Writers from California

is a prisoner in California. He is currently on death row convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son. He was convicted of double murder, first-degree and second-degree, in 2004 and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Peterson remains on death row in San Quentin State Prison while his case is on appeal to the Supreme Court of California. On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant, was reported missing from her Modesto, California home. Her…

motivation to lift tomatoes and getting their bread and spread. Leamington, Ontario, has been extraordinary concerning the difference in Heinz tomatoes and the commitment with respect to green houses in this manner. Reliably, 4 000 transient pros go from Mexico to Canada to work for eight months in Leamington, ON, the tomato capital of Canada. They are set up in little flat suites with five or six beds for each room, they…

This drought is causing fights! In California, we have been in a drought for three years. It has gotten to the point where we are arguing over how we use our ground water and if it should or should not be managed. Furthermore, California should be managing the use of aquifer because people should be able to have enough water for their basic living rights of taking a shower, using the restroom inside the house, and it will also end up saving the environment. Having enough water is truly…

From afar, the city of San Ramon appears to be a quaint, suburban California city. However, the term “quaint” is not totally accurate. There are a multitude of beautiful homes, apartments, and schools being constructed, and have been for the last 2 decades, and there are plenty of lovely parks for people of all ages to enjoy as well. This is the community that I have spent all the years of my life; this is my hometown of San Ramon. East of the infamous metropolis of San Francisco, sits San Ramon…

nature lovers, while the California Academy of Sciences and the de Young Museum call out to the academic lovers. My calling, however, comes from Stow Lake, and Strawberry Hill. The man-made lake with an island in the middle, better known as Stow Lake, is filled with colorful pedal boats, a waterfall, and a Chinese pavilion. I would love to be able to enjoy a picnic at the park on one of the eight picnic tables they have. There are many restaurants and cuisines to choose from. The opportunity to…

California California has lots of beaches and fun boardwalks to walk down. It is a great place to vacation or live. It is a tourist destination making it very packed full of people in most cities. According to Don DeLillo “California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom.” This quote pretty much sums up California. Some even consider California a lifestyle, because of the adventure you’ll find, and the dreams you deem impossible…

In “Under the Same Moon”, the writer Ligiah Villalobos uses friendship and love throughout the movie to show the importance of them. This movie is based on illegal immigration and the love between a mother, Rosario and son, Carlitos. Rosario leaves Mexico to go to the United States but this was done illegally, she leaves her son behind with his grandmother, aunt and uncle. Most people would say she was wrong to leave her son behind but she never forgot about him. She would call Carlitos every…

Ishi lost two friends in an attempt to cross a stream, and his mother died from natural cases or cold. Ishi relates that he held her to keep her warm before she passed away. Other members of his tribe were hung, shot and in the Green Cave massacred. Throughout his life Ishi lost members of his tribe to white settlers. 2. What adjustments did Ishi need to make in order to live in a twentieth-century California city? Ishi wore modern clothes and learned to use silver ware, and worked at the…

Since then, their vast borders have been shared and disputed between the two nations and its people, with different problems arising such as illegal immigration and, more importantly, the mass trafficking of drugs and narcotics. In fact, it’s reported from NBC News that over 1.4 million pounds of marijuana alone will be seized in Arizona in the year of 2014. That’s not even including every other illegal narcotic to enter the United States, or the unregistered amount of marijuana that wasn’t…

Californians get the water they needed by diverting the river into an aqueduct and sending it south. But what many didn’t predict was the mass die off of many fish that once lived in the San Joaquin. The entirety of the fishing industry in all of central california was crippled, one of their biggest gold mines was destroyed. But the fisherman weren’t the only affected. Farmers, landowners, families, and many more groups felt the affects of the damming.…