... the brushstrokes were visible and had the same importance in the work as the subject or people would. From what I learned from visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, early modernism included many different sublets of artistic form. These sublets of artistic form include: Period of Time Type of ... are combining many different facets of expressions. There is no really set way of painting under this set of artistic expression. Location of work San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Name of Artist William De Kooning Date of Artists Life 1904 - 1948 Title of Work Tracking Down Guiltle...

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... the brushstrokes were visible and had the same importance in the work as the subject or people would. From what I learned from visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, early modernism included many different sublets of artistic form. These sublets of artistic form include: Period of Time Type of ... are combining many different facets of expressions. There is no really set way of painting under this set of artistic expression. Location of work San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Name of Artist William De Kooning Date of Artists Life 1904 - 1948 Title of Work Tracking Down Guiltle...

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... the brushstrokes were visible and had the same importance in the work as the subject or people would. From what I learned from visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, early modernism included many different sublets of artistic form. These sublets of artistic form include: Period of Time Type of ... today are combining many different facets of expressions. There is no really set way of painting under this set of artistic expression. Location of work San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Name of Artist William De Kooning Date of Artists Life 1904 - 1948 Title of Work Tracking Down Gu...

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... theme that permeates the entire novel. The Joy Luck Club - Jing-Mei Woo Suyuan, Jing-Mei Woo's mother, started the Joy Luck Club in San Francisco. It is composed of a group of Chinese women who come together to share their friendship and to play games. The real purpose, however, is to ... Suyuan, started the first Joy Luck Club in Kweilin, China. Then when she came to America in 1949, she began another Joy Luck Club in San Francisco. Although Jing-Mei knows little about the club, she states that the Chinese women who belong meet together to play mahjong, gossip, share their ... women fr...

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... in 1947, having lost her family, including twin daughters, during war. She does not know her daughters were rescued. Now remarried, she settles in San Francisco, has a daughter, Jing-mei (June), and starts a Joy Luck Club similar to one in China with three other women. The four form strong ... why she has no control over her own life. Her mother's subsequent suicide provides An-mei a better life. As an adult An-mei comes to San Francisco. She and her husband have seven children, including Rose. Rose marries Ted, a dermatologist, who has an affair and divorces her. Rose is overwhelmed ......

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... Day, to find the oven full of chocolate chip cookies. I enjoy meeting new people, traveling and the excitement of everyday activities. That is why I enjoy visiting San Francisco. Over the years, I have realized that I love cities with movement. When there is no movement, there is no life. As I was walking around the city ... city. This city had everything from the curviest street in the country to one of the most well known bridges in America. There are many attractions in San Francisco that I do not think it is possible to visit all of them. When we pay a toll to cross a bridge, I do n...

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... spouses had a 30 percent higher chance of getting lung cancer (National 10). After a study done on 3 groups of mice, according to Dr. Stanton A. Glantz of the University of California at San Francisco and his colleagues, secondhand smoke causes tumors to grow faster, and makes new blood vessels in tumors (Huggins 1). In a little town in Montana, called Helena, heart attacks dropped more than ... helped. Zagat Survey, the well-known restaurant and hotel guide publisher, surveyed more than 18,000 residents living in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. New York had 70 percent to say "...

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... . They saw the United States as the land of opportunity. They wanted that opportunity to get rich and have a good life. In 1905, the Asiatic Exclusion League was founded in San Francisco. This was the official beginning of the anti-Japanese movement. Many important labor leaders were those in attendance at the league's first meeting. The group was formed to stop all ... making it big in the United States of America. During their first year, the league mounted a campaign to exclude Japanese and Koreans from America. Under pressure from the league, the San Francisco Board of Education rule...

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... habitats to replace those that were wiped out by drainage. Also, from the late 1950's until 1970, plans were in the works to allow for the expansion of San Francisco, Oakland and the communities near the San Francisco Bay by draining and filling in at an "astounding rate over 2,000 acres of marsh and bay per year." A local group founded by Catherine Kerr, Save ... San Francisco Bay Association, was able to halt the development of the wetlands until a commission designed and implemented a plan to curb expansion. The expansion was decreased from 2000 to 25 acres per ... ...

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... in some areas. They work in Vineyards, and in fruit packing and canning industries. Early 1854, 150 Chinese established a fishing colony near the mouth of Mission Creek in San Francisco. Many Chinese pioneers made the abalone and shrimp industries. In 1800's, Chinese fishing camps dotted the Pacific Coast. Their activities declined in the 1900's, when various discriminatory laws discouraged ... the Chinese presence in the fishing industry. "In 1880's Chinese shrimp camps near San Francisco and in Louisiana were supplying not only the local markets, but also shipping a million pounds of ...

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... . Their reason for this was the destruction from within a society as the downfall of America. There were three cities initially talked about, but the essay concentrates on Los Angeles and San Francisco. San Francisco, being mostly Catholic and Irish, and did not agree at all with the progressive movement. The descendents of immigrants where things like wine and whiskey consumption was a way of life ... . They were opposed to any kind of restrictions on their personal life. This strong sentiment stopped all reform acts and legislature, and even during Prohibition, San Francisco remained a ...

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... A Bang In the beginning there was a LITTLE BIT of a conflict with where we were going for our senior trip. We took a vote and it ended up we were going to San Fransisco the first day, with an tour of Alcatraz which was awesome, Great America the second day, and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk the last day of our stay. To say ... the least we had a blast on our senior trip even though WE ONLY WENT TO SAN FRANSISCO. The great drive down there was a great start to out trip. On the way there we tried to rent movies to watch on the bus but didn't succeed. Then ... pick to take along with us on o...

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... any constitutional action, having for its object the repression of the immigration of Asiatic races"(Daniels 36). In that same year, labor politicians in San Francisco began to organize "Anti-Coolie Clubs"; five years later there was one in every ward of the city. By the 1870s, California tended to ... Chinese workman and those who employed him. In July of 1870, a number of anti-Chinese demonstrations and mass meetings had been held in San Francisco with marchers carrying signs and slogans. This agitation did produce results in California in which anti-Chinese legislation and ordinances...

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... they were treated as minorities and barely earned any money. Owner James W. Porter formed the Hong Wah Kues basketball team who consisted of six Chinese American players from Chinatown in San Francisco, California. These men played on a "barnstorming" tour throughout America and Canada. The study focuses upon predominantly Chinese American people, but also discusses the likes of African Americans and ... were not given fair treatment of pay and at times had to deal with racial prejudice from white people I believe it was a positive experience. This is because these men from San Francisc...

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... , Jan. 17, 1993 SIRS Researcher. "Martin Luther King III: Can he step forward?". USA Weekend: Jan. 16-18, 1998 SIRS Researcher. "The Day a Civil Rights Sit-In Made National Headlines San Francisco Examiner." San Francisco, CA: Feb. 1, 1995 SIRS Researcher. "The `Quiet Strength' of Rosa Parks". Christian Science. Monitor: Jan. 13, 1995 ...

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... words and signatures on it. America would still be controlling more land. Also, Alfred T. Mahan said that "no foreign state should henceforth acquire a coaling position within three thousand miles of San Francisco" in his The Interest of America in Sea Power. Since no other country would be allowed in that area, the United States would essentially be controlling even more territory than ... be made in Panama and Nicaragua which would then connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This control would just extend the American rule. Finally, the three-thousand mile area from San Francisco wo...

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... influence derived from that of Hawaiian music. The introduction of the steel guitar to America occurred at the 1912 Broadway show Birds of Paradise and the Panama Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco in 1915. In this show Hawaiian musicians and their unique methods of playing instruments were used. This kicked off a large selling of Hawaiian recordings. America loved the sounds of the ... mainland with two of his friends. Discovered as a stowaway he charmed his way into a passage fair with the delightful sounds of his music. Sol moved in the early 1920's from San Francisco to Los Angeles...

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... now ancient native custom of smoking tobacco. "On this bright morning Columbus and his men set foot on the New World for the first time, landing on the beach of San Salvador Island or Samana Cay in the Bahamas, or Gran Turk Island. The indigenous Arawaks, possibly thinking the strange visitors divine, offer gifts. Columbus wrote in his journal, the natives ... give money to help elect representatives favorable to their positions. Senator Jesse Helms (R, N.C.), Chairman of the Agricultural Committee, is the best known. In California former Assembly Leader Willie Brown, now San Francisco ...

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... the Central America-Mexico corridor, primarily by vessels operating in the eastern Pacific. These drugs then get distributed to major U.S cities such as, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. There are many ways of transporting drugs to the U.S such as by large capacity cargo airplanes, jets, ships, specially designed vessels and vehicles on land. The South American ... ...

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... decide if they wish to kiss their gay partners during visitation. Gay prisoners certainly are being discriminated against by not allowing the same physical contact as heterosexual prisoners during visitations. San Francisco First Appellate District Court, A lesbian couple shared the in vitro fertilization process; one supplied the ovum, the other carried the twins to term. The two biological mothers -- one genetic, one ... ...

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... . Take for instance the Golden Gate Bridge which is fifteen minutes from where I live. If that bridge were to be taken out by terrorists, it not only would financially disrupt San Francisco temporarily, but it would scar its inhabitants just like it did in New York two years ago when the two towers fell. Now as much precaution possible is taken in ... ...

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... are significant inequalities in education. The Applied Research Center has done research in over a dozen states and have found striking data about discriminations in public schools. For an example, " In San Francisco, the study found that blacks and Latinos make up 42 percent of the student body, but only 14 percent of those in advanced placement and gifted programs-(Lewin). In addition ... ...

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... filmmaker had even worse situation. This is a very good stage and opportunity for those Asian America filmmakers to present their thought and movie to their audience. This year is the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 20th birthday. During these 20 years, Asian America filmmakers and works that helped this festival expand from 13 films in 1982 to 134 in 2002 ... ...

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... if you don't take the first step and join. This happens in the modern world. People voice their opinions everyday. The protestors against the war for example, hold signs in San Francisco and around the world to voice their opinions on non-violence in the war and anti-war protests. People are joining their experiment, if it works, no one will know ... ...

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... most profitable stores are the ones near Hispanic neighborhoods that carry clothing and cosmetics specially designed for Hispanics (Business Week, 2001). Bank of America has prospered by targeting Asians in San Francisco with separate TV campaigns at Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese (Business Week, 2001). But for many marketers, such an effort would require them to move outside their comfort zone dealing with ... ...

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