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Hepatitis C Control Proposal

latter case, the virus stays in the liver and replicates and this can cause the virus to slowly affect the organ over time (2001)....

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Liberation

really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do? My brother i...

Proposition 187 in California

This report consisting of ten pages examines a 1994 voter initiative that prevented children of immigrants from public school atte...

Racism, Imagination, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

segments correlates with the seasons. The section about "See Jane," is really about Pecola, as opposite a presentation from the w...

The LA Housing Market and Accelerating Decisions

In a paper consisting of twenty four pages the demographic changes in the Los Angeles housing market along with implications of de...

Shanghai and Los Angeles Gangs

This 6 page paper discusses the development of the gang culture in Shanghai and Los Angeles, the causes of such behavior and the c...

Rampart Division Scandal and the LAPD

important in the context of appropriate law enforcement and community policing. THe pervading attitudes regarding "us" and "them" ...

Central Los Angeles and Urban Unrest Causes

South Central L.A. that had been the hardest hit (Tucker, 1993). They also indicated that this area had had other problems stemmin...

Background Overview of the 1965 Watts Riots

reasons for the riots can be traced all the way to the 1940s, when Black G.I.s returned from World War II expecting thanks and pra...

Los Angeles for Authors

for their stories. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West provides one with a sense of the cultural geography of Los Angeles in ...

Los Angeles Area Health Policy Changes and Nursing

international trade, has also increased pollution from diesel engines (Bostwick, 2004). A 20 parts-per-billion increase in ozone l...

Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel

no longer in use, but is the subject of controversy. There are those who want to use the site for some other purposes. After all...

Women Victims of Violence in America

because of domestic violence. According to the FBI, thats about 1,400 a year - with most of those killings occurring by what NOW d...

2002 Resignation of Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard Parks

senior lead program that had been established (Gold and Daunt, 2002). This was a program wherein police officers were assigned to ...

Crazy/Beautiful Film and its Themes of Social Stratification and Interracial Dating

indicate a real trend or did producers want to make the unlikely romance more intense by denoting the male protagonist as someone ...

Los Angeles and Elementary School Education

there were five things that had to be done for Americas school children. He listed providing a child with "a safe place to grow up...

LA's Skid Row

gangs and as the home to businesses which are plagued with a host of problems indigenous to the area. But Skid Row wasnt always t...

Reforming the Los Angeles Police Department

and trickle down to the very last beat cop in order for there to be any improvement in how the LAPD approaches its racial inequity...

A Critical Look Into The Los Angeles Mass Transit System

thousand riders stepped up to take the car-less journey, significantly cutting back on the amount of vehicle emissions and traffic...

Los Angeles, New York City, and Segregation of Income

is difficult to discuss income segregation without also discussing race (Rusk, 2002, See also White, 1988). It appears as if the ...

A Celebration of Los Angeles

to come to terms with the exoneration of the policemen who beat Rodney Smith during the riots of the early 1990s, but in a complet...

Twilight Los Angeles 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith

in her introduction (xvii-xxvi). During Smiths interviews, she found it interesting that the perception of the Rodney King beating...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Madina Islamic Art Collection

Greater Iran. This cup is "Silver, gilded, chased and punched" and measures "3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.84 x 11.75 cm)" (Los Angeles Cou...

Geographical Aspects of Los Angeles County's Pacific Palisades

should disturb the essence of the idea. It is the same with architecture" (Levy, 1997, p. 69). Organization of the Eames H...

Los Angeles' and New Orleans' Tensions

product of their heritage in many ways, for they are from the Old South, a place where women looked good, if they were wealthy, an...

Los Angeles Lakers' Basketball Star Kobe Bryant

bristles at accusations that he played selfishly last season, saying he wanted to help the team but was too young to know how" (pp...

Michael Zinzun's Story as a Miniature Play in Twilight Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith

well as a play in miniature. WORK CITED Smith, Anna Deavere. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. (Anchor, 1994). *PG denotes page numb...

An Early Twentieth Century Comparative Analysis of New York City and Los Angeles

the similarities will be striking, but the differences are also worth noting. II. The Political Development of New York Between...

Los Angeles Riots of 1992

In five pages this paper examines the LA riots that occurred during the spring of 1992 from the perspectives of Kyeyoung Park, a s...

Negotiations In The Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority (MTA) Strike

feel we can work it out at the bargaining table, but we need more time" (Anonymous #2, 2000, p. PG). However, negotiations broke ...