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...he weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these air flotation mattresses at the hotel are like being... ...redness. L‘Oreal cosmetics has the slogan ‗I‘m worth it.‘ I‘ve heard more California women spout it whenever they want to do something out of the or... ...presentatives of the citizens?‖ —―Right Ray. Look at what happened in California to their democratic vote. In 1994 Proposition 187 was passed by... ... France be able to stop it? What if five billion people wanted to move to San Diego or to London and become citizens? The cry of the asylum-seekers ... ... —―You mean that when a visitor, like a resident of Tijuana, comes to San Diego to have her baby, that many people consider it a citizen because... ...ent I ever heard against capital punishment was when the former warden of San Quentin Prison, Clinton Duffy, spoke at Los Angeles Pierce College. He... ...I ever heard against capital punishment was when the former warden of San Quentin Prison, Clinton Duffy, spoke at Los Angeles Pierce College. He sai...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frank Norris The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris Book 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I C... ... end of the dry season, and all Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Central Califor- nia, was bone dry, pa... ...e part of Magnus Derrick, had come to stay in the dry, even climate of the San Joaquin for an indefinite length of time. He was thirty years old, and ... ... These matters, these eternal fierce bickerings between the farmers of the San Joaquin and the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad irritated him and wea... ...ate, hunt him down like a wild animal, and bring him to the gallows at San Quentin. That’s my version of the affair, Mister Genslinger, but it’s worth...

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...A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called the jacket, a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Stand...

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... of the mistress. R. L. S. CHAPTER IV – THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT, MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 1879-JULY 1880 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN ON BOARD SS. ‘D... ...e closes. Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [IN THE EMIGRANT TRAIN FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 1879.] DEAR COLVIN, – I am in the cars between Pittsb... ... R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [COAST LINE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879.] HERE is another curious start in my life. I am... ... of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, DITTO CO., CALIFORNIA, 21ST OCTOBER [1879]. MY DEAR COL VIN, – Although you have absol... ...The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879. MY DEAR COLVIN, – I received your letter with d... ...t me the Cornhill and the New Quarterly, though I am trying to get them in San Francisco. I think you might have sent me (1) some of your articles in ... ...h three Waverleys. I think Kenilworth better than Waverly; Nigel, too; and Quentin Durward about as good. But it shows a true piece of in- sight to pr...

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...h this was given the lie by his words. “What the devil can I do with a wolf in California?” he demanded. “That’s what I say,” Matt answered. “What the... ... “That’s what I say,” Matt answered. “What the devil can you do with a wolf in California?” 136 White Fang But this did not satisfy Weedon Scott. The... ...d the flattening ears. II The Southland W HITE FANG landed from the steamer in San Francisco. He was appalled. Deep in him, below any reasoning proces... ...e men seemed such mar vellous gods as now, when he trod the slimy pavement of San Francisco. The log cabins he had known were replaced by towering bu... ...and White Fang found he must meet them all — thus, when he went to town, in to San Jose, running behind the carriage or loafing about the streets when ... ... time that the newspapers were full of the daring escape of a convict from San Quentin prison. He was a ferocious man. He had been ill made in the ma... ...s so terrible a beast that he can best be characterized as carnivorous. In San Quentin prison he had proved incorrigible. Punishment failed to break h...

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...vrai mais grand, qui enchassera Walter Scott dans Homere. – Victor Hugo on Quentin Durward. VCITOR HUGO’S ROMANCES occupy an important position in the... ...e most cogent purposes of those great in- land states, and for T exas, and California, and Oregon;” – a statement which is among the happiest achievem...