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California State University, Monterey Bay

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Effectiveness Of Inmate Labor Programs: A Case Study Of Marion County's Inmate Work Farm, Cassie Beck May 2019

Effectiveness Of Inmate Labor Programs: A Case Study Of Marion County's Inmate Work Farm, Cassie Beck

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This research project explores the topic of prison labor in the United States. The aim is to analyze the both the strengths and weaknesses of inmate labor programs. In addition, this project examines the effect that these programs have on both the prison itself and the inmates that participate. It analyzes Marion County’s Inmate Work Farm in order to investigate how helpful or harmful this program is to the inmates and the community that surrounds it. This project uses several different theoretical concepts to further explain the topic including Michele Foucault’s concept of power as well as the concept of …

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Analysis Of Social Services Available To Seniors In Monterey County, Marijeanne Santina May 2019

Analysis Of Social Services Available To Seniors In Monterey County, Marijeanne Santina

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

As America’s geriatric population increases due to the Baby Boomer generation getting older, it is crucial for sociologists to investigate the current social services available to the aging population. Increasing longevity of older adults means focusing promoting health, wellbeing and independence through different services and promoting a positive perspective of seniors by general society. The focus of this research is to examine the current geriatric resources available to seniors in Monterey County. My research question is: “To what extent are the current social services available to seniors fulfilling the needs of the community?” I would like to assess the current …

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Increasing Awareness Of Legal Services And Tenant Rights In Watsonville, Ana Laura Partida Lopez May 2019

Increasing Awareness Of Legal Services And Tenant Rights In Watsonville, Ana Laura Partida Lopez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

California Rural Legal Assistance is a non-profit that works with marginalized communities such as people who are of low income, farm workers, and those with disabilities, school children, seniors, and those are a part of the LGBT community. Marginalized people most often get taken advantage of and are afraid to ask for help. The housing crisis in the Santa Cruz County has led many to endure harsh living conditions despite this; CRLA has a stagnant rate of people going into the office for consultations. The outreach project was about conducting a survey in the community to find out how aware …

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Developing Information On Mental Health And Counseling Services, Katherine Bustamante May 2019

Developing Information On Mental Health And Counseling Services, Katherine Bustamante

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Taylor Farms Center for Learning (TFCFL) is an afterschool program, which is located in East Salinas, serving primarily 76% of Hispanic and Latino children and families. Providing various programs to break down barriers for children to experience success. Every year in the United States, up to 20% of children and youth experience a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder but nearly half of all children receive no mental health services. Due to this few agency-sponsored services address this health issue and TFCFL wants to make sure they are offering the right kind of services for their community. This research project will …

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Merecemos Saber/ We Deserve To Know, Erika Arreola May 2019

Merecemos Saber/ We Deserve To Know, Erika Arreola

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Safe Ag Safe Schools, a coalition of 50-plus organizations works with the community to reduce pesticide exposure in Monterey County. Although pesticides are used to kill and repel pests, pesticides put human health at risk. Despite the efforts addressing pesticides issues, Spanish speaking individuals are unaware of what those issues are. Merecemos Saber/ We Deserve to Know is an educational intervention aimed to increase Spanish speaking individuals’ knowledge and awareness about pesticide issues. This project included an educational intervention, mapping of expected pesticide applications near Greenfield schools, and a presentation conducted at the Community Forum on Pesticides in Greenfield City …

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Sex Pots: 50 Shades Of Moche, Heather Wiley Apr 2019

Sex Pots: 50 Shades Of Moche, Heather Wiley

Culture, Society, and Praxis

This article is a look at Pre-Columbian Moche people, their history of unique ceramics, and the possible meanings behind various unique and intriguing pieces of work. The article focuses on pottery from the Moche, and more specifically the famous “sex pots,” connecting the Moche’s unique perspective of life, death, and the afterlife.

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Three Keys For Radical Activists, Aurora Castaneda Apr 2019

Three Keys For Radical Activists, Aurora Castaneda

Culture, Society, and Praxis

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Domestic Violence And Women’S Mental Health, Grace T. Douglas Apr 2019

Domestic Violence And Women’S Mental Health, Grace T. Douglas

Culture, Society, and Praxis

No abstract provided.

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Media Analysis: Marjory Stoneman Douglas Shooting, Celine Parra Apr 2019

Media Analysis: Marjory Stoneman Douglas Shooting, Celine Parra

Culture, Society, and Praxis

No abstract provided.

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Letter From The Editor: Spring 2019, Amanda Pullum Apr 2019

Letter From The Editor: Spring 2019, Amanda Pullum

Culture, Society, and Praxis

No abstract provided.

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2011 - Published Government Sources Relating To American Indians Mar 2019

2011 - Published Government Sources Relating To American Indians

Miscellaneous Federal Documents & Reports

A U.S. National Archives and Records Administration publication regarding government sources that contain information on Federal policy toward Native Americans, overviews of Indian wars, and reports of Indian agents.

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2003 - California Bulletin 118 - Update Mar 2019

2003 - California Bulletin 118 - Update

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

This is an update of the California Bulletin 118. The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) recognized the need for collection, summary, and evaluation of groundwater data as tools in planning optimal use of the groundwater resource. Bulletin 118 presents the results of groundwater basin evaluations in California. The Bulletin 118 series was preceded by Water Quality Investigations Report No. 3, Ground Water Basins in California (referred to in this bulletin as Report No. 3), published in 1952 by the Department of Public Works, Division of Water Resources (the predecessor of DWR). The purpose of Report No. 3 was to …

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2004 - Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin, Forebay Aquifer Subbasin, California Groundwater Bulletin 118 - Update Mar 2019

2004 - Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin, Forebay Aquifer Subbasin, California Groundwater Bulletin 118 - Update

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

An update of the California Groundwater Bulletin 118 as it relates to the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin and the Forebay Aquifer Sub-Basin

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2018 - California Water Plan Update - Public Review Draft Mar 2019

2018 - California Water Plan Update - Public Review Draft

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

California Water Plan Update 2018 provides recommended actions, funding scenarios, and an investment strategy to bolster efforts by water and resource managers, planners, and decision-makers to overcome California’s most pressing water resource challenges. It builds on progress made in California Water Plan Update 2013; reaffirms State government’s unique role and commitment to sustainable, equitable, long-term water resource management; and introduces implementation tools to inform sound decision-making.

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2016 - California Land Use And Management - A Resource Management Strategy Of The California Water Plan Mar 2019

2016 - California Land Use And Management - A Resource Management Strategy Of The California Water Plan

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

Land use planning and management cuts across many resource management strategies. More efficient and effective land use is linked to several resource management strategies including watershed, water use efficiency, groundwater quality, flood management, parks and recreation, climate change adaptive management and agricultural lands stewardship. Directly development away from agricultural lands permits multi-objective management of these lands for agricultural preservation, floodplain management, water quality, habitat conservation, and sustainable development. In addition, planning for more compact and sustainable communities, both urban and rural, will assist in reducing reliance on the state-s water supply, and result in more efficient use of California’s water …

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2016 - Agricultural Lands Stewardship Mar 2019

2016 - Agricultural Lands Stewardship

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The agricultural lands stewardship strategy (ALS) focuses primarily on private land in agriculture including cultivated land and rangeland. Agricultural land in California comprises about 31.6 million acres. Agricultural systems in California are varied in the way resources are used, ranging from intensive conventional agriculture (irrigated crop cultivation) to more extensive systems such as livestock grazing, each with a different relationship to natural resources. They also affect and are affected by surface hydrology and groundwater recharge in different ways. Stewardship of this land requires constant balancing among natural constraints, market forces, and ever-changing social expectations. Institutions and policies have been developed …

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1861 - Drake's Compilation Of Spanish Grants Feb 2019

1861 - Drake's Compilation Of Spanish Grants

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

An 1861 publication compiled by Eugene B. Drake containing Jimeno's and Hartnell's indexes of Mexican land concessions, from 1830 to 1846; the Toma de Razon, or, registry of titles, for 1844-'45; approvals of land grants by the Territorial Deputation and Departmental Assembly of California, from 1835 to 1846, and a list of unclaimed grants. The compilation of indices was compiled from the Spanish archives in the U.S. Surveyor-general's office.

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1913 - Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Laws; Vol. Iii; Charles J. Kappler Feb 2019

1913 - Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Laws; Vol. Iii; Charles J. Kappler

US and Indian Relations

The first two volumes were published under a resolution of the Senate in 1902, and shortly thereafter a second edition was ordered by a concurrent resolution of the House of Representatives and the Senate. This third volume included all laws relative to Indian affairs passed by Congress after 1902, together with all Executive proclamations, departmental orders, etc., relating to Indian reservations to date, a list of Indian trust funds standing to the credit of various tribes, and also several old Indian treaties which it was not possible to procure when the volume containing the treaties was prepared.

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1904 - Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Treaties Vol Ii, Charles J. Kappler Feb 2019

1904 - Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Treaties Vol Ii, Charles J. Kappler

US and Indian Relations

An accurate compilation of the treaties, laws, Executive orders, and other matters relating to Indian affairs, from the organization of the Government, had been needed for many years, and its necessity had been repeatedly emphasized by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in his annual reports to Congress. This two-volume work was undertaken by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in pursuance of the recommendation of the Commissioner and to meet the pressing need that the committee found for a correct compilation, convenient in form and properly indexed, so that any law, treaty, or order could readily be found. Much difficulty …

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2017 - Monterey County Crop Report Feb 2019

2017 - Monterey County Crop Report

Monterey County Crop Reports

2017 annual report pertaining to agriculture in Monterey County, California.

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1971 - Kappler's Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Vol Vii Feb 2019

1971 - Kappler's Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Vol Vii

US and Indian Relations

In addition to the new material published found in Volume VI published in 1970 that included all treaties, laws, executive orders and regulations relating to Indian affairs in force on September 1, 1967, the five earlier volumes (1904-1941) were reprinted in Volume VII, as they were difficult to find, in their entirety except that in Volume IV, a 1928 edition of Title 25 of the United States Code was omitted, as were duplicate indexes to Volumes I, II and III.

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1929 - Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Laws Vol. Iv, Charles J. Kappler Feb 2019

1929 - Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Laws Vol. Iv, Charles J. Kappler

US and Indian Relations

Volume IV of the Compilation of Indian Laws and Treaties was prepared in compliance with the resolution adopted by the Sixty-ninth Congress. This volume embraces all laws relating to Indian affairs passed by Congress from December, 1913, to the end of the Sixty-ninth Congress, March 4, 1927. During that period of 14 years a large amount of Indian legislation of considerable importance was enacted; many Executive orders, proclamations, etc., covering Indian lands and reservations had been issued, and a number of unratified treaties with Indians in whose behalf legislation had been enacted or was pending in Congress and which treaties …

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1941- Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Laws Vol V, Charles J. Kappler Feb 2019

1941- Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Laws Vol V, Charles J. Kappler

US and Indian Relations

Volume V contains all Indian laws passed from March 4, 1927, to the end of the Seventy-fifth Congress on June 29, 1938. During this period a large quantity of important Indian legislation was enacted by Congress, including the so-called Wheeler-Howard Act; and many Executive orders and proclamations were issued by the President pertaining to Indian tribes and reservations. Several relevant unratified treaties and agreements with Indian tribes, in whose behalf legislation was enacted or is pending in Congress or whose cases are pending in the Court of Claims, were included in this volume. Also included were a number of leading …

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1971 - Kappler's Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Vol Vi Feb 2019

1971 - Kappler's Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Vol Vi

US and Indian Relations

The five previously published volumes of Kappler's Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, contained treaties and statutes relating to Indian affairs enacted through the Seventy-fifth Congress in 1938. Congress, by Title VII of the Act of April 11, 1968, 25 U.S.C. § 1341, authorized and directed the Secretary of the Interior to revise and extend Kappler's compilation to include all treaties, laws, executive orders and regulations relating to Indian affairs in force on September 1, 1967. This volume extended the work through the Ninety-first Congress, 1970.

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1904 - Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Laws Vol I, Charles J. Kappler Feb 2019

1904 - Indian Affairs - Laws And Treaties, Laws Vol I, Charles J. Kappler

US and Indian Relations

An accurate compilation of the treaties, laws, Executive orders, and other matters relating to Indian affairs, from the organization of the Government, had been needed for many years, and its necessity had been repeatedly emphasized by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in his annual reports to Congress. This two-volume work was undertaken by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in pursuance of the recommendation of the Commissioner and to meet the pressing need that the committee found for a correct compilation, convenient in form and properly indexed, so that any law, treaty, or order could readily be found. Much difficulty …

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1887 - The Present Condition Of The Mission Indians Of California, Charles C. Painter Feb 2019

1887 - The Present Condition Of The Mission Indians Of California, Charles C. Painter

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The need of the direct observation of facts in the Indian country, and of assistance and redress for Indians in cases of flagrant wrong and encroachment, increases every year. The Indian Rights Association co-operated with the government in all measures and efforts tending to the advancement of the Indians toward self-support. The Association favored the immediate adoption of a system for the education of all Indian children; the extension of law over the reservations, for the protection of the rights of both Indians and white men; the allotment of lands to individual Indians, and the breaking up of the tribal …

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Japanese Pamphlets, Volume Iv, 1907-1925 Feb 2019

Japanese Pamphlets, Volume Iv, 1907-1925

Japanese Pamphlets

Ten politically oriented pamphlets published between 1907 to 1925 that set forth largely anti-Japanese contentions against those residing in the United States and California. The White population continued to be concerned about the mixing of races and wanted additional laws that not only excluded the Japanese who were living in the United States (including children born in the United States) from citizenship but also from leasing or owning land. The arguments found in the first three volumes of pamphlets continued on into Volume IV including a V.H. McClatchy’s 1925 pamphlet entitled: “Guarding the Immigration Gates: What Has Been Done; What …

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Japanese Pamphlets, Volume Iii, 1918-1925 Feb 2019

Japanese Pamphlets, Volume Iii, 1918-1925

Japanese Pamphlets

Twenty-two politically oriented pamphlets published between 1906 to 1914 that set forth the pros and cons of Japanese continuing to reside in the United States and California. The White population was particularly concerned about the mixing of races and wanted laws that not only excluded the Japanese who were living in the United States (including children born in the United States) from citizenship but also from leasing or owning land. Those who were anti-Japanese described the Japanese as an inferior race incapable of assimilating into the White population and includes a pamphlet entitled “Preliminary Report of the Mental Capacity of …

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Chinese Immigration-Exclusion Pamphlets, Volume Iii, 1857-1902 Feb 2019

Chinese Immigration-Exclusion Pamphlets, Volume Iii, 1857-1902

Chinese Pamphlets

Eleven pamphlets published between 1857 and 1902 regarding the treatment of the exempt classes of Chinese in the United States, arguments in favor of immigration with measurers recommended by the Immigration Union, the church and the Chinese, competition with Chinese and the necessity of a stringent exclusion clause, and letters written by members of the Chinese community on the Chinese question.

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Chinese Immigration-Exclusion Pamphlets, Volume I, 1876-1914 Feb 2019

Chinese Immigration-Exclusion Pamphlets, Volume I, 1876-1914

Chinese Pamphlets

Seventeen pamphlets published between 1876 and 1914 that set forth the pros and cons of Chinese immigration into the United States, including arguments as to why the Chinese should be excluded. Those claims were in part that the Chinese being non-assimilative, undesirable, destructive to competition and hence the need to protect American labor and White citizens. The Chinese were blamed for the spread of slavery, criminal activities, highbinders (assassins), opium smoking, leprosy and other imported evils and the overall corruption of California.

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