Southern California

I have come to realize and that this city is not for me. My family moved to this part of California for ministry purposes. Therefore, as a young ten year old girl, I did not have a choice on whether or not I could have stayed where we were from which was in Southern California. Recently, I have had a stronger love for my hometown, Long Beach California. I have many family members all over Southern California, however, my maternal side of my family mostly reside in Long Beach. My hope now is that…

Q1: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was settled in 1848 between the U.S and Mexico, where Mexican citizens and their property living in California, New Mexico and Texas were to be incorporated into the U.S. During the signing of the treaty, General Santa Anna proposed that there would be a buffer zone separating both counties. Initially, General Santa Anna hoped that this new buffer zone would help in defending attacks in the frontier. Mexican citizens were given the option to stay in the United…

controversial genres would be Hip-Hop and Rap along with urban black pop. Today, music is still pivotal. Music can personify people, give voice expressions to those who otherwise may not be heard. At the Super Bowl 50 halftime show in Santa Clara, California at the Levi’s stadium, actress, mogul and singer, Beyonce performed her newest single since her 2014 album, self entitled, “BEYONCE” called, “Formation.” This marked history as Bey’s most straightforward, controversial and…

My grandfather from Greenville Mississippi, my mom is from Queens New York, and my dad is from a village called Les Baux-de-Provence in southern France. These are my family members who have helped me develop my own culture because they raised me. The food I eat aligns with my dad 's culture the most because he is the chef in my family, I tried to follow his footsteps by learning how to…

the beginning of many more conscientious eating Veggie Connection Events! Being a Southern California native I discovered the same issue surrounding Veggie Events (Festivals) in the Inland Empire area. They are being held in major cities i.e. Los Angeles, Northern California, San Diego, and Orange County. Summer of 2016 birth the 1st Annual Veggie Connection Event in Inland Empire (Rancho Cucamonga, California). With an abundance of plant eaters in the Inland Empire, The Veggie Connection…

Los Angeles was called “El Pueblo del la Reina de Los Angeles”, or “The Town of the Queen of Angels”(Hively). This was around the time when Spain still believed that they still ruled California, but there was hardly any Spanish settlers. “Spanish rule was overthrown in 1821 by Mexico, which then claimed California but had little luck in attracting settlers”(Hively). Then after that there was a war called the “Mexican-American War”(Hively). Oil was later discovered by the late nineteenth century…

conversation about California, its droughts, and how agriculture is affected and how it can be amended to survive said droughts. I wish to do so by showing what are essentially what kinds of droughts California has face before. I also want to try and show how some other places have attempted to help themselves through their own methods by going through what they did for those and what they attempted to do in case of other future droughts. Drought is a terrible issue that in a place like…

Yuma/southern arizona. Irrigation has been shaped in Yuma/southern Arizona in many ways due to many reasons. It's been long known that Yuma has exemplary Farming land, but we needed a way to utilize and profit from it. Although at the start we had a difficult time irrigating the farmland. “Several private…

part replaced lookout structures. Furthermore, there are more forest visitors now than back in the day, and most of them have cell phones to report a fire when they see smoke or flames. In severe fire seasons, as we have recently experienced in California, some lookouts are staffed because they offer views not covered by other systems. For the most part, however, they are “dinosaurs,” a dying breed of fire detection. Many were removed from their mountaintop perches during the 1970s and 80s.…

The history of the Newport News Shipyard is very fascinating because of the the founder and his history, and how the USS Midway was built there. But, when was it founded? Was there other ships built there? These questions will be answered as I tell you all about the Newport News Shipyard and why it is so fascinating. The Newport News Shipyard is 131 years old. That means that it was founded in the year clof 1886. It is located in the city of Newport News in Virginia. The Newport News…