Downtown Los Angeles Essays

  • Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Population Essay

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    In Downtown Los Angeles, there is a large homeless population. In the 2017 Homeless Count Results, it was found that a total of 57,794 individuals are homeless within Los Angeles (LAHSA, 2017). Out of these homeless individuals, 74%, 42,828 individuals were unsheltered and 26% (14, 966) were sheltered (LAHSA, 2017). These figures show an overall increase in the homeless population by 23% in just one year, from 2016-2017. Not only are resources sometimes difficult for the homeless population to access

  • The Soloist Character Analysis

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    something uncommon in our society now in days. However, Lopez demonstrate that it can happen. At the beginning of the novel we see how Nathaniel is playing his violin near the Beethoven statue in downtown Los Angeles, that’s when Steve Lopez sees him. “That’s when I see him. He’s dressed in rags on a busy downtown street corner, playing Beethoven on a

  • Informative Essay On La Beer Week

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    HOMEPAGE Beer lovers from all over America unite! This is one of the most anticipated events in Los Angeles every year that has attracted locals and tourists alike. This is the time for the gastronomic feast, culinary delight, and of course, cheers and toasts over beer, wine, ale, and the like. You can come with your family or friends or come by yourself and you will surely have a great time. It is a time to be merry, to try something new, and to meet new people. We have invited some of the best

  • Summary Of The City Of Angels By Mark Davis

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    Subsidized Los Angeles Los Angeles is often referred to as The City of Angels. Ironically, in Mark Davis’ writing “Fortress Los Angeles,” it seems Los Angeles is anything but a city of angels. The essay makes the reader understand that homelessness and crime rates are a serious and growing epidemic in Los Angeles, so much so that whole buildings have been relocated and designed to isolate the homeless from middle to upper class citizens. Davis starts off his writing with a quick remembrance of how

  • Why Is California Depend On Automobiles

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    citizens are willing to use it. Los Angeles is known to be a city full of city lights, celebrities, and heavy flow traffic. Life as we know it, the number one item needed when living in California is to own a car. Most citizens of Los Angeles cannot even imagine navigating America’s second largest city without a car in their wildest dreams. Since Los Angeles is so depended on cars, it’s one of the reasons why the air is so polluted with smog. The city is built with

  • Personal Narrative: The LA Plaza De Arte Y Cultura

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    America Tropical: Interpretative Center. Los Angeles is one of the most popular cities in California with plenty of museums and places to visit. There is so much history to learn about that I had not realized before. I try to avoid the area due to high traffic, but the area was nice and there were so many friendly people. I am not originally from Los Angeles; I grew up in the Inland Empire, but Los Angeles always fascinated me. The fast pace life style of Los Angeles and how much history there is behind

  • Targeting The Spanish Speaking Community In Los Angeles

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    Los Angeles has a population of 3.9 million residents. As a large diverse city, advertising plays an enormous role. Being able to target the right communities actually had a great impact. As there various neighborhoods located in Los Angeles, if you were to drive around all the various neighborhoods you would see how differently they are advertised. In my case, my location is south of downtown Los Angeles. It is actually a diverse Spanish speaking community. Driving down one of the main streets known

  • Northeast Los Angeles Gentrification In Comparative And Historical Context By Jan Lin

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    affordable neighborhood within Los Angeles, California. Within Highland Park, the family enjoys eating at local eateries at some of the neighborhood’s local businesses. As years go by, they begin to notice a large majority of local businesses around their neighborhood beginning to be closed down. New trendy businesses begin opening up around town, which attracts Hipsters, who are individuals who follow the latest trends to come into the area. Jan Lin, author of “Northeast Los Angeles Gentrification in Comparative

  • California Zoot Suit Riots During World War II

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    there have been numerous amounts of crime and violence related events. During World War II, the outbreak of the Zoot Suit riots began and ended off with a cultural history of the Mexican Americans in Southern California. The Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles in June of 1943 made Mexican Americans be aware of and experience the negative racial attitudes that the United States had towards Mexican Americans. During the early 1930s, many Mexicans began to move to California due to work opportunities.

  • The Pros And Cons Of Dodger Stadium

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    With a background that includes swaying palm trees and the San Gabriel Mountains there is no other ballpark that you could be at other than Dodger Stadium. It’s the third oldest ballpark behind Fenway Park and Wrigley Field, but Dodger Stadium looks as if it is one of the newest stadiums in baseball while keeping its classic charm. The Dodgers franchise was originally located in Brooklyn where they played at Ebbets Field for 44 seasons. Walter O’Malley purchased the team in 1950 and began to work

  • 1860 To Western Expansion Essay

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    railroad to the west coast was completed hen Denver ran a rail line south to Santa Fe, NM just as construction was finished on a rail line from Santa Fe to a young Los Angeles, CA. Now American all over the country had options. A New Yorker could take a train to Chicago, then on to Kansas, Kansas to Denver, then Santa Fe, and lastly out to Los

  • San Gabriel Valley Case Study Summary

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    The Making of San Gabriel Valley as a Nonwhite Multiethnic Enclave Leila Benedyk SOC 215 12/20/14 Prompt: How have demographic shifts in the San Gabriel Valley over the past four decades produced a unique "regional racial formation" in this Southern California suburb? What insights does Cheng's case study provide into how individual and group identities form, change, and sustain themselves in our changing socio-cultural landscape? Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, Asian-Americans and Mexican-Americans

  • Frank Romero's 'Going To The Olympics'

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    the Los Angles free way. In my opinion I think its a work of art because this is a mural image and the time it and pride it took makes it a work of art.The time and the paint it must have taken to make this image its very impressive. I can see the culture and creativity they are trying to show. They graffiti in LA show what Los Angeles is all about and based on my personal experience each time I go to LA I know its a place to have fun. What Frank Romero feels about the cars in Los Angeles is pride

  • Rodney King: A Police Brutality Case

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    Rodney King was the victim in a police brutality case involving the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on March 3, 1991. A bystander, George Holliday, videotaped much of the incident from a distance. The footage showed seven officers surrounding the solitary King, with several LAPD officers repeatedly striking a helpless King with their batons while the other officers stood by watching, without taking any action to stop the beating. A portion of this footage was aired by news agencies around the

  • Teenagers In Gangs In The Outsiders, By S. E Hinton

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    In the United States, every year there are around 2,000 gang-related homicides and in the realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, it explores the issues of gang violence, and teenagers in gangs. Around 40% of all members in gangs are teenagers, who are getting involved in some dangerous things very early in life. In the novel The Outsiders, the “Greasers” which is a gang of all teenagers, fight other gangs and commit serious crimes such as murder. We as a society need to pinpoint why

  • Gang Violence In School

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    This paper investigates the relationship between gang-related violence in schools and street gangs. The author came across the conception that gang-related violence that takes place in schools is triggered by the street gang activities and lifestyle that come to pass in the community, which can be formulated in two fashion, in term of gang learners being part of the street gang and conducting part of their activities in the school grounds. While on the other side, the gang learners are forming their

  • Essay On Street Gangs

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    (Maxson and Whitlock, 2002) and promotes intergenerational gang membership (Rutter and Giller, 1983; Thornberry et al, 2003). Studies conducted by Moore (1991) and Vigil (1988) show a history of intergenerational gang membership amongst families in Los Angeles. (Young, T et al

  • Gang Violence: The Gang Problem In Las Vegas

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    in Vegas account for most the drug trade, as well as the staggering homicide rate. The gang problem is not only a problem in Las Vegas, but it is all over the world. Gang violence is a problem in every major United States city including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Las Vegas Metro Police Department (LVMPD) has implicated many programs to fight the increasing gang issue across the valley, from bringing back the gang unit to having more police officers patrol the known gang spots. These programs

  • Persuasive Essay About High School

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    Today I get to start over, like flipping a page and starting a new chapter. Today I get to move to Los Angles, California full of vast alluring beaches, famous actors and actresses, delicious food, and more. This is my first time moving and it 's not because of jobs or anything like that... in fact, it 's because of being 'too smart '. Too smart? Pretty dumb right? I 'm in my freshman year of high school but I have the knowledge of a college student, or at least that 's what everyone says. People

  • Pixar Theory: What´s The Pixar Theory?

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    PIXAR THEORY: IS THIS REALLY A THEORY? From Monsters Inc. to Finding Dory and all the way to Paradise Falls in the movie Up-- what do they all have in common? They all are Pixar movies, but what if there were more connections? Some people believe that within these movies are subtle and not-so-subtle “connections” linking all the Pixar movies together. WHAT IS THE PIXAR THEORY? The Pixar Theory is a theory that says all of the Pixar movies are connected, and they all live in the same timeline.