1Contains a title using the format listed above
2a The other California
2Contains the sources you used with links to these sources .
3Contains a brief paragraph how it connects to your study of humanities.
Well maybe not the most obvious of choices here, but I feel San Quentin is very relative to "your California." This topic relates to my study of humanities in the sense that I would like to look at the hypocrisy involved in the housing and treatment of California's inmate population. Your correctional infrastructure is definitely at odds with the image that California likes to project.
4 A.Observation: What did you choose? What do you see or hear or feel or think of in the choice you made? What is the subject of the work? If you chose a 'thing' what is the work made of and what techniques (colors, lines, shapes, textures)does the creator use? Be specific in your description. If you chose a place, be specific in your description of what you see or hear. Talk to your reader as though they cannot see the item but somehow must draw a painting of what you see or hear.
Well, I chose San Quentin for several reasons. First I was shocked to learn that this prison serves something like 7 different counties in our area with a wide range of criminals being housed without much segregation based on what the actual offence was. Second I was shocked to move to wine country and realise how many people in these little towns have spent time in San Quentin. It almost seems like a prerequisite for the working class of our area to have spent time there. I feel such disappointment in our society every time I see it. San Quentin Prison appears like a fortress overlooking the bay just north of San Francisco. It is surrounded by some of the most expensive residential and some commercial real estate in the country. But at the edge of this scenic peninsula, 5,400 inmates are locked up.
San Quentin has California's only death chamber, with 656 inmates waiting to be murdered.
On death row, every prisoner is confined to a cell that has just enough space for a bed and toilet. The contrasts are endless, and I feel San Quentin sums the growing divide of the have and the have nots in this state.
San Quentin has California's only death chamber, with 656 inmates waiting to be murdered.
On death row, every prisoner is confined to a cell that has just enough space for a bed and toilet. The contrasts are endless, and I feel San Quentin sums the growing divide of the have and the have nots in this state.
B.Interpretation: What is your choice about? Give specific examples to support this statement in 2 sentences; do so in a way that teaches us something about your choice. Make Paulo Freire proud!
My main point is more or less just trying to show how not just in California but our country in general has become a warehouse for holding our socially undesirables. The use of San Quentin was to show the glaring contradictions in how lives are shaped in our economic caste system. A prison surrounded by rich people and within that prison you will find mostly inmates that grew up not to far from this prison, but the closest most if not all will ever come to living near the real estate that surrounds the prison is by being incarcerated within in the walls of San Quentin.
Honestly, I feel that California socially speaking represents in my mind,I repeat my mind what is wrong with our wealth and opportunity distribution in this country. The hypocrisy that oozes from this state is almost sickening. One observation that I feel sums up my feelings is that when one comes to California it is quite apparent from the outset that the pc all in bracing hippy mentality is quite the scam indeed. The state is full of little towns full of open-minded people that will accept you with open arms into their community IF you can afford to live in their mini paradises and eat their organically grown food. These are the same people who employee impoverished migrant workers to clean their palaces and provide daily lip service about what needs to be done to address California's growing poverty and inmate population, but would never go anywhere near Richmond and are more or less closest racist that do nothing of note serve or help their fellow man, just their own wallet. The slave trade is alive and well in California especially when it comes to the huge profits all of our inmates provide us.
Questioning: What else would you like to know about this choice? 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.
I would like you to know that all of these scary inmates were once people too. They may quite rightly deserve punishment, in fact I am quite sure that most do. But, stop and think what you know about a place like San Quentin, do you really think our current correctional system is releasing back into society better people? Does the Mendocino county meth addict really benefit from being housed with murders, rapist, pedophiles and the like. If California is on the cutting edge of everything , then why is our corrections so ass backward? Wheres that good progressive forward looking California when it comes to our inmates. There are about 160,000 adult inmates in California prisons. That is the whole of Santa Rosa in prison. Do you not think that most of these inmates come out having learned how to be a better criminals? That is my belief
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