Pasadena

The city of West Hollywood employs a franchise system that shares similarities with Santa Monica. Seven franchisee companies are licensed to operate in West Hollywood. Only the licensed drivers from these seven companies can legally pick-up passengers in the region. As previously mentioned, West Hollywood has experienced problems with unlicensed taxicab’s operating in their city. This present’s serious customer safety issues and constrains city resources by having to regulate these “bandit”…

CMI Vascular Jeanelle Bastien December 2016 Melinda Bechtel Stroke in Evolution VS Completed Stroke A stroke in evolution is defined as; ischemic neurologic symptoms that actively worsen during a period of observation. A completed stroke is defined as; stable neurologic deficit that had sudden onset and persists longer than 3 weeks. In a stroke in evolution symptoms come and go, which is considered unstable. Whereas a complete stroke, no progression or resolution of the symptoms, which is…

have an education and improve one’s life. She took what the United states had to offer seriously. Having a mentor was crucial to Reyna’s escape from her father’s control and helped guide her in her professional development.. Diana, a professor at Pasadena City College, was one of many people that helped shape Reyna’s path to education and became her mentor, She helped Reyna in a time of need. Diana also saw the resilience Reyna had overcoming her hardships. Diana offered Reyna a place to stay…

Thomas Hunt Morgan was a very decorated biologist. He discovered the role that chromosomes play in heredity. Morgan was born on September 25th, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky (Thomas H. Morgan- Biographical, n.d.). His parents were Charlton Hunt Morgan and Ellen Key Morgan. His extended family was also very successful. His uncle, John Hunt Morgan, was a Confederate General in the Civil War. His great grandfather, Francis Scott Key, wrote the “Star Spangled Banner”. All around, he had very positive…

Soccer in Los Angeles has been around since the beginning of the 19th century. Around 2,000 years ago, soccer originated in England and was usually referred to as “football”. Soccer grew in the early 1800’s and became a much popular sport in the 1900’s. In 1902, the Southern California Football League was founded. Los Angeles grew in popularity as soccer became much more of a favorite sport. Soccer Leagues began to grow around the city and some even came from different parts of the world.…

Butler, the author of Kindred, was born June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, California. Butler’s father was a shoe shine man and her mother was a maid. Butler worked hard going to Pasadena City College, California State University, and University of California at Los Angeles mastering her writing skills. Her books merged portions of science fiction and African American history…

Raymond Chandler’s The High Window introduces Philip Marlowe as a private detective. Mrs. Murdock is in need of a private detective, and she heard Marlowe can get the job done. He is hired and his duty is to find Mrs. Murdock’s daughter-in-law, Linda, without anyone getting arrested. Linda has stolen one of the valuable coins that Mrs. Murdock’s deceased husband collected. Already the suspicion starts when Marlowe senses that Mrs. Murdock is not telling him the entire story; she doesn’t want her…

photographed while he was in high school. He attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, studying politics and sociology in 1970. Later, in 1974 Sugimoto “retrained as an artist and received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California” (Wikipedia). His work is influenced by the Dadaist and Surrealist of Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp was a French, “naturalized American” painter, sculptor, and writer. Dadaism was an art movement (“being anti-war”) in the…

“There are many actions and individuals who have made a substantial impression on the game of baseball. Together, Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey are the most significant. Branch Rickey, the orchestrator of Organized Baseball's desegregation, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers believed that integration in Major League Baseball would be great for America. Branch Rickey put his knowledge into motion by seeking black baseball players looking for the perfect candidate to break…

I received a score of 138 for the stress test. According to the score interpretation provided on the website, this means that I only have a low to moderate chance of becoming ill in the near future. This result is what I was looking forward to and it makes me feel relieved that the chances of me being sick anytime soon is very minimal. However, I think that I should not be too comfortable with my score of 138. This is because I am just a few points away from falling within the second category…