Cal Poly Essays

There is an accident on the 405 so we take PCH. I look at the window, into the sea. I am looking for dolphins or whales, but I have never seen a whale from this road. Once, when we were driving to Summer Nationals, Dad offered me two-bucks if I saw a whale. We drive past La Conchita. La Conchita is a small town that was built at the bottom of a mountain. Last year a mud slide burried half-a-dozen houses. Eight people died, suffocated in mud and debris. You can still see the mountains of mud and the

A Cal Poly Pomona alumnus with a long career in local law enforcement has been selected as the university’s next chief of police. Dario Robinson, a lieutenant with the San Bernardino Police Department, will take over as head of University Police on Jan. 25. Robinson’s selection as University Police chief returns him to the campus where he competed on the track team and earned a bachelor’s degree in behavioral studies upon graduating in 1991. “I look forward to once again being part of the Cal Poly

education can be the most stressful situation in someone 's life. In the article titled, “What Is the Point of College?” by Kwame Anthony Appiah, (The New York Times, on September 8, 2015) Appiah exposes what college should be about. I believe that Cal Poly provides me with enough classroom opportunities to determine both what I can do and who I can be. Before going out on a quest of our own making, know that we do not need to be career driven, rather career minded. “As higher education grows more

thoroughly researching several colleges, I found that Cal Poly San Luis Obispo best met my requirements. According to US news, Cal Poly Slo has one of the best engineering programs in the nation. They also have one of the largest engineering programs in the west, with around 5,000 students (US News). Cal Poly’s large and prestigious engineering program would provide an excellent education and a strong support system to encourage learning. In addition, Cal Poly offers an advanced path that allows students

interesting diverse interactions, however, he did not reflect on them until he attended college. It was in college he became aware of the deep rooted social identities assigned. He notes, experiencing culture shock at Chino State University, similar to Cal Poly, a predominantly white student population.Though he, himself, a person of color was socialized with the assumption that black college students were disorderly and destructive, yet he experience the opposite, where white students were disorderly and

puts it which means that the characters have a choice of which path they will take. But what if there is no choice for the character? Cal faces this lack of choice. His father has loved his twin brother Aron over him for his whole life for inexplicable reasons, and this lack of love has always hindered Cal. However, lying on his deathbed, Adam has the power to free Cal from this binding force that the absence of love holds on him. Lee watches and pleads, “Help him, Adam-help him. Give him his chance

able to direct people and manage them. Because I have a very outgoing personality and work well with others, I am aware that when I work in the future, I will want a management position. But, something I am passionate about is after graduating from Cal Poly Pomona and gaining a few years of work experience is going to graduate school and receiving my MBA.

I wish I could go back to kindergarten. “The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.” Laurie Halse Anderson. High school is a rough place like elementary with testosterone and steroids. It’s extremely fast paced and people won’t slow down for you nor anyone else either. My transcripts state the most difficult classes for me were spanish and math. Even though math was not a challenge for me, but I didn’t

Dear Broncos for Equality, I would like to express my ultimate gratitude on being selected to provide this new organization with a few recommendations in order to be a successful social justice organization at Cal Poly Pomona. Specifically, I will discuss the Black Panther Party (BPP), American Indian Movement (AIM), Justice for Janitors (JfJ), Gay Latinos Alliance (GALA), and The Young Lords and how each of the organizations faced their experiences of injustice regarding the issues of race, class

Dear Broncos for Equality, I would like to express my ultimate gratitude on being selected to provide this new organization with a few recommendations in order to be a successful social justice organization at Cal Poly Pomona. Specifically, I will discuss the Black Panther Party (BPP), American Indian Movement (AIM), Justice for Janitors (JfJ), and Gay Latinos Alliance (GALA) and how each of them faced their experiences of injustice regarding the issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Broncos

dream college, Vanguard University, knows of me, and has put me on a list for an academic scholarship for music and has noticed all of my hard work. I’ve already emailed the colleges that I am interested. Such as University of California Los Angeles, Cal Poly, Stanislaus University, Fresno State, Vanguard University, and Fresno Pacific. There is so much I want to accomplish before my last year of high school and I am going to do it

She attended Awalt High School, now known as Mountain View High, and later attended De Anza College, then attended Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Upon graduation, she taught Physical Education and dance in the Fremont High School District. Concurrently, she also taught dance in the evenings at Foothill College. In 1980, she change careers entering the Human Resource Industry

I was able to grow up into adulthood as I experienced a significant event, pushing me out my comfort zone, and learning who I truly am, thus better preparing myself for the future. And this was made possible due to my time dorming at Cal Poly Pomona, as a student of the Pasadena City College Upward Bound Program. However, in truth, intentionally, I didn’t want to go. Afterall, during my childhood, I was an easy target for bullies, constantly physically and verbally abused; lasting from elementary

I found several schools as listed as “top” Institutes in Fiske (Cal Poly SLO, Harvey Mudd) that are not written up, so there is room for exploration, which is good because, while the Technical Institutes sound like they meet my criteria educationally, they don’t look to fit my need for social / life balance. Looking

date and my uncle stepped in to take his place. She was 14 and he was 16 and the moment they met somehow defined the rest of their lives. In 2017, I’m the age of 19 and I’ve never been to a drive in movie theater—not even the one a couple miles from Cal Poly. I couldn’t imagine meeting a potential significant other in such an atmosphere but the social norms exhibited in my family’s relationships are a lot different from the norms of me and other millennials today. From the beginning of time and just

Chapter 17: The first person called to the witness stand was Heck Tata, the local sheriff, Heck Tate exclaims how Bob Ewell called him over to the house saying that Mayella, his daughter, had been raped. Tate said that when he got to the house he found Mayella bruised and beaten up. Bob Ewell is then called to the stand. Bob says that he came out of the woods with kindling and he heard Mayella screaming he then says that when he looked into the window to see what had happened and he says that he

for this assignment is “Simon” played by Michael T. Kachingwe. Simon was one of the three characters in the play titled “The Whipping Man” written by Matthew Lopez and directed by C. Julian White. The production of “The Whipping Man” took place in Cal Poly Pomona University Theater. The production of “The Whipping Man” that I witnessed occurred on March 3rd 2018. Physicality: The character Simon was an older African American man who was born a slave and has been a slave his entire life. When Simon

possible. I believe that working on the diversity of projects is the best way to enhance the skill of coding; Secondly, English is most common language, approving me to work the place I want to, it is the reason why I participate the ESL program in Cal Poly Pomona. I studied for 3 quarter to learn English and accustom to the American culture, preparing for the graduate school as early as possible. There are some advantages studying in USA such as we have more opportunity can meet people around the world

The dictionary describes empathy as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. But, you can’t look up how to feel empathy for someone. I believe that your experiences in life determine that. In To Kill a Mockingbird, (TKM), The kids, Scout and Jem each learn empathy through the events in the story. In the beginning, Atticus teaches them what the definition of empathy is, but they do not feel it until later in the book. This novel also shows us people that are, and are not empathetic

As humans there is a set of things we can do intrinsically and a set of things we cannot do. In between lies an infinite spectrum of things some of us can and some cannot do. Some of these abilities are rare, while others pervasive. Swimming fits in that gray area, but it seems – at least to this native Californian boy – farther on the pervasive side. Everyone knows the secret to effortlessly defying Archimedes’ Principle of buoyancy, yet somehow I was left out. I have long ago given up on any dream