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Irwin August 21, 2011 California High Speed Rail Looking at the California high speed rail project truly has shocked the public and makes them wonder if this is a great plan for California’s environment. “The current plan will connect San Francisco with Los Angeles cutting a six hour car ride down to two hours and forty minutes”(Souza, 2011). The train running through Kings County will take out many dairies and cut even more in half. Making these cuts will be hard for dairymen to get to their

The California Gold Rush was an extraordinary event that made everyone crazy for gold. This event took place in Coloma, California. When storekeeper, James Marshall, found gold at John A. Sutter’s Sutter Mill on January 24, 1848. He discovered that the rivers were filled with gold and tried to keep the secret to himself. People soon grew suspicious of the man so they took a trip to the sawmill. The men who when to the sawmill came back with gold dust. Once they heard that someone had found gold

Good morning Robin, For the past couple of weeks, the activity level for Suite #400 and #500 at Holcomb Bridge has been fairly "light". Personally speaking, this past month has been a fairly active month for me, but the activity level specifically at 3867 Holcomb Bridge just hasn't been that great. I've canvassed the surrounding area (within a half a mile) from 3867 Holcomb Bridge property and it seems like there are several "similar" types of offices where the Landlord is asking "equal" to or

California Gold Rush and New American Dream was created by Oregon boy H.W. Brands in 2003.Brands earned his graduate in mathematics and history degrees in Texas and Oregon when he was a teen and then later on became a professor at Texas A&M University.He written books such as '' The First American , and Traitor to His Class, and Andrew Jackson. The California Gold Rush and New American Dream by H.W. Brands represents a lot of fortunes that are remembered and forgotten. It help Americans learned

A baffled look and an emphatic “Why?” were the things that greeted me as I stood in line at the DMV, waiting to change my address from San Francisco to Hanford. The look and the question would linger whenever I would tell people that I am new to the area, after I give my short narrative of why I moved, the responses would either be them trying to relate to my situation or an erred nod of disapproval. Hanford isn’t really the place for an extroverted tech hippie, the new environment always gave me

The Escape from Alcatraz Alcatraz, a former military prison and former high security prison used for the baddest of the bad such as Al “Scarface” Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly, Alcatraz was said to be impossible to escape there were fourteen escape attempt involving 36 men, 24 caught, 7 killed, 1 drown. On the night of June 11, 1962, three men, Frank Morris, and John and Clarence Anglin finally escaped the notorious “Rock” and made it ashore and stayed in hiding for the rest of their lives

Although many people in the city of New York would say that gentrification is terrible for the people and the communities, they might not actually see what good it can bring. But first...what is gentrification? Gentrification is processed in which renewal and rebuilding bring in middle-class or wealthy folks into bad, run-down neighbourhoods which happen to displace the residents who were already living there. Sure, it’s an economic factor but it could also be a social component. Usually, gentrification

island. Alcatraz means “pelican” or a “strange bird.” It was originally suppose to be the “most heavily fortified military site on the west coast” (BOP: Alcatraz). With the gold rush booming, and San Francisco growing in population, the military wanted to use the fortress to protect the San Francisco Bay (BOP:Alcatraz). The island was in the middle of the bay, so it was easy to protect the entrance. They begun by “surrounding the island with 100 cannons”, if anyone got close

Alive or Dead? No one knows except for the three escapees. About 56 years ago Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers Clarence and John escaped Alcatraz. To this day it has been a mystery about weather or not they survived the escape. Some believe they died do to the cold water but I have four facts to prove they escaped alive and could be alive today. Reason one I know they are alive today is because personal items and footprints leading away from a raft were found on a nearby island. Also that night

Everybody in America has the dream to become rich. For many years this has been the dream for many immigrants. The gold rush which took place in California was a huge opportunity to make that dream into a reality. A reality that benefited people as well as America. The California gold rush started on January 24th, 1848 when a carpenter by name of James Wilson Marshall who found gold flakes in the American river at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. According to History.com “Marshall was working