Place, what an obscure topic such a simple word can be. The technical definition of place is any particular point or position in space, but place can be anything someone makes it out to be. Just like “home is where year heart is” place can follow in the same footsteps. With a definition as vague … Continue reading Why place matters in Environmental Science →
As humans there is a series of things that comes to us as instinctively as breathing. Just as we all have the capability of forming thoughts due to our complexed minds. We often have the need or even obligation to write these thoughts down. Whether it is in a journal recapping the events in a … Continue reading Why is writing so difficult? →
In perpetration for the real world and aspirations I hope to achieve during this first year of collage I will be composing a mock cover letter for an environmental-ish internship I hope to sometime receive this coming summer: February 9, 2016 Dr. Stacy Anderson, English 107 professor California State University Channel Islands Camarillo, California 93012 … Continue reading Would you hire me? →
For years upon years I thought I had known how to read, I was taught how to read when I was in the first grade. To be quite frank I wasn’t the best reader, but I didn’t give up and I kept trying until I was able to read past two grade levels. Well after all … Continue reading Paradoxes as a Reader →
In most situations there is always a “good guy” and a “bad guy,” where most of the time the participants of the situation are arguing to one another that they are the better of the two. Having old age rivalries between such forces as God and the devil, the Capulets and the Montagues, progression versus the environment, being … Continue reading Which are you: A Taker or a Leaver? →
The island brings such a diverse culture to the world not only in terms of its biodiversity, temperatures and its biotic and abiotic factors the island brings to us many different perspectives and lessons along with the many other variants it has to offer. The faculty and staff within that island was nothing less than a … Continue reading Is that research I see?
Upon visiting the Santa Rosa Island, this past weekend the two most conceptual themes or concepts I have learned from the faculty and the island itself are a sense of place, community and or person. Although these two concepts were two of the three central themes in which we were suppose to take away from … Continue reading Is That an Utopia?
Friday September 25th as a class we all went to the Ronald Reagan Library and we seen many different artifacts from his presidency. It was our job to determine what was trying to be said and weather it was being interpreted correctly. For the first item in the collection, I had pick the Love letters … Continue reading Fact? Or Is That What They Want Us to Believe?
On March 15, 1965 a man from Giant Oaks California by the name of James J. Sloan wrote a letter the Congressman Harold T. “Bizz” Johnson urging support of the Civil Rights Bill. Which entailed for the most part the abolishment of the prerequisites required to vote, as well as the discrimination against minority groups when voting. … Continue reading Do We Still Believe in Civil Rights?
Upon viewing The Sixties a Year that Shaped a Generation I personally have more of an emotion and thought process towards the whole subject of the Vietnam War. I have always personally view history as just that, history. To say the least, I had always thought it was cool to just learn what had happen … Continue reading An Era of New Found Knowledge
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