Southern California

INTRODUCTION Dana Point is a city between Los Angeles and San Diego in southern California, but is best known for its harbor. Just north of the harbor lies a rocky beach with large cliffs only tens of meters from the sea, depending on tide level. Cliffs along the coast of southern California are prone to landslides due to their rock composition (mostly sedimentary) and high erosion rates from the sea but become increasingly stressed from overlying man-made structures and landscaping practices.…

least Walker lake. Its bordering states are Arizona, California, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah. Those states are important, so remember them because i might give you a pop quiz. Nevada’s major cities are Carson City, Reno, and of course Las Vegas. But i don't think Las Vegas beats the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam is a hydroelectric plant. That was hard, well lets move on to the indian tribes. The native tribes are the Koso, The northern and southern paiute, panamint, shoshone, the ute and the small…

the only Latina transcontinental union organizer and worked tirelessly for the causes she cared about. This particular exhibit would focus on her time organizing cannery workers in California. She is a perfect example of the impact Latinos have had on "Making a Living" and her work in California both enriches California history and American Latino history as a whole. This lesson plan would fit…

As I am walking alongside the tall, thick, tan wall, I wonder how much history is stored inside. Two steps past the second entrance door and I am standing in the historical landmark, Mission San Juan Capistrano. Before me is the long courtyard rooms that create the perimeter of the mission, a small garden in the entrance with multiple trails, a beautiful, tall, octagonal fountain filled with green lily pads and white blossomed flowers, and to the left, standing high is what looks like a…

There are two cities who have had a profound impact in my life. Those cities are San Bernardino and Angelus Oaks. Both cities are located in the Inland Empire of Southern California.Both of these cities contribute different feelings and present a separate kind of home to me. When the two cities are compared they seem like completely different places, however they do share some similarities. Although Angelus Oaks and San Bernardino are completely different in weather, scenery, and the sounds one…

I went to Rancho Los Alamitos located at long beach with some of my friends and we really enjoyed this place. When we went inside the receptionist was very nice, she welcomed, gave us maps, told us about the timeline room and the video room, and also offered us a free tour around the house if we want. We went into the video room where we spent around 15 minutes watching a short movie that was talking about the history of the place, in the movie it was said that the story of Rancho Los Alamitos…

Ethnologue I researched the group of the Chimariko tribe and their language. The Chimariko tribe was one of the smallest tribes to live in the Americas. In 1849 the estimated population of the Chimariko’s was 250. The Chimariko lived up in northwestern California along the twenty-mile stretch of the Trinity River. The…

Iroquois villages varied in population, from several hundred to two thousand. The Iroquois traded among themselves for mostly ceremonial and social reasons, and they appear to have engaged in little trade with other groups. In the area of present day California, there were more than three hundred thousand…

duty as it is also the sundial, casting its shadow on a grassy plaza. The creators figured if it is going to be a sundial, why not call it sundial bridge. So than it became the Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay. The span helps connect the northern and southern campuses of Turtle Bay Exploration Park, a 300-acre, $64 million complex that has museums, an aquarium, and bird and animal sanctuaries. These are all joined to a vast network of hiking and bicycling trails that end up reaching Shasta Lake,…

Introduction Postulated to be the result of either a long-runout landslide, or a structural pop-up, the Poverty Hills present a unique problem in the geologic community. Located on the western-most edge of the Basin and Range Province in eastern California (Fig.1), and within the Owens Valley basin, flanked by the Sierra Nevada and Inyo/White mountain ranges to the west and east, respectively. The hills are of particular interest as they represent an unusual combination of lithologies,…