Cheech Marin

Cheech Marin, a comedian actor and activist, said, “You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.” What Cheech Marin means by this is that being Chicano is something Chicanos feel and think instead of letting others give them that title. Chicanos have many things to be proud of. Their Aztec ancestors were intelligent people who built an impressive city on water. The Aztec creation myth made all Aztecs royalty. Lastly when the Spanish Conquistadors came the Aztecs didn’t go down without a fight. As time went on Mexico revolted against its tyrannical rulers and succeeded. Later on as the US developed and acquired parts of Mexico those who were living in Mexico the previous day were now in the US. They were told they weren’t American nor Mexican.…

Today I’m going to talk about how to travel with couchsurfing. I went to Toronto alone for a week during reading week, then I tried couchsurfing for the first time. All of experiences through this trip were amazing, so I decided to talk about it here. I’ll explain what couchsurfing is, how we use it, and my experiences in Toronto. First, I want to ask you a question; do you know about couchsurfing? Or have you tried it? Of course it doesn’t mean we surf with a couch. Couchsurfing is a service…

For example, the Our Coast Our Future project (OCOF) is working to identify future inundation areas on the Marin shoreline. The organization’s plan is to prepare strategies that will protect the area and anticipate changes (OCOF, n.d.). OCOF has also created a series of maps that show the potential inundation of Marin areas. Another restoration organization is C-SMART: Collaborating on Sea-Level: Marin Adaptation Response Team. The program is working to understand the changes of sea level rise…

the center of the city to the northwest corner of San Francisco. From here, there was a beautiful view of the coast. The sound of waves crashing on the rocks, the cool wind running through my hair, and the clouds started to clear from the skies. It was breathtaking. We walked through the coastal trail from the baths to Land’s End, which was mostly dirt and rocks, had us pass through the woods and eventually turned into a broad and paved pathway that offered many beautiful coastal views of the…

The San Francisco Ferry Building is a historic landmark today, but it has only been in recent history that the building has officially been returned to its iconic status. A. Brown designed the Ferry Building in the Beaux-Arts Architectural style, meaning it has such and such characteristics. The Beaux-Arts style highlights symmetry based on heavy influences of Greek and Roman design (Architectural Styles, 2017). It is a classic theme throughout the planning and architectural history to be…

the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. If the states or counties in the united states would open one per two or three counties the homelessness would go away completely or it would cut it down almost to nothing. Poor farms are like community homes where homeless people can go to live but they would have to work on the farm to earn a living. They should make it so when a family or an individual comes into the farms they will have to sign a contract for how many years or months they will have to live…

8. Overview of the Arduino Sketch 8.1 General Codes MediaTek labs states that an Arduino sketch “is a source code file representing the core controlling logic for the LinkIt ONE development board. It consists of two main structures: setup and loop” (MediaTek Labs, n.d.). In this section I will discuss what the above code do. First, LinkIt ONE initializes the Ubidots account, then the sensors, Wi-Fi or GPRS, the location and finally the serial port. To minimize battery consumption, I did not use…

As people age, changes occur in the body. Some of these changes affect our mental status. When changes start to occur that can cause impaired cognition, this can result in a disease characterized as dementia. Some of the mental changes that can occur with Alzheimer’s dementia are decreased short and long term memory, confusion, impaired judgment, problems with arithmetic, and problem solving. These characteristics can affect how people communicate, make decisions, and care for themselves…

In recent years, Psychology Today released an article in regards to the effectiveness of multitasking. Though the source of this particular article is not a scholarly one, the points addressed by the author are ones that are worth reading over and perhaps will inspire readers to delve deeper into the mechanics of the act of multitasking. The main theme of this article is that although multitasking seems like the best way to be productive in today’s fast paced society, it is actually nearly…

I know people have probably heard of Cheech and Chong, well if someone has not they are two guys that were in movies in the 1970’s and 1980’s. They were seen as hippies in their movies with really laid back personalities. They also share a love for cannabis which is evident in their movies where I can see them smoking a joint. Richard “ Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong met in Vancouver, British Columbia. Chong was a citizen of Canada And Cheech moved there from california to get away from the…