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    Melting Pot In America

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    of these solution brought together by the people of that time was the San Francisco Union Labor Party. In the 1900’s, San Francisco organized what is known today as a labor movement, which was established through the development of the Metropolis of the West. It was clear that California, especially San Francisco, did not experience this slow and steady, but a fast growth towards becoming a metropolitan area; especially during the Gold Rush, many people were came to California in search for gold

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    The Death Toll Of Haiti

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    It was typical late afternoon in Haiti capital of Port-au-Prince. People were strolling the streets, and local vendors were selling various goods at the Port-au-Prince historic Iron Market. Then at 4:53 pm on January 12, 2010 a 7.0 magnitude hit Haiti. Haiti had not seen a major earthquake like this in almost 200 years. People scrambled through the streets as the ground roared knocking down huge stone and brick building onto the streets of Port-au-Prince. An eyewitness describes the moment that the

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    Story Of An Eyewitness

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    distruction for San Francisco. It tells us the conditions that San Francisco expirienced after the earthquake. It describes how it looked from the point of view of someone who was not actually present during the event. Its something that depicts the way he felt as an eyewitness. He describes the expirience and explains the feelings that comes along. Analasing it is the best way to discover what he felt as he watched San Francisco be detroyed. In the year 1906 was the date when San Francisco, California

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    Case Study: Does San Francisco Have the Obligation to Provide Citizens with Health Access? Misty Dawson Kaplan University Case Study: Does San Francisco Have the Obligation to Provide Citizens with Health Access? The question of whether governments have an obligation, legally or morally, to provide citizens with access to health care is one that has been debated for decades and will more than likely continue to be for years to come. Some say governments are morally obligated to provide

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    “The RailRoad Earth”, Kerouac presents the real San Francisco. He disregards the city’s fancy and sophisticated corporate image that many believe it to be for the real and raw, poverty stricken city it is. In fact the corporate exterior is composed of commuters, who are not native to the city, while the soul of the city lies in the hands of the homeless and low-income people of color who actually live there. These commuters are businessmen who come from the “railroad earth”, the outside lands connected

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    winner here. It can take months, or even years for some people to earn other people’s trust in them, but only a few seconds to break it. In 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, the San Francisco Police Department is on edge after learning that they may or may not be sheltering exactly what they are trying to prevent: a couple of criminals that are hellbent on getting rich in the easiest ways possible. Will the San Francisco police force be able to figure out who the corrupt individuals

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    In The Story of an Eyewitness, Jack London gives the reader a dramatic first-person description of the horrible aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. Jack London’s description was first published in Collier’s on May 5, 1906. He is trying to get the tragic events that he witnessed across to the reader. He does this by using a great amount of detail and using figurative language like similes, metaphors, personification, hyperboles, and irony. His descriptions are so good that the reader

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    landlord can charge a tenant. People from middle and lower income brackets tend to benefit from rent control, while people from the upper income brackets do not. The whole purpose as to why rent control exists is so that tenants from the lower income groups are not exploited by “greedy” landlords through government intervention. Landlords who own property in expensive cities like San Francisco are not able to charge market rates of rent as that would displace many poor people. While rent control was

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    Satanism is a topic that has been misunderstood for many generations. Lavey is someone who started to do a church of satanism in San Francisco. There has been many problems involving if Lavey, the maker of the church, should actually even have the church present in San Francisco. People were against this due to the stereotypes and criticism they would get from the Christians, who would mainly criticize the satanic church views on beliefs and religion. In reality the church of Satan does not only

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    happen today.” I honestly say that at least once a week preparing myself for an eventful day. Growing up in San Francisco, I learn to be prepared. There are so many possibilities and activities I can experience each day. A few memorable experiences are finding my passion for golf, my craving for knowledge, and my participation in various activities. Six years after I moved to San Francisco. I adopted my father’s favorite sport, golf. Soon, I realized I had a natural talent for it. I excelled and

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