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1919. His parents are Jerry and Mallie Robinson. Jackie is the youngest of five children. Jackie was raised by his mother in relative poverty. He went to a high school named “John Muir High School.” Once his high school days were over, he attended “Pasadena Junior College.” He played four sports: football, track, basketball, and baseball. He was an excellent athlete in each sport. According to biography.com, “He was named the region’s Most Valuable Player in 1938.” Jackie was inspired to pursue…

Conscious Discipline Fosters a Positive Culture How many times have you left the classroom wanting to quit due to negative behaviors that the students exhibit? We start the day successful, but then somehow end the day with referrals, a sore throat and emotional distress. It is a vicious cycle that only ends with our actions and a new outlook on the culture of our schools. Learning cannot happen without balanced emotions and a social necessity, therefore creating a climate where emotions can be…

The Cassini mission is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where the orbiter was designed and assembled. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. Development of the Huygens Titan probe was managed by the European Space Technology and Research Center, whose prime contractor for the probe is Alcatel in France. Equipment and instruments for the probe were supplied from many countries, including the United States. The Cassini program is a 19-year…

contains various aspects: physical bravery is by facing danger even when it could cause a physical impact, moral bravery is behaving in a manner of good and true, and psychological bravery is overcome our own inner demons. Upon a raining afternoon in Pasadena, an accidental mishap occurred when I was ordering coffee. I was in a sense of anger that how could the server mishearing an order of large size coffee to 2 small size coffee. I didn't want to complain to them because the sense of…

Although Jackie was shockingly an amazing athlete, his brother Matthew help advise him into pursuing an athletic career in college. “Jackie’s first college he attended was Pasadena Junior College where he was an excellent athlete and played four sports: football, basketball, track, and baseball.” For someone to play four sports in college is really overachieving factoring that he was not only juggling school and sports, but…

"These are truly massive cyclones, hundreds of times stronger than the most giant hurricanes on Earth," said Kevin Baines, Cassini scientist on the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Dozens of puffy, convectively formed cumulus clouds swirl around both poles, betraying the presence of giant thunderstorms lurking beneath. Thunderstorms are the likely engine for these giant weather systems." Saturn’s cyclones have no body…

Because of this, Scott met Avi Kaplan, a well known vocal bass in the a cappella community, Through a friend of his. Then the 3 found Kevin Olusola on youtube, a video of a guy beatboxing and playing the cello, called celloboxing. Kevin was born in Pasadena, California, he speaks Mandarin real fluent, after spending a year in China. They all five got together to perform in the sing-off 2011, they all prepared and tryed their best. Scott and Kirstie both dropped out of college, hoping they would…

life I chose for this project is the San Francisco Westside Ridge. It was made at 2001 by Wayne Thiebaud,the now 94-year-old artist who spent 76 years of his life making 120 drawings,etchings,prints, and paintings. All of his 120 artworks are at Pasadena Museum of California’s Art, including the San Francisco Westside Ridge. The artwork I chose, The San Francisco Westside Ridge is a 36 x 36 in(91.4 x 91.4 cm) oil on canvas with the painting being a view of California,San Francisco in a bird’s…

Bridging the Gap Law enforcement officers are gradually becoming the ones responding to people in a mental crisis. Unfortunately several law enforcements do not have the adequate training to handle these situations thus resulting in excessive use of force, arrest or incarceration. For this reason I am promoting “Bridging the Gap”, a week long program where officers will be properly trained to handle these situations. Why is this an important issue? Mental illness has been known to be a major…

6:00 in the afternoon and the sky outside has already darkened. Alter Pilot and Maplet Owle are discussing the latest murder case in Alter’s living room in an apartment on Valley Blvd. The death of Priten Duer, which occurred that morning, is a shock to everyone in the city because Priten is the chief of Rosemead Police Department. However, Alter and Mapletare not shock because of his death but because of their discovery. Priten is not clean nor innocent: he is one of the participants in the…