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1987's Whittier, California Earthquake

warnings are part of California living, repeated in schools, in earthquake exercises, by local and state governments, and even in ...

California's Emergency Response Plan

would be called OES or the Office of Emergency Services ("Californias Emergency Response Plan," 2003). OES is an office that helps...

Learning Lessons from Whittier Narrows and Northridge Earthquakes

In fourteen pages these earthquakes are discussed in terms of the lessons learned from them in terms of safety precautions. Fourt...

Earthquakes and Animals

In seven pages the link between earthquakes and animals is made in terms of animal behavior prior to an earthquake and if there wo...

Earthquake: A Terrifying Force

they strike without warning and can do tremendous damage. At this point the student will want to consider an experience in an ear...

Earthquakes

best known of the divergent boundaries is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge" which is a submerged mountain range that gores from the Artic Oc...

Earthquakes

as the San Andreas Fault in California (Fryer, 2009). In some places, however, they move beneath one another and still yet there a...

Nicholas Wolterstorff's Lament for a Son Summarized and Evaluated

In five pages this 1987 text is both summarized as well as critically evaluated....

Legacy by James A. Michener

In eight pages this paper compares Michener's 1987 novel with his earlier writings....

Local Park Study

In five pages this paper presents a multifaceted study of Santa Ynez, California's NIRA park and campground....

Why California Won’t Fall into the Ocean

the "plate boundary" between these two (Louis and Anderson, 2001). Because the earth is still cooling, it is still releasing its i...

1987's Consumer Protection Act and its Impact

against consumer products. Against this we can look at the CPA and its aims and then look at the way this has materialised in term...

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

The Chilean earthquake's energy was 512 times that in Haiti yet Chile experienced a fraction of casualties and devastation. Why? T...

Comprehensive Overview of Earthquakes

the Earths body with the greatest velocity. They are longitudinal waves that can be transmitted by both solid and liquid material...

San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

Earthquakes are the focus of this paper consisting of five pages in which the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake is the primary e...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

Proposition 184

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...

California's Settlement

would change for the worse. Cortezs men arrive in what is now called Baja, California, and immediately began to colonize the area....

Higher Education in California

in both US and CSU systems (UC Office of the President, 1999). To help with tuition, the state adopted the Cal Grant program to he...

Fixing California's Budget

years in the absence of current action. Voters rejected higher tax rates and totally new taxes in 2009; all that currently remain...

Internal Audit and ISO 9000

quality because with such an auditing system, the company will monitor all its functions on a continual basis (Barnes, 1998). The...

UK Consumer Protection

could be expected to have find the fault (Rose, 2003, Card et al, 1998). It is worth noting that where there is no examination thi...

Analysis About U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War and the Creation of Myths

American values were the primary motivation of the U.S. participation in the southeast Asia conflict. Author Richard Slotkin expl...

Issue of Ozone Layer Depletion

Antarctic hole had grown considerably in size and by 1999 encompassed an area equal to double the size of Chinas mainland (U.S. Ne...

Go West The Migration to the State of California

10 pages and 4 sources. This paper provides an overview of the events and factors that led to the migration to California. This ...

California Economy Article Analysis

stood to reason therefore, that once the slump came, California would be hardest hit, as much of its economy has been based on the...

Water Demand and Purchase in California

and the market is sated. In the case of the California Water Transfers of 1995, demand exceeded supply In this case, the...

California Immigration and William A. Clark's The California Cauldron

fifteen years in particular, California has changed dramatically in its demographic makeup. Clark explores the changes in laws an...

Drug Policies in California

under federal law" (Anderson, 2004). The California law allowing the medical use of...

Fontana, California and Davis's City of Quartz

agricultural commune, with most people looking out for the other, in which agricultural products were the primary focus of barter....