... take advantage of it, but they weren't taken in account by the planners. The possibility in California is a completely different scenario. There are two plans: one system connecting San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and another bridging Los Angeles and Nevada. These routes would entice businessmen, like the Acela, but also many going on vacation. Either of these routes would be faster ... door to door than a flight (Billitteri). Imagine what it would be like speeding up the scenic California coast, making it to San Francisco quicker than the "quick and easy" flights often adver...

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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 ... 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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... 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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... them west where new opportunity lay waiting. The western half of America tended to provide the Irish immigrants with a success that was easier to come by then in New England. San Francisco seems to have a large proportion of successful stories. While most studies on the Irish in America focus on New England, Timothy J. Meagher extends his study, From Paddy to Studs - Irish ... , so the Irish had the opportunity to flex their political muscle and gain influence among other immigrants. By 1872 the Irish occupied far more political positions than their eastern counterparts; San Francisco bo...

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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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... , 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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... . Both of these families were also involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Coral. One reason the Clantons hated the Earps was because of Wyatt's involvement with Josephine Marcus, who was a San Francisco actress. She ran away from home at nineteen, and traveled with a Pinafore dance troop. She was the girlfriend of the pro-Clanton sheriff, Johnny Behan (Peterson, 2). Wyatt and Josephine got ... , and Doc Holliday was just grazed on the hip. Wyatt was the only one who left without being injured (Nicks, 6). A few years after this incident, Wyatt and Josie moved to San Diego, where he gambled, ...

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... themselves. With the elimination of quotas students can take pride in knowing that they got accepted because of their academic achievements. Maria Prado from Los Angeles who was rejected by San Diego, and UCLA, but approved by Los Angeles shows how great pride is. "I think that taking away affirmative action has hurt me in a way. But in a way, I think it is ... needs to provide more funding for these schools. In fact students in urban schools are not even getting the books they need. 21 out of 24 students interviewed in the San Francisco Bay Area reported there were not enough books to ...

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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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... , a Times magazine reporter, raw food restaurants are popping up everywhere if there is a demand for them. These restaurants are usually in larger cities such as New York City. Boston, and San Francisco. The chefs at these restaurants follow strict culinary practices: fruits, vegetables, and nuts are used but meat is forbidden. Some chefs ban heat altogether or others apply heat that is ... ...

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... , just come to my house." " I know it sounds stereotypical, and this is my own family I'm talking about, but most of my aunts in American have opened nail shops, one in San Francisco and two in Tennessee. They all say to me, "Graduate college and come work in nail shop if you need a job." I know they are just being nice but I'm not working ... ...

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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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... a super hero type. Directly after Connery is cleaned up in the movie he escapes with one of the greatest car chase scenes ever. Connery gets to drive a hummer through downtown San Francisco demolishing everything insight while Nicholas Cage attempts to follow in an absolutely gorgeous canary yellow Ferrari. The entire car chase scene Connery is completely calm and looks like he is ... ...

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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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