California Article Reviews Samples For Students

Summary and Reflection: Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott

Summary and Reflection
Anne Lamott discussed the value of first drafts in writing through the article Shitty First Drafts, an article in her best-selling book Bird by Bird. As a professional writer, Lamott disputes the commonly held notion that good writers find it easy to create written works without any indication of anxiety or difficulty whatsoever. For Lamott, all writers experience obstacles related to their written works. In turn, Lamott referred to first drafts as those that tend to reflect the obstacles of all writers towards producing the final version of their written works (Lamott, 1994).

Lamott does ...

Gun Prohibition

Joe Nocera argues in his New York Times op-ed column “Guns and Mental Illness” that it should be more difficult for people, rather than the mentally-ill, to attain a firearm due to a recent mass shooting in California. Last month, 22 year old Elliot Rodger went on a shooting spree in Isla Vista, California after emailing a 140-page manifesto to his parents. Nocera recapitulates the terrifying tale of two parents racing to California only to have their worst fears confirmed: Elliot had killed six people before committing suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Elliot had a long history with depression and had never been ...

The term “transnational gangs” has always been used to refer to the spread of Central American gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha into Washington DC, North Carolina and Maryland. Most of these transnational gangs were formed by refugees in the 1980s fleeing the war in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. The gangs were a form of protection. In January, the Congressional Research Service filed a report showing that these gangs were continuing to expand. Kamala Harris, the State Attorney General, feels like the term “transnational gangs” should also include the cooperation that is seen between the Mexican cartels and the California prison ...

Article Critique: Digital Government and the Digital Divide by Richard Groper

Introduction
The article subject of this critique is entitled “Digital Government and the Digital Divide”, written by Professor Richard Groper of California State University (CSU) in Fullerton, California, United States (US), and published as a chapter of a book entitled “Digital Government: Principles and Best Practices” edited by Alexei Pavlichev and G. David Garson. The book serves as a compilation of articles on e-governance, with most being in the form of research endeavors on certain questions on the subject matter and case studies that sought to resolve relevant controversies. Groper, for his article, has posited his thesis on questioning race as a ...

Evolution – The Reality of Existence

This paper deals with two articles and two conversational scripts, each of which tries to emphasize the predominant role and the process of evolutionary development that dates back to our ancestors, and which cascades down to our own lives and plays a role in determining our current behavior and lifestyle.
The first article titled Potential Evolutionary Role for Same-Sex Attraction (Association for Psychological Science, 2010), published in the Science Daily on Feb 4, 2010, tries to highlight the role of human evolution in promoting homosexuality amongst men. The article -- based on the research findings of two evolutionary psychologists, ...

Tom Knudson’s article, “Shifting the Pain: World’s Resources Feed California’s Growing Appetite,” is an excellent demonstration of Americans’ ethnocentrism. The article was clearly written to make that point. Seldom does the average American stop to think what kind of impact his or her actions have on other parts of the world, especially the environment. Knudson used three excellent examples of how Californians’ protect their own environment at the expense of the environment in Canada and Ecuador. Although Knudson is biased in his article, his examples are solid and he does offer opposing viewpoints. He also gives ...

Community

The California insurance marketplace has experienced a couple of events this year, in terms of the member registration and signing up for insurance covers. California has signed up more Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants than Latinos. The major method that these Asian communities are using to sign up for the Covered California insurance policy is through Certified Insurance agents rather than community groups. Fourteen percent of the eligible population in California consists of individuals from the Asian descent. Thirteen Percent of those signed up with Covered California is comprised of Asian individuals (Aliferis, 2014).
The news value evident in this ...

Article Review

Snyder, Stephanie. Open primary 'business as usual,' observers say. California Watch. (June 18, 2012)
The article by Snyder (2012) titled, open primary ‘business as usual’, observers say, tries to bring out the difficult political situation in California were moderate candidates cannot get a chance to run in the general elections in November. This is true because in the traditional primaries, the candidates that end up in the ballot box come November are either liberals who are democrats, or conservatives who are Republicans. Either way, both sets of candidates are extremes who frustrate approval of budget until one compromises.
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In California, Justice for Juveniles

The California Youth Authority (CYA) was a state prison system for youth offenders; it was founded in 1941 to keep juvenile delinquents out of adult prison and provide them with a support system for rehabilitation. It was the belief of lawmakers and social workers at thetime that a better-educated and trained youth would have a greater chance of becoming integrated back into society.
Unfortunately, 50 years later, the system appeared to have broken down, and so damaging to the youth it was supposed to be rehabilitating that the California Youth Authority was eliminated and many of its facilities were forced to shut ...

Section 1

The article was published in the August issue of 2014 of The Atlantic Magazine. The Atlantic Magazine, founded in 1857 and currently based in Washington D.C. has over the years grown to become a well-respected politics and social justice commentary.

The article was published in the technology section of the magazine, which is issued ten times every year.

The article was authored by Erica Gies, an independent writer, editor and photographer whose areas of specialization include; energy, water, climate policy, urban planning and green living.

Section 2

The article is talking about the current wrangles over underground water in California. Gies highlights the disputes that have come up as farmers battle over the underground water.
Gies also highlights on ...

Rationale

It is apparent that the entire healthcare system is grappling with nursing shortages-a phenomenon that is characterized by improper nurse-patient ratios. This has adamantly hampered the quality of care provided and adversely affecting patient outcomes and satisfaction. According to the American Nurses Association, proper staffing and hence patient-nurse ratios is an integral aspect in improving the quality of healthcare provided. High nurse-patient ratios means that nurse have to deal with huge numbers of patients leading to clinical errors, clinically acquired infections or premature discharges from hospital. This leads to high readmission rates and increased hospital costs due to recurrence ...

The story is about the Mexican immigrant family travel “the circuit” of crop harvesting jobs around California. The story reflects the extreme poverty and poor living conditions which the immigrant’s family was experiencing. The oldest son narrates the story explaining the disappointments they pass throughout to the hard work, constant movement, and seasonality of the job as well as the children having to skip school to work.
The theme of the story is the survival of the immigrant family in a foreign land. Use of imagery paints the theme. The speaker describes the structures and life in a dramatic ...

Dealing with elderly patients in various nursing scenarios can be challenging in a number of ways. One of the biggest risks to these patients is falls, as these can lead to a number of different health issues, including fractures and psychological distress (Campbell, 2016). As such, much research has been conducted with the aim of understanding what can be done to prevent these falls. Hourly rounding by nurses working with elderly patients is one area of interest, as it has been shown to significantly reduce the incidence of falls in nursing units (Campbell, 2016). The purpose of this paper ...

When speaking of minimalism in music, one cannot speak of it completely without mentioning Terry Riley and La Monte Young, who at a large extent are credited for being the pioneers of the minimalism movement (Potter, 2). The interaction between the two classmates at the University of California-Berkeley would later go on to shape a new genre of music. Riley and Young were both interested in classical music and drew inspiration from John Cage, a renowned composer and performer based in Germany (Potter, 12). In 1959, Young visited Germany and got to experience music performance from his mentor John ...

On Feb 5, 2016, a judge in a California Court sentenced Dr. Hsiu Tseng to life in prison for 30 years for the involuntary murder of her patients who totalled 3 in number. Her patients had according to the District Attorney overdosed on the prescriptions that she wrote.
When Dr. Tseng joined Rowland Clinic in California in 2007, little did she know that it would be the last place she would ever practice in her professison. On her short-lived career at Rowland Clinic, she wrote prescriptions for more than 27,000 patients. This translated to about 25 patients in ...

According to the article, China’s air pollution kills about 4000 people a day and the reason quoted is the burning of coal in the country. The main pollutants are tiny particles which are called PM2.5s which are the leading cause of stroke, heart attack, lung cancer, asthma and are responsible for China’s 17% mortality rate as recorded by Berkeley Earth. Richard Muller, the scientific director of Berkeley Earth, reported about his stay in China that when he was visiting Beijing, every hour that he was exposed to the air, he was losing twenty minutes of his lifespan. ...

With advent of climate change, the global temperatures are soaring at an astounding rate. Not only are people affected by this increasing temperature, but also crops, the main source of our food, have been on the receiving end. Most crops do not have the capabilities to adjust accordingly to the increasing and many of them wither and die. However, the field of genetic engineering is about to change this. Scholars and scientists in the field have been carrying out extensive research and are on the verge of making new discoveries that will aid plants to adapt to tomorrow’s ...

Response:

The "A Glimpse of Domestic Life in 1827" is a short story from the book called herencia. It is an excellent, unique well written story with superb writing styles. Actually I like the ancient stories myself and this has really made me enjoy reading it. This story addresses some crucial moral themes that are addressed in the world every day such as religion vs. the world and female chauvinism. I think this story should be used by students in small literature circles. The slightly obscure and nonlinear thread may evade some students who are trying to figure out the plot ...

Abstract

Childhood obesity is a problem that has faced the United States for over two decades. With so many health issues associated with obesity and so many children becoming obese the problem is in need of a solution. It has been found that children from low socioeconomic status areas are more likely to become obese. Between their families and schools lack of ability to provide healthy meals and not enough resources to fix the issue many children are not learning ways to beat obesity for their future. This study aims to find out if there is a strong correlation between low socioeconomic status in ...

Reading mama Lola has made me understand that religion is all about observing certain religious believes rather than just being part of a religious sect. Every religion is directed towards a supreme being, yet the religious proceedings are dependent on where an individual was brought up. Many times, people condemn others for observing certain religious rituals, terming them evil, yet they do not understand the reason behind it. One unique feature about religion is that anyone who dedicates his or her life to it feels it is the right form of religious worship. Religion plays an important part in an individual’ ...

Overview

Transportation is a very fundamental thing for the growth of economy in a country. This is because it facilitates the movement of goods from one place to another. Transport can either be through air, sea, roads or railways. It has been established that a country that has a vast network of transport has a commendable economic growth. This is because the main thing that is crucial for the economic growth one of them being the transport network is in place and well developed. Other than businesses, most of the countries owe their economic growth to the agricultural products. If a country has a well advanced transport ...

Introduction

As a teacher, it is essential to talk to students on issues related to plagiarism and how to avoid it. Therefore, prior to a writing assignment, I would first let my students know the exact meaning plagiarism. This is because studies show that some students lack a clear comprehension of plagiarism. , assert that teachers should let students understand the difference between cheating and collaborating. Secondly, I would set rules that have to be adhered to in order to avoid plagiarism. Anyone who breaks any rule would have to face dire consequences such as suspension or even expulsion. By so doing, I believe ...

The influx of prisoners into the jails of Los Angeles County has caused its population to increase significantly over the last few months. This has forced the officials to look for places in the Central valley to house the prisoners. The program, “realignment”, has led to the relocation of more than 5,000 prisoners who would have otherwise been housed in jails in Los Angeles. The jail system of the county is the largest in the nation and currently has a population of around 18,600 prisoners. Overcrowding will be a problem if the officials fail to find other locations for ...

Article Review: Baldness Treatments May Mimic Animals' Winter Coats

Article Review: Baldness Treatments May mimic Animals Winter Coats
Just imagine scientists have devoted so much research towards baldness in both men and women to make the startling discovery that treatment dermatologists’ use in their attempt to regenerate the function of hair follicles found within the skin, can be adapted towards understanding animal winter coating during the change of seasons (MyHealthDailyNews, 2011)
Precisely, in making the connection with animals, Dr Cheng-Ming Chuong, University of Southern California, advanced the assumption that hair growth in animals is stimulated by hormones ...

Summary of the Akhara: Where Earth Is Turned Into Gold

Akhara is a place where; youth recreation, men and boy relaxation, healing, as well as religious activities take place and it is located in an open place, close to a water source and surrounded by tress with thick leaves. Examples of religious activities that takes place in Akharas include, prayer and sacrifice offerings as well as meditation sessions while on the other hand, the major recreation activity taking place here is wrestling; besides people also visit this place to be healed from various diseases such as skin diseases. The daily routine in akharas differ from one to another but, generally there ...