Sacramento Essays

  • The Sacramento Kings Team

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    One hundred and twenty six decibels, the record for the loudest indoor arena, goes to the Sleep Train Arena, and the home of the Sacramento Kings. The record was broken at a Kings Bucks game, and though the fans were able to break a record, the Kings still lost. Since relocating to the tiny city of Sacramento, the Kings have never really been a good team. The team has only seen mediocre players with the occasional appearances of great players visiting, arriving only to pound the team and the aspiring

  • Comparison Between Piano Concert By Barbara Wieman And Sacramento Cham

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    Comparison Between Piano Concert by Barbara Wieman and Sacramento Chamber Orchestra On Feb 20,1997, I attended a piano concert that was performed by Barbara Wieman. The performance was held at the American River College Music Department choir room. The choir room holds about 100 people and every seat was taken and students were seated on the floor. The audience was dressed casual as everyone was students trying to do their concert papers. Barbara Weiman was also dressed casual but nice

  • Pony Express

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    April 13th the last rider reached Sacramento, California. To become a rider you had to be a brave young man, and an orphan, because it was a dangerous job. They had to be very good riders, and able to shoot good. And they must not fear Indian attacks. Every rider had to ride sixty miles at very high speed. He had to travel the 60 miles with six different ponies and in six hours. Every day except on Sundays a rider left Missouri at 12 o’clock. The rider in Sacramento arrived at 8 o’clock in the morning

  • Superwoman of Fairfield: Natalia Martinez's Story

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    Natalia Martinez is 32 years old and lives in her hometown Fairfield,CA with her husband of four years and two lovely children. You might of seen her working in the Solano County Office of Social Services but now she works as a stay at home mom. She takes care of her 3 year old boy, Ronaldo, while getting her 9 year old girl, Giselle, to school. She is a very humble but outspoken person who's not afraid to speak up when she has to, something she attributes to being the middle child and feeling the

  • Pony Express Pros And Cons

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    that the power proposed to be exercised by the bill is among the enumerated powers.”. St.Joseph, Missouri was chosen as the eastern terminus because it was connected to the eastern railroads and telegraph. The Western telegraph would be located in Sacramento, California. Benjamin Ficklin was hired as superintendent of the route. Ficklin set up the route into five divisions and hired superintendents to run each division. Over 400 hand picked horses were purchased and stations were built that at every

  • My Personal Experience On My Experience At Bethel Church

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    off I went. The journey started with a weeklong visit with my sister, (not of the faith) in Sherman Oaks, CA, and then the plan was to fly to Sacramento CA, rent a car, drive the 2 hours to Redding, drive another 2 hours, go to the Joshua Festival in Quincy, CA, drive 2 hours back to Redding, and attend a service at Bethel, and then drive back to Sacramento and fly home. With my original flight plans it would have put me there in such limited time that I was really not sure if the timing would have

  • John Augustus Sutter: Reason For The California Gold Rush

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    Which was one of the many areas he spent time in before ending up in which is now the Sacramento area. John Sutter eventually ended up in Hawaii and he had intended to raise funds for a California expedition that ended up passing by Alaska. In 1839 John Sutter arrived on July 1st in 1839. Sutter approached the governor, Juan Alvarado, and

  • The Servants of Twilight

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    Angeles to the mountains of Sacramento, trying to get rid of the "Twilighters". However, every time they stop in a city to rest, the "Twilighters" show up, again attempting to kill Joey. Grace Spivey uses her psychic powers to locate the boy. She believes that six-year old Joey is the antichrist and the son of the devil. She thinks he will rule the world for a thousand years if she does not kill him. The group ends up at Charlie's cabin in the mountains near Sacramento and they believe they are

  • Before the Paparazzi: A Nostalgic Journey Through America

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    By LIANNE WOO SACRAMENTO, C.A. – Steven P. Unger spoke on Thursday afternoon about his popular book “Before the Paparazzi: 50 Years of Extraordinary Pictures”, which features a nostalgic outlook on America. A turnout of over 50 satisfied students and fans attended co-author Unger’s lecture, watching a slide-show on previews of the book’s pages and Arty Pomerantiz’s famous photos from the 1960s. “Pomerantz captured the raw truth of American history that was not touched up or photo-shopped—it was real

  • Life In Sacramento

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    The hustle and bustle of city living is astounding to the ears. Millennials are drawn more to the urban lifestyle because of convenience and that they believe that it is the kind of life that they want to live. City life in the Sacramento area is something that most early twenties and thirties aspire for. Food, music and entertainment are so much easier to access when you live in the area. People’s preferences are guided by their experiences and as we evolve, we tend to want a little more different

  • Urbanization In Sacramento

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    Sacramento is a bustling city with a diverse population and a city structure to match. In the last few decades the growth and development within our area has grown exponentially, land that was completely vacant fields and farmland has been replaced with shopping centers and freeways, expanding with the population increase in recent years. With the fast-track building of these areas before the economic collapse, more areas were developed than can currently be filled, which unfortunately has left many

  • Chinese Workers In Westward Expansion

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    When the word “gold” is thrown around such news travels far and fast. This caused people from all areas of the world to flock thousands of miles during the Westward Expansion period in efforts of going from “rags to riches” to obtain the American dream. One particular group of laborers the Chinese went to pursue a dream in the west by working on the transcontinental railroad system. This paper will reveal experiences and discriminationsthat Chinese laborers faced while working on railroads during

  • Concepts Of Team Management

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    Concepts of Team Management When we think of the word team, individually many different ideas may come to mind about what a team really is. Some may think of an NFL team (Tennessee Titans), an NBA team (Sacramento Kings), or a NASA astronaut team with such pioneers as Edwin Aldrin, Jr. and Neil Armstrong as members. You might even think of the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, or Marines as teams. In fact they all are, and they have a great deal in common as teams. However, for the

  • My Hometown of Sacramento

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    Sacramento is not where I originated from, but it indeed is the city I call home. I grew up in Sacramento ever since I was a baby. After being raised in a dangerous part of Sacramento, I assumed that the rest of the world was unsafe as well. I genuinely believed that living in danger must be the norm everyone else. I did not realize until I was a teenager that the rest of world was not exactly like this. There were actually parts of Sacramento that have nicely groomed, green lawns and children in

  • Sacramento Zoo Observation

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    visited the Sacramento Zoo during the afternoon of April 21, 2017. The weather was wonderful, sunny, warm, and there was a slight breeze. It got a bit more breezy the longer I was there. Visiting the zoo to observe primates allowed me to become a little more aware of how primatologists study primates. Even though I’ve been to many different zoos several different times, I never realized how many primates were associated with the zoos, as well as the variety of primates in the zoos. The Sacramento Zoo has

  • The Oroville Dam in California

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    They can be small structures just holding back rivers and streams, or as big as lakes and reservoirs, supplying water to up to 20 different counties. Oroville dam is the largest dam in California and is located just outside of Oroville County near Sacramento. Construction began in the dam in 1961, and it finally opened 7 years later in 1968. The Oroville dam is a rock fill embankment dam, which means, a water barrier that is made with certain materials so that it isn’t prone to erosion or deterioration

  • An Essay On Xavier Becerra

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    Xavier Becerra was born on January 26, 1958 in Sacramento, California. Becerra is the child of some working-class immigrants. He grew up in a one room house along with his three sisters hat he had. He graduated from C.K McClatchy High School in 1976 which is located in Sacramento. He was basically born and raised in Sacramento, California. Xavier was the first one of all four children to graduate from college. He graduated in 1984 from Stanford University, earning his J.D from Standford's Law School

  • Chinese and Japanese Immigrants and the California Dream

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    California, 1860–1920. San Francisco: R and E Research Associates. Chan, S. (1991). Asian Americans: An interpretive history. New York: Twayne Publishers. Cole, C. L. (1973). A history of the Japanese community in Sacramento, 1883–1972. Diss. California State University, Sacramento. Gillenkrik, J. and Motlow, J. (1987). Bitter melon: Inside America’s last rural Chinese town. Berkeley: Heyday books. Lukes, T. J. and Okihiro, G. Y. (1985). Japanese legacy. California History Center. Matsui

  • Chinese Labor Contribution to the Central Pacific Railroad

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    construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. So on January 8, 1863, with a ground breaking ceremony in Sacramento, Central Pacific Railroad started work on the western end of the Transcontinental Railroad. Two railway companies competed in this venture: The Central Pacific company laid track eastward from Sacramento, California and at the same time The Union Pacific company began laying track westward from Omaha, Nebraska and when the two lines met, the transcontinental

  • Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento

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    In this world, there are bad people, and there are evil people, and then there's serial killers! The Vampire of Sacramento, aka Richard Chase was one of the most terrifying, and brutal serial killer that has ever walked the face of this planet. His demonic killing was not done out of hatred, but out of fear. He feared for his life every time he slaughtered one of his victims. His schizophrenic mind convinced him that the Natzis were actualy posining Richard, and in order for him to live, he must