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The Cultural Transformation of Los Angeles

This paper examines two works regarding cultural changes in LA. The author discusses Mike Davis' book, City of Quartz, as well as...

Case Study of Community, Business, and Politics

In eight pages Los Angeles' J. Paul Getty Trust is examined in terms of its public organization status, strong political influence...

1992 L.A. Riots and the Impact of Socioeconomics

makes South Central Los Angeles such a great place in which to examine whether pluralism is always a valid explanation of "who gov...

L.A. and Chicago Gangs

Economic and social problems which have an effect on the creation of gangs in both Los Angeles and Chicago are discussed. Politica...

Los Angeles and New York Law Enforcement Bicycle Patrols

In five pages this paper discusses the training involved and benefits of the bicycle patrols enacted by police departments in both...

Overview of the Rodney King Beating

The Rodney King case and the actions of the Los Angeles Police Department are the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages. Ei...

Media Depiction of Law Enforcement Brutality

has been one of the biggest topics of discussion. It is difficult to ascertain what the truth is with all of the media hype going...

Excessive Use of Force and Law Enforcement

II. Objectives The focal content of this research maintains two inherent objectives. The premier of these will be to examine wh...

Small Business and the Importance of Marketing

In six pages this paper examines how the success of a small business such as a Los Angeles based executive gift service is depende...

Minnesota's Upsher-Smith Laboratories

An overview of this company that develops and markets prescription pharmaceutical drugs and dietary supplements is presented in a ...

Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodriguez

In five pages this book on Los Angeles gang life is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Cultural and Societal Determinism and the Ties That Bind Latino Students

"Hispanic Americans are divided on the issue of bilingual education and its efficacy in assisting student learning. While some ar...

Los Angeles and the American Dream

In a paper that consists of five pages the growth of the suburbs that has become so representative of the American Dream of home, ...

Los Angeles and Elementary School Education

there were five things that had to be done for Americas school children. He listed providing a child with "a safe place to grow up...

Background Overview of the 1965 Watts Riots

reasons for the riots can be traced all the way to the 1940s, when Black G.I.s returned from World War II expecting thanks and pra...

Los Angeles for Authors

for their stories. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West provides one with a sense of the cultural geography of Los Angeles in ...

Los Vendidos by Luis Valdez and Satirical Elements

the political intimidation regarding the grape growers and farmers toward their Chicano field workers in Delano, California. Not o...

LA's Skid Row

gangs and as the home to businesses which are plagued with a host of problems indigenous to the area. But Skid Row wasnt always t...

Rampart Division Scandal and the LAPD

important in the context of appropriate law enforcement and community policing. THe pervading attitudes regarding "us" and "them" ...

2002 Resignation of Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard Parks

senior lead program that had been established (Gold and Daunt, 2002). This was a program wherein police officers were assigned to ...

Crazy/Beautiful Film and its Themes of Social Stratification and Interracial Dating

indicate a real trend or did producers want to make the unlikely romance more intense by denoting the male protagonist as someone ...

Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel

no longer in use, but is the subject of controversy. There are those who want to use the site for some other purposes. After all...

Central Los Angeles and Urban Unrest Causes

South Central L.A. that had been the hardest hit (Tucker, 1993). They also indicated that this area had had other problems stemmin...

Los Tigres del Norte

compared to any other group in the world "They have been compared to the Rolling Stones, to rappers, to folk musicians, and to Cou...

Los Angeles Area Health Policy Changes and Nursing

international trade, has also increased pollution from diesel engines (Bostwick, 2004). A 20 parts-per-billion increase in ozone l...

Los Angeles and Its Cinematic Images

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

Los Angeles Literature

Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...

Anger According to Chester Himes and John Fante

if it jumped straight out of a thesaurus and by reading Nietzche. One employer loses patients with Arturo because he spends his ti...

Women Victims of Violence in America

because of domestic violence. According to the FBI, thats about 1,400 a year - with most of those killings occurring by what NOW d...

Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and The Imagination of Disaster

of natural development are interrupted through the introduction of the urban landscape, but that nature inherently responds to the...