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Los Angeles Times Secondhand Smoke
1,064 wordsIn 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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Parents Music Resource Center Types Of Music
1,522 wordsIn today's society, all types of music artists are expressing their views, opinions and feelings in their songs about what they see and what they know. This is on of the great things about this country, the freedom to express yourself. It is not fair, nor is it constitutional that music should be censored in anyway. It is not only rap music trying to be censored it is in all types of music. They are taking away their rights and it isn't fair. As reported in the New York Times. "Wall-Mart CD stan...
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Law Enforcement And Society
1,029 wordsIn order to understand contemporary law enforcement, we should recognize the conditions that impact our profession. It is agreed upon by many scholars that major changes in law enforcement occur every five years. Policing is sometimes characterize.".. like a sandbar in a river, subject to being changed continuously by the currents in which it is immersed... " (Swanson, Territo and Taylor, p. 2). However, in recent years some major changes have occurred in a shorter time period. Innovations in la...
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Eastern European Jews Colleges And Universities
1,074 wordsAnother 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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The Influence Of Discourse On Artwork Cindy Bernard
2,344 wordsThe 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
1,079 wordsBoutique 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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Man Ray Violon D'ingres
2,518 wordsMan Ray's "Violon d'Ingres" The Violin In the middle of darkness, A soft light suffuses the place: There is a violin. But this violin is not a violin, It is a woman, naked, Turning her back to the lens. Her face is seen in profile, Her hair hidden in a scarf, Her body undressed, showing her forms: Round, soft and pure, As those of the violin, Which bears two symbols, Like the woman on her back. The womans beauty and, The softness of the music, blending In the same picture, Are a magic illusion. ...
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20 Century Architectural And Urban Part 2
2,204 words... 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 wordsNumerous 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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Snoop Doggy Dogg Wall Street Journal
4,219 wordsStacey Hawkins English 2 sec. 34 11 - 21 - 96 Gangsta Rap and Violence Go Hand in Hand Mr. Officer, I want to see you latin in a coffin, sir, from The Chronic and F the police, from N. W. A. , are few lyrics from the music genre gangsta rap. This kind of music is being sold to young children without any thought of concern. When many children listen to this kind of music they think that was being said in the songs is not wrong or against the law. The lyrics in many songs contain violent and expli...
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Definition Of Love Mexican Americans
1,745 wordsDagoberto Gilb was born in Los Angeles in 1950. A mix of gritty humor, mundane terror, and economic misfortune distinguishes his short stories. His life has been neither easy nor subdued, and these influences are reflected in his writing style and choice of subject matter. The short story entitled Love in L. A. , by Dagoberto Gilb, shows how one can see many reasons in seeing irony and even satire by the storys title and how all is stories combine in someway. Dagoberto Gilb's childhood was spent...
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Japanese Americans Concentration Camps
2,341 wordsEXECUTIVE 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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Millions Of Dollars Police Corruption
727 wordsHistory 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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4,026 wordsThe Life and Legend of Howard Hughes Throughout the 20 th century, it has been the media? s job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr. , Howard became the interest of the American people and newspapers for most of his life. Being deemed one of the most famous men of the mid- 20 th century was greatly attributed to Hughes? s skills as an industrialist, aviator, and motion-pictu...
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Time Of Death Crime Scene
3,316 wordsInvestigative Techniques to Determine Time of Death One of the first steps involved in a homicide investigation is the determination of the time of death. While knowing the time of death is not crucial in each and every homicide case, it can be of significant importance in some. Except for a bullet passing through a victims head and striking a clock in the same room, determining time of death is not an exact science. However, there are a number of different indicators, most of which are evaluate...
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Rebel Without A Cause East Of Eden
1,428 wordsJames 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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Express His Ideas House Of Usher
1,766 wordsRay Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920. He was the third born son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Modern Bradbury. In the fall of 1926 the Bradbury family moved from their home in Waukegan to Tucson, Arizona. However, their stay there only lasted until May of 1927 when they moved back to their original habitation. Bradbury began writing his own literature on butcher paper when he was 11 years old. Ray and his family moved again moved to Tucson, Ariz...
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Ahead Of His Time Freedom Of Speech
1,283 wordsLeonard Lenny Bruce Lenny Bruce Leonard Alfred Schneider, or more commonly known as Lenny Bruce, was a comedian, a family man, drug addict, and philosopher. A conventional Jewish child from Long Island, who joked about homosexuality, drugs, religion, and race. Arguably, he paved the way for the comics of today, paying the price for being twenty years ahead of his time. Addicted to vulgarity and drugs he became a regular in courtrooms across America. The humiliation he caused a Philadelphia judge...
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World War Ii North Dakota
5,271 wordsFredrick C. Stern A Biographical Sketch of Thomas McGrath THOMAS McGRATH WAS born in 1916, the oldest son of James and Catherine (Shea) McGrath. There were four younger brothers, Jim (killed in World War II), Joe, Martin, and the youngest, Jack. His sister Kathleen was born between Joe and Martin. His parents were farmers, the second generation of them, working the land in Ransom County, North Dakota, near the town of Sheldon, about forty miles west of the Minnesota border, between the Maple and...
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