Sacramento Valley

This semester, I enrolled in Early Childhood Education 350 (ECE) at Consumes River College, which transfers over to Sacramento State as Child Development 35F. ECE 350 is a course that incorporates lecture and fielded experience at a school site. I was a student volunteer at John Reith Elementary school for an AM and PM kindergarten class. Ms. Moua is the morning instructor, and this is her first year at John Reith and Ms. Din is the afternoon instructor and is a veteran at John Reith. John…

Isabelle Lorette Mr. Colson US History 1 Honors 24 February 2015 Desire of Expansion from Sea to Shining Sea In 1783 when the Treaty of Paris was signed to end the Revolutionary War with Britain, America’s land consisted of the thirteen original colonies. These former colonies were located along the eastern coast of North America. Western expansion essentially stopped at the Appalachian Mountains, and it was fairly rare to travel beyond them. During the nineteenth century, America continued…

Ishi in Two Worlds depicts the life story of Ishi, the last survivor of the Indian Yana tribe, who emerged starving in the northern California town of Oroville in 1911 after being captured. Written by Theodora Kroeber—UC Berkeley graduate, writer, anthropologist, and wife of Alfred Kroeber (leading anthropologist during the time, and one of Ishi’s close friend) – the book delivers a humane study, and the valid, realistic past history which in turn explains the treatment of Ishi’s people. Among…

author stands against bilingual education and affirmative action. Gloria Anzaldúa was born in 1942 in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She eventually became a schoolteacher and then an academic. More importantly, Anzaldúa speaks and writes about feminist, lesbian, and Chicano issues. Richard Rodriguez was born in 1944 in San Francisco to Mexican immigrants, and raised in Sacramento, California. He was a literary scholar and teacher until leaving the profession and becoming a full-time…

the same age as Mr. King during the incident. Rodney “Glen” King was born on April 2, 1965 in Sacramento, California, with four siblings and a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Rodney soon began to follow in his father’s footsteps of a lifetime of alcohol abuse. Which…

1. Based on your handouts and class discussion, explain in your own words why the hidden mural at Mission Dolores is an important artifact with regard to the nexus between the Ohline people and the Spanish settlers of San Francisco. Hidden murals were painting on the interior wall of the church. Not only it was decorative, but it also shows vital devotional function from worshipers. The mural is very meaning for Ohline people and the Spanish settlers of San Francisco. As we know, the first…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…