University of California, San Diego

MY TRIP TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1 Alsofayan, Modhi Khalid English Feb 27, 2016 My Trip to Southern California I have been to southern California for two weeks to visit my uncles. I really enjoyed the time I have been there because besides to seeing them, we could visit many great places located in the Golden State – California – such as Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Big Bear, and San Diego. Los Angeles is the second biggest city in the United States. Fortunately, we had the chance to…

Moving to another state was a huge leap into the unknown for me. I knew that going to California could provide me with great opportunities to fulfill my dreams, so I took everyone’s doubts toward me and committed. Upon the day I was admitted to San Diego State University I was ecstatic. Upon the day I was admitted to San Diego State University, I was joyous, but for the wrong reasons. I was happier about proving all of my doubters wrong than I was about making a big accomplishment and attending…

located in my hometown of San Diego, California. The mission of the theater is to broaden multicultural awareness and understanding by dramatizing Asian and Pacific Island stories, arts, and themes for family audiences. The Asian Story Theater began in 1989, when they were dramatizing Chinese folk tales as a project sponsored by the San Diego Chinese Center. Their first production was The White Snake, presented at the Lyceum Space Theatre, and then toured across San Diego County. Then, in 1991,…

THREE MARIJUANA PREVENTION EFFORTS IN CALIFORNIA: UNIQUE ASPECTS TO CONSIDER Throughout California, local prevention projects are working to impact social norms and perceived risk of youth marijuana use. In February 2015, three specific marijuana prevention efforts in California were highlighted in a Community Prevention Initiative webinar titled Marijuana Prevention in Action: Lessons from the Field. This webinar featured program managers from these three efforts, each of whom provided details…

families within the community for as long as I have known her. Lineage Melissa was born to Diane and Ray Martos, in San Diego California. Melissa’s parents were first generation American citizens who moved to the United States from Guam during high school. Both of Melissa’s parents are Chamorro, of Pacific Island descent. Melissa grew up and spent all of her adolescence in San Diego surrounded by her mother and father’s extended family. Heritages, Traditions & Customs Some of the main…

According to Brady at the University of Richmond Writing Center, in this section you will introduce the problem to your audience. You must explain how this research can change/improve the already existing methods. This informs the reader on what you want to accomplish with your project. Finally, you will finish by giving a brief overview of what the proposal entails. The Library at the University of Southern California states the next paragraph should explain the purpose…

SAN DIEGO >> U.S. researchers are launching studies on Mexico’s red-crowned parrot — a species that has been adapting so well to living in cities in California and Texas after escaping from the pet trade that the population may now rival that in its native country. The research comes amid debate over whether some of the birds flew across the border into Texas and should be listed under the Endangered Species Act. Parrots in U.S. urban areas are just starting to draw attention from…

September 20, 2014- January 4, 2015. Another artwork of hers entitled Reunite & Ice (collages #1-8) were also recently displayed at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York from November 13, 2014-March 8, 2015. Before emerging from the graduate program at San Diego in 1985, Lorna Simpson received her BFA (Bachelor…

California, and for all Californians, are experiencing a major drought and it can affect the state economically, politically, and socially. With this horrid condition, many of the helpless citizens and farmers of the California state are expecting a movement and California Emergency Drought Relief Act to be signed by Governor Brown of California to approve of the change to have a progressive time consumption for agricultural scholars to propose a transformation for the drought presently because…

One of the most outspread controversies besides president-elect, Donald Trump, was the legalizing marijuana in California. There are many debates about marijuana for a long time, California state already allowed medical marijuana until the measures 2016 voted “Yes” on proposition 64, “The California Marijuana Legalization Initiative, was on the November 8, 2016, ballotin California as an initiated state statute. Supporters referred to the initiative as the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. It was…