Alta California

alone is full of significant events that usually fill our history books. Slavery was prevalent and resulted in violation of human and civil rights. In California, started to advocate for statehood, and civil leaders who wanted to develop a growing region and also to gain power were so excited to have a new civil government. Thus, the California Constitution was drafted by 48 delegates in 1849, aiming to enforce a legal order in this vast territory. The first two sections of this constitution…

1. Enrique believes that he is more American than the white people that do live here is, and his reasoning is that the Hispanics and native Americans were located here before the Europeans came down and took it all, and he isn’t wrong. For that he wants his respect that has been overdue here due to the mistreatment of his environment Enrique living in America. To Enrique experiencing being American, it is much easier than being Mexican and developing in Mexico. His belief is very strong in this…

1) I would like work in Diversity Initiatives & Resource Centers (DIRC) because I believe that the DIRC provides a great study space and various opportunities that promotes cultural awareness to the students. As a freshman during my second semester at Cal State Fullerton, I was introduced to the Asian Pacific American Resource Center (APARC), through the Cambodian Student Association, and ever since then I have been coming to the center very often, either to study, have discussions about my…

In today’s society being a police officer is more difficult and dangerous than it has ever been before. An officer has many duties and they consist of enforcing the laws while making sure not to infringe on a person’s property or life. Officers are forced to make many split second decisions and when they don’t react correctly the media heavily scrutinizes them. This causes the community to mistrust its officers and can lead to a bad relationship between both parties. Along with the stresses of…

action has not always been a disadvantage for all minorities. In an article written by Glen Towns from the New York Amsterdam News, he mentined that African Americans have seen an increase in admissions at the University of California, Los…

San Francisco, in northern California, is a hilly city on the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It's known for its year-round fog, iconic Golden Gate Bridge, and cable cars, but is at risk for a major earthquake. San Francisco is built on the north american plate with it moving against a transform boundary, with the Pacific plate. A transform boundary is when two plates slide against each other, causing many earthquakes since San Francisco is on the west…

Spirited Away is an animated Japanese film (anime), by Hayao Miyazaki, he “has made many famous films including; Laputa: The Castle in The Sky (1986) and Princess Mononoke (1997) and his excellent work has earned him the title of ‘Walt Disney of Japan’” (Dugdale). Even though the film maker decided to retire in 1997, he decided to create Spirited Away after noticing that young girls don’t have much to look out to in the media other that romance, he wanted to create a film “in which they could be…

1. Disney is a multi-business firm in media sphere. Disney covered such spheres as Media Networks, Studio Entertainment, Theme Parks and Resorts, Consumer Products, Internet and Direct Marketing. In particular, such areas included cartoon shorts (Steamboat Whllie), full-length feature films (Cinderella), training and education cartoons for the government (Treasure Island), full-length animated film (Snow White), Music Company (Walt Disney Music Company), live-action production (Mary Poppins),…

“Of Mice and Men,” written by John Steinbeck features friends George and Lennie and their journeys as migrant workers to a ranch. George is a smaller man who travels with Lennie from job to job. Lennie is a huge man with an apparent intellectual disability. When Lennie and his companion George are walking towards a ranch as migrant workers, where they will be taking on a new job, George demands that Lennie give him the dead mouse that he had been petting for the majority of their journey. When…

The book “Of Mice and Men” tells a story of two low class migrant workers who travel to a ranch, in search for a better future and better life. A story consisting of friendship, hope, struggle, and tragedy. Two brother like friends, George and Lennie, with a very strong , deep, and rather difficult to handle relationship plays a major factor in the story. The author John Steinbeck, made George and Lennie’s relationship rather complicated by having the characters not only go through…