to go to a university like Cal Poly Pomona or Cal State Los Angeles‚ there can be many things that need to be considered in order to make the right choice. These include finances‚ level of independence‚ and whether or not a major has been determined. Students have many options that can help them afford their education with state aid‚ loans‚ and scholarships. Choosing the right university is a difficult decision to make. Cal State Los Angeles and Cal Poly Pomona are very similar and they are both
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The police brutalize to people in the U.S. who they frequently arrest entire groups of Mexican American kids who socialize on street corners and they charge them with vagrancy‚ crimes. Since Mexican Americans are the largest racial minority in Los Angeles‚ discussions about youth crime waves and rebellion inevitably focused on them. This is an example of how youth are criminalized in our community today and major theme in the play Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez. According to Luis Valdez the police create
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African-American youth of South Central Los Angeles‚ California into a world of bloodshed and death from the 1950’s through 2000. Although South Central was not segregated as was in the South US during this time period‚ there was an understood segregation within the community between the African-Americans and the Whites. There was a lack of recreational outlets for African-American adolescents to join‚ such as Boy Scouts of America‚ as they are organizations for the Whites. Also‚ the Los Angela Police Department
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September 24‚ 2014 Dr. Lee Cerling Director of Corporate Communications PAC-10 Consulting 1234 USC Drive Los Angeles‚ CA 91385 Dear Dr. Cerling: After completing extensive research in an effort to decide whether PAC-10 Consulting should take on its prospective client‚ the Business Improvement District (BID)‚ I have arrived at the conclusion that doing so is not in the best interests of PAC-10. Representing BID means marketing the LA Fashion District in a favorable light‚ which would prove
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devastating earthquake that will one day reduce Los Angeles into a ruin and cause it to break off from the rest of California‚ sending into the sea. While the "Big One" has yet to occur‚ residents of the area are treated to an occasional moderate earthquake that reminds them that the "Big One" is still yet due. The documentary was made in 1994 shortly after the January 17‚ 1994 Northridge Earthquake that took place just north of downtown Los Angeles. In the Northridge Earthquake 70 people were
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is Lester Rivera-Paz‚ who is tied to an original MS-13 cell in Los Angeles” (Kraul‚ Lopez‚ Connell). The gang is known for their heartless actions of violence and moral codes of revenge and cruel retributions. They have internal units specializing in recruitments‚ logistics‚ intelligence‚ murder‚ drug trafficking‚ and extortion (Wolf). Today‚ the gang has spread from Central America to the United States‚ originating in Los Angeles and evolving across 32 states. For this particular paper I will
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“Secrets of a Wild Child” Genie was a child who was kept virtually a prisoner. She was held by her parents in a suburb of Arcadia‚ Los Angeles‚ California. At thirteen years old‚ on November 4‚ 1970‚ she was discovered and was taken into custody by officials. Genie is not her real name; it has been changed to hide her identity. She was kept in such isolation by her parents she never even learned to talk‚ walk and eat correctly. She was still even wearing diapers when a social worker discovered
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But the the typical gang member is not confined to South-Central Los Angeles. He lives in places like Wilmington‚ Pomona‚ Santa Ana‚ East Los Angeles and Nor walk. He’s a Chicano‚ one of the estimated 45‚000 Chicano gang members throughout Los Angeles County that literary outweighs the estimated 25‚000 black gang members. He is a heir to a history of violence that dates back to the {text:soft-page-break} 1940’s
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Rodriguez offers a loosely organized but thoroughly wrenching account of his experience growing up in and around Watts and the Las Lomas barrio‚ just east of Los Angeles. Rodriguez‚ a poet and journalist who now resides in Chicago‚ was born in 1954 in El Paso‚ Texas. His parents‚ recent immigrants from Mexico‚ soon migrated to the Los Angeles area. There‚ Rodriguez experienced the indignities of poverty‚ prejudice‚ and nearly unchecked police brutality. Joining a gang and living “la vida loca” (the
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which is located in the Watts part of Los Angeles. This group was originated within a little housing project that consisted majority of African Americans. This gang is considered to be one of the biggest Crip groups in the local area. There crimes include drug trafficking‚ murder‚ and theft. They have been in a violent war with the Bounty Hunter Bloods‚ which is another local gang. Main Street Mafia Crips is another street gang located on the east side of Los Angeles. This group does have a couple of
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