Tracy Earth Project, the organization behind this column, is an environmentalist organization aimed at educating and informing Tracy’s residents about ways they can contribute to their local environment to build a better city and a brighter future. Founded by Dotty Nygard in 2017, the organization began with an annual Tracy Earth Day event, to celebrate […]
Tracy Earth Project – Tree Planting
November has come and gone, and with it finally came some clouds, rain, and coldwinds. But I’m not so willing to forget how hot our October was. I work at a coffee shopdowntown called Central Coffee, and I think any one of my coworkers can say that all of Tracywas trying to beat the heat. […]
Tracy Earth Project Column – Earth Day
“My primary objective in planning Earth Day was to show the political leadership of the Nation that there was broad and deep support for the environmental movement.” -Senator Gaylord Nelson (EPA Journal, 1980). According to earthday.org, on January 28th, 1969, an oil well blew out just off the shore of Santa Barbara. What resulted was […]
Tracy Earth Project Column 3 – ValleyLink
It took me about an hour and a half to get home from Livermore the other day. Not only that, but someone nearly crashed into me when they merged recklessly. I won’t make too many assumptions about you, reader, but personally? I don’t care for traffic, and I’d have a hard time believing that anyone […]
Tracy Earth Project Column 2
“The networking opportunities provided by the Tracy Green Business Network have been invaluable. In the past six months, we have made more business connections and engaged with more like-minded professionals than we had in the previous six years as a business in Tracy.” Frank Schubert, CEOTracy Renewable Energy LLC Say you are a business owner. […]
The Backrooms and Cursed Images
Fig 1. (Post 2661164, 2019) The above image was posted on a 4Chan board back in 2019, in an imageboard about “cursed images.” 4Chan only consists of anonymous users, so there is no way to trace who exactly posted these things, but another user replied with a chilling quote. “If you’re not careful and noclip […]
Antisocial Personality Disorder as Depicted in Avatar: The Last Airbender
In the series Avatar: The Last Airbender, the setting has four nations in which some are born with the natural ability to control an element: air, water, earth, or fire. A war started in which the fire nation eliminated the air nomads and continued for 100 years, colonizing part of the earth kingdom and culling […]
The Quintessential Fall Movie
Directed by Wes Anderson and featuring voice acting done by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, and even Bill Murray, the 2009 stop motion animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox is nothing short of a classic. The soundtrack contains a lot of nostalgic-sounding tracks that draw inspiration from just about everywhere, the characters all feel like […]
Magical Realism: Comparison of Examples
Magical realism is something that can change from story to story. The difference in its use in Kafka’s “The Bucket Rider” as compared to “Hello, Moto” by Nnedi Okorafor is the magical elements’ effects on the world. “The Bucket Rider” acts as more of a fable, where the narrative elements are not as stressed as […]
Magical Realism as a Genre
Magical Realism is a relatively recent development in literature, in comparison to older fantasy and legends. The framework of Magical Realism came about as an amalgamation of fiction and nonfiction. In Magical Realist literature, the magical elements and structures are often derived from older fairy tales. Many experts argue that the way “magic” is utilized […]