... draws during this era. It was an unparallel profusion of gore, despair, and sexual explicitness, that not just "Midnight Cowboy" provided but also such films as "Easy Rider", "Medium Cool", "A Clockwork Orange", and many others were providing (Giannetti 385). This movie was made at a time when "many revisionist films criticize the myth of the American hero through reconstructive representations that clash with ... ...

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... of California, Los Angeles shows that "there is a statistical link between birth defects in the Los Angeles basin and air pollution levels recorded by monitoring stations throughout the area" (The Orange County Register, 2001). There are also other studies on the "effect of airborne allergens on emergency visits by children for conjunctivitis and rhinitis" (The Lancet p 947). Several cancers and other ... .ca.gov http://www.cpa.gov REGULAR SOURCES The Journal of the American Medical Association, March 6, 2002 v287 i9 p1132(10) The Lancet, March 16, 2002 v359 i9310 p947 The Orange County ...

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... area school system surrounding appropriately recognizing and treating adolescents struggling with substance abuse. The greater Los Angeles area is comprised of a myriad of different neighborhoods; each unique in its composition. Orange County and Malibu are predominantly white and considered affluent. Yet the Los Angeles Unified School District says that it is comprised of 71.4% Hispanic, 12.4% African American, and .6% White, with ... % of the district's students eligible (due to low socioeconomic status) for free lunch programs.1 The LA Times reported in 2001 that concerns were growing...

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... effectively reduce the amount available for oxygen production, thus raising smog levels and changing weather conditions. One earlier example of humans destroying the cycle of life is the extinction of orange groves that used to be a big part of California. As more people moved to the Golden State, more house developments were needed. Oranges did not seem that important any more ... off. Of course, without finding out how that would affect the rest of nature, people in Southern California decided to make changes that would suit their everyday needs. Disappearance of orange groves changed...

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... Angeles into Mission Viejo. There, he broke into the home of Bill Carns whom he shot, and his fiancée Inez Erickson whom he raped. The Stalker fled in a stolen orange Toyota, but not before being spotted by a sharp-eyed local teenager, James Romero III. He had spied a suspicious car of the same general description prowling the neighborhood. Romero jotted down ... ...

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... of them showed outstanding talent. Some So. Cal. bands from that era are "TSOL," "The Adolescents," "Christian Death," "45 Grave," "Bad Religion," "Angry Samoans," "The Minutemen," "The Descendants," "FEAR," "Agent Orange," "D.O.A," "The Germs," "Black Flag," and "The Circle Jerks." One band in particular that seemed to ring loud above many of the thousands of others was "Black Flag." Guitarist Greg Ginn ... ...

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... age who grew up in Los Angeles, and mention the words "red cars", you will hear about a time before the freeways, when a network of rail lines and electric streetcars connected L.A., Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. They reached their peak in popularity in the 1920s, and then slowly fell victim to Angelinos' love of their automobiles- (Red Cars 1). High-speed ... ...

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... many of the other sports as well. Every Wednesday they cover the local high school sports and highlight the outstanding athletes in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, San Fernando Valley, Orange county and Ventura county. The home teams for Los Angles include the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Angels, Kings, Ducks, UCLA, USC, Galaxy, Sparks, and the Avengers.13 The LA Times has ... ...

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... statuses, and reasons for living in Los Angeles, people like Zaheer Virijii, discussed earlier, and Vincent Diau, a forty-four Page 4 year old immigrant from Taiwan who moved his family to Orange County in search of a better life and good schools for his children (41). Kaplan also does something which Mike Davis fails to do in "Fortress L.A.": support his statements with facts ... ...

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... richest of the world's known oil deposits was discovered at Long Beach. California soon ranked first among the states in crude oil production. Derricks of oil wells popped up in orange groves and in city neighborhoods throughout southern California. Petroleum refining became the state's largest manufacturing industry, providing jobs for thousands of Californians. The harbor at Los Angeles became the largest ... ...

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... Game The WNBA game consists of a 30-second clock, a 19-foot, 9-inch three-point line, two 20-minute halves, eleven-player rosters and a collegiate-regulation size ball. The WNBA's signature orange and oatmeal basketball by Spalding is 28.5 inches in circumference and one inch smaller than the NBA's regulation ball (www.wnba.com). Differences Between WNBA and NBA The main differences ... ...

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