Monterey

June of 1846, Americans announced that California is an independent republic and the Americans already wrote a constitution for California. General Taylor troops followed the Mexican troops to a place called Monterey, they both fought. The Americans won victory again, this was The Battle of Monterey. On December of 1846 Antonio López de Santa Anna became Mexico’s President again. On February 22 and February 23 another war was happening it was near Buena Vista. The Mexican troops had more…

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. He spent most of his life in Monterey County, which is the setting for much of his fiction. He attended Stanford University intermittently between 1920 and 1926. Steinbeck did not graduate from Stanford, but instead chose to support himself by doing manual labor while writing in his spare time. His experiences among the working class of California lends authenticity to his depiction of the lives of laborers, who are the central characters…

It's troubling that falling asleep in class happens often for Charlie Cortes. I discovered that passing out during meetings might be a problem for him also. Instead of an interviewer, I surprisingly became a doctor for Mr. Cortes. It was very difficult for him to keep his eyes open. Unfortunately, I informed him that he suffers from extreme sleep deprivation, possibly destroying an alarming amount of brain cells. It was also hard to ignore the hundreds of dried acrylic paint drops of rainbow…

sustainable management practices help to mitigate unnecessary water loss, even the most efficiently run irrigated operations waste this resource if the food produced is not consumed. For example, “Monterey County, California produces about 40 percent of U.S. broccoli. If 5 percent of broccoli fields in Monterey County were not harvested, that would represent the unnecessary use of approximately 1.6 billion gallons of water.” (“Left Out”, 2012,…

U.C. Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay Aquarium, U.S. Fish & Wildlife services, U.C. Davis, U.S. Geological Survey, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marine Wildlife Veterinary care and research center. The alliance focuses on researching and finding ways to help increase the survivability of Sea Otters, through an ecosystem- based perspective by monitoring their population trends and what areas need repopulating (seaotterresearch.org, 2009). Well known to many the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s…

The annexation of Texas by the United States provoked the Mexican ambassador and relations between the two nations were severed. However, the president of Mexico, Jose Joaquin Herrera, wanted to negotiate with the United States because he knew his country did not have the resources for a war. Herrera also knew that the Mexican people would be outraged at the loss of Texas. During negotiations, Herrera and Polk disagreed on the boundaries of Texas. Mexico believed Texas ended at the Nueces River.…

hard to make Jimi blend in and just seem like any other American Citizen. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was set to perform at the wildly known Monterey International Pops Festival around the summer of 1968. This place is iconic for Hendrix mainly because it was where he decided to do something, which many other artists haven’t done. It was at the Monterey International Pops Festival that Jimi decided to bash his instruments onstage, cover it with liquor and set it alight for a brief moment. But…

Strolling along Cannery Row in Monterey was a wondrous experience. I witnessed history brought to life. Over sixty years after the publishing of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, there have been many modern tourist attractions built, such as the Intercontinental Hotel, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Pinkberry. However, key historical landmarks mentioned in the novel still exist, such as Wing Chong’s grocery, La Ida’s cafe, Dora’s whorehouse, the Malloys’ boilers, the Palace Flophouse, Doc’s laboratory,…

I chose this case out of the book because I have learned about this subject in my speech language pathology classes so it sparked my interest. This case took place in the year of 1970. Diana was a Mexican-American student that lived in Monterey County, California. She struggled in this English based school system and was given an IQ test. This IQ test was given to her in English, which is not her first language. She scored low enough on this test that she was labeled with “mild mental…

located in the deep depths in oceans, and rarely gets any sunlight since it lives so deep. The Dumbo Octopus is rarely seen, and that’s why only very few people know about it. Dumbo Octopuses live in the deep depths in the New Zealand, Australia, Monterey Bay in California, in the waters of Oregon and the Philippines, as well as Papua, and New Guinea. The Dumbo Octopus lives in the depths of the ocean from 900-4,190 metres. They live in very cold depths of every ocean. It eats snails, worms,…