San Mateo County

The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure of property. This ensures that the government cannot take a private citizen’s property without their consent, a warrant or probable cause. The Fifth Amendment protects private property in two ways. The first, it ensures that a person cannot be deprived of private property without due process of law. This means that if the government is to seize private property they must compensate the owner for the property being seized

The San Andreas fault line has caused constant development nightmares for large urban areas built on top of it. Some of the most devastating earthquakes in our modern era have occurred along the San Andreas fault line, due to dense population that resides near it. The most notable and destructive earthquake on the San Andreas fault line occurred in San Francisco in 1906. The reason this earthquake was so deadly was due to its magnitude and the poor preparation by the city. This earthquake was a wakeup

needs to be done in order to prevent these cities and their politicians from resisting the federal law and ICE. Not only are these cities resisting federal law, they are also endangering their own citizens who live there as well. On July 1, 2015 in San Francisco, CA, a well known sanctuary city, Kathryn Steinle (32), was shot and killed while walking with her father by an undocumented illegal alien Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. Before his arrest after killing Steinle, “Lopez-Sanchez had been convicted

said, there are countless faults with death penalty in America. Whether a person gets the death penalty or not sometimes is not determined by the atrocity of the crime but instead by the quality of the defense lawyer, the race of the victim and the county and state in which the crime was committed. Since 1976 a total of 1440 execution took place in the U.S. There are currently 31 states which allows for the death penalty and 19 states which abolished it. In a report done by the National Research Council

The cons of not building this new border wall is the fact that there may be an increase in illegal immigration via the Mexican border. I personally feel that illegal immigration is only negative due to the maltreatment of these immigrants in society, work place, etc. The inability of illegal immigrants to come forward to receive help due to the threat of deportation and consequences is very detrimental. Many illegal immigrants are given poor paying jobs that many United States citizens do not wish

cats account for about 1 million abandoned pets.1 The situation has reached crisis proportions and leads to the animal overpopulation growth. Because of the overcrowding at the county shelters, animal control agencies are forced to kill the dogs and cats. As an example, approximately 19 000 animals had been killed by the County of Kern in 2007.2 Moreover, it causes problems for California taxpayers. For example, taxpayers spend over 250 million dollar a year for animal shelter services and euthanasia

e-books. The State Law requires digital college textbooks by 2020, according to Jean Cowden Moore, ( Ventura County Star ) 11 Jan. 2010. The state law, Senate Bill 48, says any individual or company selling textbooks to the University of California, California State University or private colleges must make them available electronically by 2020, “ to the extent practicable.” Sen. Elaine Alquist, D-San Jose, authored the law, saying digital textbooks are the future of the market and can significantly reduce

Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. (The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Legal, n.d.) The Foundation also provides grants to local organizations to help programs involving Children, Communities and families in the Monterey, San Benito, San Mateo Santa Clara, Santa Cruz counties in California, as well as Pueblo,

The San Francisco Opera main marketing challenges centered on “the need to coordinate a plan to increase awareness, attendance and ultimate donations” (Kind, 2000, p. 9) from the Silicon Valley area. The opera had a steady donor base from Silicon Valley, but the marketing team found that the donors did not match those who were actually attended opera performances at the San Francisco Opera. Silicon Valley did represent between 17 and 18.3 percent of the total opera subscriber base (Kind, p. 20),

the region south of the San Fransisco Bay Area that is located in Northern California. It is an area in the larger U.S state of California and stands as a hub of economic activity with the headquarters of most of the global tech companies calling it home. Silicon Valley extends to cover the whole of Santa Clara Valley covering the lower part of the San Francisco Peninsula and the southern region of the East Bay. With that, Santa Clara County, Alameda County and San Mateo County are all considered as