Valencia

Growing up, It’s hard figuring out your purpose or whether you even have one. Life tends to throw obstacles at you, leaving you vulnerable and afraid to move forward. Luckily, life also throws you opportunities. Opportunities come in all different types; it could be a person, an interview, a scholarship, anything. It’s up to you to look past these obstacles and move forward to find your true purpose. I found an interest in art at a young age, I also have always had a heart dedicated to helping…

to be able to understand concepts in college that I never understood in high school. My goal is at least a 3.6 GPA, or maybe 4.0 if I’m lucky. I plan on spending most of my free time studying and doing work in the library. I really appreciate how Valencia has a lot of resources I can use to better my education. I’ll make sure to take advantage of these resources because I know many schools don’t offer all that much. I feel extremely fortunate to be attending such a school as this…

California, the golden state, a state where minorities are majorities. California a melting pot of interracial couples and children. In the year 2016, it is not rare to see couples of different race together. However, before the 20th century inter-racial relationships were a major deal in California society. In Raquel Casas’s book, Married to the Daughter of the Land, Casas gives a deeper understanding of interracial marriages between Americans and Californianas. In the beginning of Raquel…

individuals of the Valencian district who created Spain's most popular dish, paella. The first formula mixed home developed vegetables (normally beans) with off-cuts of rabbit and the short grain rice that was make in big quantity around the city of Valencia. Indeed, even today this customary Valencian paella can be found in a huge number of towns. (culture,2013) Bullfighting: Ancient bullrings in Seville and ronda attract many tourist. But some visitors express the sport as…

Immigration for centuries has been a common theme in the United States. The US alone is a current melting pot and will continue to be so. Currently we are at an all-time high with immigration. “Immigrants in the US and their US born children now approximately 81 million people or 26 percent of the overall US population” (Zong and Batavola, 2016) with that being said, our current president of the United States wants to decrease the current immigration “problem” that is at hand. People tend to…

rights movement, especially their impact on the legal struggles on school desegregation. One such case includes Mendez v. Westminster, in 1946, where a class-action lawsuit was filed to represent over 5,000 Mexican-American students in California (Valencia 2005). This case was the first successful constitutional challenge to segregation; actually, the U.S. District Court judge ruled that Mexican-American students’ Fourteenth Amendment rights were being…

Aragon became a kingdom in 1031. The way that the Peninsular Kingdom was ruled is what allowed it to successfully last for over 500 years. There were three branches in the Aragonese government; Legislative branch, Executive branch, and the Judicial body. Each of these branches had different jobs to do in the ruling of the Peninsular Kingdom. The way that each branch worked together ensured the lasting success of Aragon. The Legislative Branch was made up of four estates: religious, nobles,…

Rizga provides a different point of view when looking at education. She shows how almost everything Gatto stated was inaccurate as she spent a year inside of San Francisco’s most challenging/failing school Mission High School. She experienced the truth of the schooling system through first hand experiences as well as reporting the struggles and challenges a senior student named Maria faced. Rizga’s article refutes Gatto’s statement that “It is in the interest of the complex management, economic…

Setting in stories can often affect a person’s behavior. In the story, Slaughterhouse-Five, there is a direct connection with the internal message and the setting. With this being said, the setting changes from different time periods of the main character’s (Billy Pilgrim) life to further perpetuate the theme’s concept. Vonnegut’s use of uncontrollable setting changes unveils a theme that suggests that things that will occur in life are unalterable. In the story, as Billy Pilgrim time travels…

On May 9, 2015, Garvey’s Advanced Band and Mustang Choir went to the Trills and Thrills Festival at Burbank Middle School. We had to be at school by 7:15 AM since it was our call time, and that was way too early for me since I usually sleep at 12 AM. I was in Advanced Band and I played the clarinet. Of course I was excited to play at the competition, but I was also nervous since we were going to Six Flags afterwards and I had a huge fear of heights. Once the bus arrived at Burbank Middle…