Actors from California

"I declare this lava bed to become a park," I hear President Calvin Coolidge. This Lava Bed is located on the border of California and Oregon. At this site you are able to see caves, take a tour around the park, go hiking on scenic trails, climb cinder cones and learn about volcanoes that are active or inactive. I think this field trip would be educational because we would be there and we would remember instead of pictures off the internet. The tour around the park will be historical because…

Theme 1: Living and working in San Diego, California is very important to me. Supporting Evidence: • My wife and I purchased our first house together in San Diego County. (3Q) • I live close to my father and my in-laws in San Diego County. (3Q) • I need to be Veteran Affairs Medical Facilities. (3Q) • My wife and I have two boys still living in the same house in San Diego, California. (VW) • I am living in Vista, California, which is in San Diego County. (10Y) • I am a senior business analyst…

The Protector of all Sidekicks Imagine trying to talk to your parents but all they hear is gibberish coming from your mouth. Imagine not being able to walk in a straight line. Imagine feeling alone. Someone with autism deals with these issues every day. In the documentary Life, Animated the audience walks through Owen Suskind’s life as he struggles with autism. Owen was a normal kid, running around and playing with his brother every day; one day he became distant and started talking in…

My grandfather was born in Gilroy, California, in 1939. At the age of eight, my grandfather moved to a ranch near the outskirts of Gilroy, where he lived in a one room shack with his mother, brother, and step-father. For seven years, my grandfather lived in that poor shack, where he had to cover the holes in the walls with newspaper or cardboard just to keep warm during the cold winters. Years later, my grandfather decided to make something out of his life, and enrolled at San Jose City college…

I was born and lived in San Jose, California up to the age of thirteen years old. Right before high school my parents decided to relocate to Modesto, California. While living in Modesto, my mother was diagnosed with diabetes. I remember how it was difficult to watch my mother go through the symptoms of diabetes. She was losing weight, she was always tired and her vision started to deteriorate. It made me feel so helpless. I recall going with my mother to her doctor appointments, and seeing…

understand how it all work. In the recent centuries, we romanticize or demonize nature as something eternal, ethereal, or powerful. From Kellert’s chapters in The Biophilia Hypothesis, there are nine elements that suggests reasons why we, humans, go to nature, and one of them is “the naturalistic satisfaction”. In my own experience and Bryson’s, this “naturalistic satisfaction from direct contact with nature” that keep us coming back to nature. In the excerpt of The Biophilia Hypothesis, Wilson…

Driving felt eternal, like I would never get to his house and that time would fly bye. When I First saw him we locked eyes and knew that it would be and emotional day. Driving back home was the most fun we had ever had. We enjoyed every second of it from singing at the top of our lungs to punching each other for every buggy we saw on the road. We stopped by our favorite ice cream and enjoyed our last date for a while. As the bright yellow sun began to hide we drove back home were my loving,…

However, Jargowsky does admit that “co-location serves to cement the identification of new immigrants as racially different from the majority, and ‘exposes second-generation children to the adversarial subculture developed by marginalized native youths.’” While Mexican culture is not to blame for the poor conditions which plague the city centers of Los Angeles, it does in a sense perpetuate the attitudes which contribute to the concentration of those poor conditions within ethnic enclaves. Once…

family. Per the U.S Geological Survey (2016) reported that earthquake preparedness helps to help reduce the number of hazards. On August 24, 2014, a large earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 hit the residents of Napa, California. The South Napa earthquake resulted in houses being moved from their original foundations and lead to damaged chimneys into fires. In addition to having the city’s water main broken. Having people trained in disaster preparedness will make it easier for future earthquakes…

Yosemite is a national park in California. It was established on October 1, 1890. Muir and Johnson lobbied Congress for the Act that created Yosemite National Park on October 1, 1890. The State of California, however, retained control of Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove. Yosemite is one of people’s national treasure because of its beauty and the way it looks. It is immortalized in the black-and-white landscape and has 2,425-foot-high Yosemite Falls which makes it one of the tallest waterfalls.…