The 1906 Great San Francisco earthquake is one of the worst earthquake’s to happen yet. The magnitude was believed to be about a 7.8 on the Richter scale. What made it so destructive wasn’t just the magnitude of the earthquake but the fact that the fires were uncontrollable. These factors led to the San Francisco quake to be know as a tragedy.…
Redwood City is the oldest incorporated city in San Mateo County. Located approximately 27 miles (43 km) south of San Francisco and 24 miles (39 km) north of San Jose, Redwood City’s history spans from its earliest inhabitation by the ancient Ohlone Indians to the present-day home of over 76,000 residents. This area constitutes a diverse, well-developed city that is home to several unique neighborhoods and several different companies, both large and small. In 1776, Spanish Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza and his troops took an exploratory trip into what is now known as the Peninsula and became the first Europeans to pass through Redwood City. As time progressed, more Spanish colonists arrived, establishing farming outposts and large cattle ranches…
On July 14, a steam ship named "The Excelsior" arrives in San Francisco with half of a million dollars’ worth of gold. Stories of the gold rush have already gotten into U.S.A.…
This increased demand for gold was during 1848 when James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The gold in California began to be discovered in much greater quantities than in North Carolina. During the next year in 1849 over 300,000 people rushed to California with the hopes of finding gold and becoming rich. This is how the “Gold Rush” name was formed and still used to this current day. Since the gold rush began in 1849, the term “49ers” also originated and the name still remains used to this day in california by sports teams and many other traditions in San Francisco and throughout California.…
The California Gold Rush was one of most monumental events in the history of the United States. It was responsible for shaping the foundation of the modern class and social system while also creating the first big immigrant trend after the colonial period. The events which followed James W Marshall’s discovery of gold in Coloma, California during the year of 1848 were important not only because of the fact that it generated the expatriation of approximately 300,000 people (who were commonly referred to as the 49er’s to signify their arrival during 1849) to the state of California but also made San Francisco grow from a small settlement of around 200 people to a boomtown…
For this section, I will be talking about cuisine from New Orleans specifically, as La Louisiane was a large area of land. The territory was broken into regions, which is seen in the differences of food preferences in the area. For this reason, only one city is being chosen for this analysis.…
The San Francisco Bay Area, also known as the Bay Area, is a vastly populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California, United States (wiki). The region hosts the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas…
During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the gold rush had a great deal to do with the influx of immigrants and transplants coming from other states into the state and calling California their home. Prior to this, Native Americans and Mexican Americans had a heavy influence on the entire state. By 1850, the U.S. Navy started making plans for a west coast navy base at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The greatly increased population, along with the new wealth of gold, caused: roads, bridges, farms, mines, steamship lines, businesses, saloons, gambling houses, boarding houses, churches, schools, towns, mercury mines, and other components of a rich modern (1850) U.S. culture to be built. The sudden growth in population caused many more towns to be built throughout Northern, and later Southern, California and the few existing towns to be greatly expanded. The first cities started showing up as San Francisco and Sacramento exploded in population.…
The gold rush provoked a real demographic explosion, it transformed San-Francisco completely, indeed, in some years, SF passed of status of fishermen's town in one of the biggest and the most influential cities of the USA. The population of the city was multiplied by about 25 in 2 years, infrastructures had been developed.…
The Gold Rush caused many people to abandon their careers and move to California as many opportunities became available. As the population increased, opportunities opened up, and cities grew, the state of California was changed forever, due to the fact that it created the California that is present today. All of these changes impacted cities and transformed them into completely different places, there were more homes, businesses and, buildings. Also people from different parts of the world like China and Mexico had jobs and money. The Gold Rush was a major event in the history of California as it created the state of California that is known…
Southern California lies on four major faults: San Andreas, San Jacinto, Sierra Madre, and the Cucamonga fault. The San Jacinto and San Andreas faults are right-lateral strike-slip fault systems; the two sides move in opposite, horizontal directions along the fault plane. If someone looked across the fault on one side, the opposite side of the fault would have appeared to move to the right. The Sierra Madre-Cucamonga fault system is a thrust fault; the sides push towards each other. The San Jacinto fault is composed of a “complex zone of splaying and overlapping strike-slip fault segments, steps and bends, and associated zones of contractional and extensional deformation” (Dorsey). One of its major fault interactions includes “triggering of co-seismic slip on northwest-striking right-lateral faults by slip on northeast-striking left-lateral faults” (Dorsey). The San Andreas Fault is the main fault of a complex fault network along the coastal California region. The fault contains “a system of four secondary faults adjacent to the main San Andreas” fault (Lovgren). Certain sections of the San Andreas fault remain quiet for years, but as strain builds up, and if released in great…
The San Andreas Fault is a crack in the Earth's crust in California, which is about 1100 kilometers long. Since 1857, 1906 and 1989 many famous earthquakes have occurred along it. It is the boundary between the North American and Pacific lithospheric plates. Geologists have learned that the Earth's crust is fractured into a series of "plates" that have been moving very slowly over the Earth's surface for millions of years. Two of these moving plates meet in western California; the boundary between them is the San Andreas Fault. The Pacific Plate (on the west) moves northwestward relative to the North American Plate (on the east), causing earthquakes along the fault. The San Andreas is the "master" fault of an intricate fault network that cuts through rocks of the California coastal region. The entire San Andreas Fault system is more than 800 miles long and extends to depths of at least 10 miles within the Earth. In detail, the fault is a complex zone of crushed and broken rock from a few hundred feet to a mile wide. Many smaller faults branch from and join the San Andreas Fault zone.…
ROCKVILLE, Md.—In the last two years, American street food has been reinvented and reinterpreted to reflect the changing ways Americans eat. According to “Street Food: Culinary Trend Mapping Report” from the Center for Culinary Development (CCD) and Packaged Facts, this food renaissance will bring more small plate snacking, more food products sourced and prepared in eco-minded ways, and flavorful global food, all fast, fun and handy.…
The aim of our presentation is not only to help other people understand about the facilities and services that are being provided in Bandar Sunway, but it also gives us a chance to truly see through the area. Normally, we will only use the services provided in Sunway without realizing that it is a place which provides everything that the customers need with passion. Other than that, we are also given a chance to think as a visitor and to learn what do visitors need when they travel in Sunway. So that we can share this experience through the presentation and also exchange our ideas.…
We will have a conversation with a balut vendor and ask him/her to let us sell his/her Balut for an hour.…