is being affected due to the drought in California, well one of the things that has been affected tremendously is the salmon population. Some of the ways that the salmon population has been effected are that due to water temperature a lot of salmon babies don’t get to hatch. Usually Salmon would lay eggs in cold waters, but their path to their usual breeding grounds has been blocked of by the Shasta dam and Keswick dam. Unfortunately because of the drought the usual run off

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    Spaghetti Bridge Lab

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    Spaghetti Bridge YelingYao Partner: Jay Physics class Mrs. Eckman August11,2015 Introduction: The bridge of sighs is This lab use spaghetti with the bridge to see how many pennies it can hold.There are interesting facts about bridges ,I also stated its tie to our lab. Thousands of tourists have crowded onto and around San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate the iconic structure's 75th birthday.Crowds partied across its three-kilometer length, boats cruised on the water below and a finale

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    Representative Huffman represents California’s 2nd Congressional District and has done so since his election in 2013. Regionally, the District is located on the coast of Northern California, stretching from North of San Francisco to the California border with Oregon. Furthermore, the District is made up of several counties, including Marin, Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity, and parts of Sonoma. Because of the lack of large urban centers such as Los Angeles or San Francisco, the district is

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    Without the creation of dynamite and other modern explosives in the 1850-1900 era, westward expansion of railroads would have been impossible. There were a number of both positive and negative aspects to it; it helped to a huge degree with being able to build across the mountain ranges along the country, although a large number of people were killed by the explosives. In the 1860’s and 70’s, a lot of the United States was unexplored. This was mostly due to the lack of adequate transportation

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    Loma Linda Analysis

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    The lower region in Loma Linda in California is a bore, a drag, an uneventful livelihood, a calm, a home, a quiet night, an established community, an utter disappointment. Loma linda is the born and raised, wood and glass and flowers and warmth, cracked streets and leaf-coated driveways and dust-covered cars, churches and grocery stores and farmers markets and gas stations and pho restaurants. Its inhabitants are, as many would say, “Racists, poor people, students, and rich old white men.” by which

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    According to the U.S. Census, the Latino population in the United States has increased by 592% since the 1970s. Currently, Latinos make up 16% of the population in the United States and it is expected to increase to 31% by 2060 (Census, 2012). As the demographic landscape of the country changes, the economic prosperity of the nation relies on the education of a more diverse population. To remain competitive on a global scale, the U.S. must pay special attention to the education of the largest growing

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    Shannon McCrea ENG 105 Prof Asdel Writing Project 3 The state of California remains lost as to what action to take with the drought. What is the proper solution to the current predicament residents of California are in? The answer to that question is an improved form of desalination and mandating the amount of water that farmer’s are available to and what crops they should be limited to. California coastline runs along eight hundred and forty miles of the Pacific Ocean. With this easy access to

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    The ground starts to shake, things are flying off of the walls. This situation would be known as an earthquake. In Kitsap County, an Earthquake is a very likely event. The sudden energy put out from the earthquake would almost definitely trigger a massive tsunami, landslides, volcanic eruption, and lahars. The damage would be quick and merciless, affecting thousands and leaving them in the dark. That is why informing the residents of this area about earthquake preparedness would be the best choice

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    28.3% are between 40 to 59 years old, and 15.7% are 60 years of age and older; specifically, 11% of the total population is seniors aged 65 and over—the priority population (California Department of Finance, 2014). At present, Santa Clara County has the second fastest growing population (1.47%) in 58 counties of California, just behind Alameda County (1.68%) while California’s growing rate is 0.88% (credit). By gender, there are 893,851 males and 887,791 females. Between 2011 and 2012, approximately

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    In recent years the Hispanic population in the United States has grown over the past years or so. As the growth of Latinos/Hispanic population it can be debated, as Latinos/Hispanics have been taking over and becoming he largest minority group in the United States. As Hispanic/Latinos has been flourishes in the past years and now, the introduction of “Latino” and “Hispanic” has been marked into our vocabulary. However, since the terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” have been introduced into our vocabulary

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