in 1917‚ Louie Zamperini was an Olympic athlete‚ a castaway ‚ and a war hero. He was living in California as a are these your words? petty street thug‚ until he had a your word? revelation that eventually led him to become a track star. However‚ as World War II broke out ‚ not even that could keep him from being drafted. The story of Mr. Zamperini’s courage begins in a small town in Southern California ‚: Torrance. There he grew up your word? scavenging the town for any trouble he could get himself
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better living conditions. Some went to escape problems. Others went for adventure and to seek new experiences. The Oregon Trail migration‚ also known as the Oregon-California Trail migration‚ is one of the most important events in American History. The Oregon-California trail was a 2‚170 mile route from Missouri to Oregon and California that enabled the migration of the early pioneers to the western United States. The first emigrants to make the trip were Marcus and Narcissa Whitman who made the trip
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The Los Angels County Museum of Art (LAMA) is an art museum in Los Angels‚ California. LACMA is situated on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles (George‚ 1998). LACMA is the most astronomically immense museum in the western region of Los Angels and it receives proximate to one million people in a year. It’s holding includes more than 100‚000 works revealing the history of art from old days to the present. The museum additionally features films and concerts
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and other cultural performances. The sponsors are Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco and Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Executive Committee and Japanese-American community organizations including Japanese Benevolent Society‚ Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California‚ Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California‚ Japan Society of Northern California. Other sponsors include Toyota‚ UnionBank and Safeway. The purpose of the Cherry Blossom Festival continues
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m. A Day Without a Mexican The movie “A Day Without a Mexican” is a comic movie that shows how California would be without the help of Latinos workers. When a mysterious pink fog surrounds the boundaries of California‚ there is a communication breakdown and all the Latinos disappear. The film represents in a sort of comic way the concerns about immigration in California. It clearly highlights the idea from how Americans are dependent on Latinos. The main point of the film is what
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The Sierra Nevada mountain range stretches across the eastern side of the state of California. The range begins in the south at the Tehachapi Pass near Bakersfield and stretches north to Lake Almanor. The Sierra Nevada range is 400 miles long‚ north-to-south and has an average width of 70 miles wide. It was formed through subduction when the Pacific plate slid under the North American plate. The range is made up of deeply imbedded rock otherwise known as batholiths. The eastern slope of the mountains
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Leo Hart: Unsung Hero of California “[The school that Leo Hart built] gave us pride and dignity and honor when we didn’t have those things. The school did a great deal to cause us to believe we were special‚” said Carlton Faulconer‚ an Oklahoma migrant that graduated from Hart’s school. The Dust Bowl was a time where the mid-South states were plagued by dust storms. Families fled the area and most of them wound up in California where the current residents thought they shouldn’t be educated. Leo
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their presentation of “Air Pollution 101.” With California in a drought‚ problems develop in the water for consumption as well as the water for agriculture‚ a big factor in the profits that the valley receives. Water companies are then forced to dig into the aquifers‚ or naturally forming underground water supplies‚ which have caused the land to sink. All of these environments in the San Joaquin Valley have been affected greatly by the drought in California and have resulted in ill effects to the valley
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peaceful people (Diversity: Understanding and Understanding and Teaching Diverse Students‚ n.d.). The most common language spoken among this culture is Chinese; however‚ Tagalog‚ Vietnamese and Korean are spoken as well. Most Asian Americans live in California although a large percent can also be found in New York or Hawaii. On average‚ those who identify as Asian American make $67‚022 yearly and are fairly educated people. Technically speaking‚ 85 percent have graduated from high school and 50 percent
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Description of the Market Market specifics need to be carefully analyzed and marketers should become familiar with the data for each. In order to market a brand or specific goods/services‚ marketers should be sensitive to each group and shouldn’t be afraid to tap into each market. Below is information on the three largest minority groups in the United States and what each one prefers. African Americans • The total numbers in the US is 42 million (“United States Census Bureau”). • African
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