University of Southern California Essays

Review on Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem In her memoir titled, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion includes a collection of essays that focus on her experiences in California during the 1960’s. By combining true historical facts, with a keen eye for gothic imagery, Didion narrates a felt experience from the perspective of a participant and an observer— calling into question the values of her own generation, while simultaneously embracing them in order to create a palpable narrative

In 1905, engineers were working on an irrigation canal wall on the Colorado River when a rush of water burst through and began to fill a nearby basin. For eighteen months after the incident, water flowed freely into the basin eventually filling it to form a lake. Hence, “The Accidental Sea,” or better known as the Salton Sea, was born. Because the Sea has no natural input of water, it is fed mainly by agricultural runoff from the Imperial and Coachella Valley. Furthermore, when the water evaporates

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current salinity is around 48,000 milligrams per liter, or 37 percent higher than the Pacific Ocean which allows only for salt-tolerant fish and birds to survive (2). The Salton Basin of Imperial Valley is one of the most biologically diverse areas in California with over 400 species and subspecies found there (2). Common mammals that can be found in the Imperial Valley are raccoons, coyotes, striped skunks, desert pocket mice, Merriam 's kangaroo rats, desert cottontails, Valley pocket gophers, and Round-tailed

winds of southern California. These malevolent winds start as a cool high pressure front in the Great Basin east of California. As the wind from the high pressure system fall down the back side of the mountains east of southern California. As the winds fall down the west side of the mountains they are warmed by the desert and sun and increase in temperature and speed as they wind through the narrow mountain passes and canyons producing an extremely hot dry wind that torments Southern California and northern

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Diversity in college expands opportunities to have different interactions with people who are from different cultures or groups; therefore, people can have more social development in college because diversity in college brings different college experiences by having interactions with people. Also, it can help students in society inside the campus because people will have different conversations. Diversity is important in college which the article agrees that “Americans seem to favor increasing diversity

far from expectations. This aphorism is most aptly captured in Fitzgerald’s novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, where Fitzgerald paints a picture of Hollywood that is ultimately incompatible with the notion that Hollywood is the embodiment of the California Dream. Early Hollywood portrayed itself as a land of leisure and luxury, a utopia where with enough hard work and talent anyone could achieve a life of pleasure. However, examination of the various characters and events throughout The Love of the

Langen, he failed to succeed in his life due to not turning in financial aid to his college. Gladwell describes Langen’s failure to take a successful opportunity, “As a child, he had dreamt of becoming an academic. He should have gotten a PhD; universities are institutions structured, in large part, for people with his kind of deep intellectual interests and curiosity” (Gladwell 95). Langen had the choice to continue his education with the intelligence he acquired. In comparison, Robert Oppenheimer

“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

quality standards in companies worldwide ensuring that the consumer receives a superior product or service. Who is Malcolm Baldrige? The Malcom Baldrige Award was named after Malcom Baldrige, who served as Secretary of Commerce from 1981 to 1987 (University of Wisconsin-Stout, n.d.). He was an advocate of quality management and saw how other countries were advancing past American companies in terms of products produced and services provided, based on their astute attention to quality assurance. In

Today he is enrolled at Berkeley University in California, and the question has been raised as to whether David Cash should be expelled from the university. David Cash should be expelled from Berkeley University as he shows no remorse towards her death and because there are more qualified students that could easily replace him. David Cash should be expelled from Berkeley University as there is a numerous number of students better qualified to attend this university. According

Everyone has their own way they do things based on what they were taught and how they were raised. Sometimes our culture strongly informs the way we view others in the world. We show this through news feeds, videos, etc. By the things we do can look really rare and taboo to others. What one views normal, another may view it very disturbing and unethical. I am going to tell you about a couple short stories that shows the cultural differences and how it can impact a person's life. In the short

1. Whose favorite cartoon is The Mouse Queen? ANSWER: Deja 2. What did the girl who just moved next to Nikki’s house do that lead Deja to decide they won’t invite her to their club? ANSWER: She rolled her eyes at them. 3. What are Nikki and Deja going to be when they’ll grow up? ANSWER: Deja is going to be a decorator and Nikki is going to be a newspaper reporter

SFSU 's Stop Kiss Review: An Apparent and Astounding Attraction Between Two Friends On an ordinary San Franciscan Friday night, Diana Son 's critically-acclaimed Stop Kiss unveiled at San Francisco State University 's Little Theatre and left me enlivened and eager for more. A week and a day later, on Oct. 17, 2015, I saw Stop Kiss for a second time and was embroidered with theatrical inspiration. The talented cast, dedicated crew, and intricate set were the greatest assets and exemplified precision

Over the semester I have learned many new aspects of social work that have helped deepen my understanding of what social work is really about. This course has taught me things that will help me become a better person and will also help me with my future working with children. Self reflection is a key skill to have when working in social work. We need to understand how we are, and our social location, influence everything we do with social work. My beliefs and values would be beneficial for being

Polaris: Malcolm Baldrige Award In 1987 U.S. Congress created The Malcolm Baldrige Award it was created to improve the quality management of U.S. companies. The criteria for the award is commonly accepted, they are often used as standards for quality in the U.S. Every year the award is given to three companies in seven different categories: leadership, strategy, customers, measurement analysis, workforce, operations, and results. Companies that win the award exhibit quality management and excellent

I attended the 2016 CSU Community Counselor Conference by the CSU office of the Chancellor, Ken O’ Donnell, and Cynthia Turner, CSU Dominguez Hills. The conference took place September 27, 2016 in Riverside, California. The mission of this conference is to keep every community college counselor informed, so they can be well prepared to assist their students navigate through the CSU admission process. The workshops that were offered were the Early Assessment Program Overview, Enrollment Updates and

The street that I chose to observe and drive was Valley Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA. Valley Boulevard beings over by LAC/USC Medical Center where it is connected to Main Street and runs until California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CPP), where it then turns into Holt street. The length of Valley Boulevard is about 50 miles and passes through at least six different cities; Alhambra, Monterey Park, El Monte, City of Industry, Walnut, Diamond Bar, and Pomona. Valley Boulevard runs parallel

RSL or the Returned and Services League of Australia is a well-known and respected league objected to “promoting the interests and welfare of serving and ex-serving men and women of Australian Defence Force (ADF) and their dependants” (RSL Constitution, 2018, pg. __). This is proven through their care of sick and elderly as well as their assistant to provide medical treatment, accommodation and other types of welfare to not only their members but to all that served and are serving the ADF and their