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    trees. There are very few that are masters at this sport. In Los Angeles, California there are 10 golf courses, while in Oxford, Ohio there is only one. These amount of golf courses can correlate to many events. Spatiotemporal is relating to space and time qualities. There are several spatiotemporal arguments against the private golf courses being exempt from the increasing property and some individuals are not pleased. In Los Angeles, the property taxes are based on the highest and best use of that

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    Chinatown Movie Analysis

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    Chinatown is a drama mystery thriller, set in Los Angeles California in the 1930’s focuses on private investigator Jake Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson who was hired by a women posing as Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray the wife of Mr. Hollis Mulwray, Chief Engineer for the Los Angeles Water Department claiming her husband was cheating. As the movie progresses, Gittes takes photos of Mr. Mulwray meeting with a young female which ended up in the newspaper creating a scandal. As a result, the real Ms. Evelyn Mulwray

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    Boyz N The Hood Analysis

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    of life as a young African-American male growing up in South Central Los Angeles during the 1990s. It presents inner city Los Angeles in non-biased, true to life manner. Only few films after have tried to take this innovative approach, all not receiving the success and lasting impact of Boyz n the Hood. The film uses this to its advantage to realistically investigate issues of race, violence, and other hardships in Los Angeles ghettos. The first release in director and screenwriter John Singleton’s

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    At the beginning of the twenty-first century, popular music and culture became significant influences on the lives of many individuals within the city of Los Angeles. East Los Angeles (“East L.A.” or “the Eastside”), in particular, was a center of flourishing musical, cultural, and social scenes with strong connections to the changing Chicano/a identity. Under this environment in which the Chicano movement (moviemiento) continued to prevail, a large number of socially aware and politically active

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    Things have changed over time in the building but the design, materials of the building, setting and its location have remained intact although there have been several changes in the building. The significance of the building The period of significance of the building ranges from the time it was set up in 1929 to 1960s. From that period, business seized

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    achieving the “American Dream.” Los Angeles has become the most popular destination for these immigrants as this city alone contains 4.9 million Hispanics, making it 9% of the nation’s Hispanic population (Brown and Hugo). Although Hispanic immigrants have settled in Los Angeles, they encounter many urban struggles as they try to adjust to this new life style. Hispanics have settled in Los Angeles since

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    today, who never realize just how much of a blessing Los Angeles is. This, “City of Angels”, is like paradise with its warm sunlight on individuals who each have their own story. People in this city usually do not have anything to hide, due to affecting and inspiring one another, such as homosexuals. Other cities in the past, such as London, despised the thought of two people, of the same sex, engaging in an intimate relationship. Los Angeles however, could not have appeared any more of a haven

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    Economic Industry of Los Angeles and Mexicans Workers To begin, In Latino Metropolis, Victor Valle and Rodolfo Torres suggest that the Latino population is a vital group to the political economy of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles economy was constructed through the manual labor of largely Latino immigrants, which the city today still heavily depends on (Valle and Torres, 2000, 15-16). In their chapter, Economic Geography of Latino Los Angeles, Valle and Torres argue that Latino immigrants working in

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    black man living in Los Angles, California who was on parole for a robbery conviction and two friends were driving west on Interstate 210, on the night of March 3,1991, when California Highway Patrol officer spotted his care speeding down the Interstate. The officers attempted to pull King over, but King refused to pull over, resulting in a high-speed chase (Koon 1996) King then exited the freeway and the high-speed pursuit continued surface streets. By this time the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)

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    moving to Los Angeles. His announcement

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