Mission Santa Barbara

History 140 Midterm Richard Henry Dana came from a prominent Brahmin family. He attended Harvard college but was forced to 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

Power of Play members, I promote prosocial behavior among K-6th graders, helping to reduce the amount of bullying and aggression on the playground. Because Isla Vista Elementary is home to the most culturally diverse student population in the Santa Barbara area, and because I work with an additional population at Ellwood, I have developed a multicultural orientation that reflects that of SDSU’s program. In problem-solving with diverse children, I seek to consider only the situational context of the

Round 1- The setup Yes, I agree that by adding a social layer to a platform increases its success because personally I think it is beneficial in all aspects. The layers added to a platform beef it up even more and create better and convenient resources. I think for the most part I am telling the right stories on social media knowing the kind of person I am. Round 2- The Characteristics of Great Content and Compelling Stories According to Vaynerchuk, “Social networking sites light up people’s dopamine

John Bowers, a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency at UCSB, spoke to the Santa Barbara Independent about his month long journey along the Ride the Divide trail. The Ride the Divide Trail is a grueling mountain bike ride that travels through Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and through the United States of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. These are areas of the country rich with

of high school when I was at Hume Lake with my youth group that I dedicated my life to being a disciple for Christ. That following summer I went on my first mission trip to Haiti to serve at an orphanage and shortly after returning home I decided to get baptized. My faith was put to the test when my family decided to move from Santa Barbara to Pennsylvania during my senior year. My dad moved there six months early while my mom, my brother and I stayed back and lived in my best friends small guest

natives in the missions consisted of eight hours of work and two hours of prayer except on Sundays. On Sundays the prayer was extended to five hours. The men worked in the fields while the women made flour. Children and pregnant women worked every day. The only group of individuals who got a pass was the elderly (Heizer). The Chumash did not work out of the kindness of their hearts; the Spanish would punish them if they did not work. In order to maintain the productivity of the mission, the Spaniards

"Theoretical Value in Teaching Freedom of Speech." Speech Association of the Eastern States. New York, 10 March 1973. Harer, John B. Intellectual Freedom: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara: ABC- CLIO, 1992.      21. Intellectual Freedom: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1992. 13 Hentoff, Nat. Free Speech for Me - But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other. New York: Harper Collins Publisher, 1992. 345 Wyatt

Sitting at a traffic light on Upper State Street, I could see several miles down to the harbor and pier on the ocean. It was a warm evening, nearly seven, as I snapped The Eagles, Greatest Hits into the deck and surveyed the landscape. The main thoroughfare dissected the sleepy town of seventy-four thousand, into halves, to the North, the tabletop bluff known as the Mesa, across the valley, the rolling hills of the Riviera and beyond that, the ultra-exclusive Montecito, boasting big-name residents

in a television show I watched and that was called, Psych. During this show they would make little humorous remarks about prison being not as bad as people say. For example the main characters in this show would say, “We are talking about the Santa Barbara jail not San Quinton, people compare it to a mid-range sandals resort.” This show made it seem as if jail really wasn’t that bad of a place to be. Unfortunately I took this to heart and had the opinion that prisons in America must not be that bad

Junipero Serra. A Franciscan Missionary, he served as “Padre Presidente” of the California Spanish Mission System in the mid to late 18th century. Father Serra founded and oversaw a mission in Baja California and the first nine of twenty-one Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain. The Spanish missions themselves were used by the Spanish to convert the indigenous tribes