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number of important reasons, so the current drought that’s taking place in California is a big deal. Last year, during an outdoor speech, California governor Jerry Brown made this statement: "Today we are standing on dry grass where there should be five feet of snow. This historic drought demands unprecedented action, therefore, I 'm issuing an executive order mandating substantial water reductions across our state”. California is home to 27 million acres of farmland and 38 million people, so this problem

region and potential responses to the problem. In the tri state area California, Nevada, Arizona. We have 29 military bases with several others in the surrounding states (Colorado, New Mexico and Oregon). This disaster is, depending on the wind, a serious threat to at least: southern California, central Arizona and northern Mexico. However we have reason to believe that this could affect southern Nevada and central California as well. It is for tis reason that our first and foremost priority should

Off-Road Heaven: Six of the Best Off-Road Destinations For some of us, getting enjoyment from our vehicles goes far beyond what the paved urban playground has to offer. We want a challenge. We want a sense of exploration. We want roads, where instead of signs, the terrain itself sets the speed limit. There’s just something about that sense of accomplishment every time we complete a new trail or obstacle that makes us want more. Everyone who owns an off-road vehicle has their own favorite spot

addressed in this paper is National City. It is located five miles south of downtown San Diego and ten miles away from the US-Mexico border in Tijuana. National City is divided into three sub-communities based on their regional parks: Kimball, El Toyon and Las Palmas (KTU+A, 2014). Because of National City?s unique location in close proximity to downtown San Diego, it is considered an urban city, as defined by Jannson (2016), with a lot of commercial activity and impoverishment. Depending on the social worker

According to “Immigrants in California,” by Marisol Cuellar Mejia and Hans P. Johnson, California has the most immigration than any other state, where “more than 30% of the population of seven California counties” are foreign born. A large contributor to these statistics are Hispanic immigrants that migrate to the United States in hope of achieving the “American Dream.” Los Angeles has become the most popular destination for these immigrants as this city alone contains 4.9 million Hispanics, making

Californians can. Currently, the state of California is in the midst of a severe drought. This drought is one of the worst droughts in the state’s recorded history. Due to this drought, more than a thousand of California’s residents have lost their water. The drought sparks a conflict for the residents. People can not bathe, use their toilets, wash their dishes, or do anything with water. Because of the overuse of groundwater, a law is being established in the California State Legislature that would maintain

I consider the city of Rowland Heights an ethnic space within Southern California because it corresponds with my interpretation of an ethnic space. To elaborate, an ethnic space is an area, such as a city or town, that has a prominent culture reflecting the prevalent ethnic group within that area. During my adolescence, I lived in the city of La Puente, which is primarily Hispanic/Latino, however, as I aged, I began to attend school within Rowland Heights, which is primarily Asian. Having said that

people taking their first bites into their carne asada tacos, the loud, sharp clinks of tequila glasses, and the hoarse bangs of a piñata being beaten all come hand in hand, representing a Mexican celebration in La-La Land or also known as the city of Los Angeles. The city has been nicknamed “La-La Land” due to its recognition of being a place full of fun and out of touch with reality. For the past several decades, the city of Los Angeles has increasingly become a Latino city as they hosted countless

In 1520s the Spanish began to explore California. They wanted to map the coastline of California and find a safe harbor for Spain. It was not until 1776 that a safe harbor was claimed for the Spanish empire. The beginning theory was the California was an island, but through Spanish expeditions that theory was proven wrong. In the beginning of the explorations a group of explores landed on Bahia de la Paz, which is near the tip of the Baja Peninsula. When the Spanish landed, the Indians killed

just come through a thirteen-year duration of drought it was catastrophic in that country. The way that they delt with it was, believe it or not, was concerving water and rain water harvesting. It wasn’t all the high teck stuff and yet we here in California need a desalinization plant. I mean it does help. But the main strength in what they accomplished in that country of ausralia was the fact that the worked together they reduced their water reduction through concervation practices and they put up