...California is known for its earthquakes. There are approximately 10,000 earthquakes in California every year. Most of them are so small that they are not felt. Only a few hindered are big enough to cause a scare. These earthquakes are a normal occurrence for Californians. In 2016 and 2017 California suffered a crazy drought, which ultimately leads to a massive amount of large Wildfires. In the Year of 2017, there were a total of 9,133 fires burned in California alone. This caused many short and long-term problems for California and surrounding states. Though legendary for the threat of earthquakes, the 2027 Wildfires were the worst thing to happen to California in the 21st century. The wildfires destroyed a lot of land and buildings during...
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...The California drought has claimed to be a big epidemic for this state of dreams. This drought alone has been said to put many residents in a panic of what's to become of their beautiful state, but many wonder just how this crisis began in the first place. Residents and other American’s thought of ways just how this possibly terrifying ordeal came to be. Some say it is manmade, others believe it is due to the environment while a few believe it is the way for the big businesses and the rich to gain extra money or extra water. The facts will show us each of their arguments, but the truth is up to the people themselves. The droughts claimed current state can lead anyone to their own beliefs of the matter. For instance, California water usage website gives a list of current events of the presumed drought. California Water Usage says the drought is currently in its fourth year making 2014-2015 the warmest years on record. On April, the 1st the department of water resources stated that the snow packs is now at 5%; which they presume is the...
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...The Californian Drought Crisis This section of the paper will outline the current Californian drought crisis, taking the position that climatically, it is a combined result of lower than average precipitation and higher than average temperatures and that the population, in residential, commercial and agricultural settings place an excessive demand upon the state’s water supply. Working together, these stressors have a collective effect in causing the drought crisis in California since 2012. 2015 marks California’s fourth consecutive year of severe drought. The last two years alone have been the driest and warmest individual years since records began in 1895, with ten of the last fourteen experiencing below normal levels of precipitation (Howitt, et al., 2015) (Mann & Gleick, 2015). From autumn 2013 to spring 2014, central and southern California experienced some of the lowest precipitation on record, it is said that the impacts...
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...Would you resist not taking a shower for five months? California has been in a drought for the past year. Citizens do not have enough water to shower, flush the toilet, and other basic rights. California should control water from the ground, Aquifer. “For Angelica Gallegos, the worst part has been going without a shower for five months.There are also the endless treks to the laundromat for the family wash and the supermarket for drinking water, not to mention the horror of the nightly dishes (source 2).” The drought in California has led many citizens to lose their basic rights they deserve. One of the many reasons why California should control water from the ground, is that citizens are having to go through harsh days not being able to shower, use the toilet, and wash dishes. “That includes deciding whether to use precious water hauled from the local fire stations for the “bird baths” Mrs Gallegos says everyone now has instead of showers, or flushing the toilet (source 2).” Citizens in California, are the ones suffering the most. For example, many citizens haven’t been able to shower for months and they...
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...The San Joaquin river is one of the most famous and longest river in all of Central California. The river starts in Nevada and goes through a big agricultural farm, then all the way to the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, and Suisun Bay. In the 20th century the river came to a major halt, it was voted to have a delta built which caused an uproar in the wildlife community.Since the river is closed off from flowing the water is just sitting there, and all wildlife that took place there had to pack their things and move to a new location. The article “ River To Fishy For My Taste Buds by Bill McEwen” of the Fresno Bee’s newspaper company, whose credibility for this topic is real. McEwen despite the fact that he is in the river being built, but against...
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...The San Joaquin river, one of the most famous and longest river in all of Central California. The river starts in Nevada and goes through a big agricultural farm, then all the way to the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, and Suisun Bay. In the 20th century the river came to a major halt the people voted to have the delta built, which caused an uproar in the wildlife community.Since the river has been closed off from flowing, the waters just sitting there and all wildlife that took place there packed their things and moved to a new location. The article “ River To Fishy For My Taste Buds by Bill McEwen” of the Fresno Bee's newspaper company, whose credibility for the topic occurs as credible. McEwen despite the fact that he agrees in the river to...
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...Major Water Scarcity in California And it’s Effect on the American South West This essay explains the lack of precipitation in South West America and its effects on California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. It also explores the numerous alternatives that could be used in order to solve this water crisis. The cause of the drought in California is the lack of snowfall in the Rocky Mountains, which caused the river to evaporate. As temperatures are rising, it causes water to evaporate and dry out soil that we need to plant crops. Authorities are reducing the flow from Colorado’s two reservoirs, Lake Powell, which supplies the upper Colorado Basin, and Lake Mead, which supplies Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Evidence suggests “For the...
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...Global Warming; it’s an occurrence unlike any other, one that can destroy the world. It’s already harming arctic creatures and their habitats, making other natural disasters more severe, and hurting people’s lives. Yet, sadly, thousands of people believe that it’s fake; that people made it up. Reliable sources like NASA, however, show that Climate Change is real, and that it’s a serious issue that can destroy us all. We have a duty to stop it quickly, or else human civilisation may be seriously harmed, or worse; obliterated. Since 1950, the ppm has risen drastically above the safe level (which is about 350). Currently, the ppm, according to NASA, is 405.25. In case you didn’t know, ‘Ppm’ is parts per million, which is the amount of carbon...
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...Within the article, “River Plan: Too Fishy for my Taste Buds”, its author Bill McEwen writes about the plan to restore the San Joaquin River, and about the details that seem to create more negative effects than positive effects. This author appears to be more credible, as he gives a wider view of the situation than merely who approves of the idea. He gives details of how the restoration idea would ruin what little river remains, and become a drowning waste of money. McEwen worked with the Fresno Bee for over 35 years, writing multiple articles and having a heavy understanding of politics that other writers do not. The Fresno Bee pulls in an average of 264,603 daily readers, and publishing occurs in the California city of Fresno. Fresno itself...
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...University of Phoenix Material United States and China Comparison Using credible Internet sources, including the CIA World Factbook, complete the following chart on the United States and China. You may expand the chart as necessary. Then answer the mini-essays at the end in 150- to 200- words each. | |United States |China | |Population |roughly 312.8 million people |1.3 billion people | |Population Density |2010 is 87.4 people per square mile |143.48 in 2010 | |Median Age |total: 36.9 years |Median age: total: 35.5 years | | |male: 35.6 years |male: 34.9 years | | |Female: 38.2 years (2011 est.) |female: 36.2 years (2011 est.) | | | | | |Gross Domestic Product (GDP) |$14.7 Trillion (2010) |$5.74 Trillion | |Actual GDP |$14.58 Trillion | ...
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...The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of time during the Depression in the 1930s. The Dust Bowl consists of several severe dust storms causing major damage to the environment and farm lands to the American and Canadian prairie lands. During the drought of the 1930s, the soil turned to dust because there was not any natural deep rooted grass to keep it in place. Once the soil was turned to dust the wind carried it eastward and southward in large dark clouds, which blackened the sky. The dark black cloud would reach cities on the East Coast, such as New York and Washington, D.C. The Atlantic Ocean was the final spot where most of the soil ended up deposited in the Atlantic Ocean, carried by strong winds which were created by the dry and bare soil conditions. These terrible dust storms which terrorized many people changing their lives were given names such as "black blizzards" and "black rollers" and they often reduced visibility to just a few feet. The Dust Bowl affected millions of acres of land changing many people lives, causing many to relocate, and other to try to survive, it was possibly the greatest natural disaster of its times. “The Dust Bowl got it name after Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. More and more dust storms had blown up in years leading to that day. In 1932, 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains. In 1933, there were 38 storms. By 1943, it was estimated that 100 mill acres of farmland had lost all or most of the topsoil to the wind. By April...
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...Rene Neal-De-Stanton Eng1A Dr. Nahas Annotated Bibliography Works Cited Khan, S.J. "GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs): FOOD SECURITY OR THREAT TO FOOD SAFETY." Pakistan Journal of Science 64.2 (2012): 6.-12. Santa Rosa Junior College Academic Search Complete. Web. 12 Oct. 2015. <HTTP://santarosa.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=78909697&site=eds-live&scope=site>. This article examines how Biotechnology is a vital issue that impacts all of us and the Development of genetically modified organisms is one of the greatest discoveries through this recent technology. The author believes that many types of transgenic FOODS will be ready for commercialization, including varieties with that come with, greater tolerance of bio-tic and a-bio tic stresses, resistance to herbicides, improved nutritional quality, and novel pharmaceutical proteins. The only downfall is that Information is scarce about health hazards in GM crops. Therefore urgently need publicly available ecological assessments of the risks and benefits of transgenic crops before new varieties are released The authors this article are Khan S.J., Muafia S., Nasreen, Z, Salaryia, A.M. Who wrote this for the Pakistan Journal of science. This site is peer reviewed and covers topics extensive in biology, chemistry, physics, geology and mathematics. This article was published through the science journal "Transgenic Research' in affiliation with Biotechnology...
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...Joads, who suffer various hardships while migrating to California. The Dust Bowl was a period of time in the 1930s where harsh droughts led to severe dust storms which ruined million acres of prairie land in America. This story tells us the plight of all those migrants during the Great Depression through the perspective of the Joad family. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck uses intercalary chapters to provide background for the various themes of the novel, as well as to set the tone. Steinbeck’s previous book had bought him much success and Steinbeck did not want his success to weaken his commitment to the intellectual goals of his writing. So later, he embarked upon a trip from Oklahoma to California with a group of migrant workers. He worked and lived alongside them in a work camp in California. His experience was the inspiration for this novel. The story begins just after Tom Joad is released on parole from McAlester prison for homicide. On his journey to his home in Oklahoma, he meets former preacher Jim Casy whom he remembers from his childhood and the two travel together. He finds out his family has been evacuated from their land and are leaving for California. Tom and Casy join them. Going west on Route 66, the Joad family discovers that the road is saturated with other families making the same journey, fascinated by the same promise. In makeshift camps, they hear many stories from others, some coming back from California, and are forced to confront the possibility that their...
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...Essay on Native American Environmental Issues by David R. Lewis This essay is taken from Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, edited by Mary B. Davis and published in 1994 by Garland Publishers of New York. The encyclopedia includes additional essays on mining, natural resource management, hunting and fishing rights, and economic development. It's a highly recommended resource. Reprinted without permission for educational purposes. Traditionally Native Americans have had an immediate and reciprocal relationship with their natural environments. At contact, they lived in relatively small groups close to the earth. They defined themselves by the land and sacred places, and recognized a unity in their physical and spiritual universe. Their cosmologies connected them with all animate and inanimate beings. Indians moved in a sentient world, managing its bounty and diversity carefully lest they upset the spirit "bosses," who balanced and endowed that world. They acknowledged the power of Mother Earth and the mutual obligation between hunter and hunted as coequals. Indians celebrated the earth's annual rebirth and offered thanks for her first fruits. They ritually addressed and prepared the animals they killed, the agricultural fields they tended, and the vegetal and mineral materials they processed. They used song and ritual speech to modify their world, while physically transforming that landscape with fire and water, brawn and brain. They did not passively...
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...HISTORY SUMMARY 1865-19901865-1900In the years following the Civil War the United States was transformed by the enormous growth of industry. Once, the United States was mainly a nation of small farms. By 1900, it was a nation of growing cities, of coal, steel, and of engines and fast communications. Though living standards generally rose, millions of industrial workers lived in crowded, unsanitary slums.In the north, industrial violence was common and occurred on numerous occasions. The most violent confrontation between labor and employers was probably the Great Railway Strike of 1877. The nation had been in the grip of a severe depression for four years. During that time, the railroads had decreased the wages of railway workers by 20 percent. Many trainmen complained that they could not support their families adequately, and there was little that the trainmen could do about the wage decreases. At that time, unions were weak and workers feared going on strike; there were too many unemployed men who might take their jobs. Some workers secretly formed a Trainmen's Union to oppose the railroads. In the last quarter of the century, the textile, metal, and machinery industries equaled the railroads in size. In 1870, the typical iron and steel firm employed fewer than 100 workers. Thirty years later, the force was four times as large. By 1900, more than 1,000 factories had work forces ranging from 500 to 1,000 workers. From 1860 to 1900 some 15 million immigrants from southern and...
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