Yuba City

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 1 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I moved to Yuba City, California approximately twelve years ago and have lived there ever since. I chose to analyze the climate trends of Yuba City because, even though I may move away soon after graduating college, it is where my parents will continue to live and I would like to have an idea of future climate changes in their city. Yuba City is a fairly small town in Sutter County with a population of 65,416 people (United States Census, 2013). It is located on the Feather River 45 miles north of Sacramento at latitude: 39.140 and longitude: -121.617 (LatLong.net, 2015). It was founded in 1849, established as a distribution center for supplying the Gold Rush 49ers (Yuba City, 2000a). Yuba City is also home to the Sutter Buttes, often referred…

    • 907 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    For the extra-cultural event I decided to attend the annual Yuba City Sikh Parade. While at the event I learned the reason behind the parade, it commemorates the Guru Gaddee inauguration holiday of Sikhism's holy scripture, Siri Guru Granth Sahib. This was a huge event I didn’t know what to expect; however once I got to the parade I was shocked. There were thousands of people attending predominantly people of the Sikh religion however many were outside the race and religion. I went by myself to…

    • 314 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A 14-year-old, Ahmed Mohamed, was detained for bringing a “suspicious” device that his engineering teacher believed was a bomb. Ahmed, who attended Dallas high school was handcuffed by the police officers after the school officials accused him of having a bomb. The 14 years old received a lot of positive attention from Mark Zuckerberg and Pres. Obama, including state officials from Texas as a result of the inaccurate accusations. Ahmed has evidently proved his brilliance multiple times by…

    • 500 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    education as a way of using the “city as a classroom” and “nature” as well as “integrated social and ecological [system]” (2-5). There are numerous ways to become involved in urban environmental educational projects. Fortunately, “urban environmental education continues to reinvent itself” in many ways (Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab). Used to focus on social-ecological systems, urban environmental education uses many forms of community based practices “such as...streamside…

    • 1496 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Also, Socrates will try to argue that a city is necessary because humans need to rely on one another in order to accomplish tasks. Socrates begins his argument when he states, “So if you approve, why don’t we start by finding out what sort of thing it is in cities? After that we can make a similar inquiry into the individual, trying to find the likeness of the larger version in the form the smaller takes” (line 369). He first proposes the dissection of a city. First, you must look for justice in…

    • 1387 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Remote Health Issues

    • 1380 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The Impact of living in a Remote Area (Isolation) on the Health Outcomes of all Australian Adults 1.0 Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the impacts of living in a remote area with relation to the physical and mental health of Australian adults. Although there are different types of remote areas such as the outback, rainforest areas, mining and coastal towns – the same quality they all possess is that they live far from any major city (Australian Institute of Health and…

    • 1380 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Urban Expansion

    • 1242 Words
    • 5 Pages

    animals. As we moved into the industrial, factories and city centers began being built. There arose a need for adequate living arrangements for the people that worked in the factories and city centers. Urban areas designed to accommodate large numbers of families began to spring up around these factories and city centers. Fast forward to today and we have 78% of the population in North America living in urban areas (Boston University College of Arts & Science, 2012). This figure represents a…

    • 1242 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Small Town Police Problems

    • 1326 Words
    • 6 Pages

    When dealing with small town police departments, many issues tend to arise when comparing the problems faced in a small town to an urban environment (Johnson, 2000). Some factors that small-town areas face include budget constraints, response time difficulties, and community relations (Gordner, 2006). These issues greatly affect rural areas due to a high poverty rates, low unemployment, and detrimental funding issues (Gordner, 2006). These problems cause small-town police departments to have…

    • 1326 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    the numbers of population immigrating from rural areas or other cities to Bangkok to work have been increasing as well. This is noticed from the numbers of communities, which are established formally for more than 2,000 communities. The communities are divided according to their locations into 3 areas; Inner City, Urban Fringe and Suburb. 1. The inner city communities are city central and other areas including 21 sections, where the initial communities were formed and also where the historical…

    • 758 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Importance of being Ernest by Oscar Wild is a playwright about a country man living a double life in the city. The main character of this play is Jack Worthington. He goes by Ernest in the city add to the mystery of his fanciful life. This play describes his pursuit to win over and marry a young lady from the city, named Gwendolen. Algernon Moncrieff is the girl 's cousin and an absolute nuisance to the main character. Algernon exploits Jack 's double life, and creates a situation where it…

    • 873 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Previous
    Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 50