3c Inner Areas

Contains a title using the format listed above .25 points
Yes

Contains a web link to your locations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy,_California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truckee,_California

Contains an explanation regarding how this component (any aspect of it; eg content of videos, content of websites) connects to your study of humanities. .25 point

How Truckee connects to Humanities
Truckee is a place for people to relax, enjoy the beautiful winter weather and do something exciting and trilling like snowboarding and skiing. It’s a chance to escape reality and do what they love for a few months of the year. We get to see enthusiast waiting for months so they can take a few days out of their schedule to do what they love. We see the fun and experience at work, making the best of California has to offer. We need the fun and excitement because without it, we would be just waiting to die.

How Gilroy connects to Humanities
Garlic fanatics have the couple days during the last weekend of July to enjoy a worldly known Gilroy Garlic Festival. This connects because it gives people to indulge themselves in what they love which would be garlic food. People from all over the world come together to celebrate the love of garlic and if that isn’t connecting all cultures together, I don’t know what is; connecting the love of garlic from here to Europe to Asia. People wait for the few days out of the year to forget their lives and do what they love, also meeting new people and experience everyone’s love for garlic. Being able to gather so many different people together for one event is amazing.

What are some assumptions/stereotypes you think people have of each location: 1 point
Assumptions/stereotypes about Truckee
People assume that Truckee is nothing but a place to go snowboarding and skiing. They have a beautiful historic downtown that incorporates with the snow and mountains around it. It is known for snowboarding and skiing but there is much more than that. Everyone assumes that Truckee is very cold; that is true in the winter but in the warmer months like July, they have an average maximum temperature of 82.7 degrees. So it is not always cold.

Assumptions/stereotypes about Gilroy
People assumed that Gilroy is in the middle of nowhere and it is very hot there and a very old city with lots of farming area. Gilroy has a lot of farming land and it’s mostly known for its garlic. The city population is 41000 people so it is not a small city but all people see of Gilroy is when driving on the freeway over looking acres of farm land. Their downtown is very historic but as well modern.

List 3 things that make each location similar: 1 point
People come all over the world to these cities. They are famous of the events they put on. Gilroy has an annual Gilroy Garlic Festival that about 130,000 people attend at the end of July. Truckee is home to the Sugar bowl; a snowboarding and skiing resort that people attend from all over California and Nevada. These cities are not well known but when the time comes thousands upon thousands come to witness and experience something wonderful that they will always remember.

List 3 things that make each location so different: 1 point
The cities are totally different, famous for the opposite things. Gilroy is farms while Truckee is snow. Truckee is famous for the cold weather; Gilroy is hot, around 90 degrees throughout most of the year. Truckee gets trill sneakers and Gilroy gets the food lovers together. I guess Truckee and Gilroy are ying and yang, total opposites but people come because they love to.


Questioning: What else would you like to know about these places? When completing the question section, lead your audience into the question by stating a fact you do know, yet you still have the related question. This way, both your audience and you will have an educational experience. .5 point
I know these places are roaring at a certain time of the year but what happens during the rest of the year. Do they just live their lives and work or is there other events going on during the days and nights?

Using your classmates work from last week, tell us one thing you learned from 1 student. Is this one thing some common experience you share or some experience that is completely different than what you experienced? Is this one thing related to our class theoretical foundation and if so, how? Is that one thing related to historical or cultural context of this country or a different one? Link that persons blog to this entry (eg cut paste that blog entry here) . .5 point

I learned that Rosio chose food as one of the things that represent California culture and i completely agree. California is incorporate with my cultures and to tell where which culture come from, we see it in the food. In San Francisco, there is many Chinese restaurants and if you go towards a different area, you might find Mexican food or European food. This relates to our class because food is everywhere and thats how we tell culture. Food is not only cultural but historical also, because people keep the same recipe for generations and it hasn't changed.

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