Torrance, California

Cities of San Pedro and Torrance The city of San Pedro is a coastal community located in the city of Los Angeles, covering 12.046 square miles. It is port city that is neighbors to the cities of Long Beach and Wilmington to its East, Harbor City to its North, and Ranchos Palos Verdes and Lomita to its West. Housing a portion of the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, is known as a blue collar town. With consideration to national averages the city of San Pedro is considerably high in both violent…

No Escape The Shining is based off a novel written by Stephen King in 1977 and later produced as a horror film by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The summary of the film is of a family that heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Kubrick takes the study called phenomenology, which is the development of human consciousness and self-awareness as a…

The Movie “The Shining” was one of the best mysteries horror movies of all time. It’s about a family that stayed over the winter in a hotel in Colorado called “The OverLook Hotel”. A man named Jack wanted to write about staying there over the winter and how it will be a good vacation until things got to him and he went psycho. This film has a lot of allusions in most of the scenes, also towards the middle of the time being there Jack did a lot of violent things to Wendy and Danny. When unusual…

the early 1800’s and became a much popular sport in the 1900’s. In 1902, the Southern California Football League was founded. Los Angeles grew in popularity as soccer became much more of a favorite sport. Soccer Leagues began to grow around the city and some even came from different parts of the world. Soccer began to take off after World War II with the Metropolitan League, Olympic League and Southern California League joining the scene, now renamed the Greater Los Angeles League. It was a…

Shining was released into theaters in1980 and became a horror movie classic, but what scenes in the film helped build suspense towards the climax where the main character is attacking his family? The film overall storyline involves a man named Jack Torrance who getting a new job as a caretaker to a hotel during the winter season. During this season he will be living with just his family because the hotel closes down completely due to its harsh winter storms, but the caretaker is suppose to keep…

What’s An American Dream for Immigrants Undocumented immigrants come from different parts of the world not just Mexico. The ones that are mostly judged for coming to America to find and live the American Dream are the Latinos. We are the one’s that are different and have all these stereotypes about us; but not every Latino is a criminal or rapist. They don’t know the struggle that all undocumented faced everyday and fear that they won’t be deported and separated from their families. We all…

Introduction Companies are affected by an external environment as much as they are affected by the competitors. International issues influencing business are legal, political, social, technological and economic. In good understanding of these influences is essential while developing a business plan. The factors in the Australian environment affecting Disney 's global and domestic decisions in marketing include: the impact of trade agreements/practices and global economic interdependence,…

The geography of the United States changes a lot when you are from California. If it’s south, its Texas. If it’s east, it’s New York. If it 's North, I don’t know, Canada maybe? And of course, California dominates the west coast. Whatever breaking news that was happening elsewhere didn’t matter much unless it happened in the golden state. I grew up in this paradisal isolation. This mentality that you were in the center of the universe, and that everything else was simply revolving. That was…

When you hear the word ‘flood’ what do you think of? The majority of us probably think of the scientific definition of the word: a natural disaster that happens when a large amount of water covers an area of land that is normally dry (Merriam-Webster Online). However, in recent years, this scientific definition has been taken out of context to form a tasteless political metaphor. In the United States, immigration has/is frequently referred to as a flood, a stream, a tide, a wave, a tsunami, or a…

Introduction The representation of Africa and African people in popular American media has been a major concern in academic disciplines and the subject of numerous books and essays. Many scholars and activists have written about this issue seeking to introduce new knowledges and methodologies into the debate while taking into account the overwhelming evidence of the colonial influence on these representations. The debates and arguments are not restricted to Hollywood films (although Hollywood…