The California Aggie

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder, begins with its focus on a bridge in Peru spanning between Lima and Cuzco. This specific bridge was beautiful and thought to be indestructible. The bridge of San Luis Rey collapsed suddenly, taking five people down with it. This troubled the locals and caught the attention of an Italian monk, Brother Juniper. This man had dedicated his life to using science and reason to prove God’s justice. Brother Juniper said, “But this collapse of the bridge of…

An action/crime series such as Narcos or Metastasis seemed to always be the easiest genre to attract both United States and Latin America. The attraction from the series comes from the action and thriller rather than the script and chemistry. However, in order to attract the Latino community with series that are comedy, romance or drama, the show needs to bring somewhat of a resemblance to a Telenovela and familiarity. Telenovelas are the reflection to what Latinos are currently interested in.…

Rush Hour: Multicultural Yet Dangerous Among the many California-related films on the list, I chose the “Rush Hour” because it was one of the series of movies I had enjoyed watching it when I was young. The film's main story is about the process of finding Chinese Consul’s kidnapped daughter by Detective Carter and Lee and incidents happening along the processes. Throughout the film, it suggested lots of different images about the California. Although there are lots of images that are shown in…

treatments, the medical experiments, and other horrors found in other world prisons of the time (and, sadly, still to this day) were abhorred by Warden Johnston and the BOP. Johnston is rightly credited with eliminating these punishments in the California prison system. He did not stand for them at Alcatraz.” (Torture and…

000 sewing shops nationwide employing one million workers, including an estimated 140,000 mostly Latino and Asian workers--80 percent women-- who are employed in 5,000 legal sewing shops and 1,000 sweatshops that operate without authorization in California”(Immigration and Sweatshops). The workers in the sweatshops are mostly women, since they have tiny hands they can work faster than men. The rooms are crowded and it’s easier for women to get around. With the bad conditions women were often…

potential damages from fracking and state that it is safe and “there is little evidence that water supplies have been contaminated.” However, the people of California disagree with this and have taken action into their own hands. What is Hydraulic Fracking? Hydraulic fracking is the process…

Furthermore, Latino media in America also has a strong influence over how populations are perceived in a society. In “Closing the Telenovela’s Borders: Vivo por Elena’s Tidy Nation,” scholar Adriana Estill analyses Latino telenovelas as a platform where “nationality, nationalism, and Nation are produced and reproduced” (Estill 75). Through government involvement and censorship, telenovelas can create “an ideal space where the ideal citizen is constructed and disseminated” (Estill 85). Racial…

Texas has grown rapidly in the past few decades. The state of Texas has attracted people from everywhere because of the profound high-tech movement, availability of several natural resources, and other numerable sources. The finding of oil and its’ reasonable prices in Texas drove a lot of people into the state. “From 1970 to 1980, as oil prices spiraled upward and people flocked to Texas, its population grew by 2.71 percent per year, while the nation’s increased at a 1.14 percent pace”…

The policy environment of transportation affects transit managers by enforcing procedure or protocol that may conflict with the transit agency’s goals and mission. Transit managers are responsible for coordinating and overseeing the work activities to ensure that they comply with national, state, and local transportation policies. It is important for transportation managers to understand different policies because it provides guidance to an efficient and effective transportation agency. For…

“ ‘Did you see that guy?’ one officer asked. ‘Yeah, he was one pale black man,’ another chipped in. ‘Do you think he’ll die?’ The response was ‘No way! You or I, we’d die, but not a negro. They’re too dumb to go into shock.’ ” These were the words of Los Angeles Police officers in 1992, in this same year one of the most violent riots in American History occurred. Due to the discrimination of the minorities in Los Angeles the beating of one man becomes the push needed to send the minorities,…