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Internal Affairs Unit York Times P
1,653 words
... ely than they were pursuing drugs, ''s ays
Assistant U. S. Attorney Steven Bauer. (Washington
Post, Jan 18, 1993: p. 11) When cities enlarge
their police forces quickly in response to public
fears about crime, it can also mean an influx of
younger and less well-suited officers. That was a
major reason for the enormous corruption scandal
that hit Miami in the mid- 1980 s, when about 10 %
of the city's police were either jailed, fired or
disciplined in connection with a scheme in which
officer...
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Los Angeles Times Secondhand Smoke
1,064 words
In 1998, Drew Carey held a sit-in because of the
smoking ban in the California bars. Even though
Drew is not a smoker, he smoked that night and
called the ban stupid. Three years ago, California
enacted a state law that forbade smoking in bars
and other work areas for the sake of the
employees. Drew felt "It should be up to each bar
owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke
or not. Drew Carey was not cited by police for the
incident, but the owner, Irwin Held, was. Held
said, "It's smokin...
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Violence In Schools Violent Crime
1,127 words
... age... " [I]t is not simply who has the
abortion that leads to the lower crime rate... but
the ability of the woman to choose better timing
for child rearing that lowers criminality. " (Los
Angeles Daily News, August 8, 1999, pp. 1, 18)
What about the Brady Bill and other gun control
measures? Didn't the Brady Bill play a big part in
reducing gun crime? See Gun Cite's analysis of
that claim. Four scholars discuss "Does Gun
Control Work?" in PBS's moderated panel
discussion, Think Tank (aired...
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Pop Art Eye Catching
1,693 words
American Pop Art was born of the newly found
self-confidence with which American art had
asserted itself. The subject matter which provided
the initial impulse was the cultural concept of
Americanism itself: the idea of progress, the
media industry sensation, and the relative boom of
stardom and cultural icons in Hollywood. The birth
place of these new phenomena seems to have its
roots in the city of New York, the so called
cultural center of the USA. In the relative
upheavals of the forties and...
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Chief Executive Officer Los Angeles
832 words
The Marciano brothers were the founders of Guess
Incorporated. They grew up in the South of France,
a region which created a passionate understanding
of French design and the essence of style. The
Marciano's combined their European sensibilities
with a love fof classic American trading and
created Guess? Inc. During the 1970 s fashion had
no direction, it was a time when people did not
like to wear denim, they thought it was outdated
and they thought of jeans as a fashion statement.
Well the Mar...
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Civil Rights Laws World War Ii
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H 2 > 1. EPIC EPIC is the Educational
Participation in Communities. This organization
involves students as volunteers in the fight
against poverty and social neglect in local
communities. The goal is social awareness and
student involvement. It says that poverty,
neglect, and social inequity are a growing reality
for millions of people in America. Families are
losing their homes, people can't find good jobs,
children go hungry, and education in the
inner-city is a disaster. There is a is ...
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Eastern European Jews Colleges And Universities
1,074 words
Another astonishing act of discrimination happened
in the 1920 s. Many private colleges and
universities, especially those in the Northeast
established quotas to limit the number of Jewish
students regardless of their qualifications. For
example in the 1920 s Harvard president Abbott
Lawrence Lowell decried the colleges Jewish
problem and limited the fraction of Jews in
attendance to 15 percent in order to reduce
anti-Semitism and protect Harvard's reputation. A
study made two decades later, in ...
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East Ls Angeles Fr The Wh Frm
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Always Running: La Vida Lca: Gang Days in L. A by
Luis Rdriguez Petry is a means f focusing n
moments that are drawn frm extended experiences t
frm a brief, cruise, immediately communicable
feeling. Few achieve this as well as Luis J.
Rdriguez, an East Ls Angeles pet, novelist, and
China activist. Rdriguez has gained his powerful
language frm his child in the basis f Ls Angeles,
a twenty-eight year price sentence fr three cunts
f attempted murder, time spent in the inner city f
Chicago, a Naval ...
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The Influence Of Discourse On Artwork Cindy Bernard
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The Influence of Discourse on the Artwork of Cindy
Bernard Over nearly two decades, Cindy Bernard's
artwork has progressed and she has become one of
the truly accomplished contemporary artists of
today. Writings and discourses of her work have
appeared in LA Weekly, Flash Art, The Serpentine
Gallery, and the New Times. For Cindy Bernard, the
discourse of her work has not created or
transformed her art, but rather, her art has
transformed and created the discourse. Cindy
Bernard was born and rais...
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Los Angeles Ford Foundation
970 words
[Course Title] In relevance to print making, what
is Tamarind? Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.
(TLW) was founded in Los Angeles in 1960 as a
means to "rescue" the dying art of lithography.
Fully funded by the Ford Foundation until it
became affiliated with the University of New
Mexico in 1970, founding director June Wayne
(right), together with Associate Director Clinton
Adams and Technical Director Garo Antreasian,
established multiple long-range goals: to create a
pool of master artisan-pr...
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Products And Services Los Angeles
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Boutique Target Market Today, owning a boutique is
probably one of the easiest moves to become a part
of the lucrative growing fashion industry. There
are all sorts of fashion boutiques, ranging from
selling everyday items to haute couture evening
gowns fit for queens, princesses and Academy Award
winners. But there are a grate group of people who
want to choose clothing from top clothing
designers like Morphine Generation, Z Brand and
many others that have gained fame and popularity
among the h...
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20 Century Architectural And Urban Part 2
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... the irony and complexity which enrich
historical architecture. This dissatisfaction was
translated into direct action in 1972 with the
demolition of several 14 -story slab blocks that
had been built only 20 years earlier from designs
by Yamasaki as part of the award-winning Pruitt-Ie
housing development in St. Louis, Mo. Similar
apartment blocks in Europe and North America were
demolished in the following decades, but it was at
St. Louis that the postmodernist era was begun.
(Drexler 74) Ven...
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Telecommunications Act Of 1996 Library Of Congress
1,172 words
Numerous business and hi-technology analysts view
the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as the first
major review of the telecommunication laws and
procedures in almost 62 years since the
Communications Act of 1934 was enforced. The goal
of this new regulation is to provide an unhampered
access of the new players to the telecommunication
business and guarantee them fair rules of
competition in any market and against any
competitor while at the same time making the
communicational services to be nat...
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Los Angeles Book Store
810 words
Bookstore that touches my heart United states is a
very new country comparing to the other European
countries. I found my self very lonely sometimes,
because there is nothing in Los Angeles that
reminds me of the city that grew up in. It was
very hard for me at the beginning to adjust to Los
Angeles, but now I got use to it. Now new tall
buildings looks like I lived here all my life and
that memory of my beautiful Kiev got suppress in
my heart. Assignment that I got in my English
class sounded w...
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Alfred Stieglitz Los Angeles
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? Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few
creative artists of today. He has recreated the
matter-forms and forces of nature; he has made
these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of
the work. His work illuminates man? s inner
journey toward perfection of the spirit. ? Ansel
Adams, Date Unknown Edward Weston (1886 - 1958)
may seem like he was a confused man in trying to
find his photographic goal (s). Just like many
other photographers, both of his time and now, he
strove to find what tr...
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Japanese Americans Concentration Camps
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9066 The President EXECUTIVE
ORDER AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO
PRESCRIBE MILITARY AREAS WHEREAS the successful
prosecution of the war requires every possible
protection against espionage and against sabotage
to national-defense material, national-defense
premises, and national-defense utilities as
defined in Section 4, Act of April 20, 1918, 40
Stat. 533, as amended by the Act of November 30,
1940, 54 Stat. 1220, and the Act of August 21,
1941, 55 Stat. 655 (U. S. C. ...
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Works Of Literature Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury? s Fahrenheit 451? It was a pleasure
to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things
eaten, to see things blackened and changed, ?
begins Fahrenheit 451 (1). This opening of
Bradbury? s novel immediately evokes the
consequences of the careless use of new technology
and modern-man? s refusal to recognize these
consequences (de Koster 44). The book Fahrenheit
451 is one of only two novels that Ray Bradbury
has written, the other being Something Wicked This
Way Comes. (Many believe th...
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Millions Of Dollars Police Corruption
727 words
History of Police Corruption in the United States
The challenges facing the Chicago Police
Department today are not new, nor are they unique
to this city. The problem reaches back as far as
the establishment of the first organized police
forces in the United States. Corruption has taken
many forms and has continued to plague the police
departments of nearly every major city. Police
corruption may change form over time, but its
roots are firmly planted in American history. In
The Development of t...
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Rebel Without A Cause East Of Eden
1,428 words
James Dean, the acting rebel without a cause, was
born in Marion, Indiana on February 9, 1931. His
parents were Winton Dean and Mildred Dean. During
his first six years of his life he and his family
lived in Marion Indiana. Because of a military
transfer between his father and the military he
moved to California. His father was a dentist and
performed his practices in the military. There his
mother became ill and died when he was very young
at the age of nine. He claimed to not have known
why sh...
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Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe
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West Hills Community College POP ART Art
Appreciation 52 CONTENTS I. POP ART 4 II. ANDY
WARHOL 5 III. DAVID HOCKNEY 7 LIST OF
ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Illustration 1: Roy Lichtenstein,
What! , Cover 2. Illustration 2: Andy Warhol,
Campbell Soup Can 6 3. Illustration 3 David
Hockney, A Bigger Splash 7 POP ART Art in which
everyday objects and subjects are depicted with
the flat naturalism of advertising or comic
strips. 1. Pop Art, visual arts movement of the
1950 s and 1960 s, principally in the United ...
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