Palo Alto

largest and most profitable boat supply chain in the nation. West Marine inventories include the supplies for sailboats, powerboats, recreational boating supplies, sporting goods, and sophisticated navigational equipment. The company was founded in Palo Alto in 1975 by Randolph Repass, A former engineer with a love of boating and a vision for a customer-friendly, product-heavy marine supply store (West Marine 2016). Randolph Repass saw an opportunity to improve the way people shopped for boating…

competitions are not always fair. Coco Lovely, a senior on the varsity basketball team at Palo Alto High School, has experienced the unfairness of recruiting throughout her high school career. “They are able to get the best athletes from their area which makes them better than all the other public schools in the area,” Lovely said. “There were a few girls in the Class of 2018 who were supposed to come to Palo Alto and play basketball, but they were recruited by Pinewood, so they went there…

I would attend day and night courses through out my progression in my education career and it has landed me an associates from Palo Alto College of Alamo Colleges and soon to be a baccalaureate from TAMUSA this spring semester of 2016. Looking down the road the ahead, a few years back, I knew money was going to be an issues as I was first coming into TAMUSA from Palo Alto College of Alamo Colleges. Despite taking out student loans, I came up with a personal courage choice for myself and an…

suicide contagion. Researchers have studied and are currently studying suicide clusters to identify how the contagion might spread(Adams). After the CDC was brought to Santa Clara County, California to help with the suicide cluster occurrences in Palo Alto, they found that high school students who had considered suicide were found to have many traits in common; they were much more likely to have missed school in the last month, experienced bullying, used alcohol or drugs in the past, engaged in…

providing a clear image of the struggles faced by Africans in a white-dominated world. Gyasi has developed a style agile enough to reflect the remarkable range of Homegoing’s storyline as she moves across centuries from old and new Ghana to modern-day Palo Alto. Yaa’s prose moderates subtly according to the time and setting: the 18th century chapters resonated with stern tones of history while the contemporary chapters embrace true realism. Nevertheless, Homegoing does lose some of its urgency…

its opening in 1891, Stanford has been devoted to discovering answers for enormous difficulties and to get ready understudies for administration in a perplexing world. The little town that was starting to develop close to the area took the name Palo Alto (tall tree) after a monster California redwood on the bank of San Francisquito Creek. The tree itself is still there and would later turn into the college's image and centerpiece of its official seal. Leland Stanford, who grew up and…

important feature: adaptability. When the day finally came, my family helped me pack my bags and we headed off to the airport to meet my delegation. Approaching the group I was mesmerized of the amount diversity we had in the group; we had people from Palo Alto, Oakland, San Jose, Davis, individuals had traveled all over the world and those with a strong athletics background. Then there was me a 5’ 8” asian kid who had never traveled beyond California. Nevertheless we were all ready to set out…

In the book The Lucifer Effect, renowned psychologist Phillip Zimbardo seeks a reason as for why inherently good people may turn evil. He argues that rather than initial nature, situational forces are the ones that may push a person over the edge to do horrible things. He also describes a “slippery slope” toward evilness, including the dehumanization of others, de-individualization of oneself, conformity, and blind obedience to authority. Zimbardo’s main argument throughout the entire book was…

The most terrific name I ever heard was Albert Edward Peacock IV. The sonuvabitch lived up to it too, you should’ve seen him. He had this incredibly pink face, he really did, you know those guys that always look sunburnt even when they’re not. He had this terribly bleached hair too, it was yellow more than blonde really. Another thing was he always wore these 1970s style P.E. shorts like he walked straight out of The Royal Tenenbaums, he was a real character old Albert. Everybody was always…

The other applicants and I have been in band from the very beginning. We have been dedicated and devoted to making this program the absolute best it can be. In the 6th and 7th grade I remember getting frustrated because of being taking out of band for my dyslexia tutoring. Reading music was never an issue, I would only have issues when reading books. Band showed me that there was more to school than just Math and English, I began to see the larger world that was there for me to learn about…