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The new home of the NBA Sacramento Kings has attracted a plethora of attention in its construction. But what makes this structure so special to catch people's eyes all over the world? The structure has yet to be completed, but a lot is expected of this $507 million project, by which the Kings provided $284 million and the city of Sacramento, with $223 million by selling bonds and funds for economic development. The city managed to acquire the funds even through all the controversy of the city misusing

In the 1850’s, Chinese immigrants began entering California in search of gold and the California dream. They had heard that California was the new frontier, a frontier that would provide them with the opportunity for economic riches. Young and ambitious, many of these Chinese immigrants quickly married in their homeland and set out for the gold rush, promising to return (with wealth). Likewise, in the 1880s, when the state of California was undergoing rapid economic transformation, Japanese immigrants

Joseph Missouri on the east side and Sacramento San Francisco, on the west side. Along the 2000-mile route, there were over 150 Pony Express stations. The stations were small resting stations for riders to switch fresh horses. Riders only had two minutes to make the switch. The stations were

The original name of the pony express was The Central Overland, California and Pikes Peak Express Company. People needed a fast mail service.The persons who took the mail needed to communicate with the west faster, get across to a 2000 mile trail, and go up mountains and other long parts that was hard for them. That when the pony express began to opened on April 3,1860.the founders of the pony express were William H, Russell, William B, Waddell, and Alexander. At first, mail was carried once a week

Skipping ahead to his time in California, John became a Mexican citizen in order to perchance around one hundred, fifteen thousand acres that would allow him to build to his hearts desirer. And build he did. What is known as Sutter’s Fort along the Sacramento River and New Helvetia a mile from his actual structure, Sutter had grown his dream from the roots up. Sutter used Native Americans as a workforce to help make his dream of building a

We focused on the Richard Trenton Chase also known as the “The vampire of Sacramento” case study. Chase was further known as the “vampire killer of sacramento” because he would drink the blood of his victims and also practice cannibalism with their remaining body parts. Chase was in and out of mental institutions his whole life, as a child he was known for setting fires and killing animals. Chase noticed early he wasn’t like the other boys in his relationships with females. He wasn’t able to get

This paper will focus on the economic impacts of the policy decision by California Governor Brown to decrease funding of the California State University and University of California systems by way of looking at the impact on the economy of less college graduates. I will do this by looking at two variables. I will first look at the multiplier effect of the state putting money into the California State University system and what will happen as a result of the divestment due to the budget cuts. I will

Water Crisis Impact in California Monica Mois Essentials of College Writing/COMM/215 October 6, 2014 Carolyn Geiser Water Crisis Impact in California Due to the lack of rain in the past few years, and particularly in the last few months, California faces severe drought. This is the worst drought in more than one hundred years. The impact of California drought affects community, agriculture, organic ranchers, and dairy farmers. Because of these facts, the United States must

The United States had its largest hostage rescue operation in its entire history, during the 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis. Four Vietnamese men, aged between 17 and 21, with legally acquired firearms purchased by the leader of the group, entered into a Good Guys! Electronics store with the intention to hold hostages until the four gunmen would receive (as ransom) “$4 million, four bullet-proof vests, a helicopter, and a 1,000-year-old ginger plant” (Gross, p. 10). “The gunmen had told negotiators

O Henry's "A Caballero's Way" features people's interest for a postal service in order to get to its needs. People's interest goes back when the Cisko Kid was around in the Valley. Unfortunately back then there was a horrible postal service. Poor Tonia that sent that letter to the Lieutenant Sandridge in regards of the Cisko kid. Back then she could not send it to an actual true and known service, instead she had to send to some ordinary kid not an expert on the system. The service that the little