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    San Francisco Earthquake

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    The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, was one of the largest quakes ever recorded. It happened on April 18th, at 5:15AM. “The quake lasted only a minute, but caused the worst natural disaster in the nation’s history.”( Eyewitness History.) The quake caused an enormous amount of damage that affected hundreds of thousands of people’s lives. The quake caused great damage to San Francisco. According to Eyewitness History, “the maelstrom destroyed 490 city blocks, a total of 25,000 buildings, made over

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    Double Consciousness

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    Results The results from the data were spread out and allowed for me to draw from many theoretical frameworks in the field. Through the four themes of double consciousness, cognitive dissonance, and spatial theory results were drawn from the data. Double-Consciousness: W.E.B. Du Bois coined a very important concept identifying the problem of double consciousness in America. Furthermore, double consciousness is a term that described the internal concept that is experienced by groups in an oppressive

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    Cupid's Span Analysis

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    humans we have the natural necessity to express those feelings, our thoughts and to be understood by others. Creativity is essential to make art; most people are delighted by these masterpieces in some form or another, whether it is music, paintings, dance, statues or buildings;

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    Vigilantism In 19th Century

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    the privileged, wealthy individuals who were the ones moving in search of gold; on the contrary, it was people from all avenues and walks of life. Individuals with nothing to lose and those with everything to lose boarded wagon trains, ships, and boats and headed for San Francisco. The California Gold Rush turned hardworking, sensible individuals into crazed, strike it rich enthusiasts. “People of all classes had departed for the diggings, including school teachers, mechanics, physicians, lawyers

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    All applicants must answer the following  four essay questions:   -> Why would you like to be a San Francisco Fellow, and what do you hope to achieve in the Fellowship? (300 word limit) I would like to be a San Francisco Fellow as I feel this unique experience will sever as a foundation to career opportunities for the local government. I feel this program will help me focus on my professional development and expand my leadership. As one of biggest weakness I truly want to improve with this program

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    The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 devastated citizens from San Francisco. After the disaster, new technology advanced when detecting earthquakes. Different theories grew from the elastic rebound theory to the theory that the soil determines the severity of the earthquake. Building developed new plans to keep buildings from being destroyed by fires. Harry Fielding Reid, a geologist, discovered a time difference between the preliminary tremors and the regular waves. Reid concluded that the first

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    took place within the effective memory of the Second World War. The academic and intellectual establishment, Left, Right, and Center, was shattered, demoralized, and discredited by the years of McCarthyism. Young men by the thousands were returning from the Korean War to the colleges disillusioned and contemptuous of their elders. They said to each other, “Keep your nose clean and don’t volunteer.” “Don’t believe anybody over thirty.” Communication between groups broke down. Only those of the older

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    noticeable but those that are 07 or above tend to cause major damages to the human settlements. Time and again through history, there have been incidents of earthquakes destroying towns and cities. One such historic earthquake was the infamous 1906 San-Francisco Earthquake. Earthquakes usually cause the shaking and displacement of the land which causes buildings to fall down and cause casualties. If close to the ocean, they might even cause tsunamis. The science of an earthquake is such that the tectonic

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    December 1s, 2016 at 8:00pm our group went to a school play held here in San Francisco State University at the McKenna Theatre. The play is called “Sofa Sin Casa” which translates to a couch with no home. The play was roughly two hours with one brief intermission, mixed with dance choreography and singing.  The play features a red couch in San Francisco, “The new Silicon Valley”, moving from place to place and giving people a place to rest and sleep.  Although the red couch is inanimate, it is brought

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    1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE: So on the Wednesday morning early I wake up about 5 o’clock, feeling my bed rocking as though I am in a ship on the ocean, and for a moment I think I am dreaming that I am crossing the water on my way to my beautiful country, and so I take no notice for the moment, and then as the rocking continues, I get up and go the window, raise the shade and look out, and what I see makes me tremble with fear. I see the buildings trooping over and I hear the cries and screams of

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