Contra Costa County, California

A. Different museums in the L.A. area i. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was first established in 1910 in Exposition Park and in 1965 it was opened to the public in its new Wilshire Boulevard location. Since 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been devoted to collecting works of art is both historic and geographic. Today the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 artworks dating from…

The first piece of art found at LACMA was the Haniwa Horse. This art piece originated from Japan and were placed on top of tombs for the wealthy elite in Japan from 300 to 600 AD. Not only were animals used for rituals, but also human clay-like people and even houses. This type of sculpture is called a haniwa, meaning "clay ring. The Haniwa were made with water-based clay and dried into a coarse and absorbent material that withstand the test of time. The horse at the museum was four feet…

Just across the highway from Palo Alto, a quaint suburban hub of wealth and academia, lies East Palo Alto, a gritty little town where students face a 60 percent dropout rate, poor prospects of attending college, and run great risk of remaining in low-paying jobs. My high school is in the process of building a $29 million theater, part of a $130 million series of improvement projects, while teachers in East Palo Alto need donations just to cover basics like textbooks, school supplies, and PE…

suburban California city. However, the term “quaint” is not totally accurate. There are a multitude of beautiful homes, apartments, and schools being constructed, and have been for the last 2 decades, and there are plenty of lovely parks for people of all ages to enjoy as well. This is the community that I have spent all the years of my life; this is my hometown of San Ramon. East of the infamous metropolis of San Francisco, sits San Ramon - located in Contra Costa County, California. This city…

After 37 years, and numerous suspects, Antioch's oldest open homicide cold case, on record, had a huge step forward in its case. Mitchell Lynn Bacom, 63, was arrested, by Antioch police, as a suspect in the kidnapping and killing of Suzanna Bombardier, 14, while she was babysitting her nieces on June 22, 1980. Bombardier disappeared from her sister’s townhouse and was found days later, by a fisherman, in the San Joaquin River. The police detained Bacom, a known acquantaine of the Bombardier…

Contra Costa County,California, Today. The discovered via an undercover investigation that Food Maxx,(among other grocery chains) are selling clay bean pots in their stores throughout northern California and Nevada. This is despite FDA rulings on Led content being no greater than 0.1 parts per million in any food ware surface. California bans lead content greater than 0.1 parts per million in any food ware surface According to the report, the lead content was 30 times the max limit set by the…

And Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County- handles cases concerning family law, fair housing, landlord-tenant, special education, and immigration and naturalization. Pro bono work – volunteer legal services program in San Francisco – operates the homeless Advocacy Project, which addresses federal disability benefits advocacy, eviction defense in emergency situations, and immigration documentation. The Law Center in Contra Costa County – matches local pro bono attorneys with clients…

war and exile, many Arabs migrated to America where millions of people created a community to advance with many opportunities. A heritage language interview was conducted to learn how Arabs continue to use their language, culture or religion in California. Origin of the Language The word “Arab” means “nomad,” a person who does not stay in the same place for a long time. Arabic is spoken in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. Arabic belongs to the Semitic family of languages;…

inequality” (1). In other words, the President claims, that a dollar and seventy-five cent raise in minimum wage would lower poverty, yet, as mentioned earlier, the MIT online calculator indicates that any wage below $13.35 an hour—at least in Contra Costa County— would not be sufficient for worker to become self-sufficient. In fact, the notion of rewarding work for the sake of work seems to be counterintuitive. The reward for work should be, in nominal terms, the value one gets from completing…

Carl’s Elbow Grease will make an initial investment by purchasing a 2018 Dodge Ram Promaster City for $24,000, paying $350 per month for 60 months at an interest rate of 4.00%, having made an initial down payment of $5,000. Paintmasters in Concord, California, has agreed to design and paint J. Carl’s Elbow Grease’s logo on its cargo van for $1000. Gas, maintenance, insurance and car wash costs for the vehicle also need to be considered. If the van commutes an average of 35 miles per day, and…