The (0-4) Los Angeles Lakers are Kings County‚ in the borough of Brooklyn‚ the most populous of the five boroughs and the entire state of New York‚ to battle the (0-5) Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center. The Lakers are on their first extended road trip of the season‚ where they will play 16 of their next 20 games. Usually team tend to come together and form a solid bond on the road‚ hopefully that will be the case for the 2015-16 Los Angeles Lakers. Instead of spending time seeing some of the
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Traffic problems in Los Angeles have been a topic of discussion for many years and there are many causes for this occurring problem. Have you ever been sitting in your car in bumper to bumper traffic wondering why traffic isn’t moving? Since Los Angeles is one of the biggest cities in the nation‚ it is natural that there are many people traveling to and from daily which causes heavy amounts of traffic in the morning and evening times each day. A drive that is only a few miles can sometimes take upwards
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would the Defense be able to make against the Prosecution? The Rodney King beating of 1991 was the breaking point for the African Americans and minorities of South Central Los Angeles and all over the country. Because this notorious‚ yet historical beating was caught on camera‚ it paved the way for an improved reformation of the Los Angeles Police Department or the LAPD. It also showed the unfair treatment of minorities‚ not only by police‚ but by regular people. Rodney Glen King was born in Sacramento
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The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles‚ California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center‚ which they share with their local NBA rival‚ the Los Angeles Clippers‚ the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL‚ and the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA.[1] The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA‚ and have won 16 championships
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Los Angeles Gangs and the American Dream The inner city neighborhoods of Los Angeles are mostly lived in by African-Americans and Hispanics. Since 1970‚ street gangs have controlled these urban areas of Los Angeles‚ moving quickly to create illicit economies based on drug trafficking and other illegal activities. Sociologists like William Julius have labeled the denizens of the American ghetto as “the truly disadvantaged” due to the extremely limited opportunities available to them in neighborhoods
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Gangs Gangs in South Central Los Angeles Gangs run the streets in South Central Los Angeles. They are respected‚ dangerous‚ and feared by all who are not involved in gang activity. Two major Los Angeles gangs are the “Bloodz” and the “Crips”. These two gangs are professionals at what they do such as murder‚ drug trafficking‚ and avoiding law enforcement. Protecting their territory and fellow gang members resulted in one hundred twenty eight homicides in South Central Los Angeles (Tamara). Gangs run
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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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Los Angeles in the 1900s was changing at a very rapid pace. African Americans from the South were migrating to the major cities of the North in search of opportunity. In the 1920s‚ the first wave of migration largely bypassed the city of Los Angeles. But starting in the 1940s‚ the second wave of migration caused Los Angeles’s population to skyrocket from 63‚700 to 350‚000 by the year 1960. This mass-migration caused many demographic problems in the new racially diverse city. The first sign of lingering
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Invasion of Los Angeles Los Angeles‚California‚City of Angels‚Entertainment Capital of the World. This is where I was born and raised. All I can say is that I am proud of being an Angeleno. Good weather‚second largest market in the US‚uniqueness‚and most of all good sports teams. Now if some madmen were to come over and take over LA. Then‚obviously it would seem as the worst thing imaginable. The question is would I pretty much let these madmen come over and ruin the way we live or take some action
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Los Angeles Flower District Deep within the slums of Downtown Los Angeles rests a complex series of flower markets that make up the Flower District of Los Angeles. Specifically‚ at the intersection of Wall St. and Eighth St.‚ lie the two largest flower markets in Los Angeles. The Original Los Angeles Flower Market and the Southern California flower market are situated directly across the street from one another. Within these two mega-markets‚ tons of venders try their hand at selling flowers and
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