On our trip to California, we (the Donner Party) were forced to face many unexpected hardships. At Alcove springs Grandmother Keyes died. Just past Fort Bridger we took the Hastings Cutoff, which we were informed saved 400 miles. The information was wrong. The shortcut added 100 miles to the journey.
In the beginning, people came for the trees, the huge, majestic redwoods were what drew people here. In the 1850’s the gold rush in the San Francisco area needed more
Introduction In the middle of the California coast is Monterey County, Monterey County is made up of many wonderful sites described as “must-see” places in California websites, travelling websites, and even National Geographic. The drive down Highway 1, the Monterey Aquarium, the Mission in Carmel, and so many other places that define much of California’s beauty and history. Inside Monterey County, more inland, is the town of Salinas. Salinas may not be so popular next to one of the major tourist attractions in California; however, it is a very important example of democracy in local government, especially in California.
Mendocino,CA is an astonishing town with a great history. The things that were most important that has shaped Mendocino is geography and climate. In this essay, I will be talking about the main causes of the shaping of Mendocino,with its tall redwood trees and foggy climate,and explaining more in depth about these topics. One of the main causes is geography. Geography has a lot to do with the shaping of Mendocino for a few different reasons.
When people ask me, “Camille, where are you from?” I answer, without hesitation, “Stockton, California.” Yet, I am not a true “Stocktonian.” Yes, I have resided here for the past five years, but I still regard myself to be a “Moragan.” For eight years, the hills of Moraga, California was a place to call my home.
I am going to tell you about some of them and you may want to visit them. The first one I am going to talk about is the Lava tube. Lava tubes are underground paths that are burnt by lakes of molten lava. They are formed by an erupting volcano which has lava flowing down it, the lava burns in the ground and creates a Lava tube, the most famous Lava tube is the Thruston lava tube.
According to Tod, there are two types of people that come to California, those that come to work and those that come to die. This theme that backdrops the novel is made more apparent through Homer’s life. Homer has come to California for rest,
Americans were able to make thousands of dollars off of gold and immagrants and foreigners from all over the world came to California. Citizens became richer and all different cultures learned to
“He told me all this very much later, but I’ve put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents, which weren’t even faintly true. Moreover he told it to me at a time of confusion, when I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him. So I take advantage of this short halt, while
Other locations that we have considered include Needles, Zzyzx, and Baker California, also Primm Nevada. However these locations were not picked due to the lack of significance of these locations. Kelso Depot Visitor Center within the Mojave National Preserve has much more of a historical and geographical significance then these cities. Another reason is that we are dedicating our monument to the desert and its culture and wildlife. We have decided to make the monument into the Gopherus agassizii—or Desert Tortious.
The night is cool and he passes by “desert flowers.” Feeling drowsy, he drags his feet on the sands then sees a light in the distance leading to the “Hotel California.” A woman greets him at the door. He is not sure what to think of this hotel, however as soon as he enters, he starts to hear voices chorus about how lovely the place is, and sings there is room all year round. The woman is a rich dancing queen with many beautiful friends.
Joan Didion’s “Los Angeles Notebook” is an essay that highlights the deeply mechanistic view of human behavior by using images that are both enticing, yet horrifying at the same time. Her audience is broader than the people of Los Angles, who she discusses in articulate detail. Being that her audience is generally aimed at people who are concerned about humanity and the way people operate together in certain scenarios. There is an eerie sense to this piece, as the subject is the hot winds known as foehn by scientists, but otherwise known as a “Santa Ana” by the people of the region. Didion claims that, in the simplest terms, “to live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior,”
California is the “beauty of the eye of the beholder” since all people who come from different background, race, and religion are able to set their own dreams without being criticized. People especially immigrants have viewed California as the “land of opportunity,” which influenced them to leave everything behind in their hometown, to sacrifice their time and to focus on their dreams. Despite the fact that California was lauded as a utopian society, people soon found out that they were going through endeavors and couldn’t overcome them quickly as possible. In fact, Mr. Rawls wanted to express the grievances, struggles, and success that people endure in their rise to the California dream in his short essay, “California: A Place, A People,
A single rose within a garden of daisies is considered a weed. That single rose can also serve a role as contributing to the beauty of the whole garden. There is a clash in California between habitual nature and artificial human modified nature. Much of California’s nature has become modified by humans to produce new forms involving appearance, agriculture, and urbanization as opposed to letting it grow naturally. California has shifted to rely on man to create its own version of nature, which therefore creates a façade of the Garden of Eden.
Joseph Addison while analysing the same point points that we find the birth of Achilles’s anger, it’s continuance, and effects; same for Aeneas’s settlement in Itly and it’s result but Milton is considered to have excelled his predecessors on this ground.
