Riverside

University of California at Irvine (1976), and has taught at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of English and Chicano Studies. He has also been Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. Soto married Carolyn Oda,…

ultimate goal was to find a road that connects to the other entrance of the Griffith Park through the Western Los Feliz, which is near the Greek Theatre. The first entrance, the one I frequently go to, is in the busy intersection of Los Feliz and Riverside. As usual, I listened to my music and walked half a mile to the entrance of the park. What I like about Griffith Park is its shady hiking trails and roads. Since most of its roads and trails are right next to acute slops of the mountain, it…

Much as a river shapes its banks on its course, in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck grows and matures as a person as he and an escaped slave, Jim, travel down the Mississippi River. As they raft along the river, the people Huck meets and experiences he gains, as well as the extreme social views he is exposed to, transform him from a naive young boy to someone who has an understanding of his own morality and of the way society functions. In between the banks of the mighty…

The University of California, Riverside is greatly known for diversity among its students because students from all around the world attend our university. Moreover, immigration is one of the common issues addressed in our university based upon the fact that many students are either immigrants themselves or came from an immigrant family. Immigration is a common ground factor that many students share regardless of what ethnicity they are; therefore, immigration is part of our global culture at…

in school where we have been apart from each other. We have always had a friendship that grew from being face-to-face and we began knowing about each other in the same place, which was our school. Now that I attend the University of California, Riverside while she stayed back home at California State University, Los Angeles. We had to find a way to adjust learning about each other in a different place, now that we are fifty miles apart and have completely different schedules we had to adjust to…

Students all have access to Wi-Fi before and after school hours. Most students do not live far from places with free Wifi, such as McDonald’s, Panera, coffee shops, or other facilities with access to Wifi. According to Kajeet, one in three students lack home Internet access (1). Not having Wi-Fi at home can cause problems, unless there are features on tablets/computers to access files while in a non-Wi-Fi area. A setting accessible on all tablets/computers, is an offline version of documents…

Enforced by the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 2011, the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (DADT) law barred thousands of military members from expressing their sexual identity if they identified with any sexual orientation other than ‘straight’. It forced thousands of military members “under a cloud of anxiety and isolation,” essentially weakening military unit cohesion because of individual secrecy. “As a matter of national security, civil service, and fiscal responsibility,’ the repeal of the…

High Priestess and Zweistromland ( 1985-1989, 500 x 800 x 100 cm, about 200 books of lead, on steel shelves, with glass and copper) to his monumental archive installation exhibited for the first time in 1989 at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery at the Riverside Studios in London . The installation consists of two large 13 foot high bookcases positioned at such an angle that the bookcases themselves represent pages of an open book. The bookcases are filled with over two hundred books made with lead…

The Vietnam War has been one of the most terrifying wars United States was ever a part of. The war began in 1955. North Vietnamese leaders and the Vietnam congress were struggling with each other because of their different ideas to reunite Vietnam under a single communist rule, a form of government in which a single party rules the government. North Vietnamese wanted a dictatorship. They wanted a military to rule. On the other hand the Vietnamese congress wanted freedom and establish a democracy…

Where is the Change? An essay inspired by Shooting an Elephant I would like to thank George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant for providing inspiration for the essay you are about to read, and for teaching students around the world an important aspect of the human condition. I sat on the edge of the river bank, watching the ripples float past. As I looked out into the water it was then that I saw it, floating past with the grace of a swan. The only evidence of its path being the trail of…