Berkeley, California

In 1996 Alice Waters started a foundation called Edible Schoolyard at the Martin Luther King Jr. middle school in Berkeley, California. This program turned into an entire curriculum that students had to follow in their schools. In this class students got to grow their own produce, learn kitchen skills, and then they benefitted from eating the food they grew and prepared. Even though this was a class, there was also a small lesson each day in every other type of class that talked about healthy eating. For example, the teacher could give a quick lesson on healthy eating in a math class. This foundation is used to raise awareness about edible education and the importance of nutrition. It also raises awareness about allowing kids to have free lunches in their schools. In the same year, her restaurant Chez Panisse founded and launched the Garden Project, that allowed…

Welcome to Berkeley, probably still the best public university in the world. Meet your classmates, the best group of partners you can find anywhere. The percentages for grades on exams, papers, etc. in my courses always add up to 110% because that’s what I’ve learned to expect from you, over twenty years in the best job in the world. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you have been the victims of a terrible swindle, denied an inheritance you deserve by contract and by your merits. And…

What is the benefit of understanding the Baldridge Criteria when conducting a Homeland Security Assessment for an organization? First we must have an understanding of just what the Baldridge Criteria is and where did it originate. Both public as well as private business organizations have been using a criterion that was developed for performance excellence by Malcolm Baldridge. It was founded in 1987 as an internal self-assessment to measure their organizations performance excellence against…

There are numerous scientists who have positively impacted the field of Chemistry; from Robert Bunsen to George Washington Carver, chemists have and continue to shape the publics knowledge of Chemistry. However, one chemist stands out from all the rest because of his historical, societal, and person significance: George Claude Pimentel. Pimentel’s life, work, and contribution to Chemistry have shaped this field and impacted it in ways that other scientists have not. Background George Claude…

The article “South L.A. student finds a different world at Cal” written by Kurt Streeter was a true story of Kashawn Campbell, who was struggling in his first English writing class at the University of California, Berkeley (“UC Berkeley”), one of the best public universities in the US. Campbell was raised in one of the roughest neighborhoods in South Los Angeles, Jefferson, where composed of Latinos and blacks exclusively. Campbell was determined at his early age to make a change of his life…

Water Tables Comparisons This paper will be comparing the water table data for two locations, Berkeley, California and Terre Haute, Indiana. The work will compare each location’s water usage and characteristics about their water tables. Each location’s geographic position, topography, elevation, climate, wind patterns, and moisture levels are key factors for the supply and demand of their respective water tables. Berkeley, California is located on the east banks of San Francisco Bay. It…

"What is food to some, for others it is bitter poison", Lucretius, Roman poet (99 BC-55AC) If California were a country, with its population of nearly 40 million, it would be among the 30 most populous countries. The economic, political and cultural impact of the rest of California in the United States is enormous. It is for this reason that citizens' initiatives that are submitted to a referendum there and state legislation, for that matter, are so important. Of the 11 initiatives presented to…

A lot of people like me who are captives or who voluntarily agreed to be indentured to wealthy landowners found out that they were not going to be receiving any land as compensation (James Rice 5). A vast majority of these people had come to the new world, hoping to find better lives and they did not see any way it was going to happen with the colony court pandering to the wealthy. It makes sense to us to take control of our enemies land and resources and use it for ourselves. They had…

Visualization and Mind-Dependent Objects If I tell you that everything in the world that you can see only exists in your mind, would you believe me? Most likely, you would think that the idea is absurd and that it is against common sense. What if I say that there are philosophers that can prove this concept? In the First Dialogue of Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley does just that. He simulates dialogues between two philosophers to try to show that mind-independent…

In 1676 Nathanial Bacon led a rebellion against Governor William Berkeley, the rebellion was called Bacon’s Rebellion. This rebellion brought people of similar ideology about class together to fight for what they believed to be justice. Both Africans and Englishmen joined together under Bacon to rebel against the Native Indians having access to more land. This rebellion would eventually be engrained into the to the ideology surrounding America as “White Supremacy.” The rebellion draws upon…