Santa Barbara

As a first generation undocumented college student there is great privilege and pride in attending the University of California, Santa Barbara. However with that there is also many obstacles and struggles that I have faced in order to survive and thrive in this institution, one of them is my need for financial aid. Coming from a low-income, single mother household I do not rely on my mother for financial support because I already know she struggles to feed my siblings and pay their bills. As a…

An oil spill occurred near Santa Barbara, California. The oil spilled from an on-shore pipeline that broke and leaked into a storm drain which unloads into the Pacific Ocean. The size of the spill has been estimated to be over one-thousand gallons. The spill was uncovered due to people experiences a stench while on the beach alerting authorities. The spill was found to have spread to nine miles. Oil spills can affect living organisms because of its chemical components are toxic .Through exposure…

light that passes through substances; lower frequency waves such as microwaves, can pass through objects that visible light does not, like walls. Experiments at both Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) show that wi-fi waves can be used to transmit the whereabouts of objects within enclosed walls. The MIT study showed that people’s movements can be tracked through walls, while the UCSB study how robots can use wi-fi to map the layout…

Leslie A. White, a middle child, was born on January 20, 1900 in Salida, Colorado, to parents, Alvin White and Mildred Millard. Alfred White worked with various railroad companies and Mildred Millard was a stay at home mother. White's father believed in hard work and did not believe in spending very much time with his wife and children. In 1905, when White was five years old, his parents divorced and their father gained custody. White's father uprooted the family and moved them to Kansas City,…

For the next twenty-two years, I would think often of the sister that died. At age twenty-seven I became employed by the County of Santa Barbara and assigned to the Adoption Agency as the administrative support for six social workers. After a few months on the job, I was alphabetically filing a case folder that had the first three letters of my own last name. There was no way to not notice…

The location the interview is held at is in Michoacán, she was born in Santa Barbara August 30th, 1930. She grew up with five brothers and one sister. Her father was a field worker and his father was a field worker as well. She never went to school and started working at an early age. Her mother was unfortunately always sick. Which…

Youth Crime in Latin America I. Introduction: A. Thesis Statement: Although youth crime is a problem that Latin America countries have had for years, the causes of these do not only relate only to the government but also to the family and the society. B. Support 1: The absence of strong family ties that teach teenagers good values can affect their future and make them more vulnerable to youth crime. C. Support 2: The gender and the relations that young people made can affect their perception…

Research conducted by Lyn Ragsdale, Dean of Social Sciences at Rice University, shows that “the occurrence of a presidential speech has a significant, positive effect, relative to other variables, on levels of president’s public support” (Ragsdale 1984, 980). In addition, she maintains, “in making speeches, presidents are able to influence public opinion positively. Republican and Democratic presidents alike improve their popularity by addressing the nation” (Ragsdale 1984, 982). In his book…

to serve and protect are not representative of the populations that they oversee, thus they perceive the behaviour of minorities as being abnormal and overtly criminalize them (Rios, 2011). Sociology Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Victor M. Rios coins the term “misrecognition” to demonstrate the disconnect between a dominate groups interpretation of socially acceptable norms compared to ones’ of visible minorities. In his case study of Ronny, a young African American…

Street through how the Mexicans were seen as a separate group of people who were either labeled as “yesterday” or as a temporary workforce. The Spanish fantasy past was not only seen through Olvera Street, but was demonstrated in the romanticism in Santa Barbara. Olvera Street’s Spanish fantasy past was what the Anglos viewed as “Mexicanness,” whereas the emergence of mission-like architecture and the popularity of the Spanish Past romanticism arose due to Americans wanting to identify with the…