San Jose State University

Rwandan Mountains for almost two decades, I am Dian Fossey. On January 16th, 1932, I was born in San Francisco, California. When I was young my parents divorced, so I grew up with my mother and stepfather. While I attended school at the University of California, I was also working at a ranch in Montana at the age of 19, where I soon developed my love for animals. Years later on 1952 I enrolled at San Jose Sate and I soon graduated in 1954. I graduated with a degree in occupational therapy. In…

Horses come and go but family is always there. In the book The Red Pony written by John Steinbeck a young boy named Jody learns about the importance of animals and family. John Steinbeck writes about the countryside and uses vivid detail to describe where he grew up. Steinbeck is a well known author with many popular novels including The Red Pony. In this book Steinbeck successfully shows the many lessons a young boy has to learn to be able to grow into a man. In the book The Red Pony there…

Dalton School, during which time he studied jazz privately with Warne Marsh and Eddie Daniels, and studied advanced mathematics at New York University and Columbia University. He earned his Bachelor's, Phi Beta Kappa, in Mathematics and Philosophy at Harvard University in 1989, whereupon he entered the Doctoral program in Computer Science at Stanford University on a National Science Foundation Fellowship. There he pursued research in artificial Intelligence, specializing in reinforcement…

According to the ABC 13 Eyewitness news, recently in Houston, hundreds of parents let their children to opt out of taking the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR exams (In Protest, Parents Keep Student’s Home during STAAR Test Days) For Texas, the STAAR test measures a student’s ability to move on to the next grade starting in 3rd grade (In Protest, Parents Keep Student’s Home during STAAR Test Days). Within this past year, about 500 parents in Texas choose for their…

100%, impaired water at 97%, and solid waste at 94%. These statistics have many residents concerned, including Barrio Logan College Institute (BLCI) alumni and employee Francisco “Panchito” Martinez. Panchito is currently a student at San Diego State University but was born and raised in Barrio Logan. Panchito believes that his chronic respiratory disease (asthma) has been directly affected by the air quality in the community. “Growing up…

focus of the attack was principally in the capital of the country, San Salvador. The geographic advantages of the city were many, as it was located in close proximity to the San Salvador Volcano, as well as prominent guerilla outposts and strongholds in San Jacinto and Guazapa. (McClintock, 1992) The offensive was strongly reinforced by the FMLN's quick initial entrance into the densely populated areas of the urbanized northern San Salvador. The areas of Soyapango, Apopa, Ciudad Delgado,…

writes about Chinese American women and her experience with different cultures. Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California. She grew up in California and in Switzerland. She studied English and linguistics at San Jose State University and the University of California. Amy Tan was a successful business writer, in 1987 when she took her Chinese immigrant mother to revisit China. Tan had difficulty accepting her Chinese heritage. She wanted to look like an American and wanted to…

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When I first came to the Greater Washington Community, I felt shocked at what I had seen. Such a poor and harsh community only a 10 minute drive from Santa Clara University. It seemed like a sharp contrast from Santa Clara’s safe and happy environment. Three things stood out in my mind from my first visit to the Greater Washington Community. The first problem is the gang violence. The second is prostitution. To this day I am still appalled that Silicon Valley, with its billions of dollars in…

According to pewhispanics.org the Texas population consists of 38% Hispanics, 88% are Mexican and 12% are non-Mexican. A total of 9,794 000 is the Hispanic population in the state. With that being said, the Hispanics are becoming a majority in the state. An immensely diversity of Hispanic population in the Lone Star State play an important role in the country, such as leaders from the past, politicians, famous writers, astronauts and even celebrities.…