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Loc Truong Dr. Dylan Eret and Dr. Laura Ruberto Project 1 02/10/2015 "Resources of the Soil" by Benjamin Cunningham, "Agriculture" by Mallette Dean or "Rural Life" by Conrad Buff are some of the famous WPA murals arounding California. Mural is normally a large painting that is drawn directly in the surface of a wall or ceiling. In addition, murals convey the intent of the muralist which can be about the history or the important moments in the past, things in life or just simply to decorating. After a day going around Berkeley, I found out there is a historic mural named "Incidents in California history" which is located at the Berkeley Main Post Office. Accordingly the name of the mural, it depicts the beginning of the state called "California". Besides, there is also a special mural at the basement of the Berkeley City College, it is directed by Tirso Araiza with the particular name "From the Ground Up/Desde las raices". Through this article, I will show the comparison between these two mural in many aspects. In the first place, what holds the most importance is the artworks's history and general information. Firstly, the mural "Incidents in California history" was started in 1936 and completed in 1937 at the hands of Suzanne Scheuer. Suzanne Scheuer was born in 1898 and became a fine artist with many outstanding works and one of these is the "Coit Tower" mural. In 1936, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Section of Fine Arts gave her the mission to do the mural with the name…

The Californios started to expand into california in 1821. A californio is a spanish speaking catholic born in between 1769 and 1848. They rode horses and started their journey from mexico. Before the missions, they were all very deep into the catholic religion. They have lived that way for their whole life, and they wanted for other people to live the way they did. They spent days and often got many blisters from riding from place to place. They always moved north and never down south. They…

The different cultures depicted in the book shows that women have been sidelined in the positions among politics, economics, and social fields. However, in this example, Mrs. Darrell tries to provide a moral compass and does this by affecting justice (pg. 45). She tries to teach men humane ways and of pairing the different cultures which have been depicted by the fact that man’s tyranny and religion does not allow a woman to succeed in the competitive world. This is encouraged by intermarriages…

Anglo-American men only sought out marriages with Californio women because there were too few Anglo-American women in frontier societies. In theory, a woman was not required to marry against her will, but law and traditions that spanned the Spanish and Mexican eras supported fathers’ control over their daughters’ marital future.2 (24). Californio women were commodified because they represented the only valuable options for immigrating men. For example, “the betrothal of Doña Anita to Alfred…

and Arizona. Peralta: In 1858, 200 squatters and 1,000 "firearm conveying pioneers" trapped surveyors and held landowner Domingo Peralta prisoner. Another landowner, Salvador Vallejo, as opposed to lose everything, sold his Napa farm for $160,000; he had paid $80,000 in legitimate expenses to secure its title. By 1853, squatters had moved onto each rancho around San Francisco. The Land Act give occasion to feel qualms about the legitimateness of Mexican land titles. It made an impression…

The 19th century was a critical period for the people of Mexican decent who resided in California. These people, known as Californios during this time period, were subjugated to the heinous crimes that occurred as a result of the Anglo Americans who were beginning to move west. In his detailed biography, “Bandido: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez”, John Boessenecker further develops the issues the Californios encountered in the 1800’s that gave rise to the famous bandit Tiburcio Vasquez.…

waves of immigrants coming to the United States. Even though they may not have seen the United States as their permanent home, these immigrants still took advantage of fighting for political rights for their community. Both Mexican-Americans and Dominican Americans were highly concentrated geographically after arriving in the United States. For Mexican-Americans, this further enhanced a deep cultural appreciation for one’s locality rather than the nationality to either Mexico or America (30).…

being discovered spread like wildfire across the nation and around the world (Erik Lecture, 1/27). Susan Lee Johnson discussed in her chapter On the Eve of Emigration the experiences of the diverse groups of people such as the Chileans, Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, African-Americans, French, and Chinese who migrated to California in search of gold. Many of these groups of people risked their lives to acquire wealth and prosperity in California. Foreigners left their homes or countries for…

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…

caused the new generation of Euro-Americans to resent the idea of marrying a Californiana in order to become a land owner. Eventually the population in the U.S between Californianas and Euro-Americans created anxiety and resentment which later resulted in large percentage of interethnic marriages ending in divorce. An example that Casas provides is the case of Maria de la Luz Valencia who left her husband William Wolfskill, to run away with her lover in Mexico. According to Casas during the…