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    Go with the flow I have been to multiple concerts before but nothing compares to the Resonance Music and Arts Festival, a weekend long camp out of like-minded, motived, music loving individuals. In simpler terms, modern day hippies. These hippies focus more on medication, dancing, and yoga as a way to reach the ultimate state of joy. The people around me, the clothing they wore, the smell of weed that filled the air, and the music that blared through the speakers were all things I will never forget

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    Personal Narrative Draft 4: In this story I will be talking about the amazing water ride in Universal studios, Singapore. I still remember till this day, how many times I rode that ride. For last 7 years we have been going to a lot of amusement parks like 6 Flags, Disneyland, MGM Studio, Lego Land, Epcot Center,Etc. When me, my mom, my dad, and my sister jumped in the car, I was as ready as can be. I was very excited when I read the map of Universal Studio. All of a sudden I became greedy and

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    settlers from Mexico, created a Pueblo nearby river Porcuncula. They called the Pueblo, El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porcuncula (Our Lady the Queen of the angels of Porcincula). Furthermore, the motive for establishing the Pueblo was to stress the Spanish’s declaration over the territory. As a matter of fact, the Pueblo assisted with keeping Spain’s California military supplied as well as fed. At first, there was only a small quantity of families, however, in the 1800

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    Omaha, Nebraska

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    Home Omaha, Nebraska is a beautiful city, but my heart belongs to Los Angeles, California. There are some beautiful places here in Nebraska. We have beautiful lakes, hiking trails, the Iowa-Nebraska bridge downtown, and we actually get all four seasons here. But, I feel like nothing will ever compare to California. First of all, in California, you could hike, surf, ski, and ride dune buggies all in the same day! There are so many trails and canyons to hike, so many beaches to sun bathe, and so much

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    mediterranean climate. La is 340 feet above sea level and 469 square miles. Los angeles has a change in rainfall with a very dry summer to a winter rainy season. The driest month LA gets is july and august with an average of .04 inches of rain. The wettest month La gets is february with 5.08 inches of rain. La gets an average yearly rainfall of 18.67 inches, which is relatively a small amount of rain because the national average is 36.5 inches of rain. But since it rains so little it makes LA a beautiful

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    viewing the original inhabitants of California, as well, as dead ancestors in stark contrast to American invaders who took over California. Repeated language shifts from English to Spanish, revolving between themes of life or death, and reflection of the past to the present allows Cervantes to express California’s ethnographic divide. First, Cervantes uses repeated language shifts from English to Spanish within the poem to convey regional aspects of Los Altos, California. Usage of language shifts from

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    Coyotes In City Analysis

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    Coyotes Create Chaos In City Coyotes have been an issue in Southern California for decades now, specifically in the city of La Habra. An uprise in coyote attacks over the last few years has finally brought the attention of the city council. Coyotes going into residential areas and attacking pets is becoming more common. La Habra pet owners are leaving pet food and garbage outside at night which tends to attract the coyotes into residential areas. In order to stop coyotes from coming into residential

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    tribe members and "implored penitents toward a shift in subjectivity through introspection, self-examination, guilt, and sorrow for sin"(McCormack). This helped the Confessario to personalize the penitent, altering Native behavior and thought from its larger social and cultural perspective. Accordingly, the confessional aids focused scrupulous interest on the transgressions of the sixth and ninth commandments (sins of impurity, including adultery, fornication, homosexuality, masturbation, and lust)

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    populations residing in Southern California. For the purpose of this analysis, the Spanish linguistic has been chosen. The report compromises of four parts: the first consists of surveys and statistics, the second includes an analysis of the history of immigration, the third is an analysis of the linguistic features while the fourth is an assessment of the language use and language maintenance. Section I: Survey and Statistics The areas of Southern California that has the highest concentration

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    Joan Vinckeboon Myth

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    A 1650 map, created by Joan Vinckeboon, titled “ Map of California Shown as an Island," echoes the inaccurate belief of cartographers, whose early maps depicted California as an island, separate from mainland North America. The Dutch cartographer and engraver Vinckeboon was born into a Flemish family of artists and started out drawing for his father. About 1640, he started creating maps, and later was employed by the Dutch West India Company, where he spent roughly three decades creating maps that

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