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    Svobida most likely joined the Dust Bowl exodus, the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California. Arriving in California, the migrants were faced with a life almost as difficult as the one they had left. Many California farms were corporate-owned. They were larger, and more modernized that those of the southern plains, and the crops were unfamiliar. Many farmers from the Great Plains ended up picking

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    A species is invasive when it is both nonnative to the ecosystem in which it is found and capable of causing environmental, economic, or human harm. Invasive species often compete so successfully in new ecosystems that they displace native species and disrupt important ecosystem processes. Plants, fish, insects, mammals, birds, and diseases all can be invasive. Selection criteria for horticultural plants must be more than a quest for the new, the different, the unusual. Species diversity in urban

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    others and no doubt provided the seed of inspiration that sparked Edward Weston’s lifelong passion for reading and literature.His greatest influences came from his family. They helped motivate him from a midwestern youth destined for business into a california artist. Weston’s mother died when he was only five. Her death caused Edward and his older sister Mary, to be come close and also and influence of his.

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    two, by his father. Weston furthered his school career at Illinois College of Photography in Effington, Illinois then later moved to California in the year 1906. Weston had four children with his first wife, Flora Chandler: Edward Chandler Weston, Theodore Brett Weston, Laurence Neil Weston and Cole Weston. He had then opened a portrait studio in Glendale, California. Shortly after the birth of his fourth son, he met Tina Modotti. This was the foundation of their long romantic relationship and photographic

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    Walter Elias Disney was known as a American voice actor, film producer, entrepreneur and animator. Walt was born on December 5,1901 in Hermosa neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Walt’s parents were Elias Disney and Flora Disney. Elias Disney was born in the Province of Canada, while Flora Disney’s parents were descendants of German and English culture. Walt was the fourth born out of five children. His siblings, Herbert, Raymond, Roy and Ruth. At a young age Walt had a n interest in drawing , painting

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    Walt died from Lung Cancer (Source#2). Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, in Burbank, California (Source#2). Walt Disney was born in Hermosa,Illinois on the 5th of December in the year 1901 (Source#1). Disney enjoyed growing up on a farm. (Source#5) Walt Disney went to school at McKinley High School (Source#1). Walter was raised with 3 other brothers and a sister. He was also a son to Elias and Flora Disney.(Source#5) He took drawing and photography classes along with giving cartoons to the

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    expect that his great invention of plastic in 1862 will turn nowadays as an ecological catastrophe? In August 1997, after a regatta in Honolulu Capitan Charles Moore, today is scientific and researcher, decided to safe time and sailed straight to California through the North Pacific Gyre, a giant watery desert without any wind. He was terrified by the view that he saw around his yacht, which navigated through infinite debris of floating plastic, hundred of miles across to the horizon. Thus was discovered

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    Walt Disney Speech

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    from the past to the future” Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 5, 1901. His parents are Flora Call Disney and Elias Disney. He had four siblings, four brothers and one sister. He came from a poor family. After Walt Disney was born, he and his family moved to Marceline, Missouri. Walt Disney was an inspired child. He loved nature and the world around him. His mother, Flora, and his brother, Roy, encouraged Walt do chase his dream and supported him along the way. Walt Disney wanted

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    Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney gave birth to a man who would eventually change our world by the creation of a little mouse. Walter Elias Disney, who was also known as “Walt,” was born in a small town in Chicago, Illinois, by a father who was an Irish-Canadian descent, and his mother who was a German- English descent. Walt was one out of five children, four brothers and a sister. Their names were Herbert Arthur Disney, Raymond Arnold Disney, Roy Oliver Disney, and Ruth Flora Disney. Walt was the

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