still relevant in Los Angeles and California politics and still plays a major role in the perception of elected officials today such as former governor of California and now Attorney General Edmund Jerrold “Jerry” Brown‚ Jr.. Despite the fact that the appointment of Rose Bird to The Supreme Court Chief Justice was a major accomplishment for women‚ her actions while in office‚ which were viewed as “soft on crime”‚ were the cause of much political grievance and strife to Los Angeles residents in the
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Environmental Racism in Los Angeles and its Formation The siting of a $500 million railyard project backed by BNSF Railroad Company‚ which recently won the approval from Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners and Los Angeles City Council‚ has been a highly debated issue in Long Beach‚ Los Angeles. According to a report from Pacific Swell‚ ‘The BNSF railway’s project would serve as a transfer point between the harbor complex and rail. Short-haul trucks would travel four miles up the freeway to move
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effects of overdevelopment‚ the wild fires which occur and similarities and differences the rich and poor communities faced in terms of adversity‚ how suburbanization brought people closer to the wildlife‚ and how numerous books and movies portrayed Los Angeles as the center for calamities. The culmination of all these problems clearly shows that there are many glaring weaknesses of Southern California that need to be closely examined. One of the main issues that the book‚ "Ecology of Fear‚"
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The Los Angels County Museum of Art (LAMA) is an art museum in Los Angels‚ California. LACMA is situated on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles (George‚ 1998). LACMA is the most astronomically immense museum in the western region of Los Angels and it receives proximate to one million people in a year. It’s holding includes more than 100‚000 works revealing the history of art from old days to the present. The museum additionally features films and concerts
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activism and change‚ it transformed traditions‚ survival‚ and impacted the musical life of the Mexican people of Los Angeles. East LA‚ to be specific‚ is where a large majority of Chicana/o musical bands have began their earliest of memories‚ amongst them is La Santa Cecilia‚ a Mexican-American band who identify themselves as a sextet group that distributes love and music from Los Angeles to the entire
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smaller and forming “sets”. These sets would soon start claiming territory in a number of places in the Los Angeles area and from that point on things would begin to get bloody‚ deadly‚ and ferocious within the each gang territories. By the time the 1980s came around almost thirty thousand or more would belong to either The Crips or The Blood gang and all found themselves living in the Los Angeles area. Members of the gang started from ages a young as thirteen and as old as the mid thirties and in
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Line Kurzmann 2.c | MFG Engelsk Los Angeles has always been a city of contradictions. Things are not what they seem like in the big city that is part of wild nature with hills and desert and yet is the emblem of modern life with endless freeways and cars moving in all directions. Los Angeles is the city of dreams where stars are made in Hollywood‚ but also the place of poverty‚ corruption and crime. The many faces of Los Angeles are captured in Truman Capote’s narrative essay “Hollywood”. The
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The four police officers were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force by a police officer. The trial was held in a predominately white suburb of Los Angeles because the defense attorneys argued that the police officers would not be able to get a fair trial because of the publicity. The four men were all acquitted by an almost entirely white jury. This resulted in the L.A. riots of 1992. These riots
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Chapter Two: Literature Review Thai Migration to Los Angeles The unprecedented increase in the number of Asians leaving their country to take up residence in the United States over the past decade has widely publicized by the media and intensively studied by social scientists. The simultaneous qualitative shift in the geographical origin of these new residents‚ however‚ has attracted less attention. Reinforcing the long-establish and well-documented migration streams from the Philippines‚
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The Grammy Museum is situated at the corner of W. Olympic Blvd and Figueroa Street in the Los Angeles Live District. It is opened throughout the week from 1030 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. during weekdays and 10.00 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. on weekdays. The museum is widely known for its tremendous efforts in paying tribute to the rich cultural history of music. It is a 21st century museum focused on celebrating and exploring legacies of all types of music‚ the technology of music recording and the entire creative
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