live in or have visited that area would know. Her explicit audience is to people that live in the California but may not have experienced the storm themselves while her implicate audience would be to the people that had not been in the storm. As Didion describes the strange occurrences that happen in the preparation of a Santa Ana, she works…
“redemption”: the birth of the white grandson, who will be spared the hardships and memories of the slave-owning past. The Argentine intellectual- and later president- Doming Faustino Sarmiento said “the objective of any government should be to lead the nation from the barbarity into the nineteenth century, into the civilization exemplified by Europe.” Sarmiento was trying to Europeanize Latin America, he thought that Latin America was not advancing towards better infrastructures and…
baychester for nearly 15 years, the town of baychester gives me the utmost joy and happiness; seeing people who is of the same heritage and culture as me in my surroundings. Everyone in this neighborhood is close-knit and considers each other family. From my surveillance, I noticed a sense of community, People were interacting with one another and I noticed that most people had someone by their side and not many people were alone, whether it is their kids, friends or pet. Which is a positive…
Santa Cruz Residential Recovery is part of the larger organization Encompass Community Services, an organization that is more of an amalgamation of smaller organizations united under one umbrella organization. Encompass Community Services and all of its various programs serve the local Santa Cruz county area, which includes westside Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Aptos, Capitola, Live Oak, Soquel, and Twin Lakes. The majority of the services offered take on a patron-client type relationship as is…
history of this city. Below you will find museums dedicated to the great and diverse people of a city that is only as wonderful as its citizens. San Francisco truly is a melting pot of cultures, beliefs, philosophies, and ideals. If you are looking in from the outside it may not be as obvious to you as to someone who has made a great study of it, however, it is still there. The differences of people here are celebrated rather than duly noted. It's a different world here and I think it's an…
What would happen if we ran out of water? Well for starters, it wouldn’t be nice. What if you have to use the bathroom outside? Or you couldn’t take a shower for 5 months? Now that is nasty. This is why we should have laws for the amount of water we use.The laws will help us because we won’t end up drilling holes in the ground and sinking to our death. Also, we will have water for days with the laws.California should have laws for well water because one day everyone won’t have water.…
The Banning Ranch houses coastal bluffs and wetlands spread over 400 acres of land. It is located in the area of West Newport Beach. The current project presumes creation of a mixed-use development. It will feature 1,375 houses and condominiums build in various architectural styles. In addition, the project presumes a 75-room hotel, as well as numerous stores (Save the New Port Banning Ranch, 2015). The 280 acres of space will be left for parks. The companies that pursue the project include oil…
America, but has its roots in the different countries of Central America, South America and the Caribbean. In a general way I agree with this two authors. When they defined Hispanic American they did it from a demographic point of view, stating that it is the sum of different subgroups and subcultures from different countries. In fact, I strongly agree with Linda Robinson, specially with the title of her report Hispanics' don't exist. Hispanic is a term where modern society includes different…
challenge of starting over .They either face the challenge by leaving their original home or being left with no choice but to leave.This can cause many challenges.Esperanza Ortega from the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is very similar to the other immigrants.A tragic event forced her to flee to California from her excellent Mexican life. Although Esperanza has faced many challenges her main challenges were going to work in the fields to take care of Mama and facing discrimination in…
The Yurok tribe lived in the northwest cone of what today is California. Some of its people lived in villages along 45 miles of the Lower Klamath River. The tribe was one of three tribes – Karok, Tolowa, and Yurok. Yurok territory also ran along the Pacific Coast from Little River in the north, to Trinidad Bay in the south, in addition on the tribe’s inland territory along the Klamath River. Today the land would be in the northern part of Humboldt County and continue north though much of what is…