... advertising of California. The railroad's publicity department flooded the nation with articles and stories extolling the charms of California's natural beauty, climate, and romantic heritage (Dumke). The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad reached Los Angeles in the mid 1880s and began a rate war with the Southern Pacific (Rice). Passenger fares from the Midwest to southern California dropped from $125 to ... through the city. Extension of the transcontinental rail line to Los Angeles triggered a boom in the southern part of the state, a boom that picked up even more steam once the...

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... various Southern California counties. The network of these mass transit operations aalso interact with municipal transit lines for the various surrounding cities to Los Angeles including Culver City, Long Beach, Santa Monica, Commerce, Torrance and others. For those passengers requiring specialized transportation, the system also accommodates the needs of the disabled. Access Services was created to provide customized public transportation for ... chip. It is designed to improve the transit experience by allowing you to electronically purchase and load Metro, regional or local transit p...

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... Senator Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated and the turning point of the decade of mass social movements. (Muñoz, 71). A month after the Denver youth Conference The University of California, Santa Barbra Coordinating Council of Higher Education (CCHE) decided to implement similar ideas from Gonzales's movement to create programs to help Mexican American students in higher education (Muñoz, 78). In ... ...

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... .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 Register, 2001 Santa Ana, California. Ridder, Knight, Washington Bureau, February 14, 2002. US Newswire, March 15, 2002 p1008074n5645. ...

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... L.A. is similar to Athens or Sparta but because of the very size and eye popping variety of this thriving urban confederation, with its hinterland of oil refineries and agricultural valleys. Santa Monica has the ambience of a beach resort, East Los Angeles is like Mexico, Monterey Park is like Asia, and Cerritos is an Asian Levittown for the nineties" (Kaplan 41). Traveling ... ...

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... children's eyes. "By decreasing exposure to media violence, we may prevent millions of Americans from being raped and murdered," said Dr. Dale Kunel, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara (Kolata). To ensure that children and the world grow up healthy in mind and body, they need to be kept from viewing television violence. As Wilbur Schramm, an American ... ...

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