Pomona

Priscilla Luu-Villa Professor Lance MU100 October 19, 2015 Spiced Up For this project, I chose to attend a piano concert because piano was an instrument that I have been playing since a young age. I enjoyed playing it but became bored of playing the piano so I quit. Later however, I did pick it up again and started to self teach myself a few songs and then started to play it again. I remembered a few things here and there that I had learned when I was younger and started to play decently well.…

psychological assessment needs. Ms. NS is seeking a comprehensive assessment so as to receive accommodations, which Ms. NS is able to take an alternative course to fulfill the general education requirement. Ms. NS was born in Fontana and currently resides in Pomona in a single-family…

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in CHemistry at Pomona College in 1985. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard University on ribozymes under the mentorship of Jack W. Szostak at Harvard University. She did her postdoctoral work with Thomas Cech at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She…

La Verne is a very small town compared to the other cities around it—San Dimas, Claremont, and Pomona. It was one of the cities that was born from the “boom” of the Santa Fe railroad. Issac Lord, the founder of La Verne, founded this community in 1887 when he convinced the Santa Fe railroad to extend to this area and promptly named it “Lordsburg.” After Issac Lord’s death in March 1917, Lordsburg’s citizens changed the city name to La Verne, meaning “growing green.” Moreover, La Verne also…

Every fall, thousands of students put away their summer tops and shorts, quit their jobs at Target or Taco Bell and head off to college. Some attend the closest local school while others travel across the state, country or sometimes world to enroll in the schools of their choice. A recent wage study indicates that college graduates on average will earn twice as much money during their lifetimes than students who only graduate from high school. Many parents push their children to attend college,…

these close friends because they can help me and point me to the right direction when seeking help. Among these friends most went to trade schools such as UTI, WyoTech, MMI. The other of these friends attend colleges such as Rio Hondo, Cerrito, and Pomona College. I have surround myself with important people and established strong connections which can help me improve and do well in this…

herself. She is on a seashell, riding to shore, after her birth from the sea foam. To the left of Venus, is Zephyrus who carries the nymph Chloris. He is using wind to guide Venus to shore (italianrenaissance.org). To the right of Venus on the shore, is Pomona, the goddess of spring (italianrenaissance.org). The Birth of Venus is now featured in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (Peter Aykroyd et al,…

My father was poor and became a gardener in order to make money and send some back to Mexico in order to help support his family. When my father moved to Bakersfield he met my mother. On my other side of my family is my mom who was born in Pomona and moved to Bakersfield as a child. Although my mom did not migrate from a completely different country she moved from a city to a new one. The definition of migration is the relocation from one area to another, and although my mom does not have…

Navajo Nation is considered the largest federally recognized Native American Indian Tribe in the United States which covers 27,673 square miles at the corners where Utah, Arizona and New Mexico meet. [1] The Navajos call themselves Diné which means “The People.” Mexican and Spanish people named the Navajos as “Apaches de Navajo.” “Apaches” means enemies in Spanish, and “Navajo” is an adapted word from Tewa and it means planted fields. In 1969, the Navajos Tribal Council officially named them as…

When October is ending and November is beginning thousands of Pagans from America, Europe, Canada and elsewhere in the northern hemisphere observe the sacred time of Samhain. Samhain is a celebration of the dead, meaning "Summer's End". Depending on your place of origin it's pronounced Shah-vin, Sow-een, saah-win, saa-ween, or sav-wen, and is a celebration of the end of the time for harvesting or the end of Summer, ant the start of the coldest half of the year, it is also considered by some to…