Pearsall, Shelly. (2006). All of the above. New York, NY: Little Brown and Company. Four inner city students are going through the journey of building the world’s largest tetrahedron. The engaging and suspenseful story intertwines personal stories of the teachers, students, and the community. This book, which is inspired by actual events, is filled with unexpected humor and distressing characters. All of the Above makes math alive, while at the same time teaches friendship and diversity in…
Just across the highway from Palo Alto, a quaint suburban hub of wealth and academia, lies East Palo Alto, a gritty little town where students face a 60 percent dropout rate, poor prospects of attending college, and run great risk of remaining in low-paying jobs. My high school is in the process of building a $29 million theater, part of a $130 million series of improvement projects, while teachers in East Palo Alto need donations just to cover basics like textbooks, school supplies, and PE…
The objective of this report is to provide a concise comparison of the different demographic profiles for a geographic location at three different geographic scales. The report consist of brief analysis of general population and housing characteristics at three different geographic scales. The demographic profile data used for the report was extracted and compiled from the 2010 Census tract. The smallest scale of geographic location I picked is 7600 212th St SW, Edmonds, WA 98026. This is…
A. Different museums in the L.A. area i. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was first established in 1910 in Exposition Park and in 1965 it was opened to the public in its new Wilshire Boulevard location. Since 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been devoted to collecting works of art is both historic and geographic. Today the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 artworks dating from…
The first piece of art found at LACMA was the Haniwa Horse. This art piece originated from Japan and were placed on top of tombs for the wealthy elite in Japan from 300 to 600 AD. Not only were animals used for rituals, but also human clay-like people and even houses. This type of sculpture is called a haniwa, meaning "clay ring. The Haniwa were made with water-based clay and dried into a coarse and absorbent material that withstand the test of time. The horse at the museum was four feet…
Operation an Essential Contribution to Social Protest/Affirmation This paper will focus on the sculpture, The Illegal Operation (1962) by Edward Kienholz. The assemblage sculpture can be found on the second floor of the Ahmanson Building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Although understated at first, this sculpture deals with the taboo practice of abortions regulated in the 1960’s. In this paper I will discuss why this sculpture would make a good contribution to our textbook,…
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…
is designated as a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and under state law as a Regional Transportation Planning Agency and a Council of Governments. The SCAG region encompasses six counties (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura) and 191 cities in an area covering more than 38,000 square miles. Agencies responsibilities: Maintain a continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated planning process (the “3 Cs”) resulting in a Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and…
Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…
Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…