Santa Barbara

Page 25. A wrecked, dust-covered Ford is the only car visible inside the Wilsons’ garage. Page 114. In the sweltering heat, Nick describes a car as being on the “edge of combustion” Page 136. Nick, Tom, Jordan drive off “toward[s] death through the cooing twilight” after wrapping up the face off between Tom and Gatsby. CM. Fitzgerald portrays cars as being wrecked and mistreated by nature. The wrecked Ford is coated in dust, the decay and remains of what use to be living, and a car is on the…

Studios, and on to being a playwriting teacher at David Hwang Playwriting Institute. Most recently Wong has been an assistant professor at Bowdoin College and teaches playwriting at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Santa…

Today we will focus on a painting produced by Gong Xian, Landscape, 1689, Qing Dynasty. I will first analyze the components that make up this painting. Then I will take an aspect of the painting and relate it to a comparable element out here in Santa Barbara. From this we can deduce if the artist morphed his own painting to a more unrealistic view of nature. From first glance, we obviously can tell this painting depicts a Chinese landscape. We see a mountain, trees, and some rocks. I have…

GM Foods Are Risky “What are GMO’s?” is one question the public should be asking. Most foods people consume on a daily basis consist of at least one GMO ingredient. Genetically modified organisms are foods that have been altered in a science lab and have been manipulated into resisting threats, such as pesticides (Roundup Ready) and certain weather. Scientists do genetic engineering, in which DNA is taken from another organism and placed into the crop they want altered. GMOs are harming people…

In literature, characters can either care about other or be completely careless and selfish and these actions could lead to others demise. In The Great Gatsby, By Scott F. Fitzgerald, one of the main characters, Daisy, displays these careless actions. This novel takes place in the 1920’s and mainly describes the toxic relationships between Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom. Gatsby is a wealthy, new money man who has spent his life after the war trying to win Daisy back. The only problem is that Daisy is…

Vinci. His mother named him after De Vinci because she was looking at his artwork when she felt Leo kick for the first time. Leo launched his career on commercials when he was only fourteen. After commercials, he played in a soap opera named “Santa Barbara.” Not much later he played in a sitcom for one season called “Growing Pains” as a homeless boy named Luke in the seventh season. He also played in a tv series called “Parenthood” based on the movie “Parenthood”…

Introduction I saw Radford University’s production of Junie B. in Jingle bells, Batman smells on Saturday, December 3rd. Junie B. was a popular children’s book by Barbara Parks. Her books have sold over 60 million copies in North America alone and the series was on the New York Times bestseller list for 180 weeks. Parks passed away on Friday, November 15th, 2013. This play was adapted from Park’s 25th book by Allison Gregory and was debuted on November 15th, 2009 and ran until December 27, 2009…

Many people often confuse feminism with misandry, leading to the adoption of preconceived ideas that feminism is a sexist political movement against males on the basis of “systematic oppression” of females by males. Barbara Kingsolver uses the journey of the protagonist in her novel Animal Dreams as an allusion and rejection to this commonly held belief and to tell the story of its western origins. Kingsolver creates this allusion via the creation of references and a foil between the protagonist…

could talk about but I am going to focus on some of the important milestones and hardships that I have come across over the years. This is a story about certain parts of my life and how I found my way to Cal State Channel Islands. I grew up in Santa Barbara for most of my life. My parents adopted me as a baby and I am very grateful for their love and support over the years. When I was growing up, I knew I “felt” different. I couldn’t understand why and I wondered why I didn’t look like my…

2012, the most successful female beach volleyball player with 112 individual championship wins in domestic and international competition is her. Early life She was born july 30,1997, Angels , California,U.S . She grew up playing beach volleyball at Santa Monica pier With her parents.And her and her father teamed up and played a first beach volleyball tournament when she was nine years old. High school She went to Newport harbor high school. She helped her team win the state championship in…