3c Inland Areas

Sacramento vs Fresno

Sacramento and fresno are two cities you hear rarely about nowadays. Niether city is real big and nothing real exciting goes on around them. Each city is rich in culture when you visit them and tie in greatly to the history of California

What are some assumptions/stereotypes you think people have of each location:
Sacramento is best known as the capitol of California, however those who know little about it tend to think it is a town inhabited by cows. People think all people from Sacramento have cows and life stock.

Fresno is constantly overlooked in the great state of California. Many residents of California cant even give you an opinion of Fresno, because they have no information on Fresno.

List 3 things that make each location similar:
Each of the locations has a minor leave (AAA) baseball team.. The teams are transition leagues for major league baseball.

Both of these cities are located in the central Valley. Sacramento is the biggest city in the central valley followed by Fresno, which is the second largest in the Central Valley.

Major California universities are found in each city such as, Davis and Sacramento sate in Sacramento and Fresno State in Fresno.

List 3 things that make each location so different: 1 point
Sacramento has a professional Basketball team (Sacramento Kings) and a women’s team (Sacramento Monarchs). Fresno does not have a major professional sports team.

Sacramento was a major distribution point during the gold rush. Fresno county was not even in existence when the gold rush transpired.

Sacramento is the capital of California, while Fresno can barely make it on most maps.

Questioning:
Sacramento was not the original capital of California, Monterrey was. I wonder what makes it so that a city loses it’s capital status and how out determine a new capitol.

Jeni ( http://jenilyons.blogspot.com/2008/06/2c-san-diego-zoo.html) mentioned that the San Diego zoo has been a pioneer for cage less exhibits. I have not yet experienced this but zoos are a great place to learn about culture. The more natural the setting, the better the exhibit.

Sources:
City of Sacramento: http://www.cityofsacramento.org/
City of Fresno: http://www.fresno.gov/default.htmWikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento, http://en.wikipedi