People from San Francisco

California Earthquakes California’s unique geography as a state makes it a very appealing place to call home. From the odd east to west transverse San Gabriel mountain ranges of the Los Angeles Basin, to the bumpy coastal ranges of the Bay Area, any person can find a compatible topographic terrain to their liking. California may seem to be the perfect place to live with its ideal climate and extensive geographic features. However, due to California’s location over the shifting continental plates

roar comes loud and clear. The roar is so deafening that even the screams of people are drowned out in chaos. This is what it was like during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The cause of the earthquake at 5:12 on April 18, 1906 was a section of rock along the San Andreas Fault. The stone snapped causing the shaking to start a few miles down in San Francisco. This earthquake was measured a magnitude of 7.8. (San Francisco 1906 Earthquake and Fire) This earthquake was remembered as the USA’s worst

POW 9: Around the Horn Problem Statement During the time of crossing the overland trail, many people instead chose to take the ship route which went around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. The points that we are given to keep in mind are: -A ship leaves New York for San Francisco on the first of every month at noon, and vice versa for a ship coming from San Francisco. -Each ship arrives exactly six months after it leaves. With these things, we are also going to assume that:


 Company A comes from Mobile, Alabama which has a population around 200,000 and company B is from San Francisco, California that has around 900,000 people. This is a big difference and relocating people from these two companies will be quite a challenge. New company are willing to invest money in relocation but it needs to be a way of how to

Kicker: Severe water pollution that exists in far away countries, could happen right here in the San Francisco bay- and its effects would be devastating. Recall the last time you drove across the Golden Gate Bridge; looking to the sea and seeing the whitecaps break against the rocks, and then looking at the bay and seeing the shimmering aqua colored water filled with sailboats. But now, try and imagine a very different picture, you look towards the bay and see oil slicks, floating tires, and islands

As Super Bowl season draws near, many of the homeless living in San Francisco are being encouraged to head away from the vicinity of the recently built Super Bowl City in San Francisco, California and move towards local homeless shelters nearby. Home to nearly 7,000 homeless people and growing, San Francisco is ranked 8th in the nation for its substantial homeless population city. According to “The 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress”, “...Most (69 percent) [of the homeless living

APPENDICES The Case Studies The following case studies have been compiled from existing reports and other sources including the ‘Thundering Hooves’ report prepared by AEA consulting for Edinburgh City Council in 2006. Figures and references have been updated where possible. Edinburgh Edinburgh rates among the smaller of the festival cities benchmarked with a population of 450,000 within the city and 780,000 people in the surrounding region. Singapore has over 4m inhabitants within its metropolis

San Francisco is ranked eighth in the nation with the population of the amount of homeless population. Because of the this, it has been causing San Francisco problems with preparing for the Super Bowl Fifty.Why does one of the major cities in California have such a large homeless population?Well, the article entitled, San Francisco nudges homeless away from Super Bowl fan village, published by Bloomberg News, the article states,” It has worsened as a technology boom drawing thousands of well paid-workers

living in. San Francisco, in particular, has become at risk to gentrification in different districts causing lower income or even middle-class residents to struggle to pay rising rent costs. The rise in rent is not only seen in San Francisco but other cities in the Bay Area such as South San Francisco. As a resident of South San Francisco, I have noticed the changes that have happened just in the past two years. A high number of business buildings, apartment

since 1995 (source.) The Usual Suspects blog offers a vast amount of local political information in San Francisco. It has many resources on upcoming elections such as San Francisco election history, news on upcoming elections, and information on San Francisco’s office of mayor and Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors is a governing institution involved in making decisions in San Francisco County’s policy process. On Usual suspects there are linked to newsletter pages of the eleven district