Santa Barbara Essays

with the Chumash Indians would prove to be a crucial moment for the tribe. Cabrillo was the first European to have contact with the Chumash Indians. He encountered the Chumash on wood plank canoes along, what is known today as, the Ventura and Santa Barbara Coastline. Consequently, the Chumash were left to their own devices

The Santa Barbara Blowout was an oil spill that took place in the Santa Barbara Channel in January of 1969 and now ranks as the third largest oil spill to take place in the United States. An estimated 10,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the ocean over several months. The spill severely harmed thousands of sea birds and other forms of marine life in the waters. This was one of the most impactful environmental disasters in American history, as it led to some of the most restrictive regulations

“I’d like a tropical guava smoothie, please.” The cashier nods her head and gives me a smug look while she is putting a lid on a cup. I could tell what she was thinking. It was the universal someone-had-too-much-to-drink-last-night look. I could care less. A combination of dehydration, anxiety, excitement, and impatience fills me as I wait. Neighboring UCSB, there sits a small town known as Isla Vista, which occupies two square miles within the city of Goleta, with a well established street known

In “The Great Santa Barbara Oil Disaster, or: A Diary” by Conyus, he write of his interactions and thoughts that he has while cleaning the horrible and momentous oil spill that occurred in Santa Barbara in 1969. In this, there is a stanza that he writes that appeals to the entirety of the poem, the one that begins on page three with “Day six” and ends with “again & again.”; this stanza uses tone and imagery which allow for the reader to grasp the fundamental core of this experience and how Conyus

The 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill When something bad happens, do we only focus on the bad or should we also see and acknowledge the good as well? Well, that question fits perfectly with my topic for this paper. The 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill fits this question, since it was a very bad event, but it has changed California and most of the world for the better. Jon Hamilton says that the spill "turned beaches black and the nation green" (Hamilton). Hamilton writes this and I couldn’t have said it any

Elliot Rodger is the perpetrator of the Santa Barbra shooting that occurred on May 23, 2014. He uploaded a video outlining his reasonings for his violent actions. In this video he explained how he plans to get retribution for the years he suffered without a girlfriend. He highlighted how he was a nice guy and he did not know why women would not go out with him and how he planned to slaughter the women who rejected and refused to have sex with him all these years and how he planned to murder the men

Elliot Rodger, who was he? A shy 22-year old that attended the University of California in Isla Vista, a normal looking guy, that seemed to have it all, especially coming from a father of the film industry. Maybe he wasn't a normal guy but yet a depressed young man who has had a rough life trying to adjust to traveling so much, and not being able to fit in. A turn of events had caused an uproar by Rodger at the University of California. Elliot Rodger a rampage killer, killing 6 people and wounding

Kevin de Leon faces an uphill battle in the coming California Senate election. The incumbent, Dianne Feinstein, has been a staple of California politics for over thirty years. She also has a massive fundraising advantage and is herself one of the wealthiest people in the Senate. She currently holds a 29point lead in the polls for the primary, de Leon nonetheless can mount a challenge in the general election because of California's nonpartisan blanket primary, or jungle primary. In this system, all

Throughout one’s life, many circumstances take place that will change the individual forever. In Contending Forces, written by Pauline Hopkins, the author states, “And, after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate, destiny or any supernatural agency.” The character of Orleanna Price in The Poisonwood Bible undergoes sharp changes throughout her journey from a quiet home in Bethlehem, Georgia to the new, unpredictable environment of the Congo. Orleanna alters from

In the novel The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, Leah Price moves to the Congo with her family as part of a missionary. Through their experiences in the Congo, and living amongst a community with many political conflicts, Leah discovers the importance of justice and selflessness. Kingsolver uses assertive and benevolent tones, and symbolism throughout the story to portray the voice of Leah, illustrating Leah’s determination to adamantly strive for justice and equality for Africa and its

In the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand, it tells about a flawless society where everything is gathered and distributed. Eventually the main character escapes the society and lives on his own with everything he can do himself. Ayn Rand went too far when she made the character completely autonomous. Three reasons that support this claim is how they couldn’t make decisions on their own, the way their life was mapped, and how people interact with each other. In Anthem the society did not have any opinion

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver depicts Adah Price as the forsaken child in a foreign land. Already an outcast in her own family due to her brain deformity, her exposure to the Congo differs from the rest. From “A. D. A. H. Adah” the “ Crooked one” to able body Adah. Her Journey is a sight to behold form the light into the darkness from their somewhere in between and it all begins when the price family goes to the congo. Forced from her home in Bethlehem Georgia by her father and his

Ranging from the epics of old, centered on selflessness and courage, to the modern stories revealing moral-building characteristics, themes play an important part in connecting the writing to the reader.  In the story The Poisonwood Bible, author Barbara Kingsolver uses elements such as religion, nature, and the arrogance of the western world to reach out to the reader and introduce the concept she is trying to teach.              Religion has an enormous influence in The Poisonwood Bible, primarily

In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees, Taylor represents a bildungsroman character. A bildungsroman story is a coming of age story that consists of four stages. In the first stage of a bildungsroman character’s journey, she experiences a loss or painful experience that drives her to start a new life. The character goes through a baptismal rite in the second stage, which always involves water. The character endures many difficult trials in the third stage, but ends up gaining a new insight

Adah Price is the disabled daughter of Nathan and Orleanna Price in the novel “The Poisonwood Bible”, she knows the benefits and struggles from the form of exile she experiences. Adah has dealt with alienation from the moment she was born and her disability was first discovered. Throughout the novel we witness Adah’s disorder and how it affects her and her family's life both in positive and negative ways. With all of Adah’s struggles we see her exiled from her family, her home, and even herself.

he Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver focuses on both real life and fictional events and tells the story of the Price family’s experience in the Congo. Kingsolver makes good use of foreshadowing to dramatize the tragic incidents that occur in Africa. Orleanna Price is the most reliable narrator in the novel and is used to foreshadow future events and to explain various aspects of the past. In the first chapter, Orleanna maps out all the major events that will occur throughout the book. Most

The amount of time spent with something will change your views and thinking, that is what Barbara Ehrenreich and Lars Eighner share in their papers. Both had low status jobs after having a college education and their work is similar, yet opposites in some ways. The difference is that in Ehrenreich’s, “Serving in Florida”, she believes that restaurant waitressing jobs are degrading to workers because she only had one experience for research and had to stick with it for a short time that she chose

Eric was observed in the living room of his home with his sitter present. As the observation started, the sitter brought out several toys including a bag of blocks. She opened the bag and dumped the blocks out. She then asked Eric if he wanted to build a tower. He responded by saying, “A choo choo train” and repeated this several times. She helped him to build a train. As they built Eric counted “1,2,3,4,5,6”. He then said, “I wanna see _____ Choo choo.” The middle words were not recognizable

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, is a story told by the Price daughters and their mother on how their father/husband took them to the Congo in 1959 on a mission on spreading Christianity. The father’s goals was to convert the Congolese into Christians and baptize them into this religion. Throughout the book, the family faces many obstacles. The book is narrated starting with the mother, Orleanna, and then alternating among the four Price daughters, Rachel the oldest, Adah and Leah the

What issues prompted Frontier hotel and restaurant workers to take strike action? Many questions prompted employees at the Frontier Hotel to take action by striking. When watching this documentary for the first time, I did not realize how long these workers were on strike. One word to describe the owners of these hotels is "savages". They started to fire individuals for no apparent reason because the owners wanted to cut back. There was one girl that worked in the culinary department for eight