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    Vacations In California

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    Many people will go on vacations to get away from their own lives and take a break from work, stress, and giving them time to relax. When someone goes on vacation, they have a lot to plan and many things to do. Another reason why people go on vacation is for the scenery. Most places people go to for vacation is something they do not have in their own town or near them, so most of the time people go to places that are out of their comfort zone. “San Francisco, California tourism reached record numbers

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    The San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 1906 was one of the most devastating earthquakes felt by a lot of states. At 5:15 am, this earthquake which registered at 8.25 on the Richter Scale shook San Francisco, California. The earthquake lasted less than a minute and it did a lot of destruction in that period of time. The most destructive part during the San Francisco earthquake was the fires which began after, as a result of the earthquake. The fires killed about 3,000 people and left 400,000 homeless

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    City Moving Homeless

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    will be taking place at the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, south of San Francisco, where the Carolina Panthers play the Denver Broncos on Sunday February 7. This will be an exciting game for the fans to watch and a busy night for the new Super Bowl City, where almost 1 million people will descend to celebrate the Super Bowl, but, there are a lot of changes to this event. The authorities in San Francisco are moving homeless people from Super Bowl City to make sure the area is a safe and clean environment

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    day to day lives of San Francisco’s various laborers through the bay window of his Dental Parlor. McTeague noticed that the street was always occupied by people with different kinds of people at specific times of the day. Since San Francisco is described as full of energy because of the people in it, it is inferred that the city has a personal, tied connection to its inhabitants. Frank Norris portrayed the city as full of liveliness and excitement to showcase how San Francisco itself is its own main

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    The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and Recovery. What did the people of San Francisco suffer after the earthquake of 1906? In order to answer this question, we need to know what the San Francisco earthquake was. The San Francisco earthquake happened in 1906 with a magnitude of 7.8 and caused a fire that burned for 7 days. This was the biggest recorded earthquake in San-Francisco. The foreshock started at 5:12am and 25 seconds later the earthquake started that lasted 40 to 60 seconds, with most

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    The San Andreas fault line has caused constant development nightmares for large urban areas such as San Francisco as well as the other cities built on top of it. Fault lines are one of the side effects of the earth’s tectonic plates shifting that can result in devastating earthquakes. Some of the most devastating earthquakes in our modern era have occurred along the San Andreas fault line due to a dense population. The most notable and destructive earthquake on the San Andreas fault line occurred

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    Chico from Carson City cause I kept hearing that Chico was a chill place with chill people, and I was told the cops don’t give a fuck about what we free living people do,” said James Marshall laughing. Marshall currently wanders throughout Chico and sets up his ‘home’ wherever he can; he is often roaming through one-mile. He says the hippie, laid-back vibe is what keeps him living in Chico. “Chico is lit, but I caught a ride with some people to the city (San Francisco) and how people be living

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    Laura Lam is a sci-fi thriller novel which takes place in a near-future San Francisco, which focuses on two twins that were once conjoined named Taema and Tila. Their ethnicity is part Samoan, in addition, their sexual preference is bisexual. Taema and Tila use to once live in The Hearth, run by a cult leader named “Mana-ma.” People from The Hearth have very limited knowledge of modern technology as well as being kept away from modern society. The twins shared a heart for the first sixteen years of

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    I think San Francisco is the continual central hub of important, groundbreaking movements in history like the Gold Rush, Barbary Coast, Beat Generation, Summer of Love, the ascendance of the gay community, and the rise and fall of Harvey Milk, and further current movements from the 20th and 21st centuries. This is mostly because of how San Francisco really is like a melting pot of all different cultures and ideas in our society. It can definitely be stated that San Francisco is one of the most diverse

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    The California Gold Rush one of the biggest events in the U.S History. The Gold Rush was when gold was found by James .W. Marshall in 1848 in San Francisco, California. When this happened, emotions sparked in San Francisco (main site for the Gold Rush). The word spread so quickly that people from all around the Unites States flooded into San Francisco and causing overpopulation(“California Gold Rush”). In 6 years during the Gold Rush, the population increased by almost 36,000 residents(“California

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