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    After School Programs for Empowering the Youth The wide spectrum of Los Angeles County has as much variety as tourist sites, as told by the media on one end. However, on the other end, unfortunately Los Angeles County also consists of highly disorganized cities and high-crime areas. Cities like Huntington Park and Compton are considered deviant places as described by Siegel (2011) because they are “poor, densely populated, and highly transient neighborhoods” (p. 71). Therefore, making these communities

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    Frank Owen Gehry is a Canadian American architect that was born in 1928 and now resides in Los Angeles California He is known best for his post modern designs which includes the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles which is the new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic which Gerhy designed to be one of the most acoustically complex concert halls throughout the globe. Gehry also has other well known architectural creations such as the Vontz Center for Molecular

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    Perf. Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Philips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy García. Warner Brothers, 1988. DVD. I. The movie is about the math teacher Jaime Escalante, who teaches at James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. II. Because the high school is located in East Los Angeles, a city that has a high Hispanic population, the high school’s students are mainly Hispanics who come from low income, working class families. III. Escalante’s primary goal when he started working at this school was to

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    beginning a fellowship with the American College of Healthcare Executives and volunteering one to two days a week for training

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    Living in a big city has its perks such as great job opportunities and depending on that city it can have great weather. One city that I really think everyone would want to live in is around the Southern shore of California because the weather is beautiful around there and it’s always been such a breathing taking place to live at for the west.. Living around Southern shore California is a dream for everyone because it has a great climate, job opportunities, and it's next to the ocean which is a huge

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    Kenny Washington Essay

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    born August 31, 1918,Los Angeles , California, U.S.. He died June 24, 1971. He was the first African American college gridiron football star. He was one of two black players to reintegrate the National Football League (NFL) in 1946. In school Washington was an athletic force. He led Lincoln High School to the city title his junior year and then six months later to the football championship his senior season.His dominance continued at University of California, Los Angeles, where he starred on

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    Corruption Of Racism

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    The next misconception to tackle is that the officers were immediately taken to trial in Los Angeles County. The court case was set to take place in Los Angeles County, until the defence attempted to get a change of venue. The change of venue was denied by the judge, The judge in question was then removed from the case for having bias after telling the prosecutors not to panic

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    Colleges AMDA stands for the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Their four main majors are acting, musical theatre, dance theatre, and performing arts. There is a campus in Los Angeles as well as in New York. The Los Angeles Campus is nestled right in the middle of the big city and is not too far from the famous Hollywood sign. The campus is relatively small with only fourteen main buildings. These include the Tower building, the Vine building, the Vine residence hall, the Bungalows, the Allview

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    Racial profiling is not new, however, and was a theory of sociology in the late 19th century known as Social Darwinism. Incorrectly using Darwin's theory of evolution, the Social Darwinists believed that some species were morally superior to others, and even some races superior to others ADDIN EN.CITE Johnson200813(Johnson)13136Johnson, D.P.The Historical Background of Social DarwinismContemporary Sociological Theories2008New YorkSpringer ( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_4" o "Johnson, 2008 #13" Johnson).

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    removing rent control measures. The issue of Los Angeles’s shortages in affordable housing, at face value, then seems like a no brainer. Unfortunately, these two economic solutions, like most economic solutions, cannot solve this

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