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    college located in the beautiful Santa Barbara, California. The college only offers bachelor’s degrees. Westmont is a standard four year college. They are nondenominational and encourage their students to live out a Christian life. They supply Christian-based studies. An interesting fact is that 78% of financial needs are met! Serious crime (per 1000 students per year) is a shocking 17.06, drug or weapon incidents are 2.22, and alcohol encounters are 14.83. Santa Barbara is considered a fairly safe

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    The Mission Chapel Essay

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    Martin Lawag Roger Hall Hist 119 May 15, 2012 La Purisima A.) The mission chapel is beautiful. The beauty of this chapel can compare to the Santa Barbara one. They both are bright in color. When in the chapels I get a warm feeling. Old artwork. Kind of built like an ancient style building. Candles light up the room. B.) The natives daily duties consisted of mixing mud with straws to make adobe bricks to build. The Spanish soldiers lived a more foreign like lifestyle because the mission

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    2012 Assignment #1: Community Immersion Joseph Gossner 9/25/12 Stephanie Carter Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to compare and contrast two smaller sub-communities that are encompassed by the larger community of Santa Maria, California. This paper will promote the beliefs and theories of modern Social Workers, and address the resources and needs of the two communities in question. The compilation of this paper was derived from research that was conducted through interactions

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    SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT Herbert William Mullin was born on April 18, 1947, in Salinas California (Newton, 2000). Dr. Lunde and Morgan describe Salinas as a farming community in Monterey County South of Santa Cruz (1980). Herbert is the younger of two children his sister Patricia being the elder, born to Jean and Martin William Mullin. Jean, a devout catholic, and Martin, a military veteran; raised their children in what some would say a “nurturing, stable but perhaps strict Roman Catholic household”

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    One of the most beuaftul things about lvng withn Gilroy and the surrodunng areas is that this area of California is filled wth an abduance of casions such as: Bankers Casino, Garlic City Casino and Ocean View Card Room just to name a view. As such, you may have contemplated about the possibility of making a trip to one of these casions or maybe several. The problem with this however, is that due to the distance of each casion not only due you have to ensuree that you know exactly where you are going

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    Economic Since the city of Fremont is in the heart of Silicon Valley, its economic presence is overwhelming. On top of that, this city has an overpowering influence of innovation in the field of technology through corporations, which has led to an increase in demand for new technologies for average consumers. Therefore, this area has a large scope for manufacturing and retail in technology. As Silicon Valley is extremely competitive in technology, every aspect of the field of technology

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    dying species whereas neoinstitutional theory highlights UCSB’s importance as an establishment to its field of education. With this, I am going to compare both, population ecology and neoinstitutional theory, in relation to the University of California – Santa Barbara. I will further discuss each of their strengths and weaknesses in accordance to the behavior and environment of institution, faculty, staff, and its students. Within

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    This past Friday of Memorial Day weekend 22-year old Elliot Rodger, son of the assistant director of The Hunger Games went on a rampage in the coastal town of Isla Vista, neighboring the UC Santa Barbara campus where six students were murdered in total plus multiple injured by who the media and any mainstream news station would label “a very lonely and mentally disturbed young man”. But you only have to watch his final YouTube video called “Elliot Rodger’s Retribution” to know that he knew exactly

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    coast of Southern California in the Pacific Ocean between the cities Los Angeles and Santa Maria. Channel Islands National Park are made up of a chain of eight islands, Anacapa Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Cruz Island, Santa Rosa Island, San Clemente, San Nicolas, Santa Barbara, and Santa Catalina Island. In total, the park covers 249,561 acres. The islands are filled with a large variety of animals from land to aquatic. From the center of channel islands to the coast of Santa Barbara, it is approximately

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    of fox that only lives on the Channel Islands, which is located around the coast of Southern California in about 19 to 61 miles away from the continental state. On a clear day in California, many visitors have the chance to see the islands over the shores. Within the eight islands, only six of the islands have the Channel Island Fox on their land. The six islands are San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Santa Catalina, San Nicolas and San Clemente. Each island has different features which has given

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