... produce as much writings as she use to. She eventually died in her sleep Shirley Hardie Jackson was born into an upper middle-class family on December 14, 1919 in San Francisco, California. Her father, Leslie Hardie Jackson was a British born Lithograph company executive. Shirley's mother, Geraldine Bugbee Jackson was a descendant from a family of very well known architects. (Alessio 114). Just two ... years after she was born her parents had another child named Barry. When Shirley was six and her brother was four, the Jackson family moved from San Francisco to a suburban town 30 miles ...

• Word Count: 1916
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• Grade Level: High School

... , from Chicago to Los Angeles; and the Southern Pacific, from New Orleans to Los Angeles. The Southern Pacific had also acquired, by purchase or construction, lines from Portland to San Francisco and from San Francisco to Los Angeles. By the late 1890s, many of the lines were nearly bankrupt from competition and poor economic conditions, slowing expansion again. The construction of the railroads from ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of Dusseldorf. During summers he worked as a hired hand on nearby ranches, "nourishing" his impression of the California countryside and its people (Lisca 32). He made occasional exciting trips to San Francisco with his family and more frequent trips to the Monterey peninsula (Fontenrose 2). In 1918, he became ill with pneumonia and almost died, but he was able to recover. After graduating ... returned to California in 1926 (Fontenrose 3). For the next three years, periods of temporary employment alternated with periods devoted entirely to writing; and he moved from place to place, to S...

• Word Count: 2015
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the United States to become involved in the growing racial conflict. Upon moving back to the U.S., she attended the University of California at San Diego. She would later earn a master's degree in philosophy in 1969. While in San Diego she became very active in politics where she met Kendra and Frank Alexander, who were active members of the Black Panther Party as ... to save the city as the people of New Orleans citing the racism, capitalism and imperialism as the reasoning behind the abandonment of those in need. She has lectured at San Francisco State University, Stanford, Bryn Mawr ...

• Word Count: 1404
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... of California are earthquakes and droughts. Los Angeles – the City of Angels – is the most peopled city in the state. Its biggest attractions are definitely the Hollywood Hills. San Francisco, California's third largest city, is known for its hippie movement in the 1960s and the famous gay street – Castro Street. The Northwest region includes Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and ... ...

• Word Count: 1514
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... in New York City and actually took a class taught by Clarence White, another famous photographer. After being an apprentice for several studios in New York City, she moved out to San Francisco in 1918 and started her own successful portrait studio. There she met her first husband, famous painter Maynard Dixon and had two sons named Daniel and John. When the effects ... ...

• Word Count: 1422
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... received her BA in Education at Peabody College (members.tripod.com/~spaceagegirl/bet5.html). Bettie's teaching career was something she only briefly entertained, since her young marriage moved her to San Francisco. To pass the time while her husband was away on leave, she began modeling in local newspaper ads, her first being modeling fur coats. When Bettie's husband returned from the ... ...

• Word Count: 1447
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... . After this incident my close friend Milton Greene and I decided in the summer of 1954 to form our own production company. On January 14, 1954 Joe and I were married in San Francisco. The wedding captured the headlines worldwide. Joe was extremely jealous of my popularity among other men. He had retired and wanted to avoid public attention, yet I was at the beginning ... ...

• Word Count: 1536
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• Grade Level: High School

... Okeefe's work and she was invited to show at the Whitney and had a retrospective that traveled from the Museum of Modern Art to the art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Art. In 1971 Okeefe learned that her eyesight was failing and she stopped painting in 1972. In 1976 she published she published "Georgia Okeefe" a best selling collection of ... ...

• Word Count: 1363
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... more than these images. It was a profound literary and political movement as well. This is the principle behind a new exhibit at The California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco called Rhapsodies in Black. The collection combines sculptures, photographs and paintings with archival film, sound recordings and commentary by leading scholars. In this exhibit, the Harlem Renaissance is more than ... ...

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... it might have been some other city, had the circumstance been different and the time been different and had [she] been different, might have been Paris or Chicago or even San Francisco, but because [she is] talking about [herself she is] talking here about New York". Didion first arrives in New York at the age of 20. Upon her arrival, she comes ... ...

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... U.S. 1851-1900, internet, no documentation.) While Europeans arrived on the East Coast, Asians-primarily Chinese- arrived on the West Coast and gained admission through one main part: Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. Between 1910 and 1940, nearly 50, 0000 Chinese immigrants entered the United States. (History book, The Americans, Chapter 15, page 441, Angel Island.) These two entrance points, Ellis Island ... ...

• Word Count: 1922
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... hands. / I remember my crucifixion and bloody coronation / I remember the mockers and the buffeting insults / The sepulcher and the white linen have yielded me up / I am alive in New York and San Francisco, / Again I tread the streets after two thousand years." This famous, and lengthy, poem has several sections which all house different themes. In the section where the child asks the speaker ... ...

• Word Count: 1470
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate