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    Wildfire Climate Change

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    Introduction Wildfires occur in the natural landscape, as forests. They tend to caught fire uncontrollably and last for a long period of time. These occurrences are affected by many factors and each factor stimulates the other. Global warming is one of the major factors that affect both the drought and the wildfire. Researchers predict for higher temperatures in the coming years due to a huge increase in greenhouse gas concentration in the air. As a result, forests will catch fire easily because

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    Summary: On Wednesday, farm workers from Ventura and Santa Barbara counties joined low-wage food sector workers, urging for improved wages with a new Bill of Rights. The purpose of this new bill is to ensure that there is a “rule of law” in the farm fields. There are numerous violations of the rights of farm workers. This is because the employers do not care if they violate their rights since getting caught is very unlikely. Even if the do get caught, the fine is not expensive and therefore it is

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    significantly easier. How many of these bags are out there? How often are they recycled? The numbers can be staggering. According to a story reported by NPR, a study done by Roland Geyer, an industrial ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 8.3 Billion metric tons of plastic has been produced so far – enough to cover the country of Argentina ankle deep. This production of plastic shows no signs of slowing and in fact has

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    Legalized Gambling Essay

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    to 33% of the new jobs created and employed approximately 10,000 people in 1993. The number more than doubled in 1994 to 28,000 (Solotaroff n.p.). On the Gulf Coast the economy can be summed up in one word, gambling. A report from the Harrison County Development

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    The Whiskey Rebellion set a different tone in American politics following the American Revolution. It at times appeared to be a recreation of the American Revolution, yet differed in significant ways. It demonstrated that citizens of the United States would not allow their new government to become a clone of Britain when imposing and enforcing taxes. It also saw a federal government that took into consideration the citizens’ feelings of distrust toward the government. This slight consideration was

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    Products / Medical Marijuana Chapter 6 ……………….. Revenue Chapter 7 ……………….. Possession, Delivery, and The Law Chapter 8 ……………….. Taxes Chapter 9 ……………….. The Medical Marijuana Program Chapter 10 ……………….. County Guidelines 2|Page Chapter 1: Obtaining a Doctor’s Recommendation A doctor’s recommendation will allow you to take the next

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    As my future career I want to become a marketing manager. A marketing manager is someone in a company who directs and is in charge of promoting and advertising the company 's products. Marketing managers would have to create campaigns and be organize. Furthermore, they plan out how the product will be communicated with the customers and they are in charge of making sure the campaigns stay on budget as well as receiving profit. In order to become a marketing manager I need to get a bachelor’s degree

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    “The first incident took place on the night of December 20,1968 a 17-year-old David Faraday, and his girlfriend 16-year-old Betty Lou Jenson, were shot to death by their car. The morning of July 5, 1969 Darlene Ferrin 22 and her boyfriend Mike Mageau 19, were sitting in their parked car, when a man approached them with a flashlight. The figure fired multiple shots killing Ferrin, and Wounding Mageau. Within about an hour of the incident, someone called the Vallejo Police Department, telling them

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    decent can commit a crime and be treated humanely by police and covered by the media in a good perspective. For example, Jared Michel the Oregon school shooter was labeled as “ fascinated with guns but was a devoted Mormon”, or Elliot Rodger, the Santa Barbara mass shooter who was labeled as “ soft-spoken, polite, and a gentleman”

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    CLAY, KAREN and RANDALL JONES. “Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush.” Journal of Economic History, vol. 68, no.4 Dec. 2008, pp997-1027. 1 Oct. 2017. In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at John Sutter’s Mill. In May, Sam Brannan arrived in San Francisco and advertised the Gold Rush. In June, about 4,000 to 5,000 miners were in the gold district. However, by late 1848 the whole American nation and foreign countries knew about the gold rush and the population

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