Oroville

What is weather? Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. The weather can bad and pretty ugly in some situations. Theres many types of weather rain, snow, storms, hurricanes, hail, tornadoes, and etc. Lately that weather has been going down and were expecting more windy and rainy days. Weather is air pressure (temperature and moisture) differences between one place and another. These pressure and temperature…

Kroeber and Waterman invited Ishi to travel back with them to San Francisco. As a result, the University of California anthropology museum would become his new home for the next five years. September 1911 to March 1916, Ishi lived a simple life, enjoying his quarters, in a small room above the university’s anthropology museum. Ishi earn wages by doing janitorial work around the campus, although his main focus was helping professor Waterman and Kroeber with research regarding his tribal…

During the drought the greatest impact and most incredible change was the decreasing water levels in various locations. Many of the locations were filled with various plants and fish, one specific location, Lake Oroville, housed the main location for local fisherman and boat owners that would travel for a vocational spot. During the drought, it made it less possible for many to attend, let alone house the large amount of boats. As time continued, California began…

The diversity of the human experience is stupendous and has been described, recorded, cataloged and represented by a number of anthropologists working in natural history museums. For many anthropologists, natural history museums provide an outlet for presenting their research, in which this institutionalized and multidimensional space acts as a nexus for the reconstruction and understanding of life in a variety of time periods across the global landscape. More specifically through the displays…

My professional goal is to obtain a Walden’s Master of Social Work degree with a specialization in crisis and trauma intervention. I would especially like to work with individuals affected by crisis, trauma, and grief, and help them overcome their personal and social problems that have, without a doubt, strong negative influences on their lives. Studying at Walden University is important to me, because this school will give me the knowledge and skills that I need to help people make the most of…

I have a friend from Southern California, and she told me she did not even know we were in a drought. When she said that I was shocked, I thought how could she possibly not know? After reading the chapter China Town, in the book Cadillac Dessert by Marc Reisner, I finally got my answer. How could she have known there was a drought when almost all the water in California gets pumped down to the heavily populated desert area. The chapter begins with some background. The author states that…