History Essays

It is a great thing that there are Native Plant Nurseries and Nature Preserve locations close to the Los Angeles area. It was my honor to be able to volunteer! These are good places to volunteer because the efforts of restoration sites around the peninsula will help and benefit by …

Literature of any people (whether oral or written) is not only the repository of peoples’ wisdom, but it is also a reflection of peoples’ customs, laws, and the ways of perceiving the surrounding world. As a unique expression of human thought, it represents extraordinary socio-cultural conditions in all human societies. …

We all have personal lives, when a health problem occurs, we schedule an appointment with a doctor. We also have another life. We are all members of a community. As a member of the community, it is inevitable that the community gets sick. The environment that we live in is …

The eighth principle of environmental justice states that all workers have rights to a safe and healthy working environment including one free of environmental hazards. These seventeen principles promote economic alternatives which develop an environmentally safe livelihood for people of color. The beginning of this ongoing battle was fueled by …

“We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.”— Dolores Huerta Driven to make a Difference “We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, …

García is a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara and teaches Chicano Studies and History. He’s knowledged in the field Chicano history, race, ethnicity, and religion. His research and activism is presented in published material that is available for those in academic settings who have interest in the Chicano …

Today was sunny 77°F, it was a great day to do my research on Cesar Chavez, for my cultural project for Spanish 1, Professor Kemp’s class. The first website I visited for this cultural project was the bibography.com which is great for looking up famous’s people biography, which is why …

A good leader is a person who has an exemplary character.It is of the upmost importance that as a leader is trustworthy to lead others.Therefore, the leader role influences how the leader performs the other roles (Lussier & Achua, 2016).A leader needs to be reliable and be recognized as living …

Blatant social injustices and discrimination led to the rise of activist leaders in the American Indian, Asian Pacific, African American, and Mexican population who used legal means to pursue equality and civil rights for their respective communities. The abolishment of slavery brought an end to owning black as property but …

In Senegal in West Africa, the French began to establish trading posts along the coast in 1624. By 1664, the French East India Company was established to compete for trade in the east. With the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, in 1830 the French seized Algiers, thus beginning the colonization …