...A historical timeline offers people of today a glimpse into the past, providing an insightful way into the future. The foundation of Nevada becoming a place of settlement to ranching communities and vast growing cities can be contributed to many significant events launching in the mid-1800’s. The mining boom, divorce and gaming industry, as well as the railroad expansion from California, are a few noteworthy incidences among many leading to the success of Nevada. The unearthing and discovery of mineral deposits initiated the “gold and mining boom” around 1860. Mining pioneers stumbled upon strange black sand in 1859. The contents of this mysterious silt revealed to contain silver and gold valued over $3,000 a ton. Mineral activity helped to stimulate ranch and farm growth for surrounding valley communities. Mining in Nevada also lead to advanced transport discoveries...
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...PARTONE California Beginnings a: rdinra n.lans a'lfrtn Hntu.ia! rn.lergu.rd at rhe SPrn sh Pres;dio nsan Fran'G'o,1816 (cirdastoii'c sa.i?ry,Irrlltoa Oo.t{ anle.iian. FN 2s092 ) rowrh afd d!e61ry have been at ihe heari ofCalfornia since ils earliest beginiings. Throlgh eons ofgeologc tlme, rhe and irse fgre$' as disparate slrt of mlgot ng re.oln .ttach ng drehselves.o the continenr s western edge encomPassed a,v rhe rime ofhuman sen emenr, ihe Pres€nt bo!ndaries ofca ifomia Thelandwas'eeming fior:hAmerlca'sgreatestvareryollandformsandc matezones rlL; a vas. atra), offlora and tauna. Like$,lse, $e irst peop e ro lnhabit Calloinia were nolh ng lf not di!'erse Few p aces in the rvorld supporred a grearervariery ofcuLrures N.rveCaliforlansspoke dozens oflanguagesr thev rhriv€d and flo!rished in each olthe s.are's varied ecolog ;r r;ches. srccesslully adapring to and inevirablv.ransformlng their surro!ndings one of rhe mosr derse v poprlated -.--:g belore European conracr, caiiforn a was -:-:..s lf North Amerlca. I.e arrn al of E!ropean emP;re-builders in the late 1700s added ro $e d tr'ers rv of :: 'c-nia. Spaniards began the Process of.olonizarion, intenr on conrrolllng and :,:-;iorming the native peoPle. Efforrs at e.l'orced accultuiarion mosr especia lv in . : spanish mlsslons led ro billerconfliclsand leftar enduringlegacv Thespanish jr:r< ng ser.ler, themse ves were a di'e6e lot, in.lud;ng PeoPle offlixed E!rop-ean' :: an.lnd Afrlcan an.esry. Wi$ the achlevement of Mexlcaf...
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...The US has influenced the history of Mexico more than any other country in the world. There is no other Latin American country that lost so much in one fell swoop against a power hungry neighbor from the north. In one single act the US took all the land making up the areas we call home. California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada were taken from Mexico, in one of the largest land seizures of the century. This act was one of the results of the Mexican-American war of 1846, and will remain to be a topic of hostility between Mexican American relations till the end of time. The war is a historical event that has a shadow of suspicion cast over it. It seems to be misunderstood by all sides and it seems like the more that one looks into and researches...
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...strike it rich. This dream that is still very alive today has contributed in the past and present with massive booms in immigration into California. This popular conception is warm and welcoming, but it does not tell the entire story of California. When looking into the past and understanding how this state came to be, there is a dark and iniquitous aura that suggests that California isn’t really that enchanting, glamorous place that it is made out to be. The California Dream all started in 1848 when discovery of gold sparked a rapid movement known as the California Gold Rush. Word quickly spread when John Marshall first made his discovery in the American River. As Albert L. Hurtado explains in his paper, “Sex, Gender, Culture, and a Great Event: The California Gold Rush, ‘It is impossible to give more than rough estimates for the number of hopeful people who poured into California from 1848 to the early 1850s.” This movement helped create the Weiner 2 idea that anyone can obtain fast wealth in a new place. California was known as a place of opportunity where any average Joe can strike it rich with just hard work and a little bit of luck. The California Dream did not end with the Gold Rush however. San Francisco serves as a good example of the stages that...
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...officially launched as Amazon in 1995 as an online bookstore for customers. * From new to used Amazon expanded more of its categories as time went by, to movies, music, games, computers, electronics, health & beauty, automotive, tools, sports & outdoors etc… * 1997 Amazon starts in the NASDAQ stock exchange, and opened with $18.00/share. * 1998 Amazon.co.uk (UK) & Amazon.de (Germany) websites are launched in October. A month later Amazon opens DVD/video store. * 1999 Fulfillments centers are open in Nevada, Kansas and Kentucky, Customer service center opens in Tacoma Washington. * 2001-02 Amazon partners with Target stores, and opens Apparel and accessories store. * 2005-2007 TiVo services is available to access movies and tv shows online. * 2009 Apps for IPhone and android are introduced. Kindle 2 is launched, and Amazon overtakes Zappos.com (Webs most popular shoes store) for 1.2 billion * 3) Key Events http://amazongenius.com/timeline-history-amazon-com/ * Jeff Bezos is named in Time Magazines “The man of the year” (1999) * In-store pick up are available & Amazon launched its Web Services (2001-2002)...
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...about the events that happened 10 years prior. Second, it is interesting that although the text states that “He makes himself understood very well in the Castilian language” (Hackett, 1942, 1) that he needs an interpreter to speak to the lord. After reading the text, it appears that the words used are not the actual words of Naranjo; they come across as very measured and not what I would see coming from him naturally. I think the main motivation to giving the testimony was to not die. I am hard pressed not to believe that he feared for his life, even at his old age, and would do or say anything to keep it. 2. Both the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo paved the way for the Homestead Act of 1862. The Indian Removal Act ended the rights of five major tribes, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole, to live in the U.S. under their own traditional laws, forcing them to assimilate and concede to U.S. law or leave their homelands; eventually these nations were forced to move to Oklahoma. The Indian Removal Act allowed for white settlers in the southeastern states to expand and settle their land without the threat of Native Americans. This was the beginning of the removal of Native Americans from lands that are rightfully theirs. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed at the end of the Mexican American War. This treaty gave the U.S. 525,000 miles of land that makes up all or parts of present day Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico...
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...attracted Japanese and American tourists due to a historical importance of both countries. As Hawaii changed...
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...Geography and the Development/Diffusion of Human Society Veronica Morales Western Governor’s University Geography and environment plays a significant role in the development of early societies. The development of the early societies occurred as people from different regions interacted with one another as they shared and extend acquired knowledge. As a result, primitive people began to establish and populate regions of the ancient world forming structures of the early society. As societies expand, they form into civilization with sophisticated form of communications and development of technologies. Physical geography as well as natural resources can shape the cultures and societies around us. We know that early societies have adapted their ways of life for survival. The success or failure of the society can lead to expansion or downfall of a civilization. Environmental and geographic factors are known to contribute in the development of early civilizations such as Mesopotamia as well as the development of the United States through the process of diffusion from people and ideas over time. In the early civilizations, the presence of water symbolized life. Mesopotamia was the birth of early civilization due to its significant geographical characteristics, the rivers. The accessibility to water source from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers provided the early civilization with the knowledge to bring forth dependable food source. Mesopotamia was located in between two rivers...
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...HOW TO WRITE A MARKETING PLAN How to Write a Marketing Plan What is a Marketing Plan A marketing plan provides direction for your marketing activities. Marketing plans need not be long or cost a lot to put together. Think of it as a road map, with detailed directions on how to get to your destination. Sure there may be a few bumps in the road, perhaps a diversion or two, but if the marketing plan is carefully researched, thoughtfully considered and evaluated, it will help the organization achieve its goals. The marketing plan details what you want to accomplish with your marketing strategy and helps you meet your objectives. The marketing plan: • Allows the organization to look internally in order to fully understand the impact and results of past marketing decisions. • Allows the organization to look externally in order to fully understand the market in which it chooses to compete. • Sets future goals and provides direction for future marketing efforts that everyone in the organization should understand and support. • Is a key component in obtaining funding to pursue new initiatives. A marketing plan includes these elements: • • • • • • Summary and Introduction Marketing Objectives Situation Analysis Target Markets Strategies Tracking and Evaluation 1 How do I begin? Where do I start? Summary and Introduction Your marketing plan should start with an executive summary. The summary gives a quick overview of the main points of the plan...
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...HOW TO WRITE A MARKETING PLAN How to Write a Marketing Plan What is a Marketing Plan A marketing plan provides direction for your marketing activities. Marketing plans need not be long or cost a lot to put together. Think of it as a road map, with detailed directions on how to get to your destination. Sure there may be a few bumps in the road, perhaps a diversion or two, but if the marketing plan is carefully researched, thoughtfully considered and evaluated, it will help the organization achieve its goals. The marketing plan details what you want to accomplish with your marketing strategy and helps you meet your objectives. The marketing plan: • Allows the organization to look internally in order to fully understand the impact and results of past marketing decisions. • Allows the organization to look externally in order to fully understand the market in which it chooses to compete. • Sets future goals and provides direction for future marketing efforts that everyone in the organization should understand and support. • Is a key component in obtaining funding to pursue new initiatives. A marketing plan includes these elements: • • • • • • Summary and Introduction Marketing Objectives Situation Analysis Target Markets Strategies Tracking and Evaluation 1 How do I begin? Where do I start? Summary and Introduction Your marketing plan should start with an executive summary. The summary gives a quick overview of the main points of the plan...
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...HOW TO WRITE A MARKETING PLAN How to Write a Marketing Plan What is a Marketing Plan A marketing plan provides direction for your marketing activities. Marketing plans need not be long or cost a lot to put together. Think of it as a road map, with detailed directions on how to get to your destination. Sure there may be a few bumps in the road, perhaps a diversion or two, but if the marketing plan is carefully researched, thoughtfully considered and evaluated, it will help the organization achieve its goals. The marketing plan details what you want to accomplish with your marketing strategy and helps you meet your objectives. The marketing plan: • Allows the organization to look internally in order to fully understand the impact and results of past marketing decisions. • Allows the organization to look externally in order to fully understand the market in which it chooses to compete. • Sets future goals and provides direction for future marketing efforts that everyone in the organization should understand and support. • Is a key component in obtaining funding to pursue new initiatives. A marketing plan includes these elements: • • • • • • Summary and Introduction Marketing Objectives Situation Analysis Target Markets Strategies Tracking and Evaluation 1 How do I begin? Where do I start? Summary and Introduction Your marketing plan should start with an executive summary. The summary gives a quick...
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...grass. It’s irresponsible, and harmful to our environment and economy. The 2013-14 rainfall season is on track to be the driest in 434 years, according to Lynn Ingram, a paleo-climatologist at UC Berkley. The concern generated by this drought brought together a group of emergency planners and water managers for an event known as the “California Drought Outlook Forum” on February, 20 2014 in Sacramento, California. They determined that the water outlook for the state was similar to the droughts in the 1970s. However, our water obligations have increased greatly in the following decades. Marty Hoering of the NOAA states, “The stress created by the current failed rains is more severe than for similar rainfall deficits 40 years earlier.” The central focus for this concern is the substantial agricultural business that California sustains, from avocados to almonds to pistachios, a number of crops are grown in California’s fertile central valleys. A recent report estimated that indirect and direct losses to agriculture would amount to $2.2 billion, and lead to the loss of over 17,000 seasonal and part time jobs. An even greater cause for concern is that the historical record shows that western North America went through a large scale drought...
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...Berkeley (/ˈbɜrkliː/ burk-lee) is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County,California which is named after the eighteenth-century bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and unincorporated community of Kensingtonto the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. Its population at the 2010 census was determined to be 112,580. It is one of the most politically liberal cities in the United States. Berkeley is the site of the oldest campus in the University of California system – the University of California, Berkeley – and of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that the university manages and operates. It is also home to the Graduate Theological Union. ------------------------------------------------- Campus Main article: Campus of the University of California, Berkeley The Berkeley campus encompasses approximately 1,232 acres (499 ha), though the "central campus" occupies only the low-lying western 178 acres (72 ha) of this area. Of the remaining acres, approximately 200 acres (81 ha) are occupied by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; other facilities above the main campus include the Lawrence Hall of Science and several research units, notably the Space Sciences Laboratory, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, an undeveloped 800-acre (320 ha) ecological preserve, the University of...
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...Rough Point “Death At The Gates” Doris Duke came into the world in grand fashion, just as she would live her life. Born in a state of the art hospital, constructed within the walls of the Fifth Avenue Mansion built just for her anticipated arrival. That arrival came on November 22, 1912, she was quickly dubbed, ‘The Richest Baby In The World’ (Thomas & Duke, 1995, p. 222). Doris Duke was the combination of passion, brilliance, indulgence, and greed. Vindictiveness was never far removed from her surface. Doris Duke was the quintessence of wealth and power; additionally, she heeded her father’s warning and trusted no one. Exit from her life was on her terms, terms, which were cold, calculated, and methodically carried out. Damage control fell into the laps of the army of attorneys under her employ. Never was this more evident than the night of October 7, 1966, with the violent death of Eduardo Tirella. While Eduardo Tirella’s death is viewed accidental, Doris Duke’s innocence is at question because evidence suggests murder covered up and masked by her influence, power, and wealth. Doris’s father James Buchanan Duke, made provisions for her, whereupon his death she would become “The Richest Girl In The World”. On December 11, 1924 James Duke signed his name to the Doris Duke Trust. Under the provisions of the trust Doris was to receive 125,904 shares of the stock of Duke Power Company, two shares of common stock of Southern Power Company, and two shares of common stock...
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...it also provided the construction of railroads. Union Pacific Railroad is a transportation company chartered by Congress to build the nation’s first transcontinental railroad line. Because of the Pacific Railroad Act, Union Pacific was approved to build a line west from Omaha, Nebraska to California-Nevada line, there it was to join with the Central Pacific RR, which was being built at the same time from Sacramento, California. Each company after completion of the railroad was to be granted 6,400 acres of public lands. The Union Pacific Railroad has their headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. Union Pacific Railroad is the leading railroad system in the United States. The Company has employees of more than 45,000, and operates at least 9,000 locomotives on 32,000 miles of track across 23 states in central and western United States. Union Pacific has purchased a large amount of railroads. Union Pacific’s main competitor is BNSF Railway. Union Pacific is one of the most powerful railroads in the country. It is much older than any other American Class I railroad. The railroad has become one of the most highly respected institutions in the nation and also has seen nearly every railroad event in our country’s history. Unionization Process A union is an employee union that is covered by law to develop and secure employee wages, benefits and work settings. The coming together of employees gives...
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