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    the main cities of the usa

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    population of Rhode Island. The capital of the country is Washington DC ( the District of Colombia ). It was chosen as permanent site for the nation’s capital on December 1800 by George Washington. It’s main cities are New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. There are many tall buildings in them that really scrape the sky, that’s why they are called skyscrapers. It’s highly

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    The Usual Suspects Evaluation The Usual Suspects begins at a crime scene, where a large barge has just exploded in San Pedro, California, leaving 27 dead, a sole survivor who is terribly burned, and $91 million worth of “dope” inexplicably missing. A police detective named Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) quickly seeks out the witnesses to the explosion and the key suspect, Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey). Verbal retells the events leading up to the barge incident, beginning with the truck containing gun

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    on two young Mayan brother and sister, Enrique and Rosa, from their flight from their village in rural Guatemala to their life of hardship and isolation in Los Angeles,

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    The national program branches out to individual cities who are eager to carry out the program. Two Let’s Move initiatives that can thoroughly represent our target population are Let’s Move Long Beach and Let’s Move West Los Angeles, which operates out of California State University, Long Beach. The program calls all people to take part in the pursuit of health for children-- all levels of government, health facilities, schools, community organization, and family members (Let’s Move, n.d.)

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    state line, and charged with a federal offense. This time he was given five years probation after being evaluated by a psychiatrist. Manson broke his probation shortly after and was sentenced to three years at Terminal Island Reformatory in San Pedro, California. He tried escaping and five years were added to his sentence. His wife gave birth to Charles Manson Jr. In 1967 Rosaline Jean Willis divorced Manson, and he never had contact with her or his son again. Conversely Manson created a new family

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    would have been technologically impossible even 50 years ago are now common, such as the BART crossing under the San Francisco Bay or the extensive bridge systems in the Florida Everglades. The technology exists, albeit at what is sometimes great cost. The proportions necessary to create a tunnel or bridge to accommodate the traffic flow from south Orange county north into Los Angeles would be fantastic, but possible. But bridge and tunnel systems do offer some alternatives to the mitigation practices

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    as early as A.D. 700. The first person of European ancestry to enter the Las Vegas valley was Rafael Rivera, who scouted the area in 1821 as part of Antonio Armijo’s expedition to open up a trade route—the Old Spanish Trail—between New Mexico and California. Rivera named the valley Las Vegas, “the meadows,” after its spring-watered grasses. TIMELINE UPTO 1899 1776 "Spanish Explorers" came through southern Nevada. 1829 The Spanish Scout Rafael Riviera becomes first European in the Las Vegas Valley

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    Pre-Columbian Period

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    colonists followed René Goulaine de Laudonnière and moved south, founding the colony of Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St. Johns River in what is now Jacksonville, Florida on June 22, 1564. Fort Caroline was destroyed in 1565 by the Spanish under Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, who moved in from St. Augustine, founded to the south earlier in the year. [edit] British colonization In 1607, the Virginia Company of London established the Jamestown Settlement on the James River, both named after King

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    Steinbeck’s grim migrant road as a place of ‘kicks’” (37). However, the west was not exactly the west of Paradise’s dreams. Not only is Sal disillusioned by the mass commercialism of a Wild West festival, but he spends two weeks in a migrant camp in California in abject poverty living on fresh picked grapes before fleeing

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    The Censorship of Art While the censorship of art is not a new phenomenon, recent years have witnessed renewed and intensified attempts to control popular culture. In particular, rap and rock music have come under increasing attack from various sides representing the entire left and right political spectrum, purportedly for their explicit sexual and violent lyrical contents. In this paper is investigated which moral codes underlie these claims against popular music, how social movements mobilize

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