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If you are planning a move to Southern California, you may want to consider Arcadia, CA. While Arcadia is eclipsed in population by several Los Angeles County cities including Los Angeles and Pasadena, Arcadia has a variety of entertainment opportunities for residents and visitors alike to enjoy. Santa Anita Park If you like horse racing, Santa Anita Park is a place you will not want to miss. Whether you want to bet on the races or you just want to experience a race, Santa Anita Park is a great…

As we’ve learned, the history of the American frontier became famous by the opportunities that the West offered to everyone. It has been known that some early historians glorified the American frontier and the role it played in developing the American character. However, others have disputed that what has been presented is actually a myth. Amongst all the speculation, we will discuss just how much was reality and how much was myth. It was 1890, and the Census Bureau made an announcement that…

The Attica Prison riot of 1971 is known as one of the most famous and important of all prison riots. This riot took place at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York. In total, the riot occured over the course of four days resulting in forty-three deaths. The riot began on September 9, 1971, and while there is no clear, sole reason as to why it started, there are many possibilities of which might have led to the uprising. Some of the most popular reasons include racism, unfair…

The market revolution and westward expansion had deeply affected American livelihoods by the 1830s and 1840s. These important events reinforced old ideas of freedom and created new ones. Available land in the West had long been linked to the dream of American freedom. During this time, the phrase "manifest destiny", which is the belief that American settlers were destined to expand and occupy all of North America and extend freedom, disregarding the people that were already existing there. This…

realities and effects of living in Los Angeles. West uses the degradation of his main characters as his example of how Los Angeles changes people. Through the lives and experiences of Tod, and Homer, the readers see the ways the city alters one’s characteristics from one that is greatly ambitious, into one that is extremely arrogant. Additionally, the novel highlights the fallacy of how Los Angeles is known as the “land of dreams”. Instead, West makes it clear that Los Angeles is actually the…

Joe Grasse Patrick Murphy Section: Thurs. 11am The Physical Geography of Los Angeles, California Los Angeles: home to Hollywood, the Lakers, and some of the best beaches in the world. How did it get to be such a big city though? Physical geography definitely played a role in the settlement, the expansion, and will even shape the future of this great place. The history of Los Angeles and its geography begins when the Spanish arrived in the 18th century. They came in contact with Gabrielinos and…

These things happen every day and innocent people get killed over nothing. “Over a one year period, youth who were both gang members and exposed to violence were five hundred and forty-nine percent more likely to initiate gun carrying.” In two cities, Los Angeles and Chicago considered the most gang populated cities in the United States and over half of the annual homicides are associated with gangs. What are some important effects that gang violence undergo? Gang violence has numerous effects…

Over the past few decades, there has been a rising concern about the increasing gang activity within the Canadian community (cite). Specifically, in Western urban centers within the prairies, there has been a notable increase in Aboriginal youth gang activity (cite). Currently, 96% of Saskatchewan’s gang related activity involves individuals of Aboriginal decent (cite). The CIA reports that the increase of youth gang activity developed in 2005 during the Aboriginal prison riots. After the…

Laquan McDonald's case? How did the news media capture the event, what were the consequences of the police officers involved, and how the public responded? The film L.A. Riots Revisited examined Rodney King's police beating and how South-Central Los Angeles community was affected. A&E Television Networks created the film in 1999 which provided the original video footage of Rodney King's beating, how the news media portrayed the African Americans poorly, and how there were strategies that…

Known essayist and writer, Navneet Alang, in their journalistic essay, “Big Brother, C’est Moi: Vancouver’s Post-Riot Web Vigilantes Can Be Tamed”, describes the aftermath of the riots that took place shortly after the defeat of the hometown Canucks in the Stanley Cup finals; on June 15th 2011. The riots brought great controversy, due to various pictures and videos of the perpetrators, surfacing online from bystanders. Those images of violence and vandalism, were taken by citizens, where they…