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

In this portfolio you will see some of the works that I have done during my first quarter at Cal Poly. Completing these assignments was no easy task. It took hard work, dedication, motivation, and perseverance to overcome some of the obstacles that I encountered. Currently, you will find my resume, group project video, and recommendation report listed on this ePortfolio. Following, I will outline some of the difficulties I had with each project, how I overcame them, and lessons learned. To begin

surroundings with every step I took. The architecture over there was breathtaking, I thought to myself, it is no wonder why Cal Poly is known to be one of the most prestigious schools for the field of engineering. I knew from that moment on that I will work hard to one day become a Mustang, so I went right to work. As we all know, CSU’s are not necessarily the cheapest of colleges, Cal Poly definitely not being an exception. With tuition being about $9,400 and adding extra costs such as food, housing, textbooks

My field of study within Cal Poly Pomona is Business Management with a Human Resources concentration. I first became interested in this field of study from my past experience of serving in the United States Marine Corps. While serving in the Unites States military, I was required to attend a small unit leadership course known as Corporals Course. This military leadership course focused on effective team building, individual mentoring, and motivational concepts. Shortly after completing this leadership

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

provides an analysis of how grip direction and auditory stimulus impact grip strength, based on an experiment conducted by a team of Cal Poly students. The primary objective was to evaluate the effects of different palm directions (palm up or palm down) and the presence of a stressful auditory stimulus (audio on or audio off) on grip strength. The experiment involved 88 Cal Poly students and professors invited by the student researchers. Each participant was randomly assigned to one of the four possible

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

will appear more reliable to us, and we can use an example if an actor wears a white coat it will increase his reliability and it will be easier to sell products such as medicine. (Ethos, Logos, Pathos: Three Ways to Persuade by Dr. John R. Edlund, Cal Poly

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

Christopher Dokoza Mr. Clack English 1 13 May 2024. The Dangers Of Censorship And Mass Media Societies in the world all have contributors to their downfall or corruption and these contributors have the ability to turn people into puppets. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, depicts a dystopian city in America with the main character Guy Montag. Guy discovers through the duration of the novel that the world he lives in silences people from discovering the truth. People will become

I am writing to express my interest in the 5260 Landscape Architectural Assistant I at San Francisco Public Works, Building Design & Construction division. After my enriching experience as an intern in the Landscape Architecture Section, I believe I am the ideal candidate for this position due to my skills and passion for public spaces along with my City and County of San Francisco Public Works experience. I want to work on public projects because it allows me to create meaningful and enjoyable

currently attending Fullerton College where I’m majoring in child development and I’m amazed to see how children develop mentally and physically. I love everything that has to do with children from newborns to toddlers. I plan to transfer to Cal Poly Pomona or Cal State Fullerton, where I aspire to earn an associate’s degree or a bachelor’s degree in teaching. As I was doing my research in the preschool teacher I found out the different requirements that are needed in this career. Depending in the state