Final draft The significant air pollution problem in the Los Angeles Basin has been one of the most severe environmental issues that concerned the society. Due to the American tradition‚ public transportations are not so commonly used; therefore‚ a majority of the individuals owned a car. The most commonly used transportation is the convenient motor vehicles that are driven everywhere. With the high volume of traffic daily‚ the tremendous amount of air pollution that is produced by highly-polluted
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In “Los Angeles Notebook”‚ Joan Didion depicts a wind named Santa Ana as an alarming and unnatural figure that disturbs the daily life of the people in Los Angeles. Didion implies the fear and disorder caused by Santa Ana through illustrative words that enhance the imagery of chaos. One imagery evokes an image of fire by only using the words “smoke” and “sirens”. Although these words by itself do not produce any significant meaning‚ when placed in a sentence like “we will see smoke back in the canyons
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Invasion of Los Angeles Los Angeles‚California‚City of Angels‚Entertainment Capital of the World. This is where I was born and raised. All I can say is that I am proud of being an Angeleno. Good weather‚second largest market in the US‚uniqueness‚and most of all good sports teams. Now if some madmen were to come over and take over LA. Then‚obviously it would seem as the worst thing imaginable. The question is would I pretty much let these madmen come over and ruin the way we live or take some action
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You have to give credit to the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Steve Ballmer. He’s taken a franchise that was in turmoil back in the Sterling days to a team with renewed energy and direction. His recent decision to remove coach Doc Rivers from having any front office duties and promoting Lawrence Frank is one that shows intelligence and savvy. The God of NBA journalism‚ Adrian Wojnarowski put it best when describing the situation: “Rivers’ losing his front-office duties isn’t so much an indictment
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Los Angeles in the 1900s was changing at a very rapid pace. African Americans from the South were migrating to the major cities of the North in search of opportunity. In the 1920s‚ the first wave of migration largely bypassed the city of Los Angeles. But starting in the 1940s‚ the second wave of migration caused Los Angeles’s population to skyrocket from 63‚700 to 350‚000 by the year 1960. This mass-migration caused many demographic problems in the new racially diverse city. The first sign of lingering
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The movie “Volcano” was about an active volcano forming into the city of Los Angeles‚ California. The evaporating of harmful gases‚ earthquakes‚ and some evidences from the manhole are the manifestations showed that an underground volcano was forming under the city. This means that there was already lava under the city and the ground cannot take the pressure anymore so it formed a volcano. The physical changes in the movie are the breaking of glasses from buildings‚ breaking of buildings
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Beloved‚ loathed‚ and prestigious; what do all these three words have in common? They all describe one of the most highly-marketed and globalized franchises in sports history‚ the Los Angeles Lakers. The glamorous team with sixteen championships to its name has had its head flushed down the toilet for the majority of this decade; ironically enough‚ this team was the one that looked most promising at the decade’s start‚ as those Lakers were coming off back to back titles. These Lakers have one sole
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court forever so it’s time for Doc Rivers to begin the dreaded search for his replacement. The nine time NBA All-Star has done things his way successfully at the point guard position for the past 12 seasons. As the on court orchestrator of the Los Angele Clippers he has changed the culture of a once poor franchise into a perennial powerhouse in the always competitive Western Conference. As of late the injury bug has hit Paul after suffering a season ending hand fracture costing him and the Clippers
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Los Angeles Lakers is a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Los Angeles‚ California. It is not only the successful NBA basketball team but also one of the earliest team joined NBA league. The Lakers is the reigning NBA champions after defeating the Boston Celtics in the 2010 NBA Finals 4 – 3. The Finals victory gave the franchise their 16th championship‚ placing them second in NBA history behind the Celtics’ 17. The Lakers also hold the record for NBA’s longest winning streak (33)
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In the monolauge of “Twilight Los Angeles‚ 1992” Anna Deaver Smith‚ the Author and actor of the play states “It is not an answer. It is not a solution. I am first looking for the humanness inside the problems‚ or the crises. This spoken word is evidence of humanness. Perhaps the solution comes further down the road.” When Smith says this‚ she means that she is looking for peoples “Humanness”‚ as in the things that make up human beings‚ such as thoughts and emotions when in the crises to tell
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