Urban Planning: Gangs in Los Angeles Yvonne Perry Everest Online Urban Planning: Gangs in Los Angeles For this assignment I spoke with my daughter’s friend who is a gang member in LA to get a little insight into how one becomes drawn to life in a gang. I felt that I could not plan anything for urban Los Angeles without knowing how a young man or women gets involved in gangs. The following is the interview that was conducted on 5/16/2013 between Juan Martinez known on the streets as Lil Hatchet
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people when it comes to fear. His writing is immensely personal. Twain talks mostly of the people’s distraught emotions more than the earthquake itself. The people exclaimed‚ “Oh‚ what shall I do! Where shall I go!” The author focuses on the emotional reaction of the people to sudden trauma rather the destructive nature of the earthquake. Twain brings in specific emotional and physical reactions the people encounter when the earthquake strikes and they all have similar experiences. Twain’s syntax
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On December‚ 6th‚ 1917‚ an unexpected explosion at Halifax‚ Harbour front had left the citizens of the Nova Scotia capital and the rest of Canada devastated. Five minutes after 9:00 a.m on that day‚ hundreds of people were killed and thousands were severely injured by the impact. A collision of two ships on the harbour due to miscommunication left everything destroyed during the time of WWI. The crash had led to the French munitions ship‚ the SS Mont-Blanc to blow up in flames. Caused by impact from
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What is Earthquake An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault. The tectonic plates are always slowly moving‚ but they get stuck at their edges due to friction. When the stress on the edge overcomes the friction‚ there is an earthquake that releases energy in waves that travel through the earth’s crust and cause the shaking that we feel.( readanddigest.com/what-is-an-earthquake) The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake)[6][9] killed more than 8‚800 people and injured
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one of the deadliest earthquakes shook Japan on March 11th 2011. A 500 kilometre-long fault zone was ruptured off the northeast coast of Japan. The epicentre was situated 130 kilometres east from the big city‚ Sendai. The focus occurred at a relatively shallow depth (about 30 km) underneath the Pacific Ocean. The earthquake had the largest magnitude of 9.0‚ which Japan had ever recorded and can only be explained by plate tectonics. As seen in figure 3‚ the earthquake occurred in a subducting
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foreign aid‚ recovery in Haiti has been a very slow process. It is currently now five years later and Haiti is still struggling to rebuild infrastructure and shelter for the 80‚000 people who are still homeless. The Main reason for this is because of local (Haiti’s government) and international corruption. By 2013‚ an estimate of $3 billion in individual donations and another $6 billion in governmental agencies have been donated to Haiti but too little has been accomplished. Much of the problem is
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Have you ever been awake during an earthquake? Imagine if it were awoken by a everything shaking. An earthquake 20 times worse than a normal earthquake. How about 150 times worse? April 18‚ 1906‚ the community of San Francisco didn’t have to watch it on the television and wonder what it’s like to live through that‚ but actually lived through history. The catastrophic earthquake of 1906 hugely impacted San Francisco wealth‚ resources‚ and financial systems. It resulted in major havoc and destruction;
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Press Release for Immediate Dissemination Samsung officially announces its Galaxy S5 Mini Smartphone. Ahmedabad‚ September 09‚ 2014: Samsung’s latest flagship has been officially announced by the company. The Korean handset maker- Samsung is once again pushing its mini phone as a smaller yet well performing version of the current Galaxy S flagship‚ and thanks to the inclusion of features like a fingerprint scanner and heart rate monitoring sensor‚ that claim is actually worth something this
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News Release West Milton IGA promotes employee of five years OHIO – Spencer Post‚ who is from Laura‚ Ohio‚ approximately five minutes outside of West Milton‚ Ohio‚ has recently just received a promotion at his local grocery store. Post has worked at this location going on five years now and has been offered a managing position. It will require him to put in more hours‚ but he will receive better pay‚ plus benefits. With this new position he will be in charge of opening up the store‚ along with
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Heinrich von Kleist’s depiction of discontent and frustrations at the society’s chauvinistic attitudes in the book Selected Writings‚ is not only filled with entertainment value‚ but upon closer examination‚ leaves abundant room for analysis using literary themes. His narrations often deal with the quest for justice in a disordered world; through complex story plots they describe what goes on in an individual’s mind when the justice system is fabricated and subjective‚ and the consequent crisis when
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