Santa Cruz

According to the Journalist’s Resource a report was done in 2013 that showed violent crimes had dropped to 5.4 percent in the United States. This was true for big and small cities in the United States. In Santa Cruz, California, predictive policing resulted in a nineteen percent drop in burglaries over a six month period in 2011. In the 2011 Times’s magazine, they named predictive policing as one of the fifty best inventions made. Many more states are experiencing…

What if General Washing ton had been killed in battle during the American Revolution? What if the North had lost the Civil War to the South? To think about these occurrences, you have to imagine the unimaginable. What would the world look like without America? The United States has been even nicknames from its own citizens and people of other countries, such as, “Idiots,Powerful, Overrated, and Self-Absorbed.” America is an idea that people can acquire wealth not by taking it, but by earning it.…

Science Paper Marine biologists study the behaviors of all marine organisms. They also have a lot of knowledge on all marine organisms. However, everything there is to know about the carnivorous great white sharks’ species hasn’t been discovered yet. Scientists can only do so much with these organisms in a controlled environment (or captivity) before an incident occurs where the shark either dies or puts others in danger. Erik Vance’s article, “Why Great White Sharks Are Still a Mystery to Us”…

of solitary is to offer a chance for prisoners to rehabilitate themselves; but in fact, it goes to the opposite way and even go worst, such as destroys the inmates’ social skill. Craig Haney, a professor psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz, points out, “Everyone’s identity is socially created: it’s through your relationships that you understand yourself as a mother or father…. a hero or villain. But after years of isolation, many prisoners change in another way…” (qtd in…

When it comes to mental illnesses, it is expected that the afflicted person receive help in order to combat their illness. You might expect the same for drug addiction but in cases including illegal substances, the “treatment” is anything but helpful. In the many readings we have had, it was brought up frequently that drug usage was a symptom of the current lifestyle separated from nature most of the human population lives. This lifestyle was described multiple times as being one that is…

My parents emigrated to this country thirty-four years ago from Mexico. My father had a grade school education and my mother had a middle school education. They had a deep desire to improve their lives, and having that American dream everybody talks about. The American dream they had in mind was giving their children what they couldn’t have, due to the lack of funds. Due to their limited English and lack of education the only available work was low paying manual labor. My mother worked in the…

In his work One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has perfected magical realism in such a way that it even makes the peculiar events that take place in Macondo seem normal. In the case of magical realism, the reader is subjective to a world in which anything is plausible. This differs from a fairytale setting where everything tends to be over the top and dramatic because the writer will subtly integrate the oddness of the subject into the lives of the character making it appears…

As adults in the “real world,” we are expect to take responsibility for our own actions by both learning from a less than ideal life experience and paying back a debt, whether through finances or with a change in future behavior. Donald doesn’t see it that way though, and appears to have no sense of the value of money and how tough it was for Pete to earn it. He also lacks the physical capability to pay his brother back because before Pete is even finished paying off Donald’s bills he has found…

Vanilla is one of the most expensive spices on the market, second only to saffron. Madagascar produces nearly 80% of the world's vanilla, yet they are one of the poorest countries in the world. The farmers work in harsh conditions and are compensated disproportionately to the amount of effort that is required for the cultivation of vanilla. The Madagascar government allows the police force to oversee vanilla, as the value of vanilla creates a biased agenda. The police are subsequently corrupted…

animal. “On January 22, 2010, Brunette was sentenced to a year in county jail and five years probation during which time he is to have no dogs. He is required to participate in mental health treatment and must pay over $100,000 in restitution to Santa Cruz County Animal Services. On Friday, December 11, 2009, a jury found Brunette guilty on all 10 counts of animal cruelty – two felonies and eight misdemeanors.” This paragraph shows that abusing animal will not only send you to jail, but also…