The dark side of Los Angeles concealed from migrants In the forty-year period at the beginning of the 20th century, the population of Los Angeles has increased 1535.7%, according to Southern California: an island on the land written by Carey McWilliams. This phenomenal growth in population was in a great measure contributed by immigrations from the Midwest as well as other countries all around the world. Since 1870s, spurred by the gold rush and the completion of the transcontinental line, Los
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Gilbert Narvaez Fountain Valley Ca 92708 (714) 310-2161 Gilbertn67@yahoo.com Objective A position as a Street Services Supervisor that assigns, reviews, evaluates, assists in coordinating scheduling and applies sound supervisory principles and techniques in maintaining an effective work force of one or more crews engaging in the repairing of potholes, sidewalks, resurfacing, slurry seal and the office of street cleaning and sweeping city street. Experience City
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Brazil is much like the United States, it has a broad and eclectic population that includes many different nationalities from all over the world. After conducting a little research on Brazil, I would consider them to be a very forward and outside the box thinking country. Much of their exports are derived from services which ranks #1 at 66% of their total GDP. Most of these services include mail, banking, telecommunications, energy, commerce and computing. In 2011 Brazil boasted a positive trade
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Background: More than 20 years of military rule ended in 1985 and a new constitution was ratified in 1988. The government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) ended hyperinflation and advanced reforms to liberalise the economy, but public-debt indicators deteriorated amid low economic growth. The current government, under the president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has been successful in consolidating macroeconomic stability, while stepping up social spending. However, the political environment
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However, it is located in a large coastal basin, surrounded on 3 sides by mountains over 10,000 feet high, Santa Monica Mountains on the East, San Gabriel Mountains on the North, and northeast of San Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles River begins in the Canoga River and runs east from the San Fernando Valley, turns by the north edge of the Sana Monica Mountains, and through the city center, to finally finish at the mouth of the port in Long Beach at the Pacific Ocean. Southern California lies on
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Brenda Cortes SCI 175 Maria West September 21, 2004 The San Fernando Valley Basin is an important source of drinking water for the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the cities of Glendale, Burbank, and San Fernando, La Canada- Flintridge, and the unincorporated area of La Crescenta. In 1998, The Upper Los Angeles River Area Watermaster notified the USEPA and SWRCB that hexavalent chromium was being detected in SFV wells. Since then, an inter-agency committee
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The World is Flatter With Some Spikes To me both authors are saying the same thing, but they are looking at it from different view points. Thomas Friedman says, “In a flat world you can innovate without having to emigrate.” While Richard Florida says, “ In terms of both sheer economic horsepower and cutting edge innovation, surprisingly few regions truly matter in today’s global economy.” I feel that both are right the world is flatter than in the past, but there are the important spikes. Friedman
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Title: Porous powers create Los Angeles’s character Los Angeles is a young city usually portrayed as a unique place that it captures the essence of a multi-ecological setting bringing the ocean, the skyscraper, and the happiest place on earth under one rooftop. Under this successful marketing pitch, the city has become one of the world’s biggest metropolises. However, the city is in the middle of the desert, and has insufficient natural resources to sustain life. As McWilliams said “Man has made
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1. Introduction Social policies are created in order to compensate for the distortions arising from the process of capitalist development, which discriminates and creates an increasing gap between the rich and poor. The role of the state is to provide funds in order to ensure the welfare and to comply with the established constitutional right that is the guarantee to health, education, work and food for every individual. The state comes as a provider of these needs by creating social policies
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Community In this paper I will include my own personal opinions and beliefs on race, the diversity of my community, personal experiences I’ve been through, and witnessed with racism. I currently live in Winnetka, California which is located in the San Fernando Valley. According to the city data (2008) the population is approximately 1.73 million. Among the 1.73 million 43% White non-Hispanic, 41.2% Hispanic, 3.4% African American, and 10.2% Asian, leaving 2.2% of one or two of another race or group. As
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