Los Angeles

In Los Angeles, Private Investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a new case for General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) in Los Angeles, a wealthy old gentleman seeking to stop a man named Arthur Gwynne Geiger (Theodore Von Eltz), who is blackmailing his youngest daughter, Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers). General Sternwood wants Marlowe to stop Geiger from extorting his family for money. But Marlowe has inadvertently stepped into several other mysteries involving he Sternwood family…

Dayshawn grows up in the streets of Los Angeles, California. He is living a hard life with his dad working 3 jobs and his mom trying to get a medical degree. All Dayshawn has are his group of friends. His group of friends are very small and consist of Shaniqua, Jamar, Andre, and Deandre. Each person in Dayshawn’s group is also having problems of their own growing up in Los Angeles. Dayshawn is only 5 years old. Dayshawn had a difficult life in Los Angeles. Dayshawn didn’t have all the nice…

Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak have recently intimated that the team needs a center to compensate for their lack of ceiling and a veteran point guard to provide backup minutes and guidance for their young spitfire duo of Jordan Clarkson and D’Angelo Russell, according to Basketball Insiders. Kupchak may have suddenly realized that there is only one full NBA season of experience between Clarkson and Russell and so both playmakers would need direction not only on the court but…

having any. To be born and forced to believe you're this specific thing seems useless, it's an unwanted thing in their opinion. He and him or she and her, boy, guy, and male or girl, gal and female. It was never they and them or it and its. In Los Angeles, no one seemed to care what you were or looked like— Gender or sexuality none of it mattered to them. Them referring to the Americans, lots of crazy and unbelievable things happened in America. 50 states all in one country, cities, and towns…

Dissention within society leads to destitution for all individuals, despite anyone’s own egotistical sense of superiority. No- one is Immune to the “wide open plains of war and foreign invaders.” On behalf of the Los Angeles Times, I find it of great necessity to discuss the common stereotypes many of you cling to. As all of you here are interns and grasp on to the innocence that makes you ignorant, I aim to position all you budding journalists to the harsh societal reality of not only what goes…

but overall, mankind can agree, the in a perfect world, the population would utilize natural resources to create energy. These sources would work well in Los Angeles because they have a positive environmental impact and they counterbalance each others energy efficiency. The ideal, location for bacterial and photovoltaic energy is Los Angeles, California. Conditions for these two energy sources consist of large amounts of the sun and excessive amounts of waste, whether sewage or food.…

Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States following New York City on the East Coast. This idolized city that many have nicknamed, L.A., rests within the southern region of the ‘Golden State’ of California. Los Angeles is most widely known for its mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, sprawling metropolis, and for also housing a major center of the American entertainment industry. The worldwide popularity L.A. has received, stems from the city being the source of many…

Introduction Public transportation in Los Angeles begins in the early 1870’s. What was at first a small and isolated agricultural town, soon grew into a prominent metropolis thanks to the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Los Angeles completed their Southern Pacific rail line going to and from San Francisco in 1876, only to build two other direct lines to the East a few years later. The southern Pacific and the Santa Fe were completed in 1881 and 1885 respectively 1. These direct…

realities and effects of living in Los Angeles. West uses the degradation of his main characters as his example of how Los Angeles changes people. Through the lives and experiences of Tod, and Homer, the readers see the ways the city alters one’s characteristics from one that is greatly ambitious, into one that is extremely arrogant. Additionally, the novel highlights the fallacy of how Los Angeles is known as the “land of dreams”. Instead, West makes it clear that Los Angeles is actually the…

Downtown Los Angeles, it is a large area, around 54-blocks and contains one of the most large and stable homeless populations in the United States (Wiki 1). Skid Row was not always like this until the late 1800s, it was a place of agriculture (Wiki 1). In my essay I will discuss the history about Skid Row in Los Angeles and the how it is now. In the article History of Downtown Los Angeles “ Skid Row”, it states that Skid Row was known for its agriculture area before the railroads first entered…