Marin County

the plan was to use the raft to make it to Angel Island to rest, and then reentering the bay from the opposite side heading towards Marin County. Before going their separate ways, they planned on stealing a car, robbing a clothing store, and creating new identities. There were no reports of a missing car or burglary within twelve days of the escape in Marian County. This supports the authorities’ claim that their escape attempt failed and that they never successfully made it to freedom. Author…

J.D. Salinger includes vulgar language frequently throughout his novel. This is one complaint and issue that The Catcher in the Rye receives numerous amounts of times. Throughout the whole book, the main character, Holden, uses profanity quite often. For example, Holden uses language such as "damn", "crap", "ass", and "hell". These words are not entirely the most vulgar words, but Holden is very repetitive with them which makes them lose their meaning. The book also uses the work “f***”…

There are five philosophies of education that focus on teachers and students; essentialism, perennialism, progressivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism. Essentialism is what is used in today’s classrooms and was helped by William Bagley in the 1930s. Perennialism is close to essentialism with the same idea of sharpening student’s minds and focusing on Great Books. Progessivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism focus more on the wants and need of the students. Many…

One of the main security threats in American’s correctional facilities today is gang violence. Correctional facilities are faced with emerging problems related to gang violence such as drugs, murder, extortion, gambling, abuse of religious freedom by spreading hate in the name of religion, “racial enmity” and “racial extremism which is the number one factor of the ongoing problem of racial conflict in the facilities. Some of the security threat groups/gangs contributing to these problems are:…

The city of San Francisco, is on the northern tip Peninsula, to Marin County, it spans both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. The Golden Gate Bridge is an American Landmark, it has been used in countless book, video games and movies. This bridge is a national and internationally known symbol…

The Pyramids of Tikal The Pyramids of Tikal are structures located in Tikal, Guatemala. Tikal was a city within the Mayan culture and it holds many pyramid structures. There is no specific architect, but it was designed and built by the Mayan society before colonial invasion. Some of the city is in a damaged state as it was left for many years and the jungle naturally took over. This explains why some of the bark the pyramid was made with has rotted. Besides the bark, the pyramids were made…

PEOPLE v. RICHARD RAMERIZ (1990): No. S012944. (Superior Court of Orange County, No. C-53262, Donald A. McCartin, Judge.) (Opinion by Broussard, J., with Lucas, C. J., Panelli, Eagleson, Kennard and Arabian, JJ., concurring. Separate concurring and dissenting opinion by Mosk, J.) INTRODUCTION: Richard Ramirez was an American serial killer, rapist, and burglar dubbed as the “Night Stalker” before his identity was exposed. He was an nocturnal and aggressive criminal who was very brutal, broke…

In the beginning, after Columbus discovered the island, there was a large Spaniard population that thrived off of their fertile grounds and sugar cane fields (Deneen). In 1898, the Spanish American war allowed for Americans to take over the territory. Today you do not see Puerto Rico depending of sugar for agricultural benefits. As America moved into reign they supplied the territory with all essential needs. There own industrial revolution changed the island. There is no longer huge field, but…

In “In Black Lives Matter” Dani McClain writes, “In November 24, 2014, when the St. Louis County prosecutor announced that a grand jury had decided not to bring charges against the officer who killed an unarmed Michael Brown, Twitter users fired off 3.4 million tweets regarding the police killings of black people and racial-justice organizing…

Parents are the ultimate caretakers for their children. Children, at a young age, are the most susceptible to the many diseases of this world, and their immune systems are hard at work. Some parents provide the extra support through the use of vaccines, while some choose to not vaccinate their children. But unvaccinated children are walking disease-spreaders, and they pose harms to those that cannot be vaccinated due to other conditions and restrictions. Vaccinations should be mandatory by…