University of California, Berkeley

professor, he is currently 78 years old, on May, 15, 2005 he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician, and former professional bodybuilder. Al Young grew up in the rural South of villages and small towns, and in urban, industrial Detroit. From 1957 to 1960 he attended the University of Michigan. He wrote 5 novels, 2 cheap books, 5 musical memoirs, and 8 full…

Gioia, Ted. History of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. 1997. Print. The book tells history about how Jazz became its own type of genre in music. Jazz ascends smooth beats in the ecstatic sounds that changed Jazz in 1950, which is modern day Jazz. The book contains great detail, giving us information by writers and veteran artist on their perception of Jazz. Ted Gioia covers the historical events of Jazz up to the year of 1995. Publisher from Oxford tell the exciting stories of how…

2000 Word Pre-Essay The American Dream There is so many things that people don’t know about the American dream because a lot of the facts about the American dream because some but one in the 19th century dream places help the society about the determined Germans fled the failed revolution in the 1840s lots of people have noticed that the despite of the American experience is one sociologist of success and families everything that is in the American dream is all true and when it is true…

Erik Homberger Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Erikson did not like going to school. He studied art and language but not his general core classes. He chose at that time not to go to college after graduating high school. He traveled Europe wanting to become an artist; it was a hard time traveling by foot and only having to sleep under bridges at night. After traveling around Europe for about a year, keeping a diary record of his travel experiences, enduring the harshness of having to live…

remember when you wake up. Sure, if you’re untrained, you will only remember bits and pieces of them, but not enough to differentiate one dream from another during REM sleep. What if you could turn your dreams off altogether? At the University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have done just that on mice. What the researchers inserted a optogenetic switch — Optogenetics being a biological technique which involves the use of light to control cells in living tissue, typically neurons, that…

Mark Bingham’s goal in life was to help others and be a hero, which is what he became on September 11, 2001. Mark Bingham was born on May 22, 1970. Bingham was an only child who grew up in Los Gatos California. He attended Los Gatos High School and went to the University of California, Berkeley. Mark was an athlete. He played rugby throughout high school and college. He also played for the San Francisco Fog…

I grew up in Berkeley, California. A city that is located next to two major cities in the US, contains one of the top public universities and has over a 100,000 people. Going to a high school of over 3,500 students has exposed me to a variety of cultures, political beliefs and opportunities. Each day I was in class I would learn something new from those who surrounded me. To list a few examples one girl was a professional ballroom dancer, one would train horses with the family at the local race…

August Vollmer was the “father of American police professionalism” (Walker & Katz, 2012, p. 36). He served as chief of police in Berkeley, California from 1905 – 1932, and served as a consultant for police departments around the country. He influenced many more reforms in policing than any other person, and his reforms continue to reform policing today (Walker & Katz, 2012, p. 36). Vollmer believed that there needed to be a reform of policing due to perceived corrupt police agencies and the…

There are multiple variations for defining race. There is one definition, however, that most people confine to which is race being a group of people who have different and similar biological traits. Commonly, race is defined as if it is a term that is solid or concrete, but really it is socially fabricated. In society, race is based on the difference in physical appearance which is determined by the most apparent trait; skin color. Although race is socially constructed, the biological sense that…

Assessments in California, June 2007), the standard path to higher education traditionally starts in high schools where Latinos and African-Americans are less likely than Caucasians or Asian students to take advanced placement courses or have SAT or ACT scores that could be used to enter a four-year institution. Therefore, these students will use the community college path to hone, improve, and sharpen their skills in the face of inadequate high school academic preparation. In California, over…