Long Beach City College

large metropolitan cities we have been. They both offer historical points of interest that teach you interesting facts. For example, In Atlanta we learned about the history of Coca-Cola. While in San Francisco, we learned the history about Alcatraz prison. However I preferred learning about the history of Coca-Cola, rather than the…

Gun control has been a topic of discussion for years, but lately gun control has spurred up a lot of discussion with all the shootings. Control politics have been around since America was born into a nation. The second amendment is dedicated to guns. It is the right to bear arms. With the recent controversy with guns, local and state/national have been trying to set their own laws. They both are fighting for power over power to control guns. They both have taken each other to court and have made…

Personal Philosophy In December of 1992, after graduating with a diploma from Long Beach City College in California, I began my career as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). Compassion and caring became the cornerstone of my nursing philosophy during my LPN educational track. The Registered Nurse population is encouraged to learn the books and problem solve, while the LPN population was taught to learn the books, but to have an excellent, caring and compassionate bedside manner. In 2007 I received…

eight days. With the riot lasting as long as it had, the combined developments of structures being set on fire, stores being looted, and numerous deaths, made…

School spirit goes farther than the field for the Pine Ridge Pantherette Dance team. The weekend of November 22nd, 2015 the city of Deland, Florida held their annual Deland Fall Festival of the Arts. The Pantherettes performed a few of their routines from their pep rally routine to a dance created for their few competitions during the season. The first performance was a new work to the music “Goodnight Moon” by Shivaree, the music selection was very instrumental to the choreography and helped…

The smell of salt water fills the air along with a nice tropical breeze. You have a beach chair at the edge of the water letting the waves crash into your feet. You watch as the sun falls into the water causing the sky and earth to meet. Here one can feel refreshed and freed. I am blessed to rediscover this feeling many times a week when my pen and paper meet. Writing set my soul free. My writing process is a long drawn out internal disaster which eventually turns into a well written piece. I…

Ten years ago, the city of Chicago, Illinois, made a bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Although they came close to victory, the International Olympic Commission (IOC) awarded the hosting rights to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while Chicago was knocked out in the first round of voting (“Rio to host 2016 Olympics,” 2009). It was a memorable win for South America as Rio became their first city to ever host an Olympics. In contrast, Chicago’s loss left its own inhabitants with some mixed…

citizens of the United States have been debating whether the police should wear body cameras. Recently this debate has gotten a lot more prevalent after the unjust deaths of an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Missouri , and the death of Eric Garner in New York City. The United States death by police rate is by far higher than any other country, “ In 2011 police killed six people in Australia, two in England, six in Germany, and according to an FBI count, 404 in the United States.” (Stanley 2). Body…

judge. People make assumptions based on how people dress and look. “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and “Goodbye, My Brother” take place in a world where if men don’t wear a tie they look like a “thug,” a briefcase symbolizes respect, and they long for a return to their past glories. Each main character has a distinguishing feature or item of clothing- the garish hat, wedding dress, protruding teeth, or the holiday home. While introduced to the characters, it’s human nature to make…

American or Latin American you played in the Negro baseball league. In 1946, Jackie Robinson signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Baseball League, his first professional baseball team. Baseball took off like a rocket ship, World War II had just ended and what better time to capitalize on the opportunity to change America’s temperament on a race of people who have long been viewed as inferior and not equal. That was Branch Rickey vision, the general manager and president of the…