Monterey

spanish treasure ships in the Pacific. The spanish divided California into two parts; Baja California and Alta California. In 1602, 60 years after Cabrillo,the spairyard Sebastian Vizcaino explored California coastline from San Diego as far north as Monterey Bay. He named San Diego Bay and held the first christian church…

The Black Lives Matter movement was created as a response to the unjust killings of unarmed black men and women in the United States. The purpose of black lives matter is create awareness to killings that are happening and that have been happening in the country. They would also like to bring about change in the way the cases are handled, due to the fact that many of the police officers who shoot and kill unarmed black men do not get indicted. This creates an impression that black lives do not…

Prize during his prime and achieved this while passing through some roadblocks in his life. Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on the 27th of February in 1902. Born with his 3 sisters, his only siblings, his father worked as a treasurer of Monterey County and his mother worked as a schoolteacher. After high school graduation, Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford University. He was a hard worker to also work different jobs to keep his family fed while at school. His college life wouldn’t last so…

norms and change their role in both society and music during 1965-1970. One woman who was breaking many norms in the musical world at the time was Janis Joplin. The performance in particular that sent her into stardom was her performance at the Monterey Pop festival. Joplin was performing a cover of Big Momma Thorton’s song “Ball and Chain” with her band at the time Big Brother and the Holding Company. Joplin sings the old blues song with such vigor and emotion that people didn’t expect to see…

When thinking of locs you may think of Bob Marley or nappy hair along with smoking marijuana or being unclean. The locs have been around since ancient Egypt and are even discussed in the Old Testament. In the 1930’s Ras Tafari was emperor of Ethiopia. Tafari was forced to exile while an invasion was happening, his soldiers vowed not to cut their hair until their emperor was reinstated. After this the ‘Rasta’ movement started. Reggae became popular and Robert Marley did rock dreadlocks and did…

Rejected and ignored, the Discopter seemed destined to fade away. Then came 1947. The first highly publicized sighting of an unidentified flying object came on June 24 of that year when private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed he spotted a string of nine shiny objects flying past Washington’s Mt. Rainier at speeds he clocked at 1,200 miles per hour. Although Arnold never specifically used the term “flying saucer,” he was quoted at the time saying the shape of the objects he saw was like a…

Ricketts. Ricketts, a marine scientist who worked for Pacific iological Laboratories in Monterey, California alongside Steinbeck, spent “a great deal of time reading about and discussing scientific subjects and doing field research along the Monterey coast” (Parini xvi-xvii). Unique among the writers of his time, Steinbeck 's work considers the ecological ramifications of the actions of his characters, as well as how…

Help the Otters Have you ever thought of losing an animal? Do you think you can help us save animals? Otters come in with parasites, fungal infections, upper respiratory infections, wounds from other animals, and not being able to swim. Otters are being rescued because they are being not being treated correctly. Otters need your help because people are killing them for multiple purposes. More than 680 otters have been rescued. The Florida Aquarium has helped many otters. The aquarium helps…

 Monitoring program for QA and sustainability • This generated an increase of patient engagement by 42%, as well as escalated revenue by 27% annually. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE Monterey Park, CA Community Services Teacher/EKG Technician Course 02/2015 – Present EAGLE ROCK COLLEGE Los Angeles, CA Director, Career Services 04/2017 – 06/2018 LA NET COMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES Long…

people, the much harder issues and are the ones in the middle. In this case, it’s not necessarily the enormous Huntington Beach plant that poses the hardest questions, it’s the small plants with the subsurface intake pipes like the proposed plant in Monterey. Because to truly argue against these plants, you have to answer the harder question: if not desalination, then what? I don’t know what to tell that supplier from who has looked at all the options and wants to be the most environmentally…