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exist within the community. Because of the obstacles, many individuals either drop out of high school, attend community college and never finish, or in some cases, follow the pipeline of attending a community college and afterwards, transfer to CSU Fresno. Much of this baffles me as I question why individuals don’t aspire to attend a four-year university outside of the Central Valley after high school or why many don’t take the challenge to apply to a UC or Ivy…

gleaming city lights with the glowing silver shine of the moon resting in the sky could also be a definition of a beautiful place. Hume Lake Christian Camp is my definition of a beautiful place. It is located in the Sequoia National Forest in Hume, Fresno County, California. As we, as campers, arrived closer to the camp, our pupils dilated and jaws dropped in awe, reminding me of a child on Christmas morning as he set his eyes on the glamorous pine tree and the sparkling gifts wrapped neatly…

Writing Assignment on George W. Veditz and his contribution towards the Deaf Community Lakhwinder Kaur California State University, Fresno Abstract For my writing assignment, I choose George W. Veditz. It’s because I have read about him in my CDDS class and he is truly and inspiration. Through this research paper, I can learn more about him and his extraordinary works for the deaf community. I have used various websites to research on my topic and know more about his…

Introduction Through the exercise done in class I found that I am a person who is more likely to collaborate with an individual during a conflict. I believe this to be pertinent to the way that I see myself when conflicted. My back up is accommodation, which is something that I see myself doing more often now that I have chosen a path of policing. I think that both of these reflect exceptionally on the way that I handle conflicts throughout my life. Being a police officer means having the…

Being an inner city student for most of my elementary school years, I had never actually been introduced to or recognized student diversity because back then I didn 't really need to. I had an african american teacher and majority of the students were african american. I felt comfortable in all situations because I could find someone who was “ like me”. Fast forward a few years later, that was no longer the case. Moving to Woodbury was a culture shock. No longer did I feel that certain…

As the NBA player, Paul George, once said, "Never Let Defeat Have The Last Word." You will not let "defeat" stop you from reading this essay about many other facts about interesting things. When reading, have defeat on your mind throughout these many different subjects. This essay will change your understandings of how many of these subjects are connected to each other. This paragraph is all about Paul George's career as an NBA player and his other hiccups that he has had in his life. Paul…

Though parents, most often, want what’s best for their children, they do not always know what’s right. This became evident in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare continuously as the play progressed, as did the parental figures. Their roles in their children’s lives, wasn’t guidance or support, but as authority figures who enforced the rules of society and cared for their well being, though weren’t entirely invested in the details of their life. Even their pseudo-parents, people who actually…

need to build their own confidence and abilities, over-parenting appears to do the converse in creating a sense that one cannot accomplish things socially or in general on one’s own,” wrote the authors, two professors from California State University Fresno. The authors of “Helicopter parents: An Examination of the Correlates of Over-parenting of College Students,” Jill C. Bradley-Geist and Julie B. Olson-Buchanan, go on to detail how over-parenting can actually ruin a child’s abilities to deal…

training (Blanco). Also, after the murder and he was done using the body he would hide the head and fingers in different locations and bury the body. Eds first two killings, other than his grandparents, was two female hitchhikers he had picked up at Fresno State college the girls destination was suppose to be Stanford University. Unfortunately, the girls never made it to their destination. They were murdered by Edmund who beheaded their bodies, he kept the heads for a few months, then hid them…

a doubt we have the good cops and bad cops, about a portion of those cops go abusing their authority to innocent people. If it were not for spectators witnessing the abuse cops put on citizens many cases wouldn’t be intense as what they are today. Fresno Police Department had a recent video leaked on YouTube. It showed two officers on the job, abusing an elderly homeless man. The homeless man he did not show no threat to the police officers. There are no…