Pasadena

Everyone faces adversity, it’s about how you overcome it. It was last spring, and Palm Desert Golf season was in full swing. We came into our rival La Quinta’s match holding a perfect record at 12-0. The season looked shatterproof. I stand on the first hole at Silverrock Golf Resort in La Quinta, California aside my fellow teamates full of confidence, as did they. The cross town rivals had a bit of a shaky season and didn’t appear as any sort of threat to our what seemed unbeatable team. We make…

my visits with her. The first day I asked if I could turn the light on and she said yes, but immediately wanted it turned back off. She has two children and numerous grandchildren. She grew up in Overton, Texas. She has lived in Tyler, Texas and Pasadena Texas. She goes by the nicknames of Aunt Lola and Pudding. She has two sisters. B.W. attended Kilgore College where she obtained her degree for a registered nurse. With…

Introduction William Morris Davis was born on February 12, 1850. His father Edward M. Davis was a Philadelphia businessman with interests in railroads, mines, and the textile trade and his motherMaria (Mott) Davis was the daughter of Lucretia Mott, advocate of women’s rights and a strong opponent of slavery. Davis earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Harvard. From 1870 to 1873 he worked in meteorological observatory in Argentina and then returned to Harvard to study…

Comparison of Ivory in “Sister” with Ethan in “Close to the Bone” Introduction Andrew Lam authored Birds of Paradise Lost, which is a series of short stories capturing the experiences of the American immigrants from Vietnam. In these stories, versions of paradise are both lost and gained. The experience is solely that of the Vietnamese refugees who fled Vietnam for America and other places in 1975 during the fall of Saigon. Lam’s stories depict the experience of the refugees; the vivid pursuit…

In the pieces “Because I could not stop for Death” and “Gacela of The Dark Death” Emily Dickinson (Dickinson) and Federico Garcia Lorca (Lorca) express the theme of Death in similar ways. Another concept that both authors explore is time and how Death influences the speaker’s perception of it. The figurative language used in these pieces have significant impact on how the subject matter of Death is presented. The symbolic elements of each piece, such as the life cycle also contribute to the…

One area which interests me is the racial integration of Cuyahoga County schools, beyond the explicit beginnings of the movement in the 1960’s. Cuyahoga County, which contains the Cleveland metropolitan area in Ohio, fascinates me in particular because I am from the area and it has a complex history of racial composition and confrontation. Furthermore, there is a tight-knit sense of ethnic heritage within certain communities, leading to the common perception that most schools and neighborhoods…

To begin, I’d like to talk about the history of gaming and how it came to be, before getting into the pros and cons of gaming and how it is viewed by society. I came across a Native American website that really gave a great description of the early history of gaming. Gaming itself is not new to Native Americas, and has been a part of their culture for many generations, even to their very beginning. This isn’t in reference to the gambling we are familiar with today, that include card games or…

Kepler is a spacecraft telescope observatory launched by NASA on March 7th, 2009 with the primary purpose of discovering Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The observatory named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, is designed to survey our section of the Milky Way in order to discover hundreds of Earth-sized extrasolar planets with livable conditions, to estimate how many stars are found within our galaxy, and create a better understanding of how planetary system’s light years away compare…

In the past thirty to forty years, America has been struggling with resource management, specifically with oil However, more recently, California has been suffering from a different kind of resource scarcity- water. Here in California, many people heatedly debate on the price of gasoline, but few people are aware of the increase in water prices statewide, especially for farmers, who use eighty percent of the state’s allocated water. For farmers, the price of water has increased by as much as…

I 've always known that aliens are real. I mean, the universe is way too big to only have life on one planet. There 's so many planets and galaxies out there in our universe and the people of Earth are the only ones in it? I don 't think so. I never get confirmation of aliens, however, until I meet Micah Prescott. We meet about a few weeks before I get proof of aliens. He 's the new kid in school, and as cliché as it is, he doesn 't make a whole lot of friends. Until he meets me, that is. I…