thank you, Los Angeles City Council, for making time in your compacted agenda to talk to us today. We are concerned community members who would like to discuss the importance of the establishment of community colleges in the Los Angeles County. Jeffrey S. Selingo points out, “It’s unfortunate community colleges suffer from such a negative stereotype because so many people who end up going to a four-year college… end up dropping out.. Would be better off starting at a two-year college” (1). This quote
Los Angeles, to some Los Angeles is just the city on wheels; others think that Angelenos are upper middle class snobs who are rude and only purchase expensive items. That may be the case for some, yet for others, Los Angeles is so much more then the rich and famous; Los Angeles is a land that holds many rich and diverse cultures; and with those cultures, comes rich, creative and ingenious cuisine. The true creativity begins with the love that is put into making the food. one can easily tell if
From a small age — usually around the age of six or seven — children are asked to think of what they’d like to be when they grow up. Some already have some kind of notion, but with time their decision will change. That was my case — I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be. “What would you want to be when you grow up?”, was a question several people would ask me. It’s was a question I didn’t know the exact answer to. Little did I know, deep down inside, I knew what I wanted to be all along. In elementary
thinking and strategy. His use of chess, for example, achieved our grasp of these lessons of strategy and critically thinking. Mr. Eck... ... middle of paper ... ...rricular events and more importantly my education. As a result of the war, college has become so much more important to the ends that I wish to meet: graduate law school after the lessons I learned in Iraq. I feel that law school will be a great challenge to me because of the competitiveness and the complexity of the material
Tanking America spends more money on sports than any other country in the world. No other countries in the world have a bigger National Football Association (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), or National Hockey League (NHL). Not to mention that we as a nation spend more on collegiate, and high school sports. Fans love when their respective team drafts a new superstar, or make a blockbuster trade to bring in talent. However on the down side in recent years
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"Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" said Samuel Brannan, as he ran through the streets of San Francisco waving a bottle of gold dust in the air that he purchased from John Sutter’s Fort. The encounter of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 triggered one of the most crucial occurrences to influence American history during the beginning of the 19th century, the Gold Rush. The Gold Rush of 1849 (1848–1855), also known as the California Gold Rush, was one of the most captivating
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performing the research on the moon Mimas. I have learned a lot from reading the information on the resources I have gathered completing this research, and from what I have learned from Astronomy 115 with David Jeschke who is an instructor at Pierce College. I hope you have enjoyed reading this and learning some of the things I have learned from creating this research paper. Works Cited http://www.seasky.org/solar-system/saturn-mimas.html http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mimas.htm http://solarsystem
I. PLAN OF INVESTIGATION Civil Rights were rights guaranteed by the bill of rights, and the rights of citizens to political, social equality and social freedom. The rights were also established by the 13th and 14th amendments. There were so many civil rights leaders in history. Civil rights leaders wanted to get their message across the nation fast. Media was one of the ways that helped get their message across the nation. Media can be associated with so many things. Media could be a newspaper or
The Studio System Key point about the studio system could be: Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch.