California

or better known as the California condor. When its numbers began to drop in the mid-20th century, a frenzy began in order to understand why it was disappearing and attempt to bring it back. With the dedication of various groups, the numbers now continue to rise each year. It could be considered one of the most successful conservation efforts to date, but it still faces many challenges that must be resolved before the condor can be considered a complete success. The California condor is hope for…

I chose to review Hotel California by the Eagles because they are very sentimental to me because I grew up listening to them while riding shotgun in my dad’s truck. This album was released in December of 1976 by Asylum and became one of the Eagles best selling studio albums of all time. In the early part of their career, The Eagles struggled to get a big rock sound. Hotel California unveiled almost a whole new band in terms of sound and energy. This album was very transitory for the band…

The California High Speed Railroad should not be built because of the rising money. The money needed for the project is continuously rising. The amount of money approved by the citizens was $9.95 billion. However, it rose to $13.5 billion. Then, it increased to $48.6 billion. The money kept rising from millions and billions! The “final” cost to build a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles by 2028 is predicted to be to a grand total of about $67.6 billion. It is claimed that…

The Perks of Living in California Compared to Arizona: Experiences are what generate opinions from others. Depending on how the experience was will ultimately determine someone 's opinion type (positive or negative). Living in two different states at two different stages in my life has some sort of influenced connotation on where I’d prefer to live; however, ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always dreamed of living in California. California is a better place to live in because of the…

California went through one of the most rapid evolutions in the 1850’s thanks to the California Gold Rush. Around this time is when California began to rise to one of the biggest industrial competitors in the world. With the Gold Rush also came this switch from small independent prospectors, to large industrial businesses. Its land resources were starting to be explored and exploited by early Anglo-Americans for its rich potential. Its here in Mining California: An Ecological History by Andrew…

Wolf & Mrs. Muse 2/15/17 AP Seminar Economic System of California: The Effects of the Drought and Economic Shift The California water crisis is a severe issue which has affected many people. The Californian economy has been hit very hard by the drought, causing water prices to rise. The government in California has limited the usage of water, and has caused people to cut back on it. There are current methods of water conservation in California, however, they are not the most efficient way to…

The Gold Rush of 1849 led to the transformation and conversion of California from a calm, sleepy society to a violent, unruly and wild society. The Gold Rush in California started in 1848 after the discovery of gold in California. Reportedly 300,000 people rushed to California for gold seeking. The gold attracted people from Latin America, Australia, Asia and Europe. Some of the gold seekers had to endure hardships to get to California, but they did not seem to mind. Initially, it was easy to…

Almost everyone has heard about the California Gold Rush at some point, it brings up images of hermits panning for gold in a river. In actuality the California Gold Rush is much more than that. Many things throughout American would not be the same without the California Gold Rush. The California Gold Rush caused a huge boom in civilization in the western part of the United States of America, because of it there was a boom a population growth in a short period of time. It caused many of the major…

The california gold rush began in 1849, but when the people first found the gold in Sacramento Valley it was 1848. Some people think that the American’s found gold the first but Mexican’s were actually the first to discover it. The gold didn’t really have value on its own. Many people, mostly men, died for looking for gold. These men were called gold miners and they’d travel by land or by sea. There was a total of two billion worth of gold that was taken from California in 1852. A man named…

In the past thirty to forty years, America has been struggling with resource management, specifically with oil However, more recently, California has been suffering from a different kind of resource scarcity- water. Here in California, many people heatedly debate on the price of gasoline, but few people are aware of the increase in water prices statewide, especially for farmers, who use eighty percent of the state’s allocated water. For farmers, the price of water has increased by as much as…