Santa Monica College

I am one of them. Santa Monica College was my first stop after high-school, almost 20 years ago. Growing up it seemed that I was always marginalized. I was the “darker skinned kid” who didn’t speak English and whose parents had funny accents. I recall being 7 years old and being cornered by a bunch of kids my age, and being told that my skin color was not liked by “God”. I realized early on that I was different. This difference, for an immigrant, is a hard pill to swallow. My high school years were riddled with days where I felt alone, misunderstood and frankly depressed, and this reflected in my grades. In fact, in my senior year, my grades suffered immensely that I was on the verge of not graduating. I was not lazy, nor was I ill-equipped,…

Santa Monica’s politics are largely progressive and they translate to the types of people (such as artists) and businesses who call the city home. One resident says Santa Monica is what happens when “hippies get rich”. Thus, there are many upsides to living and working in this community. Primarily, the various government departments and social agencies, which make up some of the fabric and networks of this community, are plentiful and available. In addition, the city’s economy is strong,…

Background Info. Santa barbara is a city on the central California coast. The population in Santa Barbara from 2013 was 90,412. Santa Barbara is known for many things, but one in particular is its arts, and how it has aspired artist for generations. It all started approximately 13,000 years ago, when the first native americans arrived. With this there were many impacted events of Santa Barbara, the Mission period, The rancho period, The victorian period (SARC), The Earthquake of 1925, and the…

just sunshine and rainbows. She is a daughter of two immigrants from Mexico. To get to college it took hard work, determination and independence. She was extremely fierce and committed to prove people wrong. She did not self pity herself, instead she found ways to get out of tough situations. Her skinny jeans, and converse may lead you to thinking she is a basic teenager, but that is not true, she is unique in so many ways! Having the opportunity to interview Dayana showed me how…

guys or the girls in the group are dating each other, but that quickly changes with the emerging love story of Ross and Rachel and eventually Monica and Chandler. The theme song is telling of what the entire show is about, “no one told you life would be this way. Your job’s a joke, your broke...you’re always stuck in second gear. It hasn’t been your day, your month, or even your year...but…

the event of what happened between Bill Clinton and herself is deeply regrettable. The cause of humiliation to herself could also be called as constant harassment. She was branded, name-called, and was defined as a sexual object by the media. She argues that she’s a woman and she’s a real human being that made a mistake like any other people would. She wants to help the people who have been shamed on the internet and not let them go through the same shameful process she has been. At her age of…

All eyes were gleaming upon me, watching my sins placed before my bosom, the scarlet letter. My heart was pumping out of my chest, palms beginning to sweat as I walked up the creaky, vintage stairs on the way to my punishment. Public shaming. There are many long lasting effects as shown in Source A, The Scarlet Letter, Source B, Monica Lewinsky’s TED Talk, and Source C, an article entitled “Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence?” In The Scarlet Letter, Governor Bellingham requires Hester…

Many people testified, some more than once. The "Lewinsky Scandal, sensation that enveloped the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1998-99, leading to his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate" (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 1). It all started when Monica Lewinsky became an unpaid intern at the White House in June of 1995. By November of that year, Lewinsky and Clinton had been having a sexual relationship. Lewinsky had eventually went from being an intern…

became a thing of the past? In The Scarlet Letter (Source A), Hester Prynne is known for being a sinner and is shamed because of it. In The Price of Shame (Source B), Monica Lewinski has been publicly shamed for having unnormal feelings for her boss, which happens to be the president of the United States. Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence? (Source C), the article explains how people on the internet can say whatever they want and not have any consequences. Public Shame impacts an…

The show Friends was a sitcom that ran on NBC from 1994-2004 and it featured its main cast of six friends living in New York. The shows main characters, Monica Geller, Rachel Green, Phoebe Buffay, Ross Geller, Chandler Bing, and Joey Tribbiani, all encompassed a different character type and were well known for being these characters. T.V. sitcoms tend to include some or all of the typical character types we are used to seeing. There are eight character types that can be present in a sitcom,…