Oakland

could see all the Hot air balloons in the sky. We began our trip to Oakland where on our way there I witness people getting ready to go down the beach, by loading there jet ski or power boats. The long drive through Sonoma County was amazing looking at all the acres of the beautiful wine country. Before arriving to the Oakland Bridge we pasted through a tunnel where it turns dark with a mild light,…

Freedom In Baseball This country was founded on the sport of baseball. Baseball has been around forever and has been America’s number one pastime for centuries. It was a warm sunny morning in Oakland, California and I was riding my bike home from the coffee shop on 5th street. It was the summer of my junior year and I had decided I wanted to live with my aunt for the summer. There were all kinds of things to do in the city and I had to choose something to do on the day my aunt was off work. I…

Delphine is flying with her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, from New York to Oakland, California. The children are going to see their mother, Cecile, who had abandoned them many years earlier. Big Ma, their father's mother, objects to the trip, calling Oakland "a boiling pot of trouble cooking" that summer of 1968, but Pa has been firm, asserting that the children "need to know their mother, and she needs to know them." At eleven years old, Delphine has always had to "see after [her]…

Oakland Athletics This is a professional baseball team which one of the participants of the main baseball League of America. The club was founded in 1901 in Philadelphia and his name was “Philadelphia athletics”, in 1955 they moved to Kansas Missouri and it was named as Kansas City athletics, while in 1968 finally changed location and became the team (lube) “Oakland athletics” in Oakland California and even today they are representations of this…

In 1967 the first BPP office was open at 5624 Grove Street, Oakland, CA in January. In the BPP office they had many meetings and created the Black Panther Party Black Community News Service. April 25, the first production of the Black Panther Party Black Community News Service was printed. In Richmond, CA, on April 1 Denzil Dowell was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies. Panthers got a request from the Dowell family for protection from police harassment. Which they took and protected his…

The Black Panthers were a group formed in 1966 that dissipated in the early 1970’s, although their legacy still remains. The group formed in Oakland California. The black youth growing up there faced an unfair amount of racism, and a new kind of poverty. Since many had grown up during the WWII era, their parents were unemployed and they often were looking for food. One of the younger members of the group wrote a poem explaining the searching. His name is Albert Wood fox his poem goes like this…

Modesto in Central California and Oakland living in rentals and at their grandmother’s house because they didn’t have a permanent place to stay (Barger, 2000, pg. 11). When Sonny was four months old, his mother left him with a babysitter and ran off with a bus driver, never to return. After his mother split, his grandmother took Sonny, his father, and his sister Shirley back to Oakland to stay for good. She found them a rental house on the East Side of Oakland, which was located in the working…

Rios provides captivating, evidence-based professional developments to educators about the power of positive quality of interactions in the lives of young people. Rios was hanging out with teenagers on some of the country 's toughest street, in Oakland, California. The police officers threatened to arrest Victor for conspiracy by just hanging out with teenagers. Rios spent three years hanging out with 40 youths between the ages of 14 and 17, most of them had arrest records and gang affiliations…

two met in 1906, Brush showed Murphy his design for a small two-cylinder car that Cadillac had rejected. Murphy bought into Brush’s idea, and decided it should carry the name “Oakland” as did his horse-drawn vehicles. During the summer of 1907, Murphy organized the Oakland Motor Car Co. His lack of sales with the Oakland, a two cylinder vertical engine that rotated counterclockwise, convinced him that Cadillac might have been right in rejecting the Brush design. In 1909, they introduced a line…

daughter, Gabrielle. Today, September 18th at 1:30 pm in Oakland, California, nearly 3 months before Gabrielle’s 4th birthday, I will be interviewing Faye regarding her family, pregnancy, and delivery. I decided to interview her due to the closeness of our relationship as well as the fact that she is a very open person and I knew she wouldn’t hold back any facts or opinions. The interview will be taking place at my mother’s house, which is also in Oakland, after the Sunday brunch she made for…