San Jose, California

Chinese immigrants have made significant contributions in America after the country was developing and recovering from the Civil War. They migrated to United States in the early 1800s and filled in the hard and long laboring jobs. They were also the essential and most important group of immigrants for constructing the railroads in the West. As the economy of United States become more industrial and successful, the numbers of Chinese immigrants and workers also increased. A number of them became entrepreneurs

an eight-year-old boy was tortured and decapitated in San Jose, California. His assailants were two men over the age of sixteen and a fifteen-year-old boy. Unlike his older partners, the fifteen year old boy was only sent to a juvenile detention center until he was released at the age of twenty-five. On the other hand, the other two men were sentenced to life in prison. Once the public heard about this event, they were outraged. California then moved the youngest age at which one could be tried

“I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.” Growing up in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini had a firsthand experience of the difficulties and hardships of life (Achievement 1). He was born in 1965 to his father, a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry, and his mother, a Farsi and history teacher at a high school in Kabul. He enjoyed flying kites when he was younger, describing them very vividly in The Kite Runner, and was inspired by films from India and the United States, which

population in California between 1769 and 1848. As well as discussing the historical origins, social organizations, material conditions, and world-view of the California Indians prior to 1769, this paper will explain the impact of New Spain’s Mission System on the Alta California Indian population between 1769 to 1821 and the response of its system by the Indians. Before the Americans and the Spanish there were many indigenous Indian tribes living and thriving with structure and culture in California. The

) drug trafficking operations. These articles were first written for the San Jose Mercury News before later being published into a book. Webb discovered a drug operation between a California drug ring, the C.I.A., and the Nicaraguan Contras. Evidence showed that the C.I.A. had direct contact with smugglers, knowing that the profits being made from the drugs were used to purchase equipment for the Nicaraguan Contras. The San Francisco Bay Area drug ring had tons of cocaine, which they turned into

the last few years have shown that young black men are being incarcerated at a rate far greater than their number in the overall population. In the fall of 1995, Vincent Schiraldi, executive director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco, released a study

of my parents was born and raised in different cities in El Salvador. My father immigrated to the United States at the age of 20 and my mom at the age of 17. Coming from opposites sides of the country, both ended up in California. It was only years later that they would meet in San Francisco, start a relationship, and get married. My sister was born years later and 2 years after that, I was born. I grew up in a Spanish language household. Spanish was my first language, so it meant that later throughout

Illinois, which is 233 miles away. University of California, Berkeley, is located in Berkeley, California, which 2,346 miles from my house. University of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 57.1 miles away from my house. However, I want to move to move the from the Toledo area and explore other cities, so I would prefer moving farther away from here. UC Berkeley is the farthest from Toledo and is near the city of San Francisco and San Jose, so I would have access to the many larger urban

Race is known to be a group of people sharing the same culture, ethnicity, language, and history. Ethnicity is considered to be the fact or state of being categorized in a group that shares a common nature or cultural traditions. Being a part of a family that is very diverse having a total of eight immediate family members. My father and two brothers all being Caucasian, my mother and oldest brother are African American, and my littlest brothers and I are biracial. We don’t view each other any differently

full college experience where students move out of their home and participate in student clubs. Eric Velez a fellow student Venice High says the environment of the school has greatly affected his college decision.” I am going to San Francisco State because it is in the San Francisco Bay Area and it is near Silicon Valley”. Similarly many students have chosen a college that is out of town, or even out of state where they can get the full college experience. However, there are some students that have