Southern California

My stomping grounds is in California, more specifically Monterey Park which is a 30 minute drive from downtown L.A. Being a Californian always bring pre assumed types of people, either you're a southern or northern Californians. People always assume that southern Californians are very laid back or the party type and that northern Californians are very tech savvy because of Silicon Valley. We are always being compared between northern and southern Californians. Being from Monterey Park…

Located in southern California, the so-called Inland Empire actually refers to two densely populated counties- San Bernardino and Riverside. These two counties cover 27,000 square miles, and boasts a combined population of 4 million. This makes the region as the 13th largest metropolitan area in the United States, and the fastest growing area in the state of California. It is expected that the growth of the region will be sustained in the next few years, with a steady population growth rate. In…

The Yurok tribe lived in the northwest cone of what today is California. Some of its people lived in villages along 45 miles of the Lower Klamath River. The tribe was one of three tribes – Karok, Tolowa, and Yurok. Yurok territory also ran along the Pacific Coast from Little River in the north, to Trinidad Bay in the south, in addition on the tribe’s inland territory along the Klamath River. Today the land would be in the northern part of Humboldt County and continue north though much of what is…

The Tehama County Resource Conservation District pledged with the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and Aerial Information Systems (AIS) to create a fine scale, spatially and floristically, exact vegetation chart of the Lassen Foothills venture region. This zone includes a 108,400 section of land allotment of eastern Tehama County and spreads three substantial packages: South Denny Ranch, Tehama Wildlife Area, and Dye Creek Preserve. The undertaking zone speaks to an organically different…

Gross State Product (GSP) in California in 2012 was $2,125,717 million, which then increased to $2,202,678 million in 2013. The change in GSP for the state of California was increased by $76,961 million between these two years. Compared to Colorado, the GSP of California is extremely high. In 2013, Colorado had a GSP of $294,443 million, while California had a GSP of $2,202,678 million. The per capita relationship between these two states is similar, with California having a higher GSP per…

Did you know about an indian tribe that lived in northern California? The Shasta Native Americans lived in northern California and Oregon. At the top of the map in purple is where they lived. They were already there when a spanish explorer claimed the land for Spain in the mid-1500s. They lived in cedar bark teepees and grass mat houses in the summer and winter pit houses in the winter. I made a winter pit house. The cedar bark teepees were semi-permanent shelters with very long strips of…

and has 16 days blocked out between December 19 and January 2 (Annual Passports). The third pass is the Disney Deluxe Passport and it is $599 and has a lot of blackout days and is $41.67 (Annual Passport). The last type of pass is the Disney Southern California Select Passport and is $329 with monthly payment of $19.17 it has mainly blackout dates (Annual Passports). The parking is only free if you purchase the Disney Signature Plus Pass and the Disney Signature Pass otherwise it is $17 each…

Studies show that in the 2011-2012 winter season, the state of California received nearly 300 inches less snowfall than it did the previous winter. While many of California’s dry winters are a direct result of ridges off of the west coast, climatologists suggest the drop in precipitation during the 2011-2012 winter was due to below average sea surface temperatures, or La Niña (Seager et al.). La Niña is the result of cooling sea surface temperatures that lead to an overall temperature of the…

California’s Political Landscape California is a Democratic state, and it looks blue. The U.S senators and congressional representatives are both Democrats. There is also a greater number in Democrats in state legislative houses and offices. Barack Obama won 61% of election vote in 2008. He went agains Republican Mitt Romney, 50-40% in November 2011. Differentiating a liberal and a conservative, it appears that the most Californian falls towards conservative. California falls under citizens…

alone is full of significant events that usually fill our history books. Slavery was prevalent and resulted in violation of human and civil rights. In California, started to advocate for statehood, and civil leaders who wanted to develop a growing region and also to gain power were so excited to have a new civil government. Thus, the California Constitution was drafted by 48 delegates in 1849, aiming to enforce a legal order in this vast territory. The first two sections of this constitution…