Granada

English classes have always been a required course in all of my years in school. As a student at Granada Hills Charter High School I have had the pleasure of having four different English teachers all with distinct teaching styles and assignments. It is in these classes that I have evolved as an English student, and discovered aspects about English that I do and do not enjoy. In my freshman year of high school I had a teacher who would begin each class by giving us fifteen to twenty minutes of…

More than 127,000 Japanese and Japanese-American citizens were imprisoned because of their ethnicity during WWII. Anti-Japanese sentiment from white Americans began as the Japanese community grew on the West Coast of the United States. Because of their large number, they were often accused of espionage so in 1942 the government decided to contain them in one of ten internment camps spread across the U.S. through President Roosevelt's Executive Order. Japanese in the U.S were one of two groups,…

Simon Bolivar was a great liberator and excellent politician in Latin American. Under his wise leadership and advanced political thoughts, the Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Panama was liberated from the Spanish colonialism rule. He is ambitious a person wants to establish a liberal and democratic country where can bring the freely and equally right to people. Also, he thinks the global affairs require consultation and cooperation among all concerned parties, then he is dreaming…

Viola Davis was born on August 11, 1965. She was the second oldest of six children all belonging to Mary Alice (mother) and Dan Davis (father). Davis was born on her grandparents’ farm which was known as the former Singleton Planation. Her father, with completing only a fifth grade education, was a race horse groomer; while her mother only completing an eighth grade education, was a maid, factory worker, homemaker and a civil rights activist. Once Davis was two months old, the family moved to…

Maurits Cornelis Escher, also known as M.C Escher, was a graphic artist between 1898 and 1972. He is most famous for his unique works that incorporated mathematics, specifically the manipulation of perspective and space. He developed an innovative style of both print and engraved art (“M.C. Escher Biography”). Some of his most well-known works include, “Relativity,” “Ascending and Descending,” “Hand with Reflecting Sphere,” and “Metamorphosis” (Gallery, “Most Popular”). M.C. Escher was born…

Many people do not know much about Spain 's history. However, like a lot of European countries that had to go through finding a nationality and trying to keep it from other countries. At one point in Spain’s history find their self-identity and take back their country from foreign invaders. Also, there were some tension between the Spanish and the Muslims that were living in Spain at the time. This could have been the domino effect that lead into the Reconquista. Here I am going to be discussing…

Marie, and Richard Jaeckel as Turk. Booth won an Academy Award for her performance. An only television version was aired on NBC in 1977. The cast includes Lawrence Olivier, Joanne Woodward, Carrie Fisher, and Nicholas Campbell. It was produced by Granada Television. A musical version titled Sheba opened in 1974 in Chicago. It starred Kay Ballard, George Wallace, Kimberly Farr, and Gary Sand. Ultimately The Title Come Back, Little Sheba comes from Lola…

poets of the 20th century. Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known more commonly as Federico García Lorca, was born in a small rural village of Fuente Vaqueros in southern Spain just a few miles away from the Andalusian city of Granada in 1898 (Young n.d.). During Lorca’s early childhood years, his mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero, nurtured his strong creative flair and vivid imagination that helped him create…

Uncle Benito had the crazy idea of going to the snow all because my mother had never seen the snow.My mother told me of a hill she sled down from, a great slope that didn’t leave her feeling to good “No me siento muy bien.” My uncle rushed her to Granada Hills Hospital on the morning of March 19, 1996; I was born seven pounds at eight minutes until eight. I was born a very light skin child family members joked about this saying I was adopted, asking me things like “Jose Juan Macias Why are you…

1. Describe the new social class in twelfth-century Italy called the “urban nobility.” How and why did this social class come into being and how did it affect the movement toward republican government. The urban nobility is a new social class formed by the merger of the Northern Italian feudal nobility and commercial aristocracy. The people in this class were nobles attracted by opportunities of long-distance and maritime trade, rising value of urban real estate, expanding communes etc. who…