Chinatown, Los Angeles, California

sober, God-fearing man and woman settled in to create a like-minded community. Harvey Henderson Wilcox of Kansas, who made a fortune in real estate even though he had lost the use of his legs due to typhoid fever, and his wife, Daeida, moved to Los Angeles from Topeka in 1883. In 1886, Wilcox bought 160 acres (0.6 km²) of land in the countryside to the west of the city at the foothills, in the Cahuenga Valley at, what is now, Hollywood Blvd. and Cahuenga Ave. He thought it would be a perfect site

DeMille is regarded by many to be the founder of Hollywood, given that his 1914 film, The Squaw Man, was the first important full-length motion picture made in Hollywood. As Joel W. Finler considers, the film "accelerated the trend toward establishing California as the new home of movie-making" . However, it is in his depiction of the `new woman' that the director is both celebrated and derided. In many of his films, DeMille illustrates the rise of consumer culture that had begun in the latter half of

glutted on humanity. Its first bloodletting of that season of the Devil occurred on the warm evening of June 28, 1984, when an earth-bound Lucifer found his way into the small Glassel Park apartment of 79-year-old Jennie Vincow. Throughout the Los Angeles area a damp humidity had oppressed the air that day, and when the evening came and the temperature slightly cooled, Jennie left her window open to invite what little breeze there might be into her flat. Like a fallen leaf, decayed and tossed

Windshield Survey Patricia L. Flores NUR/405 Health Communities: Theory and Practice University of Phoenix January 11, 2010 Sue Judlin Windshield Survey The community I have chosen is the city of Rowland Heights California, where I reside. This city is located in Los Angeles Country but borders Orange and San Bernardino Counties. Rowland Heights is in the Pacific Time Zone and sits at 525-feet above sea level. The city is 9.02 square miles with 5,380.70 residents per square mile. At the

The Safer Cities Initiative of Los Angeles was brought upon the city in late 2006 by Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. The Initiative was primarily designed to remove the homeless and mentally ill citizens from the isolated, 50 by 5 block, Los Angeles streets, known Nationally as Skid Row. In the end the S.C.I. violated these citizens civil rights and failed to meet any set obligations and responsibilities. Since the city of Los Angeles put this initiative into motion, the city then became responsible

James Turrell is a sculptor and designer born on the 6th of may 1943. He was born in Los Angeles, America to Quaker parents. When Turrell turned 16, he obtained a pilot license, for years, he restored antique airplanes to sustain his love for art. He obtained his bachelor degree from Ponoma college in perceptual psychology, he also studied math, geology and astronomy there. He enrolled in the university of California in 1966 and got into the graduate art studio program. After graduating, he obtained

Introduction The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is one of the largest community college districts in the nation. The District is composed of nine colleges spread throughout approximately 900 square feet of distance. The purpose of this report is to analyze the LACCD using metaphors described in Gareth Morgan’s Images of Organization. In addition, I plan to reveal how the LACCD benefits from maintaining a bureaucracy, the challenges the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)

“The Price of Everything” is a novel written by Russell Roberts. Russell Roberts is an economics professor who graduated from the University of Chicago. Roberts uses novels to teach about important economic topics. “The Price of Everything” is one of his five remarkable books. According to book reviews Roberts is a gifted writer. The main topics discussed throughout “The Price of Everything” are crises within market economics, price gouging, and spontaneous order. I mention crises within

Some demographics of Beverly Hills according to the 2000 United States Census, the population of the city of Beverly Hills in the year 2000 were 33,829 people. The ethnicity that was the highest overall in Beverly Hills was Caucasian at 81.8%, Asian at 7.6%, Latino at 4.8 %, African American at 1.4%, and Other at 4.5%. The average annual income for Beverly Hills is much higher than the average annual income for the rest of the country. The average annual income for Beverly Hills is $96,312. Annual

As I enter the museum, I saw huge white walls, which made up the whole museum. I thought it was quite elegant looking and incredible because of the color of the museum, white. Not to mention, it is located in the mountains of Los Angeles with a gorgeous view and awesome location. But I couldn’t help but notice that there isn’t any Chicana/o are pieces at all. Why aren’t there any art pieces that have to do with Chicana/o? Especially since the museum gets a lot of tourists from around the world, including