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Americanism is music: we can all chip in to create a great symphony, but the music can either turn into chaos or fade. Since the dawn of time, we, Americans, have sang wonderfully and built ourselves a great nation: we have two things most people yearn for: freedom and beauty. Freedom is a precious and unique gift. In this world, freedom is the ideology everyone wants, but we, Americans, don’t think too much about it. In many countries, people are not free; they don’t have the same human rights…

adoptions department;helping the animals get adopted and socializing with the animals that are timid help work up their social skills so they can eventually get adopted. As for the work experience, I have been working at a movie theater in downtown Redwood City for a little over year and have been trained in the concession department and cafe department. I work there three days a week on weekends and have learned how to facilitate the opening and closing of the theater along with building…

and the real definition of it, what it represents to humanity and the hypocrisy it presents in the U.S. Abbey begins her article with an example of police brutality with the protestors at Headwaters Forest in 1997 who united to stop the logging of redwood trees in northern California, she explains that methods the police used on this civilians were barbaric and unnecessary. To illustrate, the use of Q-tips containing pepper spray were used on protesters eyes by the police following with “also…

Parking Reform is Possible The purpose of the article was to bring forth an argument that reforming parking was possible. The argument was based on research findings that were carried out between 1927 and 2008. The argument was based on considering the prices that curbs are charged for parking. According to ‘Goldilocks Principle of Parking Prices’,it was argued that the price for parking should be considered too high in situations where there are several parking spaces left unoccupied. On the…

There are three major industries in Minnesota. But the lumber company is among the best. The lumber company was one of the successful company in the Minnesota Territory. Frederick Weyerhaeuser invested in the lumber company around the 1800s. There was thousands of acres that had lumber, but he he bought timberland around the area of Minnesota and Wisconsin. What he bought in total was 900,000 acres of timber land. Before investing in the lumber industry Weyerhaeuser was already a…

Rainforests are beautiful ecosystems where trees, plants, insects, and other wildlife thrive. There are rainforests all over the world; even some in the United States. The rainforest holds many wonders humans have yet to discover. The largest and oldest ecosystems on Earth are rainforests. There can be as many as 500 tons of living things per acre. Over 50% of the world’s animal and plant species are found in the rainforest. Four layers make up the rainforest; the first of the four is the…

received number one New York Times bestseller, and received many nominations for rewards. The book focuses around a 15 year old girl, Laurel, who has lived most of her life being homeschooled on her family’s land near Orick, California and the Redwood Nation State Park. When her father buys a bookstore and makes the small family move to Crescent City, California. Laurel is forced to be public schooled; laurel hates being…

“This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island, from the Redwood forests to the Gulfstream waters, this land was made for you and me” (Guthrie). Contrary to the lyrics in “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie, this land was apparently not made for “you and me.” America was only made for the “me” aspect of the song, “me” being the Americans. Thousands of years ago, the Americas were undiscovered by the Europeans. Now, this land withholds a great country.…

Being a student at sixty-three is a dream come true. In 1996, I went back to college for a Liberal Arts degree, after two semesters at College of the Redwoods, my family moved from California to Colorado. Finances made it necessary to work. My desire was delayed. It stayed on hold for twenty years. However, at sixty, my marriage ended. My faith sustained through life’s turmoil. My love for my son and my daughter are the inspiration to reinvent myself. Consequently, one goal focuses on creative…

I am lost in the woods. And this is not just any ordinary forest. It is shark’s maw forest. There are confirmed sightings of floating sharks devouring people. They are twice the size of regular sharks. The last person who came in contact with these sharks and lived, was when they found a dead one. The sharks on average are 15 feet long. The biggest ever seen, was about 25 feet. At least. Now don’t get me wrong, the sharks are kind of dumb. One of the ways to escape from these nasty creatures is…