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    He was then not able to participate in the Republican Administration. Rosa Parks - Rosa Parks is considered the mother of Civil Rights Movement. She had been a member of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) before she became a huge issue throughout the nation in the 1950s. On Dec. 1, 1955, she refused

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    talkative stream near by. I am not sure about the science involved, but I can say I’ve heard the lullaby of water playing with the small pools that rocks make. The sound always carried the comfort of Summer visitations with my dad in Northern California. Water has defined that area of the Golden State through the hour hand of geologic time. Water has been

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    Sons of Guadalupe

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    EL RINCON DEL MUNDO The small town of Guadalupe has Spanish history, as does most of the southwest region of the USA. Most of Guadalupe’s jobs center around agriculture. “El Rincon del mundo” which is what the region was thought of, literally mean the edge of the world in English. The name of Guadalupe is derived from either “La virgen de Guadalupe” or “Rancho de Guadalupe”. THE SKINNY BEAR Oso Flaco or (skinny bear) is a salt water lake near Guadalupe, gets it’s name from a story

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    Ce 137 Seismic Analysis

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    California State University, Fresno Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering CE 137: Seismic Analysis Project Term Project CE 137 Seismic Analysis Instructor: Dr. Fariborz Tehrani By Zachary Smith Undergraduate Student February 2015   Table of Contents List of Figures 3 Abstract 4 Chapter 1: Introduction 5 1.1 Background Information 5 1.2 Problem Statement 6 Chapter 2: Research 6 2.1 Location and Geological Information 6 2.2 Fault Areas 8 2.3 Earthquake History 9 2.3.1 Earthquake of 1868

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    This shot strikes audiences about the three victims of the Uncle and the other woman who is separated from those three women by a man standing between is going to be his next, especially when she says she is catching an early train next morning to California too. These alternation of shots contribute to arouse an image of poor Emmy who is so devastated about her brother’s going but without any ideas of his evil sins, concurrently, make the audiences partly have some common feelings with Young Charlie

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    Since the tough-on-crime era began in the 1980s, the California prison system and parolee population have grown tenfold. This is in great part due to the three strikes law that passed in 1994. This law made it a requirement for any offender convicted of a felony with two previous felonies to go to prison for a minimum of twenty five years. This law sent many people to prison for longer sentences due to non-violent drug offenses, when in actuality they should have been sentenced to rehab. Prison

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    animals, and even threatens the future of the human race. In recent years, many studies have been conducted to investigate these effects and to predict what the future may hold for planet Earth. Two interesting studies in Europe (Thuiller 2005) and in California (Kelly 2008) investigate how recent local climate change has affected the area’s vegetation. The main purpose of the study conducted in Europe (Thuiller 2005) was to predict the potential consequences of climate change for the most prevalent

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    You just killed your own father with a kitchen knife, you don’t even know you did it but there he is dead right in front of you. Now imagine that the whole world views you as a deranged killer. By doing this act that you can’t even remember the whole world is put against you and leaves you in a mental ward to be with your thoughts alone. To just sit there and think about that heinous crime. Is there something that you could have done to fix this? Is there something that someone else could have fixed

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    Miller, Debra, ed. Pesticides. Farmington: Greenhaven, 2014. Print. This scholarly text book, part of a series called Current Controversies, is composed of primary sources taken from a diversity of informational categories including books, newspapers, periodicals, international government documents, and the publications of organizations. The authors in this series examine some of the issues that typical arise in the debate about pesticides, including whether they are detrimental to human health,

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    Did you know that Applied Survey Research counted a total of 4,539 homeless people last year in Sonoma County alone? I can vouch for the authenticity and methods used in this survey because I assisted as a counter. I am passionate about the social issue of homelessness, mainly because I was part of this population a decade ago. Applied Survey Research defines homelessness in part as, “An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence…” The sad fact is that there are not enough

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