speaking ancestors are unknown. My mother was born and raised in Northern Virginia near Washington DC, but has lived in California for over three decades. Her family remained in Virginia. My father is a native Californian who spent his entire life in the Monterey/Salinas area. Neither of my parents has any detectable regional accent. I was raised in Salinas, California, a central California city whose population is largely Hispanic and whose main industry is agriculture. My childhood friends were somewhat
drop out his junior year due to a measles attack which temporarily affected his eyesight. Dana wanted to tour Europe but was unable to afford it. Instead, he decided to sign on as a seaman at nineteen years old, and sailed around Cape Horn to California. When trying to recall his motives for becoming a seaman he wasn't sure if it was his "desire to cure my eyes, my love of adventure and the attraction of the novelty of a life before the mast, or anxiety to escape from the depressing situation
Steinbeck creates a colorful array of characters struggling to understand their own unique places in the world. The story is set in the early 20th century, immediately following the Depression and World War II. The characters live in Monterey, California amid the jumble of the sardine fisheries, the "Palace Flophouses", Lee Chong's grocery, Dora's whorehouse, and Doc's Biological Lab. Throughout the book, Steinbeck has the uncanny ability to combine his characters' everyday problems with the
raised in California, he wrote many novels that were influenced by his childhood backyard and experiences in the Central Valley and Monterey areas. Steinbeck’s short story collection The Long Valley shows Steinbeck’s influence from his childhood home in the settings around the Salinas and Monterey regions in many of the short stories, as well as prominent and common themes such as communion, unfulfilling marriages, and the road to manhood. John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr was born in Salinas, California on February
The heart begins racing the moment the car pulls into the airport parking lot. The smell of jet fuel, automobile exhaust, and hot tarmac combine to assault the senses with images of exotic escapes and the kind of freedom that can only come from airports. I feel the thrum of the engines at takeoff and the vibration of the plane during the flight in my skin. I see people listening to MP3s and playing video games. I hear the couple behind me chatting about the weather in Florida and the possibility
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, and lived the early part of his life in Monterey County, California. It was here that Steinbeck developed a knowledge and love of the natural world and the diverse cultures that figure so prominently in his works. The setting is described in the first paragraph. It talks about where the Torres
instead she became an outcast. It even got to the point where she was voted “Ugliest Man on Campus” as a cruel joke by a prankster in Austin, Texas where she was currently residing. After that incident and in her early twenties, she moved to California to join in on the new musical movement taking place. Looking back on her time in Port Arthur, Joplin explained, “They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik and they didn’t like them, though they’d never
passive, non-aggressive creatures…for the most part. Around 20 years ago, biologists discovered an odd phenomenon named carnivorous sponges. Since then, there have only been 7 reported species of these deadly sponges found. Researchers in Southern California discovered a strange-looking sponge while studying undersea bacteria. While most species of sponge live as filter feeders, this species of sponge was found to be carnivorous that fed on animals on the ocean floor. Four other species of carnivorous
Santa Cruz The city of Santa Cruz, California is known for its moderate climate, natural beauty, amazing coastline and redwood forest. This sleepy beach town is within one-hour driving distance from San Francisco or San Jose. You can certainly make Santa Cruz a stop on your Bay area itinerary, but I think it deserves to be its own destination. There is so much to do and see – you can easily spend a week without getting bored. During one of my visits, I made Santa Cruz my base camp and made side
Diego Zavala History 17A “California and The Expansionist Dream.” California is a place of invention, of new beginnings, and opportunities for those willing to seek it and work for it. Its history is rich with a wide assortment of characters, who seeking success helped it become what it is today. Among those characters we meet Thomas Larkin and Juan Bautista Alvarado; both individuals played a pivotal role in California entrance to the United States in the mid 19th century. Each one played a different
In July 1776, a Spanish exploration team led by two priests, Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante, set out in search of an overland route from Santa Fe (in present day New Mexico) to the Roman Catholic Mission in Monterey, California. This was not the only motive of this expedition, however, as it was also important for the friars to make contact with the indigenous people and look for potential locations for future Spanish settlements and Missions. While the Dominguez-Escalante
Pacific’s vibrant blue water, unfilled wetlands, open-access to beaches, and agricultural lands that remain untouched are all attributes that make up the iconic, beautiful, and diverse California Coast. The protection and land-use decisions throughout the entirety of the California Coastal Zone is entrusted to the California Coastal Commission (CCC), which is widely considered one of the most powerful land-use authorities in the country. When hundreds of people made the pilgrimage to the quaint town
As it was said, San Jose, which used to be the first capitol of California, can be considered as one of the oldest cities in the United States with its great historical depth and cultural influence. Importantly, San Jose is also well known by some specific landmarks, which have contributed to make the city be one of the attractive destinations for the tourists when they come to America. With the diversity and mixture of social and cultural features, San Jose has plenty of particular public buildings
Fish is a great source of protein and provides people their basic dietary needs on a daily basis. According to the Huffington Post, 1 billion people around the world rely on fish as their man source of protein. But this also comes at a cost. “Due to overfishing, over 70% of the world's fish are either fully exploited or depleted.” Luckily, fish farms have stepped up and have become a major part of how we obtain fish in our diets. They take very little space, they can be controlled, and they provide
by the ideology of the teller, may have at its root the fact that resistance to the Spanish occupation was not, at first, organized resistance. Unlike native groupings on the American East Coast or in central Mexico, the aboriginal population of California did not politically organize themselves into tribes or “nations” that spanned multiple settlements. The “tribal” names assigned to California’s native groups result from modern ethnological investigation rather than being something recognized by
The battle of San Pasqual was one of the many battles fought against Americans to protect their land. The greedy American government was determined to conquer California from Mexico and make it part of the union. The mass migration of immigrants caused the widespread of people to flee south. Mexico had departed from Spain in 1821. California wanted to manage their own affairs however, they lacked self government. Pio Pico was the civil governor and Jose Castro was the military comandante. The two
I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention material: Chicks in Crisis began in the garage of the founder, Inez Whitlow, in 1997. Inez aims were to reduce the number of infants being admitted to the foster care homes, assist pregnant teenagers and women from abandoning their children by ensuring that they get medical care, counseling, housing, and other resources for them to make wiser decisions. She was the first person to set a “street team” for the people in Sacramento through giving out used clothes and her
The border between the United States of America and Mexico always had been always a theme for a lot of discussions. And, in the book “Sunshine/Noir II” two authors described, through texts, their point of view about the topic. Both Juanita Lopez and Michael Cheno Wickert agree that nowadays the control of the border has become way more restrict and militarized. In that sense, Michael Wickert presents his idea in a poem form, text named “The border Is a Fight”, that describes the dramas of a Mexican
Latinos Breaking Down Barriers What does being Latino mean to you? Some people think all Latinos are poor or illiterate, but that’s not true. Latinos in this country are changing the way others define us. We are taking a stand and we are defining ourselves, Proud! For years Latinos have been stereotyped by other who are uninformed of our culture, well it’s time to get informed. Latinos like Armando Perez, Consuelo Kickbusch and Eva Longoria who are making a different and making history. Armando
Introduction Thesis: Through Valdez’s conscientious usage of racial stereotypes and satirical social criticism, he targets the American government as a result of its enmity and prejudice towards Mexican-Americans. Valdez utilizes the stereotypes to highlight on the social conflict between the brutal American powers and the poverty stricken Mexican-Americans; thus, he satirizes how in truth, the American government is a ludicrous robot that does not fathom the gravity for equal rights. Valdez utilizes