However, the first documents of Marshall's discovery were not printed until March 15, 1848 in a San Francisco paper called the "Californian". ... A Mormon by the name of Sam Brannan, heard that gold might have been found at Sutter's Mill and traveled to San Francisco to find Sutter's mill occupied with many frantic miners panning for gold. ... Brannan took his gold and ran through the streets of San Francisco yelling "gold, gold, gold in the American River".... In 1894, California held its first strike organized by San Francisco and Sacramento Carpenters who pushed for a whole...

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In that same year, labor politicians in San Francisco began to organize "Anti-Coolie Clubs"; five years later there was one in every ward of the city. ... In July of 1870, a number of anti-Chinese demonstrations and mass meetings had been held in San Francisco with marchers carrying signs and slogans. ... The man who actually shot Thompson escaped punishment, and only a few of the guilty members were imprisoned at San Quentin for a short period"(Smith 14). ...

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 One of the actions I took to promote a system change was to partner with The John Burton Foundation (JBF), The Children's Law Center (CLC) and Larkin Street Youth Services (LSYS) and go up to the Sacramento State Capitol and Lobby and inform legislators about SB 528 (Parents in Foster Care). First, I would like to give a brief summary of SB 528. The passage of this bill ensures access to child care by prioritizing foster youth who are parents for subsidized child care. Parenting and pregnant youth are 200% are more likely to drop out of high school than to graduate from high school,...

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For the past thirty years in the State of California, bilingual education has been undertaken by all the public schools of the state. Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. Children of minority groups have been thought various subjects in their native tongues. Such subjects are Math, History and some Science classes. The bilingual program presented the student a scholastic curriculum that simultaneously instructed students all the required classes while teaching them the English language. ...

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HMO care and the "Patient Bill of Right's" People are concerned about rising health care costs. A natural reaction these rising costs, is the gravitation of some toward managed care plans, particularly Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) health plans. One of the characteristics of HMO's th...

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