On the demoralizing day of April 18th, 1906, the worst natural disaster in the nation struck San Francisco. Although, the earthquake only lasted a moment, it caused a great deal of damage to San Francisco and neighboring cities. ... It damaged buildings, and injured loved ones of the people in San Francisco. ... The damages from the earthquake and fire cost the town of San Francisco 400,000,000 dollars and the earthquake alone cost San Francisco 80,000,000 dollars. ... The re-building of buildings cost San Francisco about 400,000,000 dollars. ...

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Written in 1899, Frank Norris" novel, McTeague serves as a view of San Francisco at the turn of the century. Norris illustrates what life was like in an ordinary community in San Francisco, by using descriptive imagery throughout the novel. ... He also gives a grim picture of survival in his depiction of San Francisco at the time. ... The fact of the matter is that San Francisco was not only different because of its physical setting. The social position of people at the time in San Francisco was also worth commenting on. ...

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Gary Snyder and the San Francisco Renaissance Gary Snyder was born on May 8, 1930 in San Francisco, California and is well known not only for his association with the Beat writers, but for his advocacy of community living and ecological concerns. ... He helped launch the San Francisco renaissance and is considered a leader of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Beat generation refers to the men and women poets, writers, thinkers, and philosophers who emerged on the hip scene in the 1940s and ballooned into the San Francisco Renaissance and beyond. ... Snyder worked as a mou...

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Transform Boundaries: Occur where plate slide laterally past one anther at right angles to a sea-floor spreading center, neither diverging, and usually with volcanic eruptions. one example is the San Andres Fault. ... Aftershocks are other earthquakes triggered either on the main-shock fault or at a distance from the main-shock fault no greater than the length of that fault. 4.- "SAN FRANCISCO 1906- INCLUDEPICTURE "http://americahurrah.com/images/PicG0012.jpg" * MERGEFORMATINET i.-The earthquake, estimated at 8.2 on the Richter scale, struggle San Francisco at 5:13 am on Ap...

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If San Francisco could pass a law to restrict the use of cellular phone that would be reduce the number of accident occur. ... First of all, if San Francisco could pass a law to restrict the cellular phone usage of the public or private transportation, many people believe that would reduce the numbers of accident occur. ... Secondly, if San Francisco could pass a law to restrict the usage of location, many people would appreciate the person who creates this law. ... If San Francisco could pass a law to restrict the usage of location or controlling people to send "text-message- during they are ...

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San Francisco, the golden gate city, was a popular city in the 1900's as people lived by the bay in a friendly lifestyle. ... On April 18, 1906 a major earthquake hit San Francisco within a one minute span. ... The 18th was an odd day in San Francisco as Laura Pride went to bed at 2am after writing her article for the Chronicle. ... (Davis 60) In Conclusion the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was a major learning experience as others were getting hurt. ... The historical event of this time gave many new findings to San Francisco and the whole United States. ...

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The MSA of interest in this particular analysis is San Francisco, California. ... San Francisco is a consolidated city-county made up of 11 districts that is situated at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula. ... San Francisco is a very popular tourist area. ... Below are two arial maps of the San Francisco Bay area. ... The San Francisco MSA has a total employment of 1,034,830 workers. ...

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In order to for our San Franciscan families to learn about restorative justice, we must create centers in which different mentors are available for families going through bad times or families that want to prevent unfortunate moments. ... Differences can certainly be solved without using violence or bullying and it is in our hands to give the right training and programs to such a diverse and productive city like San Francisco. ... The three specific groups mentioned can certainly benefit from such an amazing program, and most importantly the city of San Francisco has the opportunity to grow as...

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Loma Prieta Earthquake At 5:04 PM on October 17, 1989, the San Francisco Bay Area was severely shaken for 15 seconds by the Loma Prieta earthquake located to the south on the San Andreas fault near Santa Cruz. ... A section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had collapsed. ... The pattern of damage related to liquefaction and soil consolidation in San Francisco and Oakland is similar to that of 1906. ... A section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had collapsed. ... The pattern of damage related to liquefaction and soil consolidation in San Francisco and Oakland is similar ...

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These include the emigrants that were moving to Oregon, those who wanted to take California from Mexico, and those that wanted San Francisco itself. ... The harbor contained in San Francisco, however, drew attention to the area. "We ought to have the Bay of San Francisco. ... Control of California as a whole and control of the Bay of San Francisco were some factors that contributed to the growth. ...

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Like the Song Says, I Left my Heart in San Francisco: A Symbol of Change Change is something that cannot be avoided. ... On one of the clouds read the words "I Left my Heart in San Francisco- in red lettering. Inside the glass ball is a miniature replica of the city of San Francisco, complete with the Golden Gate Bridge and Chinatown. ... In this scene, there is a cherry red trolley, San Francisco's signature, driving downhill through rich, green foliage. ... At first glance, one would not expect the globe to be representative of anything more than a trip to San Francisco. ...

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December 5, 2001 San Andreas Fault Introduction The San Andreas Fault is a geologic fault zone between two tectonic plates that runs from San Francisco south to San Diego in California. ... It is so called because it runs along the San Andreas Valley. The San Andreas fault was brought dramatically to world attention in 1906 when sudden displacement along the fault produced the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. ... Many smaller faults branch from and join the San Andreas fault zone. ... We understand that the Los Angeles Basin is being broadly compressed from north to...

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I do enjoy my work but, unfortunately the pay is not very good and due to having a child and the high cost of living in San Francisco, I"m looking at changing careers. ... My parents were divorced and I lived with my Mother in a small one bedroom apartment in San Francisco. ... While most of my classmates went on to attend other private schools after graduating from Nueva, my mother could no longer afford to send me to a private school and I went to a public junior high school in San Francisco. ... After working at AAA for about eighteen months, I moved to San Jose and got another job as a dis...

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We took one of San Francisco's famous trolley rides late at night to view parts of the city. ... One hundred thousand protesters gathered in New York, and even more in San Francisco. ... In March of 2003, when Operation: Iraqi Freedom started, San Francisco was bombarded with protesters. ... All of this left San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown agitated. ... When people of San Francisco called for "Patriots to take back the Bay Area", they took action (Zamora). ...

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The Grand Hyatt San Francisco From the outside, the building is very large and the appearance is not conspicuous, but it is located at Union Square that might be easily to be found. ... One special advantage of this hotel is the Concierge has many printed information that provides for guests, mostly the current community and the travel strategy of San Francisco, which is the part I really appreciate. ... Orchard Garden Hotel This hotel is "located in the heart of San Francisco and blocks like Union Square, Chinatown and Cable Cars....

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San Francisco G Enterprise has selected 4 locations San Francisco, Iceland, Hawaii, and Tokyo as possibilities to place the factory complex, Brel Incorporated has researched all 4 locations and came up with the most dangerous one. Brel Incorporated has chosen San Francisco as the most dangerous place to put G Enterprise because San Francisco hasn't had a major earthquake since 1906. ... San Francisco has had 631 earthquakes in the past 365 days with a magnitude of 1.5 or greater. ... These effects will damage San Francisco and the people living there. ... Iceland was the second safest pl...

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SUMMARY OF THE PLOT This book is a fictionalized account of actual events that took place during the San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 1906. It's based on the life of Edith Irvine, a twenty two year old photographer who was in San Francisco on that day. The account begins when Edith, her father and their maid, the fifteen year old Daisy Valentine, are on their way to San Francisco. ... However, when they are on the boat in the harbor, an earthquake strikes the city and they watch the San Francisco's shoreline in horror. ... Also, there's a secondary theme of the story ...

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"It's okay to spend a lot of time arguing about which route to take to San Francisco when everyone wants to end up there, but a lot of time gets wasted in such arguments if one person wants to go to San Francisco and another secretly wants to go to San Diego"(Eisenhart, Kahwajy, & Bourgeois, 1997, p.80)....

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The movie opens with San Francisco Opera Company executive Mr. ... Dressler's suitcase contained a figurine with enough heroines in it "to supply every addict in San Francisco for two weeks." ... Aside from laughing at the dialog, the film provides other pleasures, the chief one being that of seeing key San Francisco landmarks, War Memorial Opera House, Steinhart Aquarium, and others, as they looked forty years ago. ...

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It was published in the San Francisco Chronicle by Benny Evangelista. ... The writer for this article is a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. ... He specifically want to write about issues that impact the people of the San Francisco area. ...

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The Real Situation: For this purpose we shall study two reports from two parts of the country - Washington and San Francisco. ... (Herel, San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 2003) The San Francisco report is about gun injuries. ... (Herel, San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 2003) Comments: When the constitution was adopted more than two hundred years back, the situation in the United States was quite different. ...

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From what I learned from visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, early modernism included many different sublets of artistic form. ... Location of work San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Name of Artist William De Kooning Date of Artists Life 1904 - 1948 Title of Work Tracking Down Guiltless Doves Medium Oil on Composition Board This artwork was quite intriguing. ... Location of work San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Name of Artist Richard Diebenken Date of Artists Life 1922 - 1993 Title of Work #7, 1948 Medium Oil on Canvas Once again I had trouble realizing what the pain...

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From what I learned from visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, early modernism included many different sublets of artistic form. ... Location of work San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Name of Artist William De Kooning Date of Artists Life 1904 - 1948 Title of Work Tracking Down Guiltless Doves Medium Oil on Composition Board This artwork was quite intriguing. ... Location of work San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Name of Artist Richard Diebenken Date of Artists Life 1922 - 1993 Title of Work #7, 1948 Medium Oil on Canvas Once again I had trouble realizing what the pain...

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From what I learned from visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, early modernism included many different sublets of artistic form. ... Location of work San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Name of Artist William De Kooning Date of Artists Life 1904 - 1948 Title of Work Tracking Down Guiltless Doves Medium Oil on Composition Board This artwork was quite intriguing. ... Location of work San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Name of Artist Richard Diebenken Date of Artists Life 1922 - 1993 Title of Work #7, 1948 Medium Oil on Canvas Once again I had trouble realizing what the pain...

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Loma Prieta Earthquake At 5:04 PM on October 17, 1989, the San Francisco Bay Area was severely shaken for 15 seconds by the Loma Prieta earthquake located to the south on the San Andreas fault near Santa Cruz. Although the quake did not tear the ground surface, it collapsed some buildings and freeway overpasses built upon the soft "bayfill" sediment in San Francisco and Oakland. ... The Loma Prieta quake was the largest earthquake to occur in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906, and the largest, at the time, anywhere in California since 1952. ... A section of the San Francisco-Oakland ...

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