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    On Friday of April 21,2017 I went to Disneyland for a school field trip, all the students in the middle school band and color guard went on this field trip for a performance at Disneyland .It was my 8th grade year, it would be my last year performing at Disneyland so I had to enjoy it . We had to meet up at school at 3:30 am because Disneyland is located in Anaheim CA and it would take us several hours to get there.Also the teachers wanted us to be there early because they would have to take roll

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    I think Longoria’s character shows a lot of discipline for doing what is enforced to do. We see how violence has affected his life and other people’s perspective of him. He started out in the Army at a very young age and carried out the harsh tasks that he was given, no matter how cruel they were. Longoria is a strong-minded person. For him to carry out some of the assignments he was given, it takes a different kind of person. For example, the incident with the people in the village. He murdered

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    Natural Disasters Research Project Earthquake: San Francisco, California Earthquake An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault. We know that tectonic plates move slowly towards, away from or past each other. Continents are parts of these plates which means they move too after time. An earthquake occurs when the rocks break and move as a result stresses caused by plate tectonics. but sometimes they get stuck at their edges due to friction. When the edges overcome Earthquakes

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    Cheese and Irish. The Chinese faced exclusion and economic laws, while the Irish were plagued with the label of being poor, diseased, and considerably different from the prior Irish. The first sight of Chinese immigrants came in 1848 on the coast of California. These immigrants came left all they knew back in the Guandong Providence in search of a more prosperous American future. Overpopulation mixed with economic and political crisis were the defining factors for their departure. During 1815-1855 on

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    Steinbeck was born in the Salinas, California and wrote a number of stories about Cali. The setting in this novel takes place in ---- and the trask family lives in Connecticut at the beginning but this sets the stage for the family’s big move to California. The readers are introduced to two very different families whose paths cross in the future, the Hamiltons and the Trasks. The Hamiltons are immigrants from Ireland who come to America and settle down in California raising an honest and helping family

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    Walt Disney Case Study

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    Real Life Financial Data a. What type of organization is this? The Walt Disney Company is a corporation. The company, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in five business segments. Walt Disney is a mix of service (parks, resorts, hotels, networks, etc.), merchandising (shops) & manufacturing (entertainment material, etc.) businesses. The Woodruff Arts Center is a not-for-profit Corporation. It is a charitable arts organization that

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    The California Earthquake

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    California Earthquakes California’s unique geography as a state makes it a very appealing place to call home. From the odd east to west transverse San Gabriel mountain ranges of the Los Angeles Basin, to the bumpy coastal ranges of the Bay Area, any person can find a compatible topographic terrain to their liking. California may seem to be the perfect place to live with its ideal climate and extensive geographic features. However, due to California’s location over the shifting continental plates

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    My Favorite Neighborhood

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    The Mid-Wilshire area is the most diverse neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, with the highest dissimilarity index of 0.755. This is clearly seen since the population is made up of 33.6% White, 22.7% African American, 19.8% Asian, and 19.9% Latino. Although my neighborhood is located right next to Koreatown, it is quite secluded from the city and the park is in the middle of a residential area. I decided to choose this area and more specifically this park because it’s where I grew up and spent

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    The Conflict In Ramona

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    In Helen Hunt Jackson’s masterfully woven tale, Ramona, the main conflict seen is man vs. society. The story takes place in the early 19th Century, during the time of American settlement in Old California. Ramona, the main character, is a young girl growing up under the care of a woman named Senora Moreno. Due to the fact her father was Irish and her mother an Indian, Ramona finds that she is faced with a society that does not always look on Indians with a friendly eye. Even the Senora finds it incredibly

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    John Steinbeck's short story, The Chrysanthemums, and Kate Chopin’s , The Story of an Hour, both exhibit a main theme of female isolationism due to being treated as a possession in marriage, as well as the forbidden desires in life that were seized from both female protagonists. Beginning with the opening sentence, Steinbeck conveys a somber tone through the description of the setting hanging above the farm in The Chrysanthemums. “The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley

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