Fresno

When that teacher told her to go back where she came from after mispronouncing her name, I was reminded of a similar story my father told me. He was born in Fresno, California and when he attended school not a single child was Mexican, and none of them could pronounce the name he was born with. Rodrigo. So many of the kids called him ‘Rico’, which is a term used to describe how delicious food is in Spanish.…

What comes to your mind when you hear minimum wage? In my mind, a minimum wage is only temporary for a teenage condition. For example, for minimum wage jobs are the stepping stone to gain experiences and skills for a better rewarding job. I work at Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) as an AVID tutor at Sunnyside High School, and I get paid minimum wage. My experience from being an AVID tutor has good and bad time. Working with my students that I am assigned to be their tutor are very well…

He defended his example by stating that all advocates claim that infants and toddlers were brought here very young, yet the student body president at Fresno State University, Pedro Ramirez was revealed to have arrived in the United States illegally at the age of 3 in the new bill introduced by Pelosi and Reid. The authors’ second example claims the new bill allows massive fraud. He claims that during…

The reason that I choose criminology from all majors was because I was in the process of changing majors and I had no idea what I wanted to major in so I went on the career and services on the Fresno state page. I took two assessments, which were Eureka and true colors that help me, figure which career fields best suit me. After that I started looking through all the majors and seeing which one interested me. Criminology was a major/ career that interested me the most from all other majors.…

“California equal pay bill may be toughest in nation” (Masunaga 2015). This article was written by Samantha Masunaga and published in the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Times has been in circulation for more than 130 years and has won over 40 Pulitzer prizes. The paper has been accused of having a liberal bias, but I do not feel that it has any bearing on this particular story. Samantha Masunaga attended UC Berkley Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to joining the staff at the Los Angeles…

might be able guess at this point; I intend to become a school psychologist, and the more I investigate the prerequisite skills that the profession requires, the more I develop interest. I know that the school psychology graduate program here at Fresno State is competitive. I will need to find ways to stand out from the crowd. I am currently looking for volunteer opportunities that will put me in contact with young students. I am looking for school psychologists to shadow. I intend to spend…

Have you ever been sent home for wearing the wrong clothing? Have you ever been told your clothes weren’t appropriate? If you have, you’ve been a victim of violating the dress code. If there is one thing that students worry about during the school year, it would be the dress code. Removing dress codes in middle and high schools is a controversial topic recently because some say they are to help lead a safer education and prepare students for the workforce, while others say they are irrelevant…

CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY Introduction Asian students in the United States are categorized by aggregated data as a model minority who have the abilities to attain high educational attainment and achievement without special assistance (Ngo & Lee, 2007). While data has indicated that high education attainment in the United States is associated with higher earnings, researchers have argued that with further examination, aggregating data on Asian often conceals the differences in attainment and…

My name is Jacqueline Everly and I am currently a junior attending Lemoore High School in Lemoore, California, located in the central valley near Fresno. Throughout this year in my English class, we have been learning about the rights Americans have as citizens. While reading documents such as Stride Towards Freedom and the Declaration of Independence, I have learned what it takes to be a true American. A few months ago we started learning about freedom of speech and what it means when it is…

Few people would be surprised to find that it is simple to search the definition of counseling on any active web browser. As expressed on Google, counseling is defined as “The provision of assistance and guidance in resolving personal, social, or psychological problems.” When I read this definition, it does not bring personal meaning to the word as I view it. I define counseling as various aspects of working with people, helping those cope and understand with what life continuously presents,…