Line Kurzmann 2.c | MFG Engelsk Los Angeles has always been a city of contradictions. Things are not what they seem like in the big city that is part of wild nature with hills and desert and yet is the emblem of modern life with endless freeways and cars moving in all directions. Los Angeles is the city of dreams where stars are made in Hollywood‚ but also the place of poverty‚ corruption and crime. The many faces of Los Angeles are captured in Truman Capote’s narrative essay “Hollywood”. The
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Environmental Disruption In The American West I joined the service learning last week which name is Recyclemania Service Learning. This service learning is about environmental disruption and how to protect our environment. I got really good time and new experience during the service learning‚ and I also supposed it’s a valuable class for me because I learned a lot of things about pollution. The first part of The Recyclemania Service Learning was to talk about the environmental disruption
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activism and change‚ it transformed traditions‚ survival‚ and impacted the musical life of the Mexican people of Los Angeles. East LA‚ to be specific‚ is where a large majority of Chicana/o musical bands have began their earliest of memories‚ amongst them is La Santa Cecilia‚ a Mexican-American band who identify themselves as a sextet group that distributes love and music from Los Angeles to the entire
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smaller and forming “sets”. These sets would soon start claiming territory in a number of places in the Los Angeles area and from that point on things would begin to get bloody‚ deadly‚ and ferocious within the each gang territories. By the time the 1980s came around almost thirty thousand or more would belong to either The Crips or The Blood gang and all found themselves living in the Los Angeles area. Members of the gang started from ages a young as thirteen and as old as the mid thirties and in
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of large cities like Los Angeles is roughly equivalent to that of entire countries like Australia and Sweden. Towns and cities are essential elements in human economic and social organization. Los Angeles provides efficient and effective environments for organizing labor‚ capital‚ and raw materials and for distributing finished products. Los Angeles can be considered a city with the concentration of political and economic power. The concentration of people in Los Angeles makes for much greater
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Gangs and Cults Introduction to Sociology Gangs and Cults Gangs and cults at first glance may seem very different‚ and in some ways they are‚ but when you look closer their cultures are very similar. Cults promote a particular belief system‚ recruiting members by tricking them or influencing them to believe what they are teaching or telling them. Gangs pretty much do the same thing. They create glorified myths about the gang that appeal to young recruits‚ and far too often these myths become
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The Grammy Museum is situated at the corner of W. Olympic Blvd and Figueroa Street in the Los Angeles Live District. It is opened throughout the week from 1030 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. during weekdays and 10.00 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. on weekdays. The museum is widely known for its tremendous efforts in paying tribute to the rich cultural history of music. It is a 21st century museum focused on celebrating and exploring legacies of all types of music‚ the technology of music recording and the entire creative
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guess what? “Food truck” may be there. When we mention “Food truck in L.A.”‚ guess again? “Kogi” may be there. When we mention “Koji”‚ guess one more time? “Roy Choi” must be there. Kogi Korean BBQ is one of five-fusion food trucks in Los Angeles famous for their combination of Korean with Mexican food. Its food trucks move within periods and stop at different locations to spread its popularity and win different customers. “ The truck stops here. Tell us where to park it” (Kogi’s Official
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own sub-language‚ symbols‚ handshakes and other identifiers. Hispanics‚ Asians and African Americans began banding together to form gangs in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1970s and 1980s‚ there were national gang alliances‚ with gangs moving out of Los Angeles and New York City‚ and spreading across the country‚ with affiliates in many towns‚ as well as drug routes to finance gang activities. Although gang members insist that gangs are the only way to ensure success Page 2 today‚ others
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Plays from African American‚ Latino-American‚ Asian American and European American cultures often deal with important and relevant issues pertinent to that culture but they also connect to all cultures in a universal way. Throughout history in America people of all races have been discriminated against. Immigrants have dealt with experiencing new ways of life and struggled with the tough decision of holding on to their culture or adapting to change. A Raisin in the Sun is a play about an African
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