Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Dodgers is a professional baseball team that is a part of the Major League Baseball (MLB). The team is originally from Brooklyn, New York, and the name “dodgers” originated from people who were trying to dodge the trolleys in Brooklyn (Los Angeles Dodgers: Timeline). When the Brooklyn Dodgers came under new ownership of Walter O’Malley, he decided to move the team to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years. In 1962, the Los…

The (3-16) Los Angeles Lakers are in the D, set to battle, the (11-9) Detroit Pistons at The Palace of Auburn Hills. The purple and gold, had their moments against the Hawks, both good and bad, put on a fourth quarter push only to fall short, 100-87, for their 16th loss of the season. The game provided some positives; the Lakers out-rebounded the Hawks, had four players score in double-digits and an aggressive D’Angelo Russell posted his first career double-double with 16 points, 10 rebounds…

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.…

” These were the words of Los Angeles Police officers in 1992, in this same year one of the most violent riots in American History occurred. Due to the discrimination of the minorities in Los Angeles the beating of one man becomes the push needed to send the minorities, mostly African Americans, in South Central over the cliff. After the severe beating of an African American man named Rodney King and the trial that allowed the officers in question to walk free Los Angeles citizens of South…

The (2-8) Los Angeles Lakers are in the valley of the sun, Phoenix, Arizona, to battle the (5-4) Suns. The Lakers, led by an all-around effort by Kobe Bryant, Jordan Clarkson and a defense that held the Detroit Pistons to 37-percent shooting from the field helped the purple and gold notch their second win of the season and first home win of the 2015-16 season. While in Phoenix, time permitting, the Lakers could view Camelback Mountain, for a challenging hike on Cholla trail, also a visit to…

The Los Angeles Lakers have had a number of new coaches and shifting management since the finish of the 2011 season when Phil Jackson retired from the Lakers organization. Ever since than the team has seen three coaches: Mike Brown, Mike D’Antoni, and Bryon Scott. The management has only seen one change and that is due in part because of the late Dr. Jerry Buss leaving us and his son Jim Buss taking over. Since that time in 2013 the team has seen a rapid amount of change from bad deals that…

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…

Rodney King could’ve been one of those numbers, with the perpetrators getting off scot-free. The acquittal of the four officers who brutally attacked Rodney King was an outrage to the American people as well as being the catalyst for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Rodney King was driving one night when he was pulled over and beaten by police. Upwards of one-hundred miles per hour, Rodney King’s car was zipping down San Fernando’s Foothill Freeway. When California Highway Patrol officers sighted…

In 1959, Chavez Ravine, a small rural community found just north of the heart of Los Angeles, was gravely disrupted as it’s occupants were displaced to make way for construction of the Dodgers Stadium. There is no doubt that the decision to build a new stadium on the site of the former area caused serious repercussions for the newly arrived Los Angeles Dodgers,their owner Walter O’Malley, and the predominantly Mexican-American community forced to leave and relocate their homes and lives…

Los Angeles Fire Department For my research I chose the Los Angeles Fire Department. Their Mission statement is “to preserve life and property, promote public safety and foster economic growth through leadership, management and actions, as an all risk life safety response provider.” I found it important to note that LA city is the biggest in size and second most populated city in the United States, so they have a very big and important mission. History- The city of Los Angeles was founded in…