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    car with a nine millimeter ruger. Zodiac also tells the police he killed those kids last year and ends the call with a goodbye. Four weeks later in San Francisco California, Graysmith is driving his son to school. After dropping his son at school Graysmith is drawing in a notebook and parks in front of San Francisco Chronicle. Inside the San Francisco Chronicle there is chaos all over the place, there are people organizing and sorting mail. Graysmith gets inside a crowded elevator to get to his office

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    own economical benefit with no respect for the holy San Francisco Peaks, where the Ski resort is located. The San Francisco Peaks are located in Northern Arizona, seven miles outside of Flagstaff. The weather on these peaks is not very consistent. Some winters there’s excess of snow for skiing, then there are years like the 2001- 2002 ski season where there were only four inches of snow the whole winter. This

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    Sitting in his wheelchair, Ed Keith never thought he would lose his leg in Vietnam. At age 19 Ed became interested in the war because of everything happening in the world. Due to his hearing issues he was not allowed to go to the Korean war so he was sent to Fort Bragg. He had the highest IQ of all the people there. When he went home he went back to college and when he heard his friend died he reenlisted in 1965. Ed was a part of the Army Security Agency and then the Radio Research Company RRC.

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    The sunlight tinting the clouds with pink and golden hues reminding me of a Maxwell Parish painting I had once owned. There was a heavy fog and mist coming in off the Pacific Ocean into the San Francisco Bay I noticed that the fog clung to the bottom of the Golden Gate Bridge. Sounds of gulls screeching and fog horns moaning, issuing warning of possible danger are coming in off the bay overwhelmed my senses. I did not take the time to breath in

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    minor league. Everyone knew his name. Everyone bought his baseball shirts. He was in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. The major league World Series has come. The games that KC Royals, Lopez’s team, have won are 3 games. The opponent team, San Francisco, have won one. One more win and the Royals are the champs… again. The baseball narrator guy, Steve Jones, shouting in the mike was saying, “Lopez is up to bat. He’s doing the traditional “get ready to bat” good luck thing. Pitch 1: ball… Pitch

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    Essay on O.J. Simpson Trial: Did He Do It?

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    his life he decided to make a change by becoming a football hall of fame, actress/tv star and later being turned to a serial killer. Was the killing done out of love or spight? Or did he even do it? O.J. Simpson was born July 9, 1947 in San Francisco, California. He is the son of Eunice Simpson and Jimmy Lee Simpson. He is also the brother of three other siblings. O.J. was raised in the Potrero Hill Housing projects for low income families. When O.J. was just a toddler his father left his mother

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    of African-Americans in athletics by reading sports pages during the 1950's. The athletic achievements of African-Americans were often doomed to the latter pages of sports sections in favor of advertisements and routine sports articles. The San Francisco Chronicle is guilty of hiding the impact of African-Americans in sports, reflecting a lack of racial tolerance. It can be said that

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    teams played each other. This occurrence has never happened more than once in any other city or metropolitan area. The latest was in 1989 when Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants played each other. There are four other cities that have two baseball teams, Baltimore-Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco. We can also

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    Misty Copeland

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    finally settled in San Pedro. She went to the Boys and Girls club after school every day. Cindy offered Misty to live with her so Misty lived with her. Misty became a better dancer from living with Cindy but her mom wanted her back so Misty was back living with her mom. Misty also started dance. When Misty was told that she had the perfect ballerina body she tried dance. She started dance at the age of 13. She started at the Boys and Girls club and eventually made her way to San Pedro Ballet. She

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    center of the Pacific Coast between Canada and Mexico. Oakland is on the east side of San Francisco Bay, 19 miles of coastline to the west and flatland/hills to the east. The community surrounding Oakland occupies a total area of 78.0 square miles, land of 55.8 square miles and water of 22.2 square miles (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). According to the city data, cities adjacent to Oakland include Berkeley (north); San Leandro (south); Alameda across the estuary; Piedmont, a small city completely surrounded

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