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    Limited access to housing, according to race and ethnicity has been around for ages. In the early years, when African Americans and Hispanic immigrants began moving into the cities, realtors would start to urge the current white owners to move out. In response the white owners would move out in fear of the new arriving people due to their race. That still, to this day, shapes the way cities are built. The problem of racism affecting housing issues is still very much relevant to this day, and may

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    Leaving Thursday morning from the Los Angeles International Airport, seven Palo Verde Valley High School students accompanied band director Jose Hernandez and boarded for a special opportunity to attend the 45th Presidential Inauguration. Crowded outside the Washington Monument and joined by two other schools from California, Blythe’s very own, were able to see President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence sworn into their four-year term as the active leaders of the United States of America

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    Apple Inc. Case Analysis

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    aa Abstract 1. Apple files first. Apple Inc. sued Samsung Electronics Co. in April 2011, for making a deliberate decision to copy Apple’s iPhone and iPad 2. Apple’s design, utility patents. Apple claimed that Samsung infringed four industrial design patents, which covered the look and feel of the devices, and three utility patents, which covers the working of the gadget. It listed more than 20 Samsung devices that infringed on Apple’s patents. 3. Samsung’s turn. Samsung counter sued Apple in June

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    the artist. Rivera’s maternal linage stemmed from Jews who had converted to Roman Catholicism. His father’s side came from Spanish nobility. (Wiki) 4. Did the artist have any brothers or sisters? Rivera was born with a twin brother, Jose Carlos, who died before he was two years old. He also had a sister, Maria del Pilar Rivera, who was 4-5 years younger than

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    Air Pollution: A Threat to Humans and Nature Gary Moore states in his book Living with the Earth that one of the first recorded air pollution events in the United States happened in 1948 in Donora, Pennsylvania. Pollutants from steel manufacturing in the area caused an inversion, the phenomenon whereby cool air is trapped underneath warmer air above and air pollutants are trapped. Seventy people died and over six thousand people suffered from symptoms such as nausea, headaches, and irritation to

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    Costanoan-Ohlone Case Study

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    ENVS 144 California Wetlands Controversy Monica Banning Dr. Klee Fall 2014 SF Estuary (South) REDWOOD SHORES ECOLOGICAL RESERVE Historical/ Cultural Significance Native American period. The Costanoan/Ohlone people inhabited the San Francisco Bay area including the current site of Redwood Shores Ecological Reserve 4,000 years before the period

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    Steve Wozniak was born in 1950 in San Jose, California. Woz grew up in Sunnyvale, California and always enjoyed electronics as a kid, even making computer like projects in the fifth grade. Wozniak became interested in electronics after he read a book about HAM radios. He built his own radio and never stopped building his own electronics. He had friends on the street who were also interested in electronics and they created wired house-to-house- intercoms to communicate with each other in throughout

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    of the bill were the following 9 prestigious agencies: the Judicial Council of California, the largest court system in the nation makes the policies of California courts, which is an alliance of over 110

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    Lives and the Myth of Post Racial Society” by Yuya Kiuchi, the author cites a case study performed on the city of San Jose, California. Over the course of 60 some years, they found strong evidence of housing discrimination which had its lasting impact despite beginning in the 1940s. As she writes “During the so-called post racial era this has resulted in Black communities modeled on San Jose having a much harder time developing a strong Black community, forming definable markers of their presence, and

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    The Mexican-American was very important to our country. We not only annexed Texas but, gained other states what is now modern day California, Utah, and Nevada. Mexico also obtains from the war which was debt relief. This paper explains how America and Mexico went from enemies to allies. Cause and Effect of the Mexican-American War The Mexican-American War was the first war Americans fought on foreign soil. (Staff H. C., 2015) James K. Polk, president at the time, thought the United States had

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