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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Natalie Goldman Community Health Nursing C228 Task 1 A. Identification of Community The city of West Hollywood is nestled between Los Angeles City limits and Beverly Hills in Los Angeles County‚ CA. For County of Los Angeles Public Health Department‚ it is a part of Service Planning Area 4. The population is 34‚781‚ with 19‚476 (56%) males and 15‚305 (44%) females. Median resident age is 40 years old. 77% of residents are Caucasian. Air Quality Index (AQI) is 47.1‚ significantly worse
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You have to give credit to the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Steve Ballmer. He’s taken a franchise that was in turmoil back in the Sterling days to a team with renewed energy and direction. His recent decision to remove coach Doc Rivers from having any front office duties and promoting Lawrence Frank is one that shows intelligence and savvy. The God of NBA journalism‚ Adrian Wojnarowski put it best when describing the situation: “Rivers’ losing his front-office duties isn’t so much an indictment
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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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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is known for its diverse collections of art and artifacts that characterize the civilization throughout time. The Los Angeles Museum of History‚ Science‚ and Art was where LACMA first developed in 1910. In 1965 LACMA became its own institution‚ placing further emphasis solely in art. In 1976 the museum opened the first exhibition dedicated to the compositions of black artists from 1750 to 1950. There are historically collected art‚ dating as far back as before
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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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descent‚ membership has opened to other backgrounds‚ including Central American‚ African American‚ Middle Eastern‚ Asian‚ Caucasian‚ and Native American.” This causes the growth of the 18th street gang to grow and expand larger into the city of Los Angeles. The start of the 18th Street gang was created by the rejection of youth locals who were trying to join the Clanton Street gang. At the time there was so many undocumented immigrants and mixed-race entering the State causing Clanton Street to
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Rams will make their long anticipated return to Los Angeles Table of Contents Introduction Page: 1 Why St. Louis? Why not expand? Page: 1‚ 2 Can Los Angeles Support a team Page: 3‚ 4 Farmers Field Page: 4‚ 5 Summary Page: 5 Introduction The NFL and AEG Financial Services have come to terms of an agreement to move the St. Louis Rams back to the city of Los Angeles. With the Rams recent stadium renovation plans
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The movie “Volcano” was about an active volcano forming into the city of Los Angeles‚ California. The evaporating of harmful gases‚ earthquakes‚ and some evidences from the manhole are the manifestations showed that an underground volcano was forming under the city. This means that there was already lava under the city and the ground cannot take the pressure anymore so it formed a volcano. The physical changes in the movie are the breaking of glasses from buildings‚ breaking of buildings
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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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