Before entering this class I thought I had some knowledge about California's Electric Industry. I thought electricity came from the decades-old monopolies, such as: Southern California Edison, SDG&E, PG&E. I thought these powerhouse companies were the prime roots for California's energy crisis. ... Then you brought up California's Electric Utility Industry and Assembly Bill 1890. ... This was the majority of California's generation facilities. ...

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The Compromise of 1850 made California a Free State and New Mexico and Utah became territories with popular sovereignty. ... Muscogee, Georgia, Herald, quoted in the New York Tribune states, "All northern, and especially the New England, states are devoid of society fitted for well-bred southern gentlemen.... There was a Southern need for expansion of slavery into the territories or an addition of slave states. It also means that Northerners were "hardly fit" for association with their southern compatriots. ... The Crittenden Compromise basically, accepted the boundary between...

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In time, I want my organization to expand, not only around the Dallas metropolis, but as far as California. ... Southern Methodist University, especially my professors, have taught me to grow not only as a student but as an overall individual. ...

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Adrien Raine, University of Southern California researcher, as cited by Cosgrove (2000) explains that prefrontal cortex brain damage that is important in determining one's antisocial behavior may present in people may bring the disorder from the birth. ...

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Furthermore, two private non-profit colleges that portray these statistics are Harvard University, Cambridge and University of Southern California, Los Angeles. ... The University of Southern California, also known as USC was founded on October 6, 1880 by Judge Robert Maclay Widney with a board of trustees whom were donated 308 lots of land that was fabricated into a campus as well as a source of endowment. ... Lastly, the courses and majors have also advanced in that now they offer over 95 undergraduate majors, 147 academic and professional minors and 134 master's, doctoral, and professi...

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Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. There was some fear that, in the event of strong antislavery legislation, the Southern states might withdraw from the Union altogether. ... Through a Southern rigging of the ballot, a state constitution passed permitting slavery, despite free-soilers outnumbering proslavery citizens by three to one. ...

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Most of these settlers were slave-holding plantation owners from the southern United States. ... Additionally, they were committed to annexing New Mexico and California to the United States. ... Mexico capitulated and ceded California and New Mexico to America in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. ... They still wanted California and New Mexico, and virtually instigated war in order to acquire those territories as well. ...

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After the War with Mexico ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico acknowledged the 1845 annexation of Texas and ceded to the United States a huge expanse of land that included the present- day states of California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and parts of Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming. ... Some Asians came for the California Gold Rush that began in 1849. ... By 1870, more than 100,000 Chinese were living in California. ... Some 15 million immigrants reached the United States in the relatively brief period between 1890 and 1914, most of them from eastern and southern Europe. ...

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Maya Angelou writes on her experience living in Southern rural then in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the book is a heartwarming yet tragic story of her life from birth to young adulthood. ... She was sexually molested by her mother's boyfriend at the age of eight that made her shut off from the world and spoke only to Bailey for years, until her teacher helped her come out of the silence after which she moved to California. She says, "If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat" (Angel...

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The practical maintenance of slavery was requiring an expansion of federal power and Southern "slave states", while advocating states rights, demanded federal intervention in support of slavery. ... Therefore his election victory created a crisis, as many southern Democrats feared that it would be only a matter of time before Lincoln would move to kill slavery in the South. ... This meant that Lincoln, even before being sworn in as president, was faced with the rebellion of 7 southern states who left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and later four more who joined as host...

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One of the stories is southern California, where cities became prototypes for the rest of the nation. After World War II, Southern California had a rich and growing economy with high tech, and military industry jobs. ...

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In 1940, after graduating with honors from the 8th grade, Maya moved to Oakland California as a 14-year-old to live with her mother again where she attended George Washington High School. She studied drama and dance at night and was a scholar at the California Labor School. ... A few years later, at the request of Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou became the Northern Coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ...

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Slavery was the main issue that divided the Northern and Southern states; but another, more complicated issue was at hand. ... Furthermore, the latitude line of 36-30 (the southern border of Missouri) was set, and it was declared that any new territory north of this boundary would be non-slavery land. ... Slavery was not only an institution in the Southern states, but it was part of a lifestyle that had been going on since the founding of the United States of America. ... In fact, some northerners believed the exact opposite of what their southern counterparts thought. ... The compromise a...

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He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly 3 million northern men to face a southern army of over 2 million soldiers. In battles fought from Virginia to California (but mainly in Virginia, in the Mississippi River Valley, and along the border states) a great civil war tore the United States apart. ...

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When riding the public transit system Davis was surprised that white people would enter the car and take seats which had been "for colored" people in the southern states (105). ... After returning to the US Davis found herself at the University of California, San Diego. ... After teaching for only one year, these radical associations resulted in her dismissal from her position as assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles. ...

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Jim Crow laws enforced segregation throughout the southern states of the United States. ... Mexico relinquished California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming to the United States after being defeated in the Mexican-American War. ... In 1968, Mexican American students in Los Angeles, California staged a walkout. ...

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The series of scandals continued on through the Republican administrations, although the Democrats of this period such as Samuel "Slippery Sam " Tilden, presidential candidate of 1876 were equally in cahoots with the "robber barons. " Meanwhile, on the western side of the continent, a slightly different breed of "captain of industry " emerged, in the form of the Big Four of the Central (later Southern Pacific) Railroad. ... As traditional venture capitalists, they were no less ruthless than their Eastern counterparts, but they were somewhat less corrupt: The quarter included the heavy-set, en...

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Virtual reality has been around for quite some time, only gaining commercial traction lately. It has always been a goal of the developers of these technologies to bring us closer to what we might otherwise not see or experience. To bring us closer to experience out of a story book or science fiction...

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Southern states, including the 11 states that formed the Confederacy, depended on slavery to support their economy. ... The main debate between the North and the South on the eve of the war was whether slavery should be permitted in the Western territories recently acquired during the Mexican War (1846-1848), including New Mexico, part of California, and Utah. ...

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Seeing as Cuyamaca is a campus located in southern California, the climate tends to be warmer a majority of the school year creating multiple opportunities for these dangerous chemicals to be released. ...

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Kenneth Stampp was a professor of History at the University of California, Berkley. ... He is best known for his revised assessments of three central chapters in the American experience: slavery, the coming of the Civil War, and Southern Reconstruction. ...

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This holds true for all ages groups, Todd Boyd, critical studies professor at the university of Southern California, states "a black face, a Latino face, and American-Asian face are all tied into this country's problemaic history." ...

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In Southern culture in the United States, for example, homosexuality in frowned upon and considered a sinful act of man. ... Individuals of California, Washington, and more liberal states inhabit a larger percentage of gays or lesbians simply because the environment is supportive and it is almost normal to be normal, as persons view the situation. ...

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Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second-largest urban area in the nation. It is located in the southern part of the state on the Pacific Ocean. It is the seat of Los Angeles County. Geographically, it extends more than 40 mi from the mountains to the sea. Los Angeles is a majo...

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David Adams, a Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, defines a hate crime as "instances of ordinary crimes done hatefully or prejudicially...when the offender has targeted a victim "because of" or "by reason of" race, religion, sexual identity, or gender" (par 11). ... Hate crimes are often committed by hate groups which are, according to The Southern Poverty Law Center, "an organization having beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics" (qtd. in Mulholland par 12). ...

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