There are many challenges facing the restoration of salt marshes and coastal wetlands in southern California. ... This is an insight into the future that will happen should a large storm hit the coast of Southern California. ... Southern California has some of the highest population dense coastal areas in the country and the world ranging from 3,000-60,000 persons per square mile between Los Angeles and San Diego. ... Many groups like the Southern California Wetland Recovery Project and San Dieguito Lagoon Restoration Project are giving their best effort to restore some of the precious land th...

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Article Summary The book This War is for a Whole Life: The Culture of Resistance among Southern California Indians, 1850-1966 refers to the relentless struggle of Indians in South California with regards to their quest for independence. ... One region that consists of the most relentless struggle and resistance to regain the rights of Indians is the Southern California region (Hanks, 2006). ... In this case, prior to the invasion of the European missionaries, the Southern California Indians provide the most diverse community of Indians. ... This involves carving and crafting of boats based on ...

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The California Gold Rush was one of most monumental events in the history of the United States. ... The massive expansion of population in California also helped designate California as a state by transpiring the creation of the Compromise of 1850. ... American brig 'Eagle' was the first vessel to bring Chinese settlers to California. ... In the 1850's, the gold mining business was a highly fierce one and was generally dominated by white southern corporations and gold farms. During the antebellum period, the Southern whites were generally hostile towards the Chinese and often ...

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The following year Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for southern blacks to register to vote. ... Affirmative action continued to be debated with California attempting again to put a statewide ban on it. ... Earlier conservatives were allied with Southern segregationists, whose cooperation was essential to a conservative ascendancy in national affairs. ... Opposition towards affirmative action grew after Regents of the University of California v. ... First in California Courts, then in the Supreme Court he held that he was denied because of his race. ...

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Some people seem to think that the 90's laws are too tough. 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted from her California home and murdered by a twice-convicted kidnapper who was released on parole after serving half a 16-year prison sentence. ... In November 1995, Leandro Andrade, an Army veteran and heroin addict, was arrested leaving a Southern California Kmart with five videotapes valued at $84.70 tucked into his clothes. ... Because Andrade had two burglary convictions on his record, the petty thefts could be treated as serious felonies under California law ( Spelman,1988). ...

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Southern California has several unique "trading" programs in place. The "Old Vehicle Clearinghouse" allows citizens to receive cash for vehicles built before 1982; providing they are in sound mechanical condition and currently registered in the state of California. ... Companies in southern California who choose not to provide incentives for employees to carpool contribute to a fund that is used to purchase compressed natural gas-powered vehicles for local governments and school districts. ...

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Serra founded a chain of twenty-one missions that went as far as Sonoma and Christianized three hundred thousand native Californians (Kennedy). ... From California and Florida to Tierra del Fuego, the Spanish empire influenced a large array of cultures and formed the defining ways of their existences. ... The English colonies were split up into three parts: The New England colonies, the Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies. ... The southern colonies were dependent upon their great plantations. ... The impact and triumphs of the English in the Americas can be exemplified by the New ...

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A month later, on June 14th 1846 in California, native English speaking people arrested the Mexican governor and imprisoned him and declared California. Commodore John Sloat claimed Monterey and took control of the California Republic; he later transferred his command to Robert F. ... Later on, he sent back 200 of his 300 cavalrymen believing the war in California was over, he clashed with the Mexican militia at the settlement of San Pasqual because he mistakenly believed that his cavalrymen were enough to win battle. ... Nevertheless, he remained the most powerful individual in Mexico until 1...

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Just this past January, anti-vaccinated students in various schools across Southern California were sent home due to a measles outbreak. Forbes magazine wrote, "Measles is now spreading outward from Disneyland in California, in the worst outbreak in years (Salzberg).... Majumder, M.D, about the issue, saying, "The ongoing measles outbreak linked to the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, shines a glaring spotlight on our nation's growing antivaccination movement and the prevalence of vaccination-hesitant parents (Mcintosh qtd Majumder).... " Southern California pediatricia...

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During the period between 1865 to 1898, the turn of the century was approaching the nation. The end of the Civil War marked this transition from a more agricultural nation to an industrialized one. Society in America was becoming significantly more urbanized and more diversity was introduced to larg...

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Britain had already laid claim to the Pacific Northwest territory, and some southern slave owners feared Britain was trying to abolish slavery in America. ... After the war was over in 1848, the United States now had acquired Texas' southern boundary, as well as California, which included the port of San Diego, and much of the land between Texas and California that consisted of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. ...

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Scholars also noted how "hipsters," or college students and artists who are mostly white, find the area attractive due to the variety of bars, cheap housing, and public transit to universities such as University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California (Park and Kim, 133). ...

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In a study done by the Digital Youth Project at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, they examined more than 5,000 hours of online observations and found that social networking actually encourages useful skills in this new, technological world of constant communication (Goldburg Goff). ...

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The University of California's insurance costs "rose less than one-half of one percent" when it offered health benefits for domestic partners and financially dependent live-in relatives to its 130,000 employees (Gemignani 3). ... In addition to religious groups, there are also those in the political arena, such as former California Governor Pete Wilson that consider domestic partner benefits as a means to "undermine the sanctity of marriage" (Freedberg 2). ... This is evidenced by the failed boycott of Walt Disney World in Florida by the Southern Baptists. ...

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The "Whites Only" signs, as prevalent in Miami as they were in other southern cities, stood everywhere as reminders in case someone forgot. ... Since the city's birth, Miami had been strongly opposed to hiring blacks as police officers, as was generally true throughout the southern states. ... "Invited by NAACP," as the upper heading reads, the article informs the public of Representative James Roosevelt of California, a leading advocate of civil rights and the speech he"ll be making later that day. ...

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Kevorkian graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1952 with a specialty in pathology but never settled into a steady practice, instead spending his working years moving among hospitals in Michigan and southern California. ...

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Due to northern focus on industry and southern focus on agriculture, sectionalism developed among the states. ... The Compromise of 1850 was created to appease both regions; it stated that California was to enter the Union as a free state but that Utah and New Mexico would decide upon the issue based on the concept of popular sovereignty (Document C). ...

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Mario Savio was the one who brought the attention of inequality throughout other parts of the country not only the south, most notably at Berkley at the University in California. ... It will take many years for this country to fully except desegregation due to the fact that segregation has been embedded as a way of life among many Americans especially those of the Southern states. ...

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The charter of the U.N. was formally signed by fifty countries in October of 1945 in San Francisco, California. ... In April 1951, Allied Command Europe and its headquarters (SHAPE) were established; later, four subordinate headquarters were added in Northern and Central Europe, the Southern Region, and the Mediterranean. ...

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Produced Water Treatment - Future Technology Polymer modified bentonite or organoclay, ET Ventures - ET #1, made by binding amine polymer with bentonite clay, this converts the clay to an oil-wet, hydrocarbon adsorbent material. Able to adsorb 88% of its own weight in hydrocarbons and 100% by vol...

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The Republic of Somalia is a country slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Texas with a land area 637,657 square kilometers. Situated in the "horn of Africa," Somalia is the shape of the number seven or a rhino horn. Somalia's terrain includes mostly plateaus, plains, and highlands. It also has the longest coastline in Africa with an incredible length of 3,025 kilometers. Somalia neighbors Djibouti (northwest) that is actually inhabited by Somali-speaking people, the Gulf of Aden and Yemen (north), Ethiopia (west), Kenya (southwest), and the Indian Ocean (east). ...

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We as planners have the opportunity of a lifetime to create something special. We have an opportunity to create a safe and peaceful place for people to travel across the region and through our neighborhoods by use of multi-use trails called rail trails. Rail trails are multi-purpose public ...

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Employment of Illegal Immigrants The Immigration Act of 1924 set the national-origin quota system that restricted immigration of southern and eastern Europeans. ... Kwong (2002) argued that without immigrants, there would be no agribusinesses in California, no garment industry in New York City, and no domestic child care workers across the country. ...

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The Eras Geologic Time The Earth is very old -- 4.5 billion years or more -- according to recent estimates. This vast span of time, called geologic time by earth scientists, is difficult to comprehend in the familiar time units of months and years, or even centuries. How then do scientists reckon...

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According to UC Southern California Professor of Biology Terrel Edwards, "a gene from the grey manganese has been genetically implanted into tobacco in order to make it tolerant to salt and many other ionic stresses....

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