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will have a visible effect. Municipal solid waste (MSW), more commonly known as garbage or trash, is steadily filling landfills across the United States. Landfills are carefully built disposal facilities for MSW and are designed to keep the waste from contaminating the environment around it (Advanced Disposal Services, 2017). The use of landfills is a two thousand year old tradition, starting in Ancient Rome and becoming popular in the United States in the mid 1950’s (Ezban. 2012). There are many

Nearly one of every four Americans—70 million people—is an immigrant or the child of parents who came from another country. Some fled war, persecution, or environmental disaster; others pursued the American ideal of opportunity for all. On June 8, 1995, my grandmother was born in a small city in Guatemala. In Guatemala, there were the wealthy, who had money and lived a great life, and there were the poor, the majority who lived in grueling poverty. Fortunately, my grandma was born to a wealthy family

Virtue, when I hear that word I think of value and morality and only good people can be virtuous. When I hear the word ethics I think of good versus evil, wrong and right. Now when the two are put together you get virtue ethics. You may wonder what can virtue ethics possibly mean. It’s just two words put together to form some type of fancy theory. Well this paper will discuss virtue ethics and the philosophy behind it. Virtue ethics is a theory that focuses on character development and what virtues

name is Eunice Mak and is a young lady of 26 years living in San Francisco, California with her grandparents, parents, and brother. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Science in Human Development. She currently works at Kaiser as a Pharmacy Technician. Mak was born in Hong Kong, China and migrated along with her parents to Vancouver, Canada when she was only one-year-old. She later migrated to San Francisco, California when she was just five years old. Both journeys

active in voicing concerns regarding the Briggs Initiative stating the proposition would infringe of citizen’s human rights. On the night of the election, the Briggs Initiative lost by over an astounding million votes and in the city of San Francisco 75 percent of people voted against the initiative (Clendinen and Nagourney 1999: 388). Three days later, Dan White resigned as Supervisor stating that his income was not enough to provide for his family. According to Foss (Morris 2007: 76) a few days later

changed the people, economic, political and environmental effects. The Gold Rush was a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered Goldfield. The Gold Rush was arguably one of the most significant events to build American history during the first half of the 19th century. Thousands of gold miners traveled by the sea and over the land to San Francisco and the surrounding area. In January 1848, James Wilson Marshall discovered gold along the American

There are somewhere around 3,000 to 5,000 of these cults throughout the United States, but only 75 to 100 are documented (Study Resources). The most commonly known cults are Reverend Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, Heavens Gate, and Charles Manson and the Family; these cults were able to drag people in and

Righteous Dopefiend. By Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. 392 Righteous Dopefiend examines the everyday lives of approximately one dozen homeless addicts living on the streets of San Francisco. Based on 12 years of research; Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg highlight the highs and lows of homelessness, addiction, poverty, and relationships in Urban America. “We can understand the Edgewater homeless as forming a community of addicted

Zodiac Killer, who terrorized northern California during the late 1960’s and early 70’s. Despite evidence from the crimes, various theories, and letters the killer sent to the press, no one was ever caught for the murders and the case remains open. The only reason the Zodiac Killer is a known name is due to the killings he commited. The notorious Zodiac Killer murdered at least five people, is linked to two more and has claimed to kill thirty-seven. The first

Mandarin Chinese, Jiayi means, “add one,” and Cheng means, “journey.” Sierra means, “saw,” in Spanish, and Kirkpatrick means, “the church of St. Patrick.” Two names from two different cultures are used to describe two girls with their own unique family histories. Despite Sierra and Jacie’s different origins and foundations, stemming from west Europe and east Asia, respectively, they both developed similar personality traits, such as being open-minded and accepting, and liberal democratic political