Peoples Temple in San Francisco

some of the country’s worst criminals. While claiming to never have an inmate escape, numerous attempts were made by John Paul Scott, Darl Lee Parker, and Joseph Bowers but failed. Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe also fled, but after jumping in the San Francisco Bay they were never seen again. It was assumed that the two men drowned and their bodies were swept away due to severe weather conditions. One of the most famous cases of escaping involves Frank Morris and brothers John Anglin and Clarence…

had to experience and what they had to go through. This talks about what they had to eat and what they had expirienced. So the Gold Rush is really the huge reason why thousands came to California, and pretty much why california became a state with people living here and experiencing the difficulties they had back then. The Gold Rush began…

within San Francisco and Oakland. A large fault is placed on the guardians of the law. Brotherhood, or police alliance, places a white sheet over the true cause of excessive force and misconduct. Another fault goes to the Justice Department for failing to convict fellow guardians of the law for police brutality in a wide range of cases (Walter). According to the SF Examiner, “At this moment in San Francisco, truth telling (about police brutality) might involve our having the backs of young…

speaking catholic born in between 1769 and 1848. They rode horses and started their journey from mexico. Before the missions, they were all very deep into the catholic religion. They have lived that way for their whole life, and they wanted for other people to live the way they did. They spent days and often got many blisters from riding from place to place. They always moved north and never down south. They spent days and months trying to get to the indians camp. They decided to target indians,…

This prison on the water was built to hold the most dangerous criminals, because it was the hardest prison to escape from. Today you can visit and or tour Alcatraz it is now a national park for people to witness some of the stuff prisoners had to go through being there. Alcatraz has a lot of things people don’t know about it like what was the purpose, how many deaths/escapes and the history behind it. Today Alcatraz is no longer used as a federal prison, but a place to visit and learn new…

In 2005, President-elect Donald Trump, said to Billy Bush, the TV host who is a cousin of George W and Jeb Bush,’’Grab them by the pussy.” If gentrification keeps consuming San Francisco, we need to grab gentrification by the pussy and make regulations for the halt of its negative effects. When gentrification rises, it increases the wealth gap between the rich and poor. In addition, gentrification displaces non-tech middle.lower classes with wealthy tech workers because of the high demand made…

in the world. Alcatraz was established in 1934. This prison was supposed to be known as the nation's most secure prison, although it held many escapees. This prison lasted for 29 years. It is located on Alcatraz Island sitting in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz is now known as a tourist hot-spot, you can take day or night trips and even spend the night in a cell. After the U.S. government bought the island back in 1933, and turned this island into a prison; all of America’s most…

Studies show that in the 2011-2012 winter season, the state of California received nearly 300 inches less snowfall than it did the previous winter. While many of California’s dry winters are a direct result of ridges off of the west coast, climatologists suggest the drop in precipitation during the 2011-2012 winter was due to below average sea surface temperatures, or La Niña (Seager et al.). La Niña is the result of cooling sea surface temperatures that lead to an overall temperature of the…

world. Since I lived in the US, I began to think that every other country was the same size as the US which lead me to truly realize how big the world is. It wasn 't until many years later when I realized that the populations of countries are all people even though they are only represented by numbers. When watching or reading the news about crisis or conflict there is usually a death toll given, for many including myself we look at it as numbers when we should all look at them as humans like…

stuff like San Francisco. So did I like nostalgic cities and towns. From the spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, to the bustling harbor and houses with fancy old architectural looks along with the busy modern shopping centers. I loved San Francisco, a city of cheerful nostalgia. Just as, in 1989, a horrific earthquake, named Loma Prieta ruined the famous Embarcadero freeway and devastated the two-storey ramp leading to the Golden Gate Bridge, highways 101 and 880 from the city of Oakland, San…