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I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just come back from a long and strenuous Basketball practice, sweaty and ready to take a shower and spend the night at my best friend Tre’s house who was also on the same team as me. I was riding in his dad’s jet black Tahoe in the back seat when I received a phone call from my mother. I answered and she began to tell me with great joy that I had been accepted into Archbishop Mitty High School, a Catholic college prep school about 20 minutes away from me

Last week, the world’s largest solar power facility opened in California, to the tune of $2.2 billion (Blood & Skoloff). The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is the latest in the Obama Administration’s SunShot initiative, a drive towards cleaner American energy. The goal of the initiative is solar energy that costs $0.06 per kilowatt hour (KWh), a yield more efficient than traditional fossil fuels. Critics of solar technology argue the steep costs as a barrier to entry as well as low-efficiency

Advantages of a Relational Database The relational database provides a number of advantages over previous models, such as the following. • Built-in multilevel integrity: Data integrity is built into the model at the field level to ensure the accuracy of the data; at the table level to ensure that records are not duplicated and to detect missing primary key values; at the relationship level to ensure that the relationship between a pair of tables is valid; and at the business level to ensure that

One main category that brings out the Chicano Culture is the music, they have unique Northern California rap style. The style is similar to Hip-hop but it's not Hip-hop it's more of an Latin Hip-hop also known as gangster rap. These few that produce the Chicano music is either Mexican American our Australian rappers from the Mexicano descent, primarily found in the Western and Northwest parts of California. This style of music is nothing new to today's society. It has been around since the 90’s, the

not protect Americans because guns can save good people and criminals don’t follow restriction laws. Guns are a major means of defense for American citizens today. Some state governments, like California, have put a limit on how much ammunition a magazine can hold. The restriction to ten rounds that California has set out was never proven to reduce crime. Wilderness Unlimited CEO, Rick Copeland, admits that the new laws haven’t affected his hunting. He also says that, “creating laws that don’t change

following the implementation of PEPRA, most of the public employees in California were promised health coverage for life, which is one of the major components of other post-employment benefits (17). Nevertheless, the state and local governments have no strategy and are not setting the funds required to cover the future obligations aside. A report by Tatum (2014) assessed the financials of 690 post-employment benefits (OPEB) plans in California and found an unfunded pensioner health care liability that amounts

Later in the month, 30 more swam the river. They formed the nucleus of a unit in the Mexican army which was known as the “San Patricio Brigade.” These soldiers would fight alongside Mexico in the war…they were soon captured by the U.S forces and branded with a “D” pm their faces for deserter and hanged on the gallows. On April 11 the Mexican troops stationed at Matamoros had

theater group initially formed to convince California migrant farmworkers of the value of unionization. Valdez, who writes some works in English and others in a blend of English and Spanish, is credited with having provided momentum to the Chicano theater movement through his highly vivid style and his ability to place the Chicano experience within a universal American framework. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Born into a family of migrant farmworkers in Delano, California, Valdez began working in the fields

There is a debate that is as controversial as police officers holding a degree and that is whether the law enforcement career is a profession or craft. Although, the classification of police work as a craft, trade, or a profession was the subject of intense controversy, there appeared to be little doubt that the trend toward professionalization was exerting a powerful impact on the field of law enforcement. Many officers argue that policing is a craft that you must have passion for and academies

employing 550 personal and are considered to be a Fortune 100 company. Dr. Michael Riordan, a chemistry professor, founded Riordan industries. They gross over 46 million a year and have revenue of over 1 billion. There facilities are located in San Jose, California, Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan, and Hang Zhou, China. Some of their major buyers consist of automotive pats manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, department of defense, beverage makers, bottlers, and appliance manufacturers. E