... of the Dodgers at the time of the move was Walter O'Malley, who was known as one of the better businessmen in baseball during this time. When the move was made the Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, who assisted O'Malley finding the proper area to play, had this to say about O'Malley ... to move did not seem to be at all motivated by the changing racial makeup of Brooklyn and New York in general. He decided to move the beloved Dodgers from Brooklyn to across the country in Los Angeles, because the middle class was leaving Brooklyn as well. The late 1940s and early 1950s saw a m...

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... median age of OOBR audiences compared to Off Broadway, and Broadway. Similarly, during the year I lived in Austin, I was surprised by the obviously younger audiences in Austin theatres compared to experiences I had as a theatergoer in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago. While this observation may be related to the youthful population of Austin, it seems likely that it also has to do with the ... dialogue that best exemplifies this issue occurred when I emailed my friend Jeff Murad, a 29 year-old businessman, composer, and former rock and roll bass player, who was born and reside...

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... trade has created opportunities for quick dirty money on a scale never seen before. In the 1980s Philadelphia saw more than 30 officers convicted of taking part in a scheme to extort money from dealers. In Los Angeles an FBI probe focusing on the L.A. County sheriff's department has resulted so far in 36 indictments and 19 convictions on charges related to enormous thefts of cash during drug ... raids -- more than $1 million in one instance. "The deputies were pursuing the money more aggressively ... a system of honor is needed to replace our current system of reward to the devious. In...

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... to the Five Nations as "Hotinnonchiendi," that is, the "completed cabin," as a result of their custom of living. The Iroquois lived in structures known as longhouses that offered them a closeness that made for more honest and open relations among them. Colonist John Heckewelder described the ... running wile screaming "Mohawks! Mohawks!?" Probably not. Historian Bruce E. Johansen alleges that "the Mohawk" was not the "only party costume available in quantity at short notice" but that the Mohawk Indian symbolized "a voice for liberty, against British oppression" because the Mohawks had m...

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... beyond the contemptuous piss artist and the unceremonious piss off!) while burp has none whatever. It would seem that the two dominant factors in making terms in this field highly charged or otherwise are their degree of solidity and their proximity to the genital/anal area. Fuck has its own ... be to prove that these six words also have a purpose. Why, then, is phatic/emotive language useful? Technically, phatic/emotive language includes many expressions common in conversation (i.e. "Nice day again, isn't it?" and "How are you? Still sick?") and correspondence ("Dear Sirs" at the beginn...

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... utilize social forms which she does not understand, to try and become part of what she calls the "ee-light." (A.1 s.1) Mrs. Tiffany: Is everything in order, Millinette? Ah! Very elegant, very elegant, Indeed! There is a jenny-says-quoi look about this furniture, -an air of fashion and gentility perfectly ... there not, Millinette? Millinette: Oh, oui, Madame! Mrs. Tiffany: But where is Miss Seraphina? It is twelve o"clock; our visitors will be poring in, and she has not made her appearance. But I keep people waiting. -None but vulgar persons pay attention to punctuality. Is it not so, Mi...

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... first to establish a separate women's sector. Women seized the opportunity for representation and formed delegations and deputations that actively petitioned the legislature. The women's section, as announced by Palm in a speech to the Confederation on March 8, 1791, was designed first to lobby for justice for women- for the elimination of primogeniture, protection against wife beating, a comprehensive divorce bill ... de l'inflence des femmes dans un gouvernement libre, which insisted on the need for women to organize themselves into an effective feminist lobby. She wanted women to for...

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... leader, Chiang Kai-Shek, lost the support of the majority, mainly peasants and intellectuals, to the CCP, which contributed to their success in war. In addition to GMD's actions, Mao Zedong, the communist leader was able to take over and declare the Peoples Republic of China. Early ... twentieth century Failing of Qing Dynasty The unhappiness in China laid in its problems, which arose during the early twentieth century. Until the early twentieth century, China's rule was based on dynasties, which ... Nanjing. Therefore the communists were forced to set up their "Red base areas", from w...

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... it by 1927). This transformed existing industries and encouraged the development of new industries. Many new products, for example, were developed for the American home. There was a great boom in newly invented labour-saving devices - such as vacuum cleaners, washing machines and toasters. Increasingly, kitchens were equipped with electric ovens and refrigerators, while families were entertained at home by the ... the goods produced. It was necessary, therefore, to encourage people to buy the new products, which become available. As a result, there was a huge increase in advertising (in ...

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... others (some Anglos) find it hard to believe that such an intelligent and articulate man could have been a slave. Many of the incidents included in the narrative are not just about Douglass. He also tells elaborate stories of how other slaves (even his own family members) were mistreated. One ... as an American citizen. He came back to France, and while he was there, his home was burnt down and his wife became a fugitive in the American War of Independence. Returning to America, he entered into public and commercial life. According to an online journal entitled, "Crevecoeur as a Man ......

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... we shall divide the media industry into three main branches: Entertainment, News and Commercials (which is the essential device for the survival of the industry, and shall be considered in integration with Entertainment). Researches have shown that the most popular reason behind TV viewing is relaxation and emptying the mind. Therefore, the entertainment programs, being the only choice for ... Colleen Roach makes an addition to this analysis, and underlines that since 1961, a new component has been added to the military- industrial complex; communication, and gives the following exampl...

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... thought" than his beliefs (227). This may be true; however, it is obvious that Eliot uses many references to Indian religions and Christianity to prove that having faith in spirituality is indeed the essential religious factor which makes life meaningful. Because "The Waste Land" uses allusions to Christianity and Indian religions, Eliot forces the reader to think about ... the reader of the poem. Therefore, "The Waste Land" is a poem which demands an examination and rearrangement of one's self. Works Cited Bergsten, Staffan. Time and Eternity: A Study in the Structure and Symbolism of ...

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... wealth. The wealthy lived in 2 or 3 story townhouses. In 1760, the number of houses in NYC was about 2,600. By 1771, about 22,000 people resided in NYC. There have been a number of changes in NYC during the 1700s. Commerce grew in between 1747 and 1772, in an increase of 600%. Any occupation that included shipping and trade was part of the largest occupational group. During the 1750s ... next to Lake Michigan. Water sources were an important source of transportation for the flow of goods. Most of the cities mentioned have been affected by deindustrialization. Many of these centers of ma...

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... and we hated disco. L.A. County was a breeding ground for frustrated, bored, fed-up kids with nothing to do and lots of places to do it. Four kids at a high school in Los Angeles formed a band called the Germs. They made up stage names, and became Pat Smear, Darby Crash, Lorna Doom and Nicole Panter. They were middle class kids who wanted to do ... when I knew that there was sort of a subculture for what I was involved in." (Raha 34) Southern California has always been a sort of mecca for surfers and skaters. Some of the first world famous skateboard parks were in the vast wasteland of ...

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... Valley Mens, "a gang is a group of people that form an allegiance to the exclusion of others, for a common purpose of engaging in violent, antisocial, or criminal behavior" (www.geocities.com/rainforest/4207/gangs.html). Gangs have been a problem for years in the big cities of the U.S. In Los Angeles, they account for about half of the city's murders. From 1991 to 1993 drive-by shootings ... in Wichita, Kansas rose 3,000 percent. Now the presence of gangs has been seen in smaller cities. Violent street gangs are now operating in 94 percent of all medium and large-sized cities ... capit...

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... written did not. According to the Curve of Binding Energy all bombs build or designed after 1945 and the influential Los Alamos Project has worked on the first try. John based his operations out of a second floor conference room in Ivy Club. In there he set up his books and his typewriter, Capitalist Pig, on the table; his sleeping bag upon the floor ... stop ringing. Just among the many were the following assorted newspapers, magazines, and publications: New Haven Register Paris-Match Australian Broadcasting Company in Sydney CBS news ABC new Trenton Times New York Times People Daily T...

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... also the home of innovative uses of style and language, hilariously funny carnivalesque and chitlin-circuit-inspired dramatic skits, and ribald storytelling. In short, it is black America's most dynamic contemporary popular cultural and spiritual vessel." Without a doubt the artists who create rap music ... seriously in the actions they carry out that reflect the lives of the artists they are emulating. This "gangsta" image also contributes to the stereotypical attitudes assumed by blacks and minorities. Curtis R. Tucker, former California assemblyman whose district covered many black ar...

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... Several auto makers have filed suit against the ZEV mandate, but the latest rulings have gone against the auto makers. In 1989, Los Angeles City Council member Marvin Braude issued a worldwide bid for 10,000 electric vehicles to be delivered to southern California in the mid-1990's (Sperling 1995). The bid was met with major skepticism from major automotive companies about the market for ... a press conference to unveil the sporty battery-operated Impact (Sperling 1995). General Motors fell under the California ZEV mandate requiring major auto makers (those selling over 35,000 vehicles a ...

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... people of society. Sadly, American history for homosexual culture and politics, while even briefer than Europe's, is no better. In the United States, the historically largest communities for gay and lesbian citizens have always been New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. As in the post-Industrial Revolution days of Europe, many people migrated to big cities looking for work after the fall of ... the family farmer. After moving to a bigger cities, as in Europe, they were typically living in a less traditional lifestyle, often times in same sex living arrangements such as military barr...

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... deals with livestock on a daily basis; therefore it is referred as an occupational disease. The United States have a strict policy of anthrax vaccination, making the disease almost unheard in the country. The disease can bee contracted in one of three ways, the Cutaneous, or skin form, where it enter the ... thousand to one million people would die, the equivalent to an atomic bomb2. There was one case of a mass breakout of pulmonary anthrax in Sverdlovsk, Russia in 1979. The release was accidental, but sixty-eight people died after a small amount of anthrax spores was released through t...

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... sewer and not fit for consumption. "Disgusted, local authorities initiated a project to fill the sewer with earth from an adjacent hill. In 1805, in order to drain the garbage-infested waters, designers opened a forty-foot wide canal that today is known as Canal Street. 8" By ... found that the block was populated with tinsmiths, blacksmiths, tailors and shoemakers as well as unskilled workers who did work on the docks or in construction as per the census records of the time. "Some people identified themselves as peddlers, others as musicians, and many as ... in Manhattan, New York. Of...

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... and realizes that they had deemed Dean as an outcast. After staying a couple of days in Denver, he leaves to San Francisco to live with his prep school friend and later he moves to Los Angeles, his last stop, and finally he returns to New York. The second stage is when ... he goes on his trip to Testament, Virginia to visit his brother's house in the Holidays and Dean suddenly appears at the house and they ... the beat and brood over his bongos with fingerprints barely tapping the skin as everybody leans forward breathlessly to hear" (Kerouac, 176). The setting contributes in an importa...

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It is obvious that race remains an issue in many areas of American society today. An article about Bernard C. Parks, a Los Angeles police chief who was denied a second five-year term, was published in the New York Times on April 10, 2002. After the Police Commission announced their decision, members of the African-American community were outraged, as they thought prejudice was partially ... to blame. Even prominent black leaders in the community said they were not convinced ... masses- (Racial Unity 24). For some reason, this feeling of racial superiority was felt much stronger towards black...

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... , the Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, among others. In addition to the 1973 retrospective, which traveled from the Institute of ... Contemporary Art in Philadelphia to the Pasadena (California) Museum of Modern Art ... ...

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... new occupation but bored with her surroundings, Dorothea decided to leave home. Along with a childhood friend, she traveled west, stopping in New Orleans, Louisiana; El Paso, Texas; and Los Angeles, California. She finally settled in San Francisco, California. There, Dorothea not only took on a new name--adopting her mother's maiden name "Lange" and dropping Nutzhorn--but began a new life. Living at the YWCA ( ... Young Women's Christian Association), Lange found a job at a photo finishing shop on her second day in San Francisco. She made friends with the ... to publicize the terrible ef...

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