... fashionable items in the world today. Denim jeans in women's fashion was not a recycling of an old trend, but rather a revolution towards a whole new fashion and a way of life. Doc. #7 Barbara K. Nordquist. "Punks."" Dress and Popular Culture. 1991. Society gives meaning to a symbol based upon its tradition, use and culture. Thus, the punk's safety pin through the cheek shocks the typical ... . Indeed, it is meant to protect the body, and is often associated with harmless babies. A more dramatic twisting of the symbolic meaning of an object is hard to imagine. In Barbara K. Nordquist's e...

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... of leatherjacket soldiers, missionaries and muleteers killed a large-but-lean grizzly bear on the shore of an ocean-side lake in Upper California about 80 miles north of today's Santa Barbara It was the first time that a white man had ever killed a California grizzly" (Silva 66). Since then, "How I killed the bear" had become the wordiest word during ... ...

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... his desire to kill the drivers" license law. With the passage of the recall, "people are having a very intense feeling of hope that their voices will be heard again," said Barbara Coe, chairwoman of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform and a co-author of Prop. 187. (The San Francisco Chronicle). The driver's license repeal "may well be a prelude to another Prop ... ...

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... (Starr). Discoveries of huge deposits of oil spurred the rise of the California petroleum industry in the late nineteenth century. The major deposits were in the San Joaquin Valley, Santa Barbara County, and the Los Angeles basin. New discoveries, all in the Los Angeles basin, launched an even bigger oil boom during the early 1920s (Rice). Massive new fields began production ... ...

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