The California Aggie

The Great Smoky Mountains is where Thomas Wolfe’s play The Mountains takes place. Although Wolfe doesn’t delve deep into the environment of the mountains themselves one can feel the mountains surrounding the play itself. The Great Smoky Mountains is a place full of plant life and animals. Surrounding all this plant life and animals are the mountains themselves and the history they tell. The Great Smoky Mountains at its highest areas is roughly about 6000 feet above sea level (Hadley 1). These…

The San Francisco Bay area is, and has been experiencing an epidemic. The epidemic is the suicides the county experiences every year. According to the San Francisco Suicide prevention website, there are 100 deaths per year in the City of San Francisco. Of that number, only three percent are directly resulting from jumping of the bridge. Using money to make the Golden Gate Bridge would not only cause a decrease in tourism due to the drop in aesthetic value, but it would also use money that could…

Ashfall In Ceder Falls, Iowa Alex Halprin thought staying alone in on the weekend would be awesome, until Yellowstones’ Supervolcano explodes and his house comes crashing down on him, with him narrowly escaping death. He stays with his neighbors, hiding in their Jacuzzi while their lives apart. He goes on a trek across Iowa to his uncles farm in Illinois, where the rest of his family is staying. Along the way, he meets a man named Target, with a big bullseye tattoo on the back of his head…

The issue of the California drought is one that has recently become front and center on the minds of its citizens. For the last couple of years California has been experiencing a drought noticeably hotter and drier than anything that we who live here are used to. In fact, the first six months of 2014 were the hottest California has experienced since 1934, the previous “hottest year”, beaten out by a whole degree. In fact, the NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reported that…

The three years starting from fall 2011 to fall 2014 was the driest since record keeping started in 1895. California is now going into its fourth year of severe drought. A drought is a period of time when the environment is critically dry that often cause water related problems. California is in serious trouble and if we do not do anything about it, there will be dangerous consequences that include many economic problems. You can help decrease the severity of the drought by saving water in your…

The Asian American Movement The Asian American Movement began in the late 1960s and continued throughout the 70s and 80s. The earliest and key moments of this movement began in California. Many factors contributed to the movement as Americans of Asian descents joined together to fight their shared persecution and to rally for acknowledgement and acceptance. The term “Oriental was replaced by “Asian American” as a clear message that Americans of Asian descents should be recognized as equals and…

California, has attracted many students from all across the world in hopes of expanding their education. The Prominent UC/CSU education system is considered to be above-par in comparison to any other educational system in the United States. The Community Colleges are also worth mentioning. Santa Barbara City College, which is located in Southern California, is considered to be “The #1 Community College in the Nation.” due to its knowledgeable professors and high transfer rates to a four-year…

California Hill, encountered immediately after crossing the South Platte, was the first major grade faced by the emigrants and me. This necessitated a climb of 240 feet in just over 1½ miles in order to reach the plateau between the North and South Platte…

The California Coastal Act was enacted in the 1970s and it required that the 76 coastal cities and counties in the state must prepare and maintain a local coastal plan (LCP). The LCP incorporates the policies outlined in the Coastal Act and must be approved by the California Coastal Commission (CCC). A LCP is the city's specific, long-term coastal management plan, which includes a land use plan, zoning ordinances and other implementing actions (Fischer, 1999). Instead of having one big LCP, Los…

end of the Civil War up until the late 1920’s into 1930, immigrants faced many obstacles, fortunately these obstacles have been triumphed. Around 1848 when California joined the United States, hundreds of thousands of immigrants flooded the United States in hope of finding gold and starting a new, richer life. The population of California grew from 10,000 to 350,000 within a matter of just a few years, most of which were all young and single men. The majority of the population of the…