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during the meeting. With the expansion of population within the Bay area due to post war migration, new solutions needed to be established in order to deal with the growing concerns of congested roads. In order to address these growing concerns, the state legislature created a 26 person San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission in 1951. The commission was composed of members from nine of the counties surrounding the Bay Area. They were responsible for conducting a study in order to…

Our Vacation This essay is about my family’s awesome vacation. We went to Arizona and California. We did a bunch of fun things like Universal Studios, and Griffith Observatory. It was really awesome and i’m going to tell you about it. It was June 5 2015, wich was my birthday. We got out of school and got on an airplane at the Idaho Falls airport. It was my first time on an airplane and it was my birthday so, the pilot let me sit in the cockpit. I videoed the take off on my Ipod and loved the…

Of Mice and Men is a novella by John Steinbeck, published in 1937. It is set in the Salinas Valley in California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Two migrant workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, have a work contract at a local ranch so that they one day might purchase property of their own; however, due to Lennie’s childlike mental state the goal seems far-fetched. In his poem, ‘To a Mouse’, which is also the source of the novella’s title, Robert Burns wrote, “The best laid schemes…

16 October as DISNEY BROTHERS CARTOON STUDIO. It was founded by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney who were brothers. At present, the company is a diversified multinational mass media and Entertainment conglomerate with its headquarters in Burbank, California. Disney is also World’s second largest Media company in terms of Revenue. It has…

Traditionally, kites symbolize freedom and happiness, in other perspectives, restraint and control, all ideas that can be applied to events and characters in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. However, kites symbolize so much more in the novel, the three stages of Amir and Hassan's relationship: love, betrayal, and redemption. The beginning of the novel displays the kite fighting contest as the last good time that Amir and Hassan shared together. Hassan is attacked immediately after this, and…

means; Dictionary.com interprets evil as “morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked”. In the book East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Cathy Ames (Kate Trask/Albey) and Caleb (Cal) Trask are both regarded as characters of “evil” nature. The narrator explicitly states that the reason Cathy is evil is due to the fact that people that are evil are just not “born whole”. This means that she was born with the only ability to be bad and she lacked the ability to understand what being good even is. In this…

of Oscar Grant III, 24 hours before his murder. The ethnophaulism that is used is both derogatory and uncalled for; As well, the prejudice that someone encounters on a daily basis is unbelievably sad. The struggles of minority people in the United States often disregarded, and the outcome of hate crimes and prejudice is becoming an enormous problem. The movie Fruitvale Station covers a 24-hour, minute by minute_ fictional_ play by play of Oscar Grant III life. Oscar was a 22-year-old African…

Brain Time Throughout history movies have always been used as a way to escape reality. Movies are created with out of the world story lines in order to catch the attention of the audience. Eventually, this phenomenon picked up and directors and producers were on a mission to become the best in the business. One in particular that has taken over the animated movie world is Pixar which is a section to Walt Disney. In 2015, directors Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen released a heartfelt movie named…

Big Love is a very interesting play. The story is extremely different and quite memorable, for it addresses many current issues such as love, gender politics and domestic violence, which is interesting to note considering the fact that the play is the modern version of Aeschylus’s The Suppliants. The play is about 50 sisters who flee to Italy in order to get out of marrying their 50 cousins, however all of the character’s eclectic personalities make Big Love an extremely difficult play to put on…

Along the way, our class noticed that Oakland was bustling with activity. Business (stores) was overflowed with customers, local citizens were jogging, animal- life was consuming the mere crumbs on the concrete, and the Oakland Museum of California was occupied by a diverse group of possible tourists. The perpetual activity that transpired in Oakland inspired a symbol of contentment. Outside School As soon as we evacuated the school, we descried many construction workers assembling the…