2. In this short story by Hector Tobar he explains how dangerous driving fast can be dangerous and how in other countries their roadways are not set up as well or have any safety laws like in California. Tobar, growing up in Los Angeles explains the importance of driving and the evolution of the freeways and how well kept they are by CalTrans.
3. "My mother and father were car-less for the first year or so after their arrival from Guatemala in 1962." (p. 58)
4. This story reminded me of my friends house in LA. When I went to visit her I remembered being amazed by all the driving she does everyday and how she knows what time to commute so she does not hit traffic. It also reminded me of her because of the mention of the Rose Hills because you can see that sign on the hill from her house.
5. I did not know that CalTrans would put up a picture of a white CalTrans helmet everywhere someone died on the highways.
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1. Montalvo, myths and dreams of home by Thomas Steinbeck
2. In Thomas Steinbecks story about his love for California he talks about Spain in the 1500's and the lack of publishing there. In 1510 a man named Garcia Rodriguez de Montalvo who was a French translator for romantic novels wrote a book called "Las Serges de Esplandeion". This book became a bestseller and has myths hidden in the text. Steinbeck continues to talk about California and how wonderful it is and how so many people wanted to come here and no on cared about the other states.
3. "In a lifetime of travel I have become acquainted with hundreds of people who dreamed of coming to California. Most of them couldn't have cared less about the other forty-nine states..." (p.65)
4. This story reminds me of the state that I live in and how other people in my country look at California as a great place.
5. I did not know about Garcia Rodriguez de Montalvo
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1. The Last Little Beach Town by Edward Humes
2. Edward Humes starts off by explaining the small town of Seal Beach in Southern California and how in larger cities people do not trust one another like in Seal Beach. Humes explains in this story that Seal Beach use to be full of people staying in the track homes of the 1950's and was a normal city and it has begun to move backwards in time becoming an old fashioned city where people walk to "non-starbucks" and "even talk to each other along the way".
3. "Imagine walking into City Hall in LA or Santa Monica or Santa Ana or anywhere else this side of Mayberry and having a clerk tell you, take it go ahead, I trust you." (p.70)
4. This story made me think of going to Fort Bragg when I was younger. I remember going there and it felt like such a small town by the ocean where you could say hi to anyone and people were more old fashioned. I think of the way our state is divided and that there are different cultures within the same state and even a few miles away from each other.
5. I did not know that there was a town named Seal Beach in Southern California.
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1. Surfacing by Matt Warshaw
2. Matt Warshaw tells us about a kid who was a surfer and went to half moon bay to catch a huge wave and travels on a ferry to get there and once he gets this huge wave he wipes out and breaks his board. He traveled back to his house to get a new board to go back and try again. He ends up catching many more waves that day. Warshaw also mentions hot surfing spots in California in San Francisco and Santa Cruz.
3. "Forty-five minutes later he caught another wave, nearly as big as the first one, and made it." (p. 88)
4. This story reminds me of going to Santa Cruz with my family and watching all the people surfing at the boardwalk and how it was a whole different lifestyle than I am use to.
5. I did not know that Half Moon Bay was not a "hardcore surf town"
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In these four stories about California the authors had different stories to tell. They are all based on the experiences each individual has had in California. The differences are from turning the sport surfing into a message to not give up, another to explain how a town can go form big to small town feel in a matter of 50 years, another author shows how much he loves California in his story and how he believes everyone else does as well and last the structure of California and the need for transportation in the big city of LA.
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1. Gabby--This story makes me think of every piece of fruit or vegetable that I have ever eaten and how much hard work goes into farming and producing crop
2. Jeff--Beverly Hills may be high society and wealthy, but they are still people
3. Justin--I never knew that the American River had such extreme cultural significance
4. Jerad--I feel that it is very important to see the world, after all it may be in your own backyard
5. Karen--Aimee Liu, a resident of Beverly Hills, sees through the glitz and glamour of the town and actually looks at the people and their relationship between fear and desire
6. Lori--I learned Hollywood is not excluded from problems of homelessness or any other issues we have to face in our daily life
7. Amanda--This story definately made me think about how today's society is slowing filling up all our agricultural land with coperations and buildings
8. Brooke--It seems that Beverly Hills and cities like it portray a certain image and it attracts more people to it for that reason.
9. Nicole--All Mackey wants to gain from her bird watching is to be able to live among the birds and be one with them
10. Eric--Like anything human, it has two sides to it
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