Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles Outline Topic: The Zoot Suit Riots of 1943: What caused them‚ what happened‚ and what were the effects? Introduction Causes for the riots in 1943 History of racism Stylish dress seen as un-American during wartime. Stage set for riots Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the Zoot Suit riots Effects of riots Cultural repression Political activism in Mexican American community Series of reforms in the Los Angeles Police Department Causes Mexican Revolution‚
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Quality of Light in Los Angeles Southern California is a region known for its desert like climate and contrasting lighting. This aspect has been the object of fascination for many of its residents following this unique quality. It has been discussed to be a beauty in its own right and spectacular in other ways because of the way it shines and illuminates night and day. This phenomenon is as a result of various factors coming together to bring out an atomic quality of light‚ viewed across the region
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The End of Public Space in Los Angeles? I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man‚ and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I do too; have affection for big cities‚ although maybe in a different context than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I enjoy the multiplicity of cities and their way of blending it all together. Until now‚ I have only been to Berlin‚ London and‚ the only American city‚ New York City. Each time I visited
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but it was also filled with madness and chaos. Many things happened in America that shocked the people of this country. One of those events was the Los Angeles riots. The L.A. riots changed America and gave a new name to “protest.” Twenty-four years later people still remember the horrific incident. April 1992‚ four white police officers were acquitted of a savage beating on a man named Rodney King. This act of aggression was called a “lynching on video‚” and because of this‚ Los Angeles was a giant
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were to take a random inhabitant of Los Angeles and ask them about the Los Angeles River‚ they would give you a confused look saying “what river?” Meanwhile‚ others will say “Oh‚ you mean the place with the shopping carts.” This is because most of the river has been blocked off over the centuries as more projects cover the river and more recently has become a haven for the homeless. The river has played a large role in the shaping and the history of Los Angeles‚ as the water that flowed from it played
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the monolauge of “Twilight Los Angeles‚ 1992” Anna Deaver Smith‚ the Author and actor of the play states “It is not an answer. It is not a solution. I am first looking for the humanness inside the problems‚ or the crises. This spoken word is evidence of humanness. Perhaps the solution comes further down the road.” When Smith says this‚ she means that she is looking for peoples “Humanness”‚ as in the things that make up human beings‚ such as thoughts and emotions when in the crises to tell the process
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In the words of Robert E Park‚ “The city is a mosaic of little worlds which touch‚ but do not interpenetrate.” Park suggests that a city is a place of microcosmic worlds that have contact‚ but they do not mix. On a similar note‚ German Chancellor Angela Merkel remarks that people of different social backgrounds lead increasingly separate‚ parallel lives. Los Angeles is a manifestation of Park and Merkel’s commentaries‚ where people from all walks of life share micro-spaces. Even though they may cross
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The movie “Volcano” was about an active volcano forming into the city of Los Angeles‚ California. The evaporating of harmful gases‚ earthquakes‚ and some evidences from the manhole are the manifestations showed that an underground volcano was forming under the city. This means that there was already lava under the city and the ground cannot take the pressure anymore so it formed a volcano. The physical changes in the movie are the breaking of glasses from buildings‚ breaking of buildings
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BE PREPARED FOR AN EARTHQUAKE Earthquakes in Los Angeles‚ California can be devastating to people‚ cities‚ and the landscape. Earthquakes can cause millions if not billions of dollars of damage in only a matter of a few minutes. The more populated the area where the earthquake strikes or the earthquakes epicenter‚ the more the disaster can occur. Buildings are constructed to an earthquake code‚ but that does not mean there can be no damage to them. Brick faces can fall‚ windows can shatter‚
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Manohla Dargis wrote a review on the film The Grey Zone in the Los Angeles Times. She is one of the chief film critics for The New York Times and formerly a film writer at The Village Voice‚ the film critic for the Los Angeles Times‚ and the editor of the film section at LA Weekly. She has written for a variety of publications‚ including Film Comment and Sight and Sound. In her review‚ Manohla compares The Grey Zone to Schindler’s List saying: “Steven Spielberg’s decision to show water rather than
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