Justin Flores Language Arts Honors Period 4 1-18-17 Montclair 's History The history of Montclair, as with other communities in Southern California, is rich and colorful. Serrano Indians were the earliest known inhabitants of the land that is now Montclair. In 1774, Captain Juan Bautista de Anza named that sycamore tree-lined creek "Arroyo de los Alisos," the Stream of the Sycamores, later renamed San Antonio Creek. Up until the 1890s, Montclair was little more than grazing land and a watering hole.
The famous food for California is a deep fried tortilla with cinnamon sugar and a Jarritos pina to drink with it. These two things are a famous Mexican food in California restaurants and food trucks. They are also Famous for their festivals and there mascots in California. Their famous mascot in a NBA mascot called Slamson The Lion which is the Sacramento Kings mascot. A famous festival for California is the day of the dead or most know as Dia De Los Muertos which celebrates ancestors that have died and they leave food at the grave for them to take to the underworld.
And what shaped it into the town it is today. I Think it was the area's climate and geography great for redwoods wine grapes and a cool climate, and opened headlands right on the coast for tourists. Mendocino was founded in 1850 After the shipwreck of the frolic . A man named jerome ford came to the area to forge what was left after the wreck. There he found the redwood trees.
To begin with, Jamestown was founded on May 4, 1607. It was financed by the stockholders of the Virginia company of Landon. Technically, it had been taken advantage from for economic reasons. No women settled in Jamestown, mainly because the men strongly believed that a woman had no business on being there, to in their case it would
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
Have you been fishing only when summer sets in until you no longer find it thrilling? During the next winter, break the boring monotony and try ice fishing. It involves baiting out and spearing fish from holes in frozen water bodies. I am just about to let you aware of the best places in America where you can enjoy yourself of catching fish right from beneath the ice. Lake Champlain, Vermont
Now San-Francisco had changed its special status of the port city in the tourist center, which is beyond the basics of physical geography. Therefore, the original function of the city has changed significantly, but still San-Francisco is one of the most attractive cities in the
John Sutter began building a sawmill with his workers in California. One of his workers, James Marshall, found gold in the river. Although John Sutter wanted to keep the gold a secret, too many workers who were helping to build the sawmill saw the gold and the gold rush began. People who sold supplies became rich because so many people bought supplies to look for gold. People from across the country moved west to try and find the gold.
Climate and topography also greatly affected where civilizations settled, and their survivability. For example, ancient Greece had a hot, dry climate, and also mountainous terrain. This meant the soil was rocky and dry, which made it unsuitable for farming and growing crops. In addition to this, the Greeks could only rely on the winter rains for freshwater, as they had no specific water source. The mountains and rocky soil forced the people of Ancient Greece to move towards the coast where there were fewer mountains.
It was also founded by John Wheelwright and other Colonists. The naming comes from a English county of Hampshire where Captain John Mason received a grant for the land was raised. It was located on the Atlantic coast of North America. It was an English colony that existed from the years of 1638 to
The first diamond discovery in the area was made in 1906 by John Huddleston, the farmer who owned the piece of land. There are many different versions of the discovery story, and while no one actually knows which one is the most accurate, the most commonly used story goes likes this: Huddleston was out in his fields tending to his crops when he saw something shining through the soil. Thinking it might be gold, he picked it up and took it to a nearby creek and washed it with a mining pan. The shiny flakes floated away and turned out to be nothing but the useless element, mica. But at the bottom of the pan, he saw two smooth stones.
Plymouth Colony was founded in 1620, at Plymouth, Massachusetts, by Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower, a ship carrying settlers. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wasn't settled for another 11 years. History When the Pilgrims first arrived in 1620 it was the local Wampanoag Indians who taught them how to grow or plant crops. The Indians and the Pilgrims went on to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in the New World together.
Having adult responsibilities means that people will start to be dependent on other people and that they have a responsibility to help meet their needs, such as a responsibility towards one's family. Often those responsibilities can be forced upon someone due to certain circumstances and as a result their personality can completely change. That is the situation with Grete in “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, that due to the ramification of taking care of her brother’s condition Grete’s overall character changes into that of a responsible adult but in the process she becomes a cruel person. Grete character in the story starts out as a quite and naive girl who prefers to stay in the background and is sensitive enough to suddenly start crying when she tries to get her brother out of his bedroom. Before Gregor’s condition Grete couldn't do anything on her own and wasn’t a dependable person.
I chose to do research on my great, great, great, grandmother who lived during the eighteen hundreds. She settled in North Fork, Arkansas. I discovered after many hours of searching for a modern and historic map that the population had dropped dramatically. The population for her time was 1,128.79 while the town’s population now is about 550 residents she settled in a rural community.
The topography of California is very diverse, consisting of slopes, canyons, and valleys. As we know, heat rises which allows a fire that may start below a slope to travel quickly to the top. Climate or weather patterns play a significant role as well, such as high temperature, relative humidity,
