Marin County

I really do not find this ironic at all coming from a female author. But now coming from this female author now let’s go ahead and not only neuter the English language on gender and strip gender roles ... let’s just go ahead and take the next step and neuter every male in America. And when you do... here is something that will not surprise me in the future of all females and it is only going to take one female and that is all it is going to take to ask ; Where is the Male Chivalry and / or…

Some of you will remember this story. It was ten years ago, and I was employed then as a forensic psychologist in Marin County. Much of my work involved talking to criminals, then testifying as to their sanity in a court of law. On the afternoon this all began, for example — that afternoon when I blacked out in Sara Johnson’s apartment — I was scheduled to examine a man who’d been accused of strangling his wife. Because of that incident, and all that has happened since, I know many people will…

In Al Capone Does My Shirts, I think Gennifer Choldenko is illustrating the lesson that you should accept others no matter how they act. In this book there’s a character named Natalie who has autism. Some characters don’t accept her and some do. Natalie’s mom, doesn’t accept Natalie to be the person that she is. Likewise, she keeps celebrating Natalie’s tenth birthday. For instance on page 192, the text states, “‘She isn’t ten’ I say, my voice hoarse. My mother winces and turns away. ‘Yes she…

ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds.Youth and families are referred to Choices in different ways, but most referrals are made through our partners. We partner directly with state Medicaid programs, foster care programs, social services department, counties, schools, and managed care entities. Felicia stated she has contributed her success with working with these people due to her desire to be culturally component. “Cultural competence is a capacity that enables professionals and organizations…

Daphne Maeweather FAM 352 Book Review Summary Author Madeline Levine wrote a non-fictional book titled The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids. Levine wrote this book to bring awareness to the psychological, mental health issues that affluent adolescents face in their daily lives. Levine wanted her book to shed light on the seriousness of these problems, and to address how unhealthy parenting practices of…

that they are also a problem outside of Silicon Valley. In fact, California is ranked second among all states for the highest rate of drug dependence and abuse among 18 to 25 year olds. Additionally, 159 out of 100,000 people in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties visit the emergency room for problems related to stimulant abuse. This number is significantly higher than the national average of 30 out of…

Jane Hirshfield is connected to nature at her home in Marin County, California this is where she gets her inspiration for her poems. Hirshfield published “Tree” in 2000 as a free verse poem, breaking it into 4 stanzas and 4 sentences to convey the nature world. The poem represents a “young redwood” (line 2) that is growing near a house, near a kitchen window. The redwood is already scraping against the window frame of the house, reminding the reader of the “foolish” (line 1) idea of letting it…

The Safe Routes to School Program in Marin County California found great success in promoting bike commuting by creating and maintaining safe routes of travel (Staunton et al, 2003). Programs like this are important because a huge factor in the way that people choose their mode of transportation…

there. It is always nice to relate to an artist that remind of us of home. For this critical analysis, I decided to go watch Wobbly World with Freddy Clarke, a Jazz, Funk, and World Music Band, on September 26, 2015 at the Sausalito Seahorse in Marin County, California. The band members consist of Freddy Clarke, Bouchaib Abdelhadi, Erick Barberia, Georges Lammam, Marc van Wageningen, and Colin Douglas. Wobbly World is a world music band founded by Freddy Clarke that brings together all nations…

A civil rights leader on the front line, Angela Davis has continued to revolutionize the way America thinks about civil rights since her beginnings during the Civil Rights movement. Angela Davis is the most influential person in American society because she affected the politics of prison inmates’ and civil rights during the 1960s-1970s time period. Davis was born on January 26, 1944, in Dynamite Hill, Birmingham, Alabama (Davis 1944, 2015). When she was born, the South had a set of laws and…