San Francisco

Have you ever been to the popular San Francisco, California tourist attraction, Alcatraz? Thousands of people visiting the West Coast pass through the park each day to get a taste of what life would be like to be isolated from the outer world for going against the law. The small island is now one of our country’s national parks, but before it became one, it was used by the U.S. Army and as a federal prison that is now famous in history. It didn’t start out as one of the biggest federal prisons…

On Friday, October 31, 2014, Janice Lewis woke up earlier to attend to the San Francisco Giants parade. Janice Lewis got at Market Street at Steuart street where the parade begins, just in time to get the best space where she could see the parade. As the time passed by, with just feel minutes for the pared to start, more people kept coming. Janice who was comfortable at her spot no longer could move, because there were so may people trying to see the parade as well. At Noon, when the parade…

Studies show that in the 2011-2012 winter season, the state of California received nearly 300 inches less snowfall than it did the previous winter. While many of California’s dry winters are a direct result of ridges off of the west coast, climatologists suggest the drop in precipitation during the 2011-2012 winter was due to below average sea surface temperatures, or La Niña (Seager et al.). La Niña is the result of cooling sea surface temperatures that lead to an overall temperature of the…

Large brown with gold lettering. Given to me by my grandmother, this book unconsciously started me down the path of my fascination of geography. One of the first pages in the book was a fold out that had illustrations of all the world 's flags of the time. I started by finding out about the countries countries that I thought had the coolest flags, eventually I made it a goal to memorize all of the flags in the book. While I was trying to memorize all of the flags I began to feel shocked with…

Our beloved city, Melbourne has celebrated her 180th birthday this year. One hundred and eighty years ago in June 1835, the tall ship Enterprize sailed up the Yarra River. Landing a party of five men, one woman, a cat, stores and livestock on the northern bank headed by John Batman. Recording in his diary John described what he saw: "About six miles up, found the river all good water and very deep. This will be the place for a village”. Thus a fledgling settlement had begun. For almost…

Case 2.2 2.2-1 What are some of the psychosocial issues facing Mona and Ricardo? V61.20 Z62.820 Parent-child relational problem V62.89 Z60.0 Phase of life problem V62.4 Z60.4 Social exclusion or rejection V62.4 Z60.5 Target of (perceived) adverse discrimination or persecution V62.9 Z60.9 Unspecified problem related to social environment V62.9 Z65.9 Unspecified problem related to unspecified psychosocial circumstances V65.40 Z71.9 Other counseling or consultation. 2.2-2 What are some of the…

The California gold rush is a historic period of time from (1848-1857) that caused a massive migration of people all around the world. Consequently the immense amount of gold found In California made many people rich, but also made many people live in poverty. With one lucky day you could be a millionaire overnight. Not many as many people struck it rich while searching for gold, and many of the millionaires didn't even have to search for gold to become wealthy, many of them had businesses that…

The Gold Rush of 1849 led to the transformation and conversion of California from a calm, sleepy society to a violent, unruly and wild society. The Gold Rush in California started in 1848 after the discovery of gold in California. Reportedly 300,000 people rushed to California for gold seeking. The gold attracted people from Latin America, Australia, Asia and Europe. Some of the gold seekers had to endure hardships to get to California, but they did not seem to mind. Initially, it was easy to…

Imagine having just cleaned up an area and someone was planning to go and pollute it again. The Port of Tacoma is planning on making a methanol plant for a company based in China. They should not build a methanol plant because, it will pollute our air with different chemicals, and it will cost a lot of money. These are only a few reasons why they should not build a methanol plant at the Port of Tacoma. The first reason why they should not build the methanol plant is that it will pollute our…

Alcatraz Mia Valle Alcatraz was once called one of the “Supermax Prison,” this was because it was a big place but not a lot of inmates there that lived or served a lifetime, because it was for the people who were really dangerous. When all the deaths were happening there at Alcatraz people were starting to wonder about the safety there at Alcatraz. They also had to shut down Alcatraz, which wasn't open for a very long time and hasn't opened since but they do tours. But people say, “To this…