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goes beyond dissecting guestimates or reference points. Los Angeles has traditionally offered residents cultural anchor points that are spread out through out the county. One of these hubs featured in South Los Angeles, is Leimert Park. Founded in 1927, Leimert Park started out as a homogenous community exclusively for Caucasians. After white flight to the suburbs, there has been a fixture…

give you the realization that maybe this particular thing you’re doing is not for you. The Los Angeles Clippers have been the laughing stock of professional sports for over 40 years. They have made the playoffs 11 times in their 44 years as a franchise. Does it get worse for them? Yes, they happen to share a market and an arena with one of the most decorated sports franchise in all of sports, the Los Angeles Lakers who in 67 years have missed the playoffs six times and won 16 championships.…

I reside in South Central Los Angeles, California. 2. What is your current profession? Describe your work responsibilities. (If desired, you don 't have to include the name of your employer.) I currently work as a temporary receptionist at Children Institute, Inc. (CII). As a receptionist, I mostly provide the day to day administration of CII front desk reception and informed parents about our Head Start program. CII is a non-profit organization. Children Institute Inc. offers many…

3. How does entering into the contract with the Staples Center differ from the sports department accept press passes for the events held in the arena? The two situations differ in two main ways. For one, when sports journalists report on a game they may give the article a certain slant, but for the most part, the story will be fact-based. A sports story based on a game will either say the home team won or lost regardless of whether the reporter was given free passes. Therefore, the nature of…

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…

Chargers’ relocation application was thought of as BS by the San Diego leaders. The lead negotiator for the county and city efforts to keep the Chargers in town tried unsuccessfully in obtaining a copy of the teams’ application to relocate to Los Angeles. The officials are concerned that the application might have inaccuracies in it. Attorney Chris Melvin tried requesting the document from the NFL and the Chargers and they have not provided it to him. Monday night the Chargers’ had a video…

Role Model gone bad? Kesha, aged 28, also known as Kesha Rose Sebert is an American singer, rapper and songwriter from LA, California who was a chart-topping A listed for a few years. Kesha signed when she was only 18 years old to a producer called Dr.Luke’s record label, Kemosabe Entertainment and publishing company. You may think of Kesha as the best role model in the world for her fabulous fashion and her glamorous glittery eyes but behind all of those wild dance moves and top chart music…

inspired both my personal research and the basis for this primary source analysis. Created in June of 2015, No Mas Bebes is a brilliant documentary that not only exposes the truth behind the sterilization abuse that was taking place within the Los Angeles County General Hospital in the 60s and 70s, but it also provides an in-depth analysis into the racist, anti-immigrant discourse and the intersections of gender and race that allowed for this injustice to unfold. Using a variety of interviews…

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…

CHAPTER NINE The Griffith Observatory sits on the southern incline of the world famous Mount Hollywood. Its charisma consists of an unobstructed observation of the City of Angels, Los Angeles, California. Followed up by the entertainment capital of the world Hollywood and finishes the beauty with the magnificent view of the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. The observatory is a trendy day-tripper attraction with an outstanding view of the iconic Hollywood Sign, and a wide-ranging selection of…