... children who had been lonely and unloved, London found refuge in books and became a voracious reader. He was not the typical bookworm. At the age of sixteen the Oakland Public Library borrowed money to buy a fishing sloop and begun a career as an Oyster pirate. As an Oyster pirate it was an exciting, and dangerous way for a boy to make a living and ... , London entered Oakland High School to prepare himself for college exams, cramming the same energy that he used for shoveling coal. He also published his first stories in the schools library magazine, The Aegis. In addition, he joined the...

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... than 11,000 Internet resources with 40 major categories which are then broken down into subcategories. "The subject authority files is based on the Library of Congess subject headings but are modified to reflect common usage. Seventy Five percent of the listings are specific resources, fifteen percent are directories ... to coordinate the project, administer the system and to train the staff. In 1995 she met Roy Tennant who was manager of the Digital Library Sun SITE based out of the University of California, Berkeley. Tennant wanted to get her index more exposure and by 1997 arranged it ...

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... prevent deaths, was not reaching African American mothers. According to the survey, African American mothers were three times more likely to put their children to sleep on their stomachs. The County took steps to reduce those numbers, by conducting targeted outreach efforts to African American mothers and providers to encourage a change in behavior that would save infant lives. Under the Connerly ... initiative, Los Angeles County would not have been able to collect the kind of data that identified this problem, and they would not have been able to conduct the targeted outreach. Public h...

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... , was the most promising in the realm of antibiotics" ("Cannabis Vault 7"). The hemp was also proven useful in treating and rarely curing epileptic children. A study was conducted by Davis and Ramsey in 1949 on five children, all of which had epilepsy. After they were given tetrahydrocannabinol(THC), three of them responded at least as well as to other experiments, one was ... ...

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... teacher and other students will allow the teacher to address misconceptions that students might have received from other students and mass media. In the book Sex Education as Human Relationships Ramsey points out, "Approximately 90 percent of the first information that boys receive is acquired from male companions (peers) or their own experience"" (5). The whole idea of providing information on sex ... ...

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... one apartment to another without notifying authorities, it would have been a misdemeanor, and the maximum sentence would have been a year in a county jail. But, 1995 was the year began a crackdown on sex offenders and made it a felony to fail to notify authorities of a change of address. The ... than and get than out of sight. Another example is that of Jesus A. Martinez, a petty thief with a long criminal history was arrested at a San Diego County Home Base store with a wrench, some pliers and a pair of grips tucked in his waistband. "The value of the items allegedly stole $42.52. But ....

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... school system surrounding appropriately recognizing and treating adolescents struggling with substance abuse. The greater Los Angeles area is comprised of a myriad of different neighborhoods; each unique in its composition. Orange County and Malibu are predominantly white and considered affluent. Yet the Los Angeles Unified School District says that it is comprised of 71.4% Hispanic, 12.4% African American, and .6% White, with 63 ... the district's students eligible (due to low socioeconomic status) for free lunch programs.1 The LA Times reported in 2001 that concerns were growing about...

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... get bored, they usually start to find other things to do, such as go tagging(vandalizing with spraypaint) or start using drugs.@ (interview Taylor). A skater in Leesburg, Va named Phillip Beam provided a similar response, AIf you keep getting kicked out, it becomes pointless to continue trying.@ AAnd most people just get idle. That's when people get turned on to drugs and ... ...

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... list. She was falsely charged with conspiracy to free George Jackson with a bloody shootout in front of a courthouse in California. FBI also asserted that Davis armed prisoners in the Marin County courthouse with guns that were registered in her name. After the warrant was issued for her arrest, Davis spent two weeks evading police. During this manhunt, a sign went up in ... this house." Finally, Davis was discovered in a Greenwich Village hotel, and was formally charged with murder and kidnapping, even though she didn't actually take part in the shootout in Marin County, California. Da...

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... York found that making condoms available in schools did not increase rates of sexual intercourse, but did increase the likelihood of sexually active adolescents using condoms. B. Since 1992, a Los Angeles County High School has handed out free condoms to students, and the study, conducted by the RAND Corp., has delivered an encouraging message for safe-sex advocates, schools and most importantly ... , sexually active teenagers. C. The Los Angeles County high school's program provides an excellent example for what other schools should consider in the future. The school left baskets of con...

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... more evidence that states the fact that violence rates have been dropping all over California, especially among youths of color. As and example, youth homicide is down 55% in Orange County over the past few years. Homicide rates are also down an average of 65% in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose Counties. It is also very interesting that the ... county that is the least tough on juvenile crime, San Francisco, has decreased in the area of youth homicide by 80%. The politicians in California like to make it seem like ... ...

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... list. She was falsely charged with conspiracy to free George Jackson with a bloody shootout in front of a courthouse in California. FBI also asserted that Davis armed prisoners in the Marin County courthouse with guns that were registered in her name. After the warrant was issued for her arrest, Davis spent two weeks evading police. During this manhunt, a sign went up in ... this house." Finally, Davis was discovered in a Greenwich Village hotel, and was formally charged with murder and kidnapping, even though she didn't actually take part in the shootout in Marin County, California. Da...

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... ineligible to citizenship" would remain the basis for statutory discrimination at both federal and state levels until the naturalization laws were changed in 1952"(Daniels 44). Back in Los Angeles County, the Chinese population increased and so did the resentment within the white working class. The anti-Chinese sentiment became widespread and grew in intensity. On October 24, 1871, the infamous ... Watsonville calling for the ban of Filipino workers from the California fields. The man leading this cause was Judge D. W. Rohrback. Judge Rohrback used Chamber of Commerce Meetings in Northe...

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... persistent histories of lawlessness that supporters of the law say they can be corralled only through long-term incapacitation. "You can't just look at the current offense," said Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Kathy Storton, Coordinator of her office's three-strikes section. "Any discussion of "three-strikes" has to include discussion of the person's priors. These people are being punished ... survey (Bee). These prior convictions include "three-hundred and twenty-two robberies and two-hundred and sixty-two burglaries" (Bee). "The people we"re getting are heavy hitters," sa...

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... to as little as $1. More than 200,000 newcomers arrived in southern California in 1887, the peak year of "the boom of the eighties." Real estate sales in Los Angeles County exceeded $200 million during a single year. Dozens of towns sprang up. A hundred new communities with 500,000 homesites were established (Dumke). Expansion of rail service in California had one result ... ). Discoveries of huge deposits of oil spurred the rise of the California petroleum industry in the late nineteenth century. The major deposits were in the San Joaquin Valley, Santa Barbara County, and the Los Angele...

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... just die out and never withstand. Contrarily, self-mutilation is a trend that is still alive today. Doc. #8 Calvin Klein. Women's Wear Daily. Design Byte. August 2000. http://fashion.about.com/library/weekly/aa082300.htm I've always had a clear design philosophy and point of view about being modern, sophisticated, sexy, clean and minimal. They all apply to my design esthetic This is ... ...

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Researching at the library for another class, I ran across on exemplary narrative by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. "Recuerdos historicos y personales tocante a la alta California" compromises nearly one-thousand pages of personal, social, and cultural history. ... ...

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... the Japanese-Americans were treated at these internment camps was unjust and unfair. Usually, at these camps one barrack was used as a store, another as a movie theater, and one as a library. They weren't allowed to leave these camps at all, and if they tried to escape they would most likely be shot. Jobs at the camps paid from twelve to nineteen ... ...

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... her love for Forney Hull. Forney Hull was a man Novalee had met at the birth of her child. He was a man who had a passion for books and knowledge. He owned a library, and would lend Novalee many interesting books. Forney ends up falling into a passionate love for Novalee. When Forney tells Novalee that he loves her, she is unable to say anything ... ...

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... billion dollar cost overrun on the C5-A military transport plane. As a result he was spied on and fired. But after grueling court battles, he restored his job. A book from the library titled "Whistleblowing Research", tends to portray or label whisteblowers. In the book the author depicts the characteristics and personality traits you will find he claims in a whistleblower. For example, one ... ...

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Researching at the library for another class, I ran across on exemplary narrative by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. "Recuerdos historicos y personales tocante a la alta California" compromises nearly one-thousand pages of personal, social, and cultural history. ... ...

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... college to remain right side up until the next fiscal year starting July first of two thousand three teachers lose and more teachers will continue losing their jobs. Also the library probably will be closed during summer school because of the few classes that will be offer. The dining hall also will be closed soon but just for repairing because is ... ...

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... is left for hours in which most of the soils, called sludge settle at the bottom of the basin. The sludge is then sent out through underground piping to the County Sanitation Districts of O.C. The water then is treated biologically where microbes decompose organic material. The final process is disinfection which is achieved by adding chlorine, which kills off any bacteria ... ...

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... diesel Particulate Matter inventory. Farmers are taking the stand that not enough scientific research has gone into this determination to warrant imposing regulations. My discussions with several agriculturalists in Sonoma County as well as the President of the Farm Bureau indicate that they are concerned that the State is giving more credence to the lobbying groups on clean air than on ... ...

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... funded less than the Anglo schools of other areas. In Texas in 1970, Mexican American schools only received 3/5 of the Federal appropriations that Euro American schools were receiving. "In Bexar County, a poor "Chicano district," with five times less property value than the Euro American district, received less state aid per pupil than its wealthier Euro American neighbor." (Acuna, 413) The Chicanos ... ...

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