California Proposition 13

San Francisco Bay Area Military Housing Area Boundaries The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the most competitive job and housing markets in the nation. Coast Guard personnel based on Yerba Buena Island (YBI) are receiving an improper Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) rate. San Francisco and Oakland are separated by a toll bridge and are less than ten miles apart, yet are considered to be two different military housing areas (MHA). The two MHA’s have significantly different BAH rates. There…

There’s a lot of propositions that we could have written about so we had to narrow them down. We chose to do our ballot proposition analysis on proposition 161 which is physician-assisted suicide. We chose to do this proposition because we both remembered being interested in it. We both agreed that it should have passed in more states. We both mentioned remembering from 2014 when a girl named Brittany Maynard shared her story of having inoperable brain cancer. It was on the news a few times and…

Island has a rather distinct past. Even though Alcatraz sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the island seems distant, as if it were miles out of sea. The appeal to Alcatraz is uninviting, since it had played an important role in the history of California. Imagine being imprisoned in one of the world’s most disreputable prisons. However, not only is the island well known as the prison, but it was much more than a prison going back in time. Alcatraz was a prison for the worst criminals in…

Imagine a seven-by-seven-mile metropolis, surrounded by several neighborhoods filled with homes with unique design in Presidio Heights or Nob Hill, tall office buildings in the Financial District, and amazing views of San Francisco and the Bay from the Golden Gate Bridge or Twin Peaks. As many people view San Francisco as one of the most expensive and difficult cities to live in, I like to think of it as my home away from home. It is a city of seekers and adventurers. I am a city girl and I love…

Loneliness is a haunting feeling. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie work on a ranch to make money in order to accomplish their dream of buying their own land. On the ranch they encounter people going through their own struggles. They include Candy and Crooks into their dream after meeting them. There is a recurring theme of loneliness in the book. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck loneliness affected most of the characters presenting itself in different ways. Curley’s…

The setting of the novel, Ball Don’t Lie, by Matt de la Pena, is set in Venice, California. Venice is near the large city of Los Angeles. The time period was around the 1990’s. This novel has a lot of sad feelings. First off Sticky’s mom died when he was a young boy, she died of cancer. After that all the way to the age of 17 he jumped from foster home to foster home. This character once said “‘ It’s the best place in L.A. to ball… one court houses the homeless and the other accommodates…

Treatment of Asians was tantamount to paid slavery; many who immigrated were paid very low and unfair wages to work the gold mines of California and to lay railroads. Asians were never destined to star in blockbuster films, so Hollywood thought. It was not until a few Asian actors broke through onto the silver screen did it become apparent that the predictions of White Hollywood were proven…

The Galapagos Islands is best experienced on foot. There are many hiking trails such as the Darwin Trail on Genovesa Island that lead visitors to the habitats of the extraordinary wildlife, the summit of extinct volcanoes and to some of the most beautiful beaches and lagoons on the planet. Hiking the Darwin Trail Galapagos Is Birdwatcher’s Dream Hiking the Galapagos offers unprecedented contact with the wildlife that is rarely seen in the wild. A Galapagos Island cruise is your best option…

Rhythm & Hues is the world’s leading producers of in Animation and VFX in the entertainment industry, this feature film division is an Academy Award winning state of art production facility led by Arish Fyzee and Gary Nolin. This studio offers filmmakers of highly creative and resourceful creative production team that combines expertise’s draw upon the studios unique array of technology, talent and skills. They have the capacity to produce simultaneously large productions. They are committed to…

Before the 1940s, Hollywood and the Studio System, was one that carried the American Film Industry to new heights and brought on different visions from aspiring filmmakers and film companies. What was once just a convenient place to escape the grasp and control of The Trust, became the place to be during the 1920s. Hollywood was thriving with the system it created. The Big Five film companies created movies that made those years the Golden Age of Hollywood. But of course a system that gave the…