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    Fitbit, Inc. Company Profile According to Free SWOT Analysis, Fitbit is a San Francisco established wearable device corporation who leads the way in connected health/fitness marketplace in 2007 asserting their device’s assistance individuals become more energetic, increase exercise, sleep improved, and control their weight. They have sold over 20.8 million devices as of March 31, 2015 and held a 68% share of the United States market by dollars in 2014, bragging users including the President of the

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    couldn’t have been any further from the truth. The collapse of the U.S. economy, which was the largest in the world, created a global financial shockwave that could be felt across the globe. By 1931, the effects of Depression affected not only the U.S., but the world. “By 1933, 30 million people in industrial nations were unemployed, five times the number of unemployed four years before” (Starr 54). During the Great Depression, unemployment rates

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    was born in Richmond, California in 1945. He graduated from Diablo Valley Community College and then attended San Francisco State University to obtain his 4 year degree. He also attended the UC Davis School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor to become a lawyer. He served as a United States Representative from California from 1975 to 2015. Miller served as chairman of the Education and Labor Committee from 2007 to 2011. In 2014, Miller announced that he would retire from Congress, he is no longer

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    The first Chinese immigrants flooded to America, in the hopes of “striking gold” during the California Gold Rush of 1849. Unfortunately, the citizens of California greeted these newcomers with many unfair laws. Beginning with the Foreign Miner’s License Tax Law of 1850, the Chinese experienced nothing but bigotry from the citizens who surrounded them. This inequality peaked when President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, barring the immigration of Chinese workers for ten

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    signed the act creating the National Park Service to conserve natural land from being destroyed or messed with. This enabled it to be preserved for many generations to see rather than it be torn down and made into some lame houses or buildings. Red wood forest, San Francisco, California Yellowstone National Park Cody, Wyoming Glacier National Park Montana Sequoia National Park California and Yosemite National Park California Glacier National Park is a very beautiful park with many sites. The Park

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    entirety and temporality of the process (Davidson 2389). It is easy to blame the incoming middle-class civilians for displacing the low-income/working class locals from their neighborhoods, but not having rent control is more at fault for the low-income residents' displacements.

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    this fat, disgusting, boring girl.” -Suicide note by Marissa Imrie, age 14 "I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out, and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in." - Suicide note by Madison Holleran age 19 Marissa Imrie jumped from the bridge on December 17, 2001. Marissa was a straight-A student at Santa Rosa High School. Her grades were a source of pride to her divorced parents. But, Marissa was more preoccupied with how she looked than how she tested in school. Like many

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    The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The first to hear confirmed information of the gold rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands, and Latin America, and they were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848. All in all, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. Of the 300,000, approximately half arrived by sea and half

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    and employment tax in 2015 , California has had the highest federal revenue of any state in the United States of America. Though, California’s accumulation of wealth did not always solely rely on taxes from Hollywood or the tourism to the mountains, beaches, national parks or landmarks; California was once known for its surplus of gold, creating the infamous event known as the California Gold Rush. The California Gold Rush (1848-1855) grabbed the attention of people worldwide due to the massive discovery

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    They were sent from Spain to Rome, from Rome to Mons, from Mons to Vienna. They were grown in London in 1597 and reached France and the Netherlands shortly after. Sailors took potatoes on ocean voyages and reached the countries of India, China, and Japan. Potatoes became a staple

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