CSDR

What is CSDR?

The California School for the Deaf, Riverside, is a component of the California Department of Education, Division of State Special Schools. The School serves 500 students from eleven counties in Southern California. The student body ranges from age 18 months through age 22 and reflects the diverse population of the region.

CSDR has earned a local, national, and international reputation for the quality of its instructional and residential programs and the breadth of its support services for deaf and hard of hearing students. Highly qualified staff provide deaf and hearing role models in the instructional and residential programs, and participate in an ongoing program of staff development.

The School provides an array of programs for parents and community members, including parent education classes, American Sign Language classes, Latino Family Retreat, and extensive outreach services.

History

On March 26, 1946, California assembly bill 75 was signed by Governor Earl Warren, future United States Supreme Court Chief Justice, authorizing appropriations to establish the Southern California School for the Deaf, later renamed the California School for the Deaf, Riverside

In 1977, Dr. Robert Lennan became the second school superintendent. One of the big changes during his era was the implementation of individualized education plan (IEP) as required by federal law.

In 2000, Dr. Rachel Stone, deaf since birth, became the fourth school chief and brought a number of changes including the increased respect to American Sign Language and opening up new opportunities for leadership among the deaf employees.

In 2006, Mal Grossinger was selected as the sixth superintendent of CSDR and remains in that position today. He is the second deaf superintendent to lead CSDR. Mr. Grossinger brings to the school over 25 years of experience in the field of deaf education. He is credited with bringing stability and unity back to the campus.

Adrenaline!!!

What is it?
Epinephrine also known as adrenaline is a hormone and a neurotransmitter. It increases heart rate, constricts blood vessels, dilates air passages and participates in the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system. Chemically, epinephrine is a catecholamine, a monoamine produced only by the adrenal glands from the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine.


How does adrenaline work in the human body?
The adrenal glands may be found directly above the kidneys in the human body, and are roughly 3 inches (7.62 cm) in length. Norepinephrine  is also released from the adrenal glands when they are active.


People's experiences:


Here's a opinion of someone who loves the adrenaline:  " I am addicted to falling through the air, whether it be skydiving, bungee jumping or my new personal favorite, human slingshotting!

That rush of fear makes me feel so alive and reminds me how limited our time in this life is and renews my determination to experience as much as I possibly can"

My own experiences:

I use the adrenaline when doing sports or fighting. It feels that you are flying, that nothing can stop you. You can feel the anger and the focus of your mind and your body . And then you stop, everything turns quiet and slow, you see everyone and everything..... the time stops.

Cesar Chavez

César Estrada Chávez ( March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).


A Mexican American, Chávez became the best known Latino civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. By the late 1970s, his tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50,000 field workers in California and Florida.


Chavez was a charismatic, gifted speaker who inspired Latinos to band together and devote themselves to the farmworkers' movement. Claiming as his models Emiliano Zapata, Gandhi, Nehru, and Martin Luther King.


After his death he became a major historical icon for the Latino community, and for liberals generally, symbolizing militant support for workers and for Hispanic power based on grass roots organizing and his slogan "Sí, se puede" (yes it can be done).


César Chávez's birthday, March 31, is celebrated in California as a state holiday, intended to promote service to the community in honor of Chávez's life and work. 

The declaration of Independence of the United States

The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. 


some facts: 

• But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776).
• For the first 15 or 20 years after the Declaration was written, people didn’t celebrate it much on any date.
• By the 1790s, a time of bitter partisan conflicts, the Declaration had become controversial. One party, the Democratic-Republicans, admired Jefferson and the Declaration. But the other party, the Federalists, thought the Declaration was too French and too anti-British, which went against their current policies.
• Celebrations of the Fourth of July became more common as the years went on and in 1870, almost a hundred years after the Declaration was written
• the date on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Britain was on  November 1776

Images!

Richard Pindell

Richard Pindell, an award-winning English professor, has withdrawn from teaching classes for the foreseeable future. He is assumed ill, and his departure has left his students, many of whom sought his classes because of his popularity, with substitute teachers and altered class requirements.


Students who enrolled in Pindell’s courses, because of his popularity within the department, are finding themselves having to conform to a different style of teaching and different requirements.


Strehl attributed Pindell’s popularity to his unique teaching style and personality.

1.  facts about Richard's life :

• He is a very private man
• Pindell’s reputation has been more than enough to fill classrooms.
• Pindell started teaching in 1969, winning the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from 1974 to 1975.
• his students says he is really funny as a teacher
• he is unique when comes on teaching.

Vietnam

Officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China (PRC) to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea. With a population of over 89 million, Vietnam is the 13th most populous country in the world.


Why is Vietnam an interesting place?


Vietnam is an interesting place because it have some attractive places like P Hanoi, Saigon, the old imperial capital of Hue, World Heritage Sites of Hoi An and the Cham temples of Mỹ Sơn, the coastline such as Nha Trang, the caves of Halong Bay, Marble Mountains, and many other sites. 


How does the lotus seed relate to the Vietnamese?


In Buddhist symbolism, the lotus represents purity of the body, speech, and mind as if floating above the muddy waters of attachment and desire. In the classical written and oral literature of many Asian cultures the lotus is present in figurative form, representing elegance, beauty, perfection, purity and grace, being often used in poems and songs as an allegory for ideal feminine attributes. 




Here are some images that could convince you:


     marble mountains...


        Ho hoan kiem...


     Hanoi temple...

whooping cranes and Sandhill cranes

What is a crane?

Cranes are a family, Gruidae, of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in the order Gruiformes. There are fifteen species of crane in four genera. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back.


What is the difference?


Whooping cranes:
from my point of view this bird is all white-skin with a red spot in the front of it head


Sandhill Cranes:
This bird, when being an adult, is usually grey but when being in their first years they are like brown.


but they have somethings in common...
But are great large neck birds, also they are helped by varius organizations. Both live aproximately 22-24 years in wild. Both puts two eggs but ussually one of  those two calves survive.






Photos:
 a whooping crane


 sandhill crane (adult and chik)