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Following Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson assumed the role of presidency in 1963. During this time, there were little bursts of antiwar sentiment on the political fringes of the United States, but this perspective did not encapsulate the typical American citizen (Morgan 140). Generally, the American imagination of Vietnam was skewed positively. The news was often painted from a positive lens, detailing America’s success and helpfulness in helping South Vietnam gain independence…

Removing standardized testing would help improve the quality of education. Consider how many hours teachers spend drilling “tips and tricks” on boosting scores, how much schools pay for the tests, and how many colleges and universities reject eager students based on their scores. Where does the purpose of education fit into this slanted system? Although the purpose of education varies, most opinions share a common theme of applying knowledge and molding character to benefit the community. John…

I am applying to graduate school to explore how best to physically implement computation and how best to pass on what I learn to others. As physical devices get pushed to their limits, new design paradigms have begun to emerge across the spectrum of hardware architectures. This spectrum spans from prominent software-programmable devices, such as many-core CPUs and modern GPUs, to hardware-programmable technologies such as FPGAs. I am fascinated with the design challenges inherent in these and…

development of President Obama’s Task Force Plan is different from Sheriff Dewitt’s in several ways, but the most relevant difference is the fact that the issues surrounding the Ferguson case was racially charged. The local issue that I identified in the Berkeley County case was police officer corruption and how secrecy and lack of consequences could negatively…

the good that came from these actions, the language around them still involved fame, vocation, and respect, not genuine interest in the environment. During my time here, my personal environment shifted to include the culture of, and ideas held by, Berkeley students. I felt pressured to be constantly conscious of issues pertaining to the environment, democracy, and economics, and to find and implement solutions. Acting on this pressure, I joined a student organization called Calpirg, which…

1. Compare and contrast the views of John Searle and Rene Descartes on dualism.is composed of two substances: mind and body. One is physical and one is non-phyical. Rene Descartes views on dualism are known as substance and simple dualism. He believed that reality was composed of two substances, one being the mind which consists of inmaterial thing such as thoughts and emotions. Then the Bosy which existered in the material space. However, John Searle’s views on dualism where known as…

parties that define American government. Hochschild poses questions and thought-provoking ideas when interviewing individuals with differing lifestyles and beliefs. Hochschild puts on many hats in this book, when playing a third-party interviewer, a Berkeley professor, a sociologist, and a curious bystander. Hochschild’s motives for writing this book center around a desire to understand individuals that she views as the exact opposite of the people that she is surrounded by in her everyday…

sketching the mountains, his family knew he could draw well by the age of four; Before he was sixteen, Kinkade was under an apprenticeship of the famous artist Glen Wessels. As Kinkade grew older and finished school at the University of California at Berkeley; He and his friend, James Gurney, traveled from California to New York to sketch different areas across the United States. In 1982, he and Gurney published their first book, “The Artist Guide to Sketching”. Kinkade continued his life…

My family immigrated from Mexico to cultivate the crops of California and now I am able to pursue my dream. While attending public high school, I appeared as a low-income Mexican American high schooler living in a poor socioeconomic town, dominated by Mexicans. However, a mix of my intellectual curiosity and historical roots from the Gonzalez and Villanueva family differed me from the rest of the students in the Central Valley. Growing up, I constantly wondered why my public high school was not…

once they finish eating the part they eat than other animals can go and eat the parts they didn’t.Before the wolves were restored back into Yellowstone the elk mostly died from deep snows.According to researchers from the University of California at Berkeley the combination of less snow and more wolves benefits scavengers from big to small animals like ravens and grizzly bears.As Chris Wilmers said scavengers used to rely on winter-killed elk for food now they depend on wolf-killed elk and this…