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have left” state's expert Nathan Halverson. In order to conserve and replenish our groundwater, California needs to regulate the use of groundwater, harvest stormwater, and desalinate. California's efforts on making laws about groundwater have failed, and they have not made regulations regarding the amount of groundwater that farmers…

and need for water. California is the state of fame, sun, and sandy feet. With our pristine weather and landscapes it is the ideal location for living conditions, farming, agriculture, and for everything in between. However, ever since 2011 the once luscious west coast has been getting increasingly drier and drier each year. Due to lack of water and rainfall, 2015 is the fourth year of the worst ongoing drought in the history of California. The now doubled population of California from 50 years…

Ryan Cofield Mrs. Brown Adv. Literature December 14, 2016 Gary Soto Gary Soto is a mexican-american “chicano” author and poet born in a Catholic Family from Fresno, California, in 1956. He attended Fresno State and California State University before becoming especially renowned for his poetry and writing. “In 1999, he received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West…

What motivates an individual to commit cybercrime? The six main reasons are: 1. Boredom 2. Challenge 3. Revenge 4. Greed 5. Sexual 6. Political and religious These reasons are all considered to be interference with the lawful use of a computer (Britz, 2013, p.76). Cybercrimes require less planning and resources and lessen the chance of being caught (Motives, 2016). Boredom is a motive that might start off a life of cybercrime. Trying to get into a forbidden system could be seen as a quest…

My grandfather was born in Gilroy, California, in 1939. At the age of eight, my grandfather moved to a ranch near the outskirts of Gilroy, where he lived in a one room shack with his mother, brother, and step-father. For seven years, my grandfather lived in that poor shack, where he had to cover the holes in the walls with newspaper or cardboard just to keep warm during the cold winters. Years later, my grandfather decided to make something out of his life, and enrolled at San Jose City college…

socioeconomic status of the surrounding neighborhoods. Due to Hispanics low average income, this means Hispanic children are more likely to attend lower-quality schools and will receive less civic training. According to a study conducted at the University of California, Davis, 67% of whites reported performing at least one of a possible seven unconventional political acts such as volunteering and donating money, whereas only 35% of Mexican Americans (the largest Hispanic subgroup) had. The lack…

Asian Story Theater The Asian Story Theater is 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…

Mayor Robert Garcia’s 2015 State of the City’s Speech of Long Beach highlights his vision for expanding the welfare of the city’s residents, businesses, and environment. Mayor Garcia’s plan of action to broaden and improve the city’s educational system, develop more economic growth within the city’s investment projects and local businesses, and sustain the environment with upcoming technology and efforts of the city council and its residents, are now in full effect and progressing as of 2016 and…

Puvungna On September 19, 2015 I joined the class on the trip to Puvungna, which is also known as the “Gathering Place” for Native Americans. I have known that Puvungna was located on campus but I have never gone to look around. The site is located right along Earl Warren Drive on campus and behind the Japanese Garden which was populated by the Tongva tribe. In 1974 Puvungna was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This museum is very different to a museum that we all know of.…

As the years past by, each decade progressively improves upon itself. Learning from their mistakes, growing, developing laws, literature, technology, and even building structures to accommodate the people of that era. Even though these advancements do benefits us greatly, it can also affect our behavior and how we perceive things in everyday interactions. I ponder the question—is the past really all that different from the present, is it still possible to affect and modify behaviors? I compared…