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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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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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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The museum that I visited was in downtown San Diego called the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum. ... There were pictures of chinese people working as produce vendors along the streets of San Francisco in Chinatown. ... They were shown aboard ships in the San Diego Bay and working in laundries and restaurants. ... The San Diego Historical Museum is an excellent museum to visit in an educational atmosphere about the chinese culture. ...

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Labor-Management Relations Labor-management relations have not always been thought of as good. The employees chooses between Management, Negotiators, and Administrators; as to the Union Negotiators and Administrators. Some may be neutral. As stated in the article, most people look at the labor ...

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This is one of many reasons as to why it is so dangerous that San Francisco has proposed to cut thirty seven and a half million dollars from its day treatment programs. ... For example, San Francisco is faced with a large budget deficit and has decided to cut thirty seven billion from the Health Department's budget. "And with the homelessness one of the most pressing problems in San Francisco, Katz made the unpalatable proposal to slash funding for outreach and drop-in services for the homeless." ... These programs will be the first things to be cut and San Francisco will loose at lea...

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We took a vote and it ended up we were going to San Fransisco the first day, with an tour of Alcatraz which was awesome, Great America the second day, and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk the last day of our stay. To say the least we had a blast on our senior trip even though WE ONLY WENT TO SAN FRANSISCO. ... Our first day in San Francisco was great we arrived in san Francisco and all went our separate ways to explore the city. ...

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San Francisco was a small port town of about a few hundred residents. ... In San Francisco there would be "thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of every kind rotting in the streets from the difficulty of getting storage when the rainy season first commenced." ... Finally the small port town called San Francisco grew enormous and eventually into the vast city we know today. ... San Francisco and the mining towns became one big melting pot of nationalities. ... Most immigrants that arrived in California came by boat and went through San Francisco. ...

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In 1877 anti Chinese riots occurred in San Francisco. ... As one would expect from a publication of such stature, San Francisco Chronicle reported on the Chinese in America. ... Since the major audience of a newspaper like San Francisco Chronicle would most likely be educated middle and upper class white. ... Even more significant than the article was the editorial in which the editors of San Francisco Chronicle commented extensively on the Chinese. ... In sum, San Francisco Chronicle is an important primary source about Chinese living in America during the 19th- century. ...

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Alcatraz Island is one of the most popular tourist destinations of San Francisco. ... It was a famous for federal prison in San Francisco Bay during the time of 19 century. ... The island is easily accessible from any where including San Francisco Bay and every one can go their to visit in normal day hour. ... San Francisco is usually windy and cold. ... The morning was not cold enough which surprised me lot but when we were in the top of boat we feel little cold but the beautiful view of Alcatraz Island and san Francisco city from boat it really get chance to feel beauty of Alcatraz Island ...

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After word spread about the gold rush in California, Levi decided to travel west to San Francisco to get rich. ... When Strauss arrived in San Francisco during March of 1853, he established a wholesale dry-goods store that was located on 90 Sacramento Street. ... Strauss was a very generous man, he gave away 28 scholarships to the University of California and he also donated to many of the orphanages in the San Francisco area. ... On September 27, Strauss died in San Fransisco During his time, his company (Levi Strauss & Co.)was worth 6 million dollars. ...

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She was also a part of the Lake Tahoe restoration, the San Francisco Bay Wetlands restoration and the Headwater's Forest agreement. ... The senator reinforces her preservation views of natural resources through her support of the healthy forest movement, the Headwater's Forest agreement, and the San Francisco Bay Wetlands restoration. ... Also significantly, there is the restoration of the San Fran Bay Wetlands, which is considered the most prevalent in the state of California. This was an exchange of both private and public subsidy for "16,500 acres of salt ponds along the S...

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In America today media is everywhere and the stereotypes of genders are portrayed constantly; anti-stereotypes are becoming more common in today's society too, especially in places like San Francisco, where it has become normal to come across people who are non-conformist to stereotypical gender roles. ...

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Early 1854, 150 Chinese established a fishing colony near the mouth of Mission Creek in San Francisco. ... "In 1880's Chinese shrimp camps near San Francisco and in Louisiana were supplying not only the local markets, but also shipping a million pounds of dried shrimp to Asia." ... Some of Chinese Bachelors made ""The Golden Hill's News" in 1854, San Francisco's Golden Hill's News became the first Chinese language newspaper published in America." ...

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The majority of Hispanics are located in San Francisco, San Diego, san Antonio, Sacramento, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, and Chicago. ... The top five Hispanic cities in order of rank are: Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago. ...

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In 1989, the California Bar Association declared that gay marriage, will be legally recognized in the city of Seattle and in San Francisco. ... In February 2004, San Francisco started marrying gay couples, and New Mexico began to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. ... But in March 2004, the California Supreme Court ordered San Francisco to put an end to marrying same sex couples. ...

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According to a news story, a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco against Wal-Mart stores. ... In addition, an Egyptian-American was shot and killed near his store in San Gabriel, California and a storeowner from Pakistan was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. ...

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Yet San Francisco, California continues to overrule the federal ruling, honoring gay marriages, performing ceremonies, and providing marriage certificates. There is no residency requirement in California to gain a license for marriage and this is one of the main reasons gay couples from around the U.S. travel to San Francisco to get married (Black, Sanders, Taylor, 2007). ...

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The initial group demanded control of Alcatraz so it could develop several Indian institutions, such as a center of Native American studies, a spiritual center and a museum, partly as replacements for a San Francisco Indian center that had burned down (Lapin and Hanna). ... Alcatraz is the biggest escape-proof and isolated prison by the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay that stretches one-fourth of a mile and has a one hundred thirty feet elevation which is about the as accurate as climbing as thirteen story building. ...

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"There are facts in the American economy that give me hope and things in my own experience that give me hope" (San Francisco Chronicle). ... "That is a huge barrier to employment" (San Francisco Chronicle)....

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Louis, San Francisco, Milwaukee, New Orleans, and Philadelphia as homosexual capitals'" . ... In March of 1961, the Society's San Francisco headquarters announced the ouster from the group of its various national chapters, which stunned the homophile world and caught most of the chapters unprepared.10 The policies of the various groups were less civil afterwards. 2.2 One, Inc.: The homosexual organization One, Incorporated, was founded in 1952 by persons who were working with or interested in the Mattachine Foundation. ...

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Judges stall California recall vote: High court appeal likely. The article is about the recounting of votes in the California elections. The federal appeals court postponed the state's "guber-national" recall. It is said that the decisions will most likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court....

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I have just recently picked up The Great Gatsby again from the liberty and decided to read what's called the " greatest American literature". "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald said that shortly after he wrote The Great Gatsby. To me, Gatsby's deception of himself is ...

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They lived in San Francisco, Sacramento, Marysville and Los Angles as well as in the rural areas also. ... Chinese women who came to America in these days, most of them unwilling became prostitutes (Prostitution: San Francisco Chinatown,) it gave the birth to new business. ...

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Now, Richard Rodriguez was born in 1944 a native of San Francisco, California. ... Rodriguez is currently living in San Francisco working on new material to publish. 3. ... It is composed as a philosophical travel book beginning in 16th century Mexico with the meeting of the Spanish conquistador and the Aztec in Mexico City, and continuing to the present day San Francisco during the years of (AIDS) plague. ...

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