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    Economic Since the city of Fremont is in the heart of Silicon Valley, its economic presence is overwhelming. On top of that, this city has an overpowering influence of innovation in the field of technology through corporations, which has led to an increase in demand for new technologies for average consumers. Therefore, this area has a large scope for manufacturing and retail in technology. As Silicon Valley is extremely competitive in technology, every aspect of the field of technology

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    The first theory is that this whole situation was a setup that the hotel employees planned to sell her organs. After her funeral, people noticed that Jenkins’s organs were missing. It is rumored that the Crown Plaza Hotel in Chicago is actually a place where they do organ trafficking. This happens around the world where people get kidnapped or killed to get their organs removed for other people that need it. On Instagram there was a post that went viral and it said, “There’s rumors going around saying

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    Jack Donovan Foley is the creator of what is known today as “Foley art,” which is a sound technique that is still used to this day. He was born in Yorkville, New York on April 12, 1891 and died on November 9, 1967. During these times he worked as a general order clerk on the New York docks. He moved to California in 1914 and pursued a job as a double and stunt man. This is where he met his lifelong love. During World War 1, Jack and his wife moved to Bishop, California where Jack served his country

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    Crutch Caddy This business project was my favorite project out of my whole senior year. I never thought I would enjoy creating a product and starting a business from scratch, but I did. I loved being the boss, even at times when the workload was stressful. I believe this product that Logan, Lindsay, and I created would make us money in real life. I want to dedicate this paragraph to how much I actually enjoyed design thinking for this project and this project only. I know I was kind of a “negative

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    The Market Street Railway, Sutter Street Railroad, and the San Francisco & San Mateo Railway merged in 1902 to become the United Railroads of San Francisco (URR). The URR was created by the aggressive capitalist consolidator and modernizer named Patrick Calhoun. An early project was to make uniform the rolling stock and track gauges, which led to the abandonment of the last four miles of horsecars that had been the backbone of transportation just a generation earlier. By this stage, the company

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    The extremely devastating ravage of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake was terribly damaging to the city and its population. The earthquake was cause by the San Andreas fault which is located almost directly under San Francisco. The San Andreas Fault is a strike-slip fault, driven by horizontal compression (a.k.a. shearing), and is just like reverse faults. The only difference is the direction of their release of energy; a strike-slip fault releases its energy by rock displacement, horizontal in direction

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    The San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 1906 was one of the most devastating earthquakes felt by a lot of states. At 5:15 am, this earthquake which registered at 8.25 on the Richter Scale shook San Francisco, California. The earthquake lasted less than a minute and it did a lot of destruction in that period of time. The most destructive part during the San Francisco earthquake was the fires which began after, as a result of the earthquake. The fires killed about 3,000 people and left 400,000 homeless

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    The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 The pictures from the L.A. Times are a snap shot of the devastation that occurred in San Francisco on April 18, 1906, and they are riveting. There are men and women in period dress standing in the streets surrounded by swirls of water, and looking ahead down a hilly street to the plumes of smoke overtaking the city. It began with an earthquake between 7.8 and 8.3 magnitude on April 18, 1906 at around 5:12 to 5:13 AM, and ended in three days of fires with 90 percent

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    California Earthquakes Stephanie Sanchez Geology 112 spring 2015 Earthquakes are a powerful force of nature. When they strike, it reminds us of how vulnerable we are to this unpredictable event. On Saturday April 25 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal killing thousands of people and injuring even more. The number of dead will probably increase, as thousands remain missing. When a tragedy as this one occurs, society unites in grieving the people who were injured and those who perished. Everyone

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    Dark Alliance GARY Webb book review In the book Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, is about the conspiracy of how the CIA had monitored the selling of crack cocaine in America to help fund the Nicaraguan contras secretly. And also during this process the Nicaraguan drugs were being sold to inner cities to create a drug known as crack that harmed the black population drastically. First of all Gary Webb had made a newspaper over this topic Gary was once a news paper reporter and when he released the

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