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    speaker, and later served as the 41 mayor of San Francisco,he was the first African American to do so. Also under the California term-limits law no Speaker of the California State Assembly will be prermitted to have a longer tenure than Mr. Willie Brown. The San Francisco Chronicle called Brown "one of San Francisco's most notable mayors"who was a celebrity beyond city boundaries". Mr.Brown was born in Mineola, Texas and graduated from Mineola Colored High School in 1951 he described

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    A Big City Is Not Cheap

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    city is not cheap. And housing cost is probably the most substantial part of any big city family’s monthly budget. San Francisco, as well as many other US megalopolises, suffers from a lack of affordable housing. People in the area commonly blame computer industry for the problem. Indeed, world’s biggest IT marketplace, located in Silicon Valley, “continue to attract rich, smart people, who are willing to pay high prices”. This people’s flow in its turn boosts the region’s economy and allows the development

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    fleeing Grosse Pointe Michigan to San Francisco. These settings compliment a major theme of the novel, society has always believed to be missing something in their life and attempted to fill the missing piece. Desdemona and Lefty’s struggle while fleeing Greece, during a time of war, parallels Cal’s struggle while in Grosse Pointe and fleeing to San Francisco. Desdemona and Lefty are wondering through a war zone to find

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    Over the years, the San Francisco Giants have used the four variables of change: strategies, structures, technologies and people to change and improve the environments and culture of their organization. Structure usually follows strategy and companies adjust their tactics in order to adapt to transformations on their external and internal environments. The Giants had a great deal of money tied up in Barry Zito and Aaron Rowand’s contracts, so they had to switch their strategy and concentrate on drafting

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    report takes an in depth look at the Golden Gate bridge of San Francisco. I identify the problems and formulate the problem statement as well as discussing the role of the chief engineer. The Golden Gate bridge was long on of the longest suspension bridges in the world and is a huge feat of engineering. Problem Statement The main Problem The problem in 1920’s San Francisco was that there was a lot of ferry traffic to cross over from San Francisco to Marin county. Thus the solution was to build a bridge

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    The Ripple effect was a very interesting play to watch by the Mime troop. The story of the play was simple, yet took into consideration all the people living in San Francisco. The play revolves around 3 characters, one working in Google, the other a Vietnamese immigrant, and the head of the boat in which this play is set who also happens to be a woman from the African community who is an Activist for her community rights. We can see that the three women in the play use this stage to show the disparity

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    Steiner Street, San Francisco And Its Victorian Houses Steiner Street in San Francisco is a famous tourist destination known for its colorful buildings designed in the Victorian style. Although the wonderful and colorful Victorian houses are located in several areas of San Francisco (in the Western and Southern parts of the city), the most famous place, where they settled in a row, is the Steiner St. It is from this location, the restoration process of these houses with a fancy name "Painted ladies"

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    San Francisco beats like a heart with too much blood. The city on the bay provides homes and shelter to the free-thinkers of America. If you are looking to expand your consciousness you should travel there and consider making it your home. The city is full of life and death with its inhabitants high and low. Look around and see faces born in wombs from around the world and see the same light in each one of their eyes. The mighty bridge that connects land with land and people to people stands tough

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    between 1-3 months to complete. Ships set sail for Panama from east coast of the U.S. When travelers arrived in Panama they canoed up the Charges River for 75 miles. Then they rode mules for 25 miles through the jungle to Panama City. There they waited for a ship to take them to San Francisco. This was the fastest route of all three travelers could get to California in half of the time of the other routes. Weary travelers could take a break from life at sea and eat fresh food as they crossed Panama.

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    The Bay Area was the epicenter of the Counterculture on the west coast. San Francisco and Berkeley were home to major movements and protests in the 1960s. The Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco hosted the Summer of Love and was considered a birthplace of the Counterculture, and Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement was one of the most well known protests that occurred throughout the entire decade. The Counterculture movement allowed society as a whole to break free of oppression forced on them. Instead

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