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It’s taken a little while for me to right this. I’ve just been thinking how to word my feeling about the department. They’re definitely positive feelings, it’s just though to find words how to describe them. Ever since I can remember I’ve had a passion for creating stories. In high school, a time I was writing amateur play scripts for fun and drawing out storyboards in colored pencil, I was encouraged by a classmate to go check out the theater department. Most of the plays we did at that…

The Environmental Protection Agency defines frackings as “A well stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of underground resources; including oil, natural gas, geothermal energy, and even water”(Environmental Protection Agency). This process, employed to release natural gas involves drilling deep into the ground and shooting a high pressure water solution into rock formations in order to release the gas inside. Although the history of fracking can be traced back to the 1940’s, it…

Stephanie Kuehn is a clinical psychologist and author best known for writing several freestanding psychological thrillers. She debuted her writing career with Charm & Strange, which won the William Morris Award in 2014. Stephanie Kuehn raised in Berkeley, California, a quirky sort of place full of bookstores. As an infant, she was adopted by a father that was an editor and journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle. As such, hence she spent a lot of her childhood with persons that had a passion…

self-respect. It took my self-regard, and it took my self-worth. It wasn’t until I left Poway High School that I looked back and decided to take it all back. Through reflecting on my time at Poway High School and through making new experiences here at UC Santa Cruz, I have realized that just as much as a school can build self-worth it can break it down. Both articles attempt to grasp the idea of how education plays a role in making a student’s self-worth. James Baldwin by pleading to teachers to…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the history of Spanish Colonial Missions in Texas in order to gain a better understanding of Mission San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz. Spanish Colonial missions in Texas have a rich archaeological and ethnohistorical record that provide insight to daily lives of missions as well as the long-term processes of the Spanish government on the North American continent. The Spanish government funded mission projects in order to spread Catholicism as well as adopt the…

On July 17, 2004, Eric Garner, an African American man, died in Staten Island, New York City after a New York Police officer used chokehold for around 20 seconds while arresting him. The NYC Medical examiner's officer concluded the cause of Garner’s death was because of his poor health and was not because of the chokehold that the officer had used. The police officer approached Garner because of the suspicion of tax evasion, that Garner was selling cigarettes without tax. Garner told the officer…

Before joining the PharmD program at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, my understanding of the role of the pharmacist was limited to independent community pharmacy, retail pharmacy, and inpatient pharmacy. I didn’t truly understand that statement of what it meant to have a wide range of career choices. The many possible career choices and areas of focus that I can pursue with a PharmD degree was the most eye-opening thing I learned during Pharmacy 501, Introduction to Pharmacy…

This paper has three aims. The utmost importance is to contribute to the understanding of the reinterpretation on the 35 year regime of Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911), highlighting the major achievements increasing the Mexican economy, and the fall of the thirty-five year regime. Despite the previous interpretation of Porfirio Diaz regime as an enigma, his government considered as a dictatorship, and inflicting injustice all around the country. It has been said that it is better to regret an action…

I think of writing as an opportunity for me to express my opinions, find out more about myself, and connect with others. To me, writing is more than just printing words onto paper; writing can inspire, move, and drive the actions and thoughts of individuals. The process behind writing varies from person to person and can be easy for some but difficult for others. For me, my writing process has been morphed and crafted into systematic procedures over the years, largely by California public school…

Throughout my time in high school, my advisors and teachers told me, “You will find your meaning in life in college.” This resonated with me throughout my high school career as I tempted to venture into every career option that came to mind. From struggling in AP Chemistry to creating soundtracks in Media Arts with glee. There were times where I felt unsure of my purpose in life. Every time these moments hit, I would think of the words “You will find your meaning in life.” The concept of…