Greater Los Angeles Area

Torres, was a member of the Los Angeles Police Department and he experienced firsthand what the Los Angeles riots were all about in 1992. When he got out of high school, my father enlisted in the United States Army. During his military service he was stationed in Panama , and many other places all over the world. July of 1989, he married his high school sweetheart, Sarah Blossom. My mother, Sarah gave birth to their son, Ross. Danny decided to become a Los Angeles Police Officer and so…

The 2005 Cronulla riots were a sequence of race riots and outbreaks of mob violence in Sydney, beginning on 11 December 2005 in the beachside suburb of Cronulla which spread, over the next few nights, to even more suburbs. The riots were focused on tensions between youths from Sydney's Lebanese and white populations. A crowd gathered at Cronulla on the morning of Sunday, 11 December 2005, and by midday, roughly 5,000 people had gathered near the beach. The gathering began peacefully, but later…

Blue Jays and even the league, Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista are both from the Dominican Republic. Also in the National League, Yasiel Puig from Cuba was the runner of for the Most Valuable Player. Only playing two season in the MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers he has been so good. He nearly had a 0.300 average, 359 hits and 46 home runs. This is showing that Latino people can overcome poverty and make it. It gives children hope in developing countries that they can make it to the league.…

going to happen all night long. Opponents feared him, and you figure out it’s better to be feared than liked. Wilt Chamberlain changed the way the center position was played, he was the most athletic center ever, wherever a player passed it in his area, he was getting it. He was virtually unstoppable, so the NBA put a rule in place that teammates could not throw him "Alley-Oops", and he couldn 't camp out in the lane and he only had 3 seconds in the lane or it was a turnover. (NBA Media…

In the Spring of 1947, Jackie Robinson would be named the first black player in major league baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Until Robinson, the major leagues and the minor leagues were racially segregated. Jackie Robinson broke the color line, first in the minor leagues in 1946 . He then broke the barrier once again one year later, in 1947, when he began his contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named Rookie of the Year and took home the National League MVP Award in 1949,…

We chose Los Angeles to be the home of the Stingrays because Los Angeles is one of the only biggest cities in the country that doesn 't have a football team there, but also Los Angeles is one of the wealthiest cities in America, and it 's also surrounded by wealthy cities such as, San Jose and Silicon Valley. The average age in Los Angeles is about 34 which means most of the people in the Los Angeles region are employed. The average household income is about $55,000 which shows that families can…

Americans Are Worth More Than 725 The American people are worth more than just seven dollars and twenty-five cents per hour. If you live in America you probably know that a big issue in politics right now, is raising minimum wage. Many people think it would help our economy, but businesses that do not care about their employees try to convince us that it would hurt the economy by paying working human beings a wage they can actually live on. Big business owners like to make the point that they…

An inspiring major change happened to the world when jack Roosevelt Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947. Being an African American man he did not have as many rights or privileges as a Caucasian man would have had during that time. Mr. Jerry Robinson and Mrs. Mallie Robinson had five children, jack being the youngest. Jack r Robinson, is well known by the name of Jackie Robinson. His middle name is in honor of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who had…

giants such as McDonald’s, Sprite, and even Nike (Biography Reference Bank 3). Furthermore, his so-called “clean” image was permanently tainted, which would be cause for even more problems, including those with his teammates Shaquille O’Neal on the Los Angeles Lakers and even with his own coach, Phil Jackson (“Kobe Bryant” Unofficial Fansite 3). Even Kobe’s business interests outside of his already dropped endorsements were completely ruined, just furthering his already destroyed image…

The color barrier in the Major League Baseball (MLB), at the time officially known as the white man 's game, was changed in 1947 when Jack (Jackie) Roosevelt Robinson would sign with the Dodgers. He would become the first person to ever do so. Many people would not describe him only as an athlete, but a social activist and a hero. In the book Opening Day author, Jonathan Eig describes Jackie’s life prior to signing with the Dodgers, through his early career in 1947. Also, throughout the book,…