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Ahead Of His Time Freedom Of Speech
1,254 words
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 is
thought to be an...
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Los Angeles Federal Prison
1,089 words
American Me is a harsh look at the "reality" of
prison and gang life, especially within the
Chicano community. Based on a "true story",
American Me traces the life of a Latino crime
lord, Santana, from his youth growing up in the
barrio of East Los Angeles, through his rise to
power behind the walls of Folsom Prison. Set
against a backdrop of hopelessness and prejudice
the movie brutally attempts to portray the
continuing cycle of violence inherent within a
crime-based life-style. In the end San...
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Southwest Airlines Delta Airlines
1,202 words
... ess efficiency. We are expecting Delta
Airlines will have some strategies changes if
Slugair decided to attack Delta Airlines
territory, such as establish a hub in Dallas.
Delta probably will change their flight schedules
around and give some promotions to lower their
price to dry Slugair out of the market. Since
Delta Airlines is the 3 rd largest carrier for the
United States, they are in a very strong market
position right now. For those reasons we think
that Delta is not the best target f...
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La Cosa Nostra Obstruction Of Justice
1,831 words
What is the Mafia? Many people ponder the true
definition of Mafia. The literal translation of
the word Mafia means my daughter. According to
Rick Porello of American Mafia. com, the Mafia,
more specifically the Italian-American Mafia, is a
group of criminals organized into "families, " and
operating primarily in North America. Also known
as La Cosa Nostra, at one time there were 26
families in the United States - roughly one for
each major city. The Mafia "commission, " composed
of bosses of nu...
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Snoop Doggy Dogg Gangster Rap
3,673 words
When you listen to a rap song, what are you
listing to? You are listening to words that kids
shouldnt listen to. All you hear are explicit
lyrics. This kind of music is being sold to young
children without any thought or 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 explicit lyrics that usually talk
about killing someone along with sounds of
gunshots in the backgro...
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Los Angeles Times School Uniforms
1,124 words
Violence has been around since this world began,
whether being in biblical times or in the modern
times. Although violence has been around a number
of years, there is on place where parents trust
they can send they children with worries, school.
Everyday a mother wakes up, kisses her children
goodbye, and sends them to school. Unfortunately,
in these times that we live in parents may have a
legitimate cause to worry about their childs well
being. Parents often wonder if their children are
gettin...
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Martin Luther King Jr J Edgar Hoover
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It is generally believed that Martin Luther King,
Jr. , was an intelligent African-American who
promoted harmony between the races. Numerous
books-all of which talk about his deeds of valor
to promote good-will between both blacks and
whites during a time when riots and strife
regularly occurred in America-have been written
about his life. He is generally regarded as a man
of ethics, a man who fought against injustices.
After all, he did receive the Nobel Peace Prize;
and that, in itself, is som...
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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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Ronald Reagan The Great Communicator
2,200 words
There are few people in America, Im sure, that
have never dreamt of becoming Americas next
president or one of Hollywood's many stars and
living The American dream. Our 40 th president
Ronald Reagan, however, did both. Ronald Wilson
Reagan was born on February 6 th 1911 in Tampico,
Illinois two years after his brother John Neil
Reagan. His fathers name was John Edward (Jack)
Regan. He was the son of John Michael and Jennie
Cusick-Reagan. In the 1860 s during the great
potato famine Ronald's pate...
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Pierre De Coubertin First World War
1,573 words
The most important thing at the Olympic Games is
not to win, but to take part, just as the
important thing about life is not to conquer but
to struggle well. The words spoken by Pierre de
Coubertin, father of the Modern Summer Olympic
Games. Baron Pierre de Coubertin may have intended
for the new Olympic Games to be a period of
concord in which all differences of status,
religion, politics and race would be forgotten but
unfortunately as the Games have progressed, so too
have the political overt...
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Los Angeles Bad Luck
1,807 words
When the mention of the name Rudolph Valentino
happens, it is mostly likely that the response
received would be, The Great Lover and The Sheik.
Valentino's jaw-dropping appearance and great
looks aside, he was also a very fine comedian,
something that very few people realize. It was
through Valentino that the now very common concept
of hot actors such as Tom Cruise came about.
(Stiff 2 / 23 / 02) Valentino was a fine actor, a
film pioneer, and a film icon. (Hill 2 / 3 / 02)
Born May 6, 1895 in C...
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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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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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Collective Bargaining Agreement Larry Bird
3,132 words
Pay Them There was a time when men played for the
love of the game; when competition alone satisfied
the male ego. This age of basketball featured
greats such as Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, and
Oscar Robinson. These gladiators, and those like
them, battled repeatedly winning league
championships, MVP? s, scoring titles, and other
accolades. Then, the product of James Naismith
moved into an era where the love continued, but
money was added. Clyde Drexler, Charles Barely,
Reggie Miller and Tim...
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One Of The Major Ray Bradbury
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Ray Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Bradbury Ray
Bradbury was a dreamer. Bradbury had a skill at
putting his dreams onto paper, and into books. He
dreams dreams of magic and transformation, good
and evil, small-town America and the canals of
Mars. His dreams are not only popular, but
durable. His work consists of short stories, which
are not hard to publish, and keep in the public
eye. His stories have stayed in print for nearly
three decades Ray Bradbury was born on August 22,
1920, in a small town o...
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Fairy Tale Star Wars
3,062 words
Overview Ray Harryhausen (1920 -), a master
special effects artist, innovated a host of
techniques using model-animation and composite
cinematography. His trademark Dynamation method
made possible a whole genre of science fiction and
fantasy filmmaking. Often drawing from Greek and
Roman legends, Harryhausen created unprecedented
visions of imaginary worlds. By the time he
retired in 1981, Dynamation had been surpassed by
computer-assisted animation techniques like
Go-Motion, and more recently, ...
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Martin Luther King Major League Baseball
1,637 words
Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was one of the
best players that proffesional baseball has ever
seen and greatly helped major league baseball
accept African American players that otherwise
would not have played. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was
born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia (Hill 1).
Jackie's grandfather was a slave and his father a
sharecropper (1). His mom and dad got a divorce
when Jackie was just a baby (1). He, his mother
and four siblings moved after his parents got a
divorce (1). His...
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Las Vegas Slot Machines
4,220 words
Suicide in Las Vega Hell is expensive. This is my
first thought as my plane lands in Las Vegas. The
Luxor hotels glass pyramid seems dangerously close
to the runways edge, as do its chocolate-and-gold
sphinx and rows of shaved palms. I wonder if these
rooms tremble when jets land. Behind the Luxor are
mountains kissed by dust the hue of bone; to its
left lies the Strip, where color is so bright it
looks like it has died, rotted, and come back as a
poisonous flower. I have been forewarned.
First,...
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