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Xander is a fan in the sports of: soccer, football, baseball and basketball. He is a fan of Chelsea FC, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Xander has a very broad personality and enjoys many other things besides sports. His favorite food to eat are bean and cheese burritos. Out of the infinite colors in the world, Xander’s favorite color is blue. On his…

time period is the use of cameras; the crew used lower quality cameras so the film would not look as modern. (3). Gangs of New York used a lot of smoke in their scenes to illustrate New York at that time period. In the 1860’s there were constantly fires raging and smoke would fill the sky. The movie uses a lot of camera movement in battle scenes to show the chaos of a true battle. Gangs of New York also uses cinematographic techniques to enhance the characters’. The movie uses an extreme…

The movie, Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is a story that follows the lives of people involved in the drug trade, including dealers, abusers and the law enforcement officials who pursue those involved in these situations. The movie itself follows the lives of two drug enforcement officers in Mexico, two DEA agents from San Diego, a man who takes drugs to and from Mexico, a Supreme Court judge who is unaware of his daughter’s life decisions, and a millionaire family. We follow each…

California is known for having some of the most extravagant tourist attractions in the U.S. What most people think about are locations such as the beach or Disneyland, but there is one place that some of them consider "California's best kept secret." The place itself only attracts 130,000 visitors year round ting when in comparison to Yosemite National Park's 4 million. Although it may sound like a bleak place to go , it is full of natural wonders and geological secrets. This place is no other…

Currently, one looks to the award winning films when looking for entertainment. Recently, a controversial film topped the charts. According to Los Angeles Times, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri received 43 major nominations for the 2018 awards season, winning 20 awards.” While attempting to get audience members root for the underdog, which in this case was a racist cop, the movie has made several headlines. Many want to compare the movie to current events with police brutality or even…

So, you have a film degree in your possession, you’ve garnered experience and credibility working on numerous small productions and you feel that you are finally ready to make a name for yourself and establish a career in film; but where do you go? It is very likely that your first choice would be Hollywood, California because it is the self-proclaimed “entertainment capital of the world.” But depending on where you live and what your projected cost-of-living budget, coupled with troubling…

Everything has a lifespan; the difference comes in with the number of years it will last. A building made of brick has its own lifespan. With time the bricks and mortar become weak and this leads to the building collapsing. Chicago residents have an advantage since they can go to tuckpointing Chicago. They use tuckpointing method which is the ideal option for preserving home structures. The high-rise buildings have walls which are heavy and exert pressure downward cracking the bricks slowly.…

The current population of SPA 6 / South Los Angeles is 1,307,402 including homeless residents (Los Angeles County. Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology, 2017), and although small, measuring 71.3 square miles, SPA 6 is the most densely populated area in LA County (TCCSC, 2017). In terms of gender, it is about equally divided, with 51% females and 49% males. The ethnicity breakdown is, 68.2% Latino, 27.4% African American, 2.4% Caucasian, 1.7% Asian, 0.2% Asian Pacific Islander (API)…

The Earthquake of 1925, and the boom period. Some interesting facts of Santa Barbara are, many early movies were filmed in Santa Barbara, as it was “Hollywood of the North”. Parts of the mission aqueduct are still in use by the city’s waterworks department even today. Also during World…

"What is food to some, for others it is bitter poison", Lucretius, Roman poet (99 BC-55AC) If California were a country, with its population of nearly 40 million, it would be among the 30 most populous countries. The economic, political and cultural impact of the rest of California in the United States is enormous. It is for this reason that citizens' initiatives that are submitted to a referendum there and state legislation, for that matter, are so important. Of the 11 initiatives presented to…