Los Algodones

“We have to clean up our neighborhood, too much trouble prevail. You can hear foul language, you can hear people yell. We have to clean up our neighborhood, violence is all around. So many are fighting being knocked to the ground.” These are words from a poet by Sandra Juanita Nailing entitled “Cleaning up the Neighborhood”. She gives a detailed describtion about her neighborhood, and how it is full of violence and there needs to be a change. Which is true, the changes she includes is…

The book was a very interesting and informational read. The main character’s name is Sudhir, who was a student at the University of Chicago. Sudhir was a sociology student who wanted to research the projects and find out about the harsh conditions the people there deal with. The first time he goes looking for information he stumbles upon a high-rise building that seems to be deserted. Sudhir soon finds out that the building is in fact filled with people. After being interigated by many different…

worker does not reply to email phone calls or text messages. From my experience CSW do not attend wraparound team meetings 7. Five agencies that Eggleston collaborate with to provide services to our clients are (1) The Help Group-3761 Stocker St Los Angeles, CA 90008. (323) 291-5003 Wraparound is an innovative program designed to maintain at-risk children in their homes and avoid placement in institutions or other restrictive settings. Wraparound assists families in acquiring the skills and…

Value, trust and power are the three factors that can permeate in almost every public encounter. In this dispute the value driver the community had was availability, commitment, and longevity. “Our values tell us how the world “ought to be”. They are standards by which we judge events and the behavior of other people and by which we decide what is worthy of our support and what deserves our condemnation” (Carpenter & Kennedy, 1988). The community wanted to see the police was available to the…

is a documentary of street art that focused on the two street artist, Banksy a secretive artist who never revealed his identity, and Thierry Guetta a French immigrant from Los Angeles whose passion is film making and became an overnight sensation. Before gaining Thierry’s fame as an inspiring artist he became Banksy’s guide in Los Angeles when he need somebody to help him find walls to do his art, a film documentarist, and an inspiration to create his own art. Because of Thierry’s enthusiasm of…

Reaction to the documentary: The Homicide Hollenbeck This documentary is about how gang activity operates in a neighborhood called Hollenbeck in California. The gang members often from poor communities, broken families, and are uneducated because most of them drop out of high school. They see describe the street life as a lifestyle of full excitement and as part of who they are , since most of them join the gangs while they were young and is the only thing they feel like they know how to do .…

The Alpha Job started out as just talk between five mutual friends. The five men shared a common mindset which led them to commit multiple state and federal crimes. Each offender wanted to make money as well as show that the government was corrupt and evil. They felt as if the government was against the common man by oppressing their freedoms. That being said the Alpha Job did not turn out the way it was planned. Now let's look at how each offender and witness played a role in Alpha Job. Alpha…

One of the many popular film Adaptations of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is West Side Story, directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. This modern day film adaptation, released in October 18th, 1961, takes place in a rundown neighborhood on the streets of New York City. A gang called the Jets, lead by Riff (Russ Tamblyn), find themselves in a turf war with the Sharks, a gang from Puerto Rico lead by Bernardo (George Chakiris) . Tony (Richard Beymer), a former member of the Jets, notices…

Title: The title The Devil’s Highway is both literal and metaphorical. Because the meaning of the title has both literal and metaphorical connotations, it easily captures the essence of the book. Literally, while these men travelled across the desert in order to reach the Mexican-US border, they traveled through the Devil’s Highway. Metaphorically, the title is a representation of how these men went through Hell on earth to get to where they needed to go. These men experienced dehydration,…

This documentary begins with the story about how Los Angeles was broken up. There were certain areas where African Americas were not allowed to across because the police would arrest them and tell them that they did not belong there. This break up was between Alameda street, passing Alameda they were not allow to go to. African American people were fed up and a created the 1965 LA riots. This riot broke out due to the African American people fed up with the police infuse treatment. These riots…