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Soccer in Los Angeles has been around since the beginning of the 19th century. Around 2,000 years ago, soccer originated in England and was usually referred to as “football”. Soccer grew in 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.…

Louis Zamperini spent 47 days stranded in the Pacific with the constant danger of the sharks surrounding him. In the book unbroken sharks don’t only represent the danger they are themselves, but sharks also symbolize the trials Zam faced in the rest of his story. When thinking about sharks they tend to represent a fierce and relentless force of nature.When facing challenges in life it may end in the feeling that there is some force that is set on being against us, otherwise some relentless goal…

speak Chinese!” As the thundering roar of the plane began to fill the cabin and the safety announcements began to play, I leaned back in my seat and drifted away into a fitful sleep. “I’ll miss you America…” It had been three days since I had left Torrance, California to a unfamiliar country called Hong Kong. It was 3 in the morning and I was wide awake. “One more week…

The cell is the basic unit of life and is the smallest structure that can live an independent life. In 1665, Robert Hook was the first person to identify cells and name them. He also noticed that plants were made up of cells and this finding introduced the beginning of cell theory. Cell theory summaries Hook’s findings that cells make up all living organism, can only be produced from pre-existing cells and are the smallest living organism. The size of the cells is due a dependence on diffusion…

Olympic athlete, survive imprisonment as a Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) and turn his life around upon returning from war. The book begins with Louie as a young boy as a rebellious youth who liked to cause a lot of mischief around the neighborhood of Torrance, California. He began smoking and drinking before the age of ten and would constantly be…

The Shining is a novel published in 1977 by Stephen King, a well-known American author. He was renowned for using supernatural events in many of his stories making them a mixture of horror, gloom, and fantasy. King does a good job in all of his books to keep a relatively gloomy sensation while reading them. The Shining is no exception. This book had me more terrified than any other horror book or movie. While The Shining was a scary book, it also had me thinking about three of the main…

Louie’s Most Important Character Traits Louie was always treated like an animal, caged up so that his dignity would be broken. In the hardest times, Louie would not give up but instead stand up to the POW guards. He was born in Torrance, California. Louie was impish, at a young age and he started to smoke and drink alcohol. He was a rebellious child growing up, which helped him survive many obstacles in the future. As Louie was growing up, he became a world class runner and even made it to the…

him in to running where he excelled. From starting a child whose lungs were ruined by pneumonia as a baby he worked hard with his brother to become a man that competed at the olympics at the at of 19, Louie would become a legend in his hometown of Torrance California. He competed in the Berlin Olympics but lost, so he set his goal on running the 1500 meter in the 1944 olympics, but his dream was crushed as the U.S. was forced into entering world war 2. Louie, like many others, felt the call to…

Zamperini worked very hard to achieve his goals through running. In addition, when Louie was a child he was certain he ill never be caught and if he was he would get out. This is seen in Unbroken,“The same attributes that had made Louie the boy terror of Torrance were keeping him alive in the greatest struggle of his life“ (Hillenbrand 155). This shows that Louie’s persistence and witty attitude as a child kept him alive as an adult. Lastly, Louie’s persistence was still there even after the…

Louis Zamperini have been captured by the Japanese and been held captive. They have been beat, starved, and been placed in the brink of death, but those who still had hope made it through. Louis Zamperini the son of Italian immigrants grew up in Torrance, California…