Palo Alto

Hello, my name is Steve Jobs. As you know I was the CEO of Apple and invented the first Apple computer. I was Apple’s chairman, an entrepreneur, an inventor and a marketer. I was born in San Francisco, California on 24thFebruary, 1955 and died at Palo Alto, California 5th October, 2011. I was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs since I was born. I used to live in Silicon Valley where I attended Crittenden Middle School. They had a problem with bullying. One day I got bullied and I told my…

Segregation has been a concept fed to children without its presence being realized for the longest of time. Growing up; Palo Alto has and still is been divided into two, the Paly side and the Gunn side. Each kid would grow up knowing their educational plan for up until they are eighteen. The children of different sides might have been in the same school as youngins, and they would ask in aspiration for their paths to be intertwined a little longer. As the different schools were said from their…

Quite recently, one of the presidential candidates, Donald Trump, declared that if elected president, he would construct a wall between Mexico and the United States. Considering that the border of the United States and Mexico is approximately 2,100 miles today, it seems like a waste of taxpayer dollars and time. Many consider it so and brush off Trump as a lunatic. However, while the concept appears insane now, imagine if America had not secured a victory in the Mexican-American War. A war that…

The memorial was constructed in Berlin in 2005, and has recently come back into the media. Peter Eisenman recently stated in an article that, "I believe that my Holocaust memorial in Berlin could no longer be built today” (“Berlin Holocaust Memorial Wouldn’t Be Built Today, Says Peter Eisenman” 2016). The statement came as a result of the current president and today’s current xenophobic environment. No longer could something be created and well appreciated to honor the lives lost during the…

minds mentally by decreasing self-control. We should stop this epidemic of accessing such negative games to our children before the consequences become severe. With the desire of playing such violent video games. A Surveys of 1,102 kids by the Palo Alto Medical foundation have shown that “97 percent of kids had played video games in the past day” (Norocia). Those playing with the video games is not the issue. But the…

Have you ever been in a dispute with a sibling over what's theirs and what's yours? For example, a t-shirt, you decide that it’s yours but your brother is equally as confident about it being theirs. It’s back-and-forth until your brother takes the shirt for himself. Mexico was placed in a similar situation with the U.S. over a piece of land apart of what is today known as Texas. The U.S. wasn’t justified in going to war with Mexico because Mexico was just trying to protect their land, the U.S.…

The Broken windows theory is a theory that was introduced by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in 1982 and stated that the condition of a setting or environment is conducive to that of its crime rate. For example, such environments such as slums and projects are subjected to higher crime rates theoretically because they have deplorable infrastructure and already visible post-crime distress. That being said; any place with qualities such as good infrastructure and an absence of distress will…

Have your class ever acted out a scene from history? Has it ever gone too far? The Wave is based on an incident that took place in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. As the class studies WWII, Ben Ross (the teacher) can’t get his students to understand the events in Nazi Germany. So Ben created a movement called The Wave what begins in a single classroom becomes the whole school The Wave’s motto,”Strength Through Discipline, Strength through Community, Strength…

Hewlett-Packard Inc. (HP) is currently an industry leader in personal computing, printing, and technology. Hewlett-Packard has had an interesting start which has led them to the company they are today. Overview of HP Start HP Inc. started in a garage in Palo Alto, California, which is at the heart of the “Silicon Valley” today. The company was started by two friends, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, in 1938. Bill and Dave both graduated from Stanford University. They started the company with $538…

There are many different kinds of psychology, but one that has caught my eye during this semester would be Social Psychology. Social Psychology is the study of social interactions and their effects on individuals. Now there are also many different Social Psychology experiments such as, The Bobo Doll Experiment by Albert Bandura, The Obedience Experiments by Stanley Milgram, and The Stanford Prison Experiment by Philip Zembardo. The one that intrigues me the most though is The Stanford Prison…