Santa Clara Valley

polluted water that caused different illnesses and diseases like cholera. This is an issue that always gets my attention regardless of where I am. I would hate to continue to live in a community that has problems with its water. Santa Clara Valley Water District is a government agency that deals with my issue. I decided to call in the main office to find out about if the government body is elected or appointed and I was informed that the board of directors are elected. They each have overlapping four year terms. Board of directors are: John L. Varela, Richard Santos, Tony Estremera, Gary Kremen, Barbara Keegan, Nai Hsueh. The URL to find the elected board of directors is https://www.valleywater.org/how-we-operate/board-of-directors. The URL where their meeting agenda are published is…

Selections from the little my dad wrote were included too. His letter to my mother at the end of the war and her return letter to him—neither of which I had previously seen—are a window not only into their lives but also into the times in which they lived. Later letters, including what my father wrote when he was dying and the entries my mother made in her diaries gave all of us a broader understanding of, and deeper appreciation for, both of them. For this reason I decided to make The…

Khaled Hosseini was born March 4, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan and lived there until he was five, when they moved to Iran. When he was eleven, his father got a job in Paris, France and they moved there. They never returned to Afghanistan due to the Saur Revolution and they sought political asylum in America. Hosseini graduated from Independent High School in San Jose, California. He attended Santa Clara University and got his bachelor’s degree in medicine, after that he attended University of…

Furthermore, with so much at stake, she is placed in a very vulnerable position within the company, especially if she makes the “wrong” decision. However, the upper management of the company has not been informed of this situation, and it is a still possible communication avenue for her to take, but she feels she could jeopardize her future there at the company due to going over her boss’s head in this case. Finally, whatever outcome is chosen, it will directly affect the buyer in this scenario…

My grandfather was born in Gilroy, California, in 1939. At the age of eight, my grandfather moved to a ranch near the outskirts of Gilroy, where he lived in a one room shack with his mother, brother, and step-father. For seven years, my grandfather lived in that poor shack, where he had to cover the holes in the walls with newspaper or cardboard just to keep warm during the cold winters. Years later, my grandfather decided to make something out of his life, and enrolled at San Jose City college…

1. Q: When was San Francisco founded and who founded it? A. San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776. It was founded by a Spanish explorer named Juan Bautista de Anza and Paloú. Anza lead an expedition northwest to the Pacific Coast and established the first successful overland connection between Sonora and Northern California. The Mexican viceroy was so impressed, he commissioned Anza to return to the San Francisco Bay and set up a permanent settlement. (San Francisco History) 2. Q: What is…

Ward Elementary School in Las Vegas. The Nevada state capitol building is made of Sandstone as was the former United States mint. Sandstone makes up most of Nevada’s amazing scenery and is found throughout the state of Nevada in areas like the Valley of Fire State Park and Red Rock Canyon Recreational Lands. The state trees are the Bristlecone Pine and Single-leaf Piñon (or pinyon) The Bristlecone Pine was made an official state tree in 1987 while the Single-leaf Pinyon was made one in 1953.…

base conversion projects in California. This IPO of Five Point Holdings Inc. did not include the CNWS. At this time Lennar has not secured the final rights to development of the project. The CNWS is projected to be a big money maker given the shortage of affordable housing in the Bay Area In May of 2016, Lennar and Five Point abruptly cancelled the Five Point IPO process citing a “choppy market”. This explanation was not exactly true. Confidential sources close to the SEC tell a different…

However, the next article I’m going to talk about gives us the exact locations where the quake hit California areas. This article named, “The California Quake: “I Don’t Want to Die in Here”: Disaster Areas…” This article was written and published in the New York Times in 1989, which is a while from the actual event. This article clearly describes 7 counties that affected by the quake, such as Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Benito, and Monterey. Beside the…

Introduction: Clara Barton was born December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. She attended Clinton Liberal Institute and became familiar with abolition, women’s rights and education. (Whitelaw, 5) Her father, Captain Steven Barton, a veteran of the Indian Wars, was a great influence on her. Not only did he teach Clara military tactics, geography, and how to properly equip an army, as a woman he told her that she could do anything she desired. (Whitelaw, 6) She refused to be treated as less…