San Jose, California

the people that lived in it. Another significant aspect of Mission San Jose is that it allows you to understand the general attitude towards non-Europeans, or in this case, Native American’s at the time. Despite being converted to Christianity, it’s clear that the racism towards non-Europeans was still present towards Native Americans. Examples that can enhance understanding of this can be found in the history of Mission San Jose. According to the history provided by the museum, the Native…

grandfather was born in Gilroy, California, in 1939. At the age of eight, my grandfather moved to a ranch near the outskirts of Gilroy, where he lived in a one room shack with his mother, brother, and step-father. For seven years, my grandfather lived in that poor shack, where he had to cover the holes in the walls with newspaper or cardboard just to keep warm during the cold winters. Years later, my grandfather decided to make something out of his life, and enrolled at San Jose City college in…

Al Young was born on may, 15, 2005, in Ocean Spring, Mississippi, he is a American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor, he is currently 78 years old, on May, 15, 2005 he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician, and former professional bodybuilder. Al Young grew up in the rural South of villages and small towns, and in urban, industrial…

the Park, VTA wanted to build a light rail that runs through Saint James Park. The park is a historical part of San Jose, which made it really difficult for VTA to implement the project. In addition, local policies also affect regional transportation management. For example, the distribution of funding between ACE and RTD in Stockton usually affects the region 's transportation agencies. San Joaquin County has multiple transit agencies that are affected by regional policies and the local…

company was making their entry into California. They are known as the Private prisons of America. California began using private prisons as an immediate solution to deal with massive overcrowding. Instead of using privatized prisons to eliminate overcrowding, the state should consider alternate solutions because the private prisons only create more problems for the economy, families and immigration. What caused the reemergence of private prisons in California? We can start in 1979 when…

“Persistence and resilience only comes from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” Was well said by an American writer Gever Tulley (BrainyQuates, 2017). During October 2, 1984 through February 15, 1990 was one of my toughest years of my life. As a child, my perspective towards life was being naive, selfish and did not understand why my parents were temporarily separated and what was going on in the United States. First, I will explain what was going on during the era…

How would life be when people finally open their eyes and stop living in denial and accepting the truth. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, there are three prisoners that have been imprisoned in a cave for their whole life. They’ve only seen the same wall this whole time and their only source of light would is a fire which is behind them which creates shadows. At one point a prisoner is able to free himself from the chains, when he goes out he realizes that everything he’s been seeing on the walls…

1. Did Rizal supported the 1896 Philippine Revolution of bonifacio? Why or why not? - I don’t think he did. If I were to tell based on what I understand in his point of view, he don’t want Filipinos to revolt yet, because he knew that this will not succeed. But on the other hand, I think that he supported it on his own ways. He wanted Filipinos to be free, one of the reason why he build the group “La liga Filipina, it’s because he wanted too, to revolt but I think he is still waiting for the…

a Looking into the Preface or the introductory section of the book, what was/were the author's objective/s in writing the book and did he achieve that/those objective/s? The objective of William Henry Scott in writing the book was to answer the question: What did the Spaniards actually say about the Filipino People when they first met them? This question led him to provide answers and details about the recurring systems on the Philippine culture before the colonial period that will surely give…

This migration was important because the Anglo-Americans’ belief in social hierarchy. As written in The Devil in Silicon Valley, the Anglo-Americans who settled in San Jose began to exert their social superiority through racial ideology. “We desire only a white population in California; even the Indians among us, as far as we have seen, are more of a nuisance than a benefit to the country, we would love to get rid of them (Stephen J. Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley, pg…