Riverside

five can’t work for everyone. Flex time is becoming popular in a lot of corporate jobs today. Flextime is an arrangement that allows an employee to alter the start and end times of her/his work day around the normal schedule of 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Riverside, 2016). Employees like flex time because this gives them the option of making their own schedule regularly. Allowing workers to have some control over when they work and how they work gives them freedom and a sense of trust (Abry, 2014). The…

ranch, Curley’s wife is a very present and ornate character; however, she is not at all respected. Two weeks prior to George and Lennie’s arrival at the farm, Curley’s wife married Curley to escape her family and gain wealth after meeting him at the Riverside Dance Palace. Due to all the hardships she endures at the ranch, Curley’s wife is the loneliest and most…

The Minimum Standard of Solar Energy Energy sources are the center of political debates at state and local levels of government. When communities, organizations, and political entities give their opinions, there will be issues arising from many directions. Choosing the most appropriate energy source, in terms of sustainability, cost efficiency, and economic prosperity is a complex task. Choosing what to incentivize and what to get away from is a more realistic approach. For the state of Colorado…

From when the first humans crossed over to North America to the end of the War of 1812, nothing has remained constant in the region that would one day come to be known as the United States of America. What drives these changes varies with human motivation. Some come from the desire for conquest and expansion, but others spawn from religious beliefs. But trade and the desire for wealth has remained a nearly constant factor in most major changes. While imperialism and religion both had large…

T.J Parsell and Sexual Assault in Prisons “They’re coming back into society indelibly marked by what they’ve experienced – either traumatized by sexual assault, or hyper-violent by having learned to fend off threat,” said T.J. Parsell. He talks about how he relates to Linda’s son who was sentenced to prison over a petty crime, he set a trash bin on fire, at the age of seventeen and was the victim of multiple rapes while incarcerated with adults and he later took his life by hanging himself in…

Patrick Wayne Kearney is known as an American serial killer whose main target was homosexual young men. From 1962 to 1977, he (with the help of a partner) committed more than forty acts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison. These flagrant acts led to speculation about his motives and past, prompting investigations even after Kearney was behind bars. Although almost nobody wants to think about gruesome murders, it is still interesting to see what caused Kearney to do what he did. Patrick…

Both organizations are targeting the campus community, especially on-campus residents, in order to encourage them to plant and maintain the campus’s community garden. Isabella Beltran, an environmental engineering major from Riverside, who never gardened until coming to UC Merced, said: “I learned about the club as a freshman, and I was able to get involved in every aspect of the garden- financially and physically”. In fact, many students became more interested in gardening for…

December 13, 1987, in San Diego, California. Holmes graduated from Westview High School in Rancho Penasquitos, California, in 2006. That summer, he interned at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies. Holmes went on to the University of California, Riverside, where he earned a bachelor's degree in neuroscience in 2010.”(James). This makes him a citizen of the United States all his life. So again, how will closing the borders solve anything people like James Holmes will always be around to…

American poet Billy Collins (born 1941) has worked to craft a poetic art that is accessible without being sentimental or crass. Named poet laureate of the United States in 2001, Collins became the public face of American poetry and embarked on an ambitious effort to insert poetry--not the teaching of poetry so much as the raw material of poems themselves--into American secondary schools. His own books have enjoyed a rare combination of popular and critical success, selling tens of thousands of…

SUBJECT Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, illustrates the events of the Dresden bombing through the life of Billy Pilgrim. Throughout the novel Billy Pilgrim has no control over time and constantly travels to different points of his life. Billy Pilgrim was born in Illium, New York and pursued a career in optometry. After graduating high school Billy was drafted into the army during World War II. In the war Billy meets up with three men, one of them named Roland Weary. These men decide to…