... violent. A crack cocaine epidemic began in the mid-1980's and public concern of drugs and violence combined with youth gangs heightening. In LA County alone gang related incidents increased 189% from 1988 to 1989. Issues of the 90's involve impact on the American Community with the ... are formed mainly along racial lines for protection from other inmates. The six gangs are Neta, Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerilla Family, Mexican Mafia, La Nuestra Familia, and the Texas Syndiacte. The Neta originated in Puerto Rico, in the early 70's. It consists of male Puerto Ricans and Hispanics ... ...

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... a comment made by a friend asking him what he ate as anti-Semitic - "what do you eat? Jew eat?" When faced with a television appearance in LA, he becomes nauseous. And, of course, he has an absolute terror of ever being asked to leave New York. When he suggests a weekend away to Annie to ... where the mise en scene highlights expanse and freedom, showcasing the bright colors, blue skies, never ending palm trees, wide lawns and glass houses of the LA dream, even if it does so in a distinctly ironic register (and you might want to think about how the film achieves its ironic distance in th...

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... of two of the many positive songs that Tupac wrote for females of color. (Tupac Shakur 1971-1996, by the editors of VIBE) Meanwhile, Tupac migrated to the South of LA. South Central was like a foreign country within a city, known for its dangerous, infamous gangs, such as the "bloods and crips". "He could be with this poet, pimp, or thug, and ... his songs. He was basically hollering "if you don't know what's going on in the ghetto, this is what's going on". (http://www.tupac-online.com/) During Tupac's stay in LA, he began to get fascinated with guns, weed, drinking, and tattoos. Tupac...

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... , and radical clubs advocating for republican ideas. The women of France were enacting the vision of liberal citizenship that Condorcet so enthusiastically supported. They joined the Confederation des amis de la verite, which, along with the Cordeliers, was the leading club in the movement to establish a democratic republic. It drew leading feminists such as Etta Palm d'Aelders. The Confederation was ... . Etta seized the Revolution and established herself as a public speaker in the revolutionary club movements who strongly advocated for women's rights. Mme d'Aelders published a pamphlet...

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... , most settlers died, only 60 of the 400 survived the winter of 1609-1610. 4. The colonists tried to return home, but were met by a relief party led by Lord De La Warr who ordered the settlers back to Jamestown and imposed a strict military regime on the colony. He took aggressive military action against the Indians. 5. 1625- About 1200 survived in Virginia ... tribes. He accepted the English settlers as possible allies. However, relations grew tense when the settlers began raiding Indian food supplies. 2. 1610- Relations were even more strained when Lord De La Warr arrived. He destroyed...

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... , unacceptably gay (in a bad way), however. I think I just wouldn't know where to even begin to know where to look for plays I'd be interested in. There's no theater section in the LA Weekly like there is for movies, concerts and hookers...leaving aside, for the moment, Jeff's comments about musical theatre being "unacceptably gay (in a bad way)", the most striking thing about ... ...

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... ) provided for currency and banking reform. Antitrust legislation followed in 1914, when Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act. In 1915, Wilson supported the La Follette Seamen's bill, designed to improve the working conditions of sailors. The following year he signed the Federal Farm Loan Act, providing low-interest credit to farmers; the Adamson Act ... ...

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... to be time to keep to the original plan and have a large group trained by this initial cadre of young Cubans. So the larger group was formed and established at La Finca, in Guatemala, and there the training was conducted entirely by Americans."" By now it was fall and President John F. Kennedy had replaced President Eisenhower. President Kennedy could have stopped ... ...

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... received $25,000 per game to help fix the games. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that there were three different conspiracy groups involved. One based in Chicago involving La Cosa Nostra, (LCN), associates and members, one with ties to LCN associates in New Jersey, and a separate group of campus bookies not affiliated with LCN figures (FBI, 2002). A federal grand ... ...

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... to be time to keep to the original plan and have a large group trained by this initial cadre of young Cubans. So the larger group was formed and established at La finca, in Guatemala, and there the training was conducted entirely by Americans . . . . It was now fall and a new president had been elected. President Kennedy could have stopped the invasion if ... ...

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... the white folks uptown to listen to true jazz and watch the Lindy Hoppers. Whitey's Lindy Hoppers Herbert "Whitey" White's group of swing dancers was formed from the creme de la creme of the Savoy; they were the top dancers in the top ballroom of the Swing Era. With Whitey in the background, these Harlem youngsters were catapulted into world recognition ... ...

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... ) provided for currency and banking reform. Antitrust legislation followed in 1914, when Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act. In 1915, Wilson supported the La Follette Seamen's bill, designed to improve the working conditions of sailors. The following year he signed the Federal Farm Loan Act, providing low-interest credit to farmers; the Adamson Act ... ...

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... their lives ruined by toxic sludge, and more companies will profit from laughing at the concept of "corporate responsibility." The Love Canal neighborhood is in the southeast section of the La Salle area of Niagara Falls, New York. William T. Love, an 1890s visionary and entrepreneur, sought to develop a planned industrial community, Model City, in the area. Waters from the Niagara River ... ...

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... Noble Grecian and Romans. A.H. Clough. Ed. New York: Modern Library, 1992. Pomeroy, Sarah B. et al. Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Van Hook, La Rue. Greek Life and Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 1930. Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes. E.C. Marchant. Ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. ...

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... in art education in 1942, and an M.A. degree in 1952. She was a painting instructor at the University of New Mexico in the late 1940s and at East Oregon College in La Grande in the 1952-53 academic year." "[In 1950] Miss Martin became a naturalized American citizen. By the mid-1950s Agnes Martin was living in the art colony of Taos ... ...

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