Light the Fuse Background Research In the early 20th century, California became the battle grounds of one of the most famous water wars in U.S. history. It was the dawn of progress for the city of Los Angeles but progress requires an exorbitant amount of money and resources. Unfortunately for the citizens of Owens valley, the leaders of the growing city would target the river that provided thousands of ranchers with water as their primary source for water. Most of the pioneers came to the valley
curved in shape. It was erected so as to provide storage and to regulate water. The dam was located along San Francis Quito canyon, 64 kilometres to the northwest of Los Angeles, California and 16 kilometres to the north of Santa Clarita. The dam was built from 1924 to 1926 by the Bureau of Water Works and Supply, currently known as Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. William Mulholland was the General Manager and the Chief Engineer of the entire project. On 12th march 1928, the dam failed. It flooded
Las Angeles, California- The City Over Time Las Angeles, California has drastically grown and changed over history and is currently the home to more than four million people. Many people move here every year for many reasons such as the laid back and sunny lifestyle, career advancement in television, music, and gaming (the arts), scrumptious food, pleasant weather, interesting culture, and diversity. This grand city is also known as the "entrepreneurial capital of the world." Los Angeles' full
My selected city is Los Angeles located in the southern part of California. Los Angeles is very famous for the work and production of film and television industry. Not only is Los Angeles the biggest city in California, but also the second biggest city in the US, right after New York City. This paper will go over the urbanization analysis, green options, and global warming issues in the city of Los Angeles. This paper will be divided into different topics. The first section will cover the physical
California since its founding. When California’s population started to grow around the turn of the twentieth century, the town official within the state started to run into some common pool resource issues, water. Cities, such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, used whatever power they had to own and control what little water the California environment produced. The cities are large and successful municipalities today because of what they had to do to control the water all those years ago. The city used
When the West opened up to new settlers, it was a huge change for all. The West was home to not only people but an abundance of resources that impacted us economically. Moving to The West for people was either a win or lose, to say the least. It seemed as though the development of The West brought promises to benefit individuals but not all. One particular program known as the “The Homestead Act, that granted 160 acres of federal land to any applicant and improved the property” (Henretta 475) seemed
Westward movement is the populating of lands, by the Europeans, in what is now known as the United States. The chief resolution of the westward expansion is economic betterment. The United States story begins with westward expansion and even before the Revolutionary war, early settlers were migrating westward into what is now known as the states of Kentucky,Tennessee, parts of the Ohio Valley and the South. Westward Expansion was slowed down by the French and the Native Americans, however the Louisiana
Kody Dejohn Scott, a future infamous gang leader was born in south central Los Angeles, California in 1963. He was one of six children as his step father left his family in 1970. Kody suspected that his real father was actually NFL quarterback Dick Bass and felt that his step father never treated him like his real son because of that (Kody, 2008). Throughout Kody’s younger years his step father physically abused him and his family. With no father figure in his life and a broken home, Kody turned
The Westward Expansion was an important and essential part of the United States growth during the nineteen centuries. The main contributor to this phenomenon was the settlers, agriculture and the construction of the railroad networks. Using this perspective, and through research the author of this paper will analyze the expansion during different decades in the 1800’s. All America benefited from the massive agri-business that has its roots in the West as well as the settling and the construction
Much contention and controversy have historically surrounded the idea that Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon (1952) is the single film that brought an end to what is commonly referred to as the “classical Western." Through a single crucial scene, one important character invokes the ancient advice lent by Aristotle in his seminal work, On Rhetoric, to persuade a town to turn on its hero and change the face of Western's forever. By adhering to the ancient philosopher's notion of ethos, pathos, and logos,
Peter Berg is an award winning director who has his own crazy style, but before he entered the film industry, he went to school at Macalester College, intending to play hockey. But then he discovered film and decided to be a world famous director. Not only is he a director, he is also a producer, writer, and actor. He first found work in the film industry as an actor. He his most remembered as an actor through his role as Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope. Since then, Berg has moved on to producing
The story of the United States has always been one of westward expansion, beginning along the East Coast and continuing, often by leaps and bounds until it included the Pacific. Theodore Roosevelt described this as “the great leap westward.” As early as 1751, Benjamin Franklin described a destiny for Americans to fill up new lands to the west, and Jefferson, Monroe and Adams all expressed expansionist dreams. The main causes for expansion was Manifest Destiny, economic opportunity, transportation
My primary research question is concerned with the circumstances, in 1915, that led to film production and financial success at the Flying ‘A’ studios in Santa Barbara, California under the leadership of Samuel S. Hutchinson. The success of the studio was thanks to the quality of their production choices, distribution network, and the publicity campaigns of their films. The three key individuals who excelled at performing these roles and that I believe personally led to the studio’s most successful
Max Dupian was born in Ashfield Sydney in 1911, he lived there all of his life, photographing the city from the late 1930’s through to just before his death in 1992. Dupian photographed the architecture, the landscape, the beaches and the cities of Australia. For many Australians, Dupains photographs define our beach culture, and it was the beach that was the inspiration for his most famous and enduring images including The Sunbaker, At Newport and Bondi all capture a moment in time. His 1937 photograph
Turner’s frontier offered an unshakeable ethnocentric and nationalistic view of western history. This is where New Social historians saw an opportunity to fashion a new, more diverse, more conclusive version of westward expansion. Turner’s key ideas of “The American West” and the “frontier” were transformed by a new generation of historians looking to challenge the status quo. One of the most technical problems concerning Turner’s methods was the fact that in studying the frontier, one
Throughout history, many great nations have amassed an immense empire through expansionism, which is a nation's practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion. The United States expansionism was present since it became an independent nation itself. Manifest Destiny, which is the belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable played a big role in expansionism in the mid 1800’s. The Louisiana purchase from France in 1803 for fifteen
Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, was founded in the city of Los Angeles during the ‘80s. Members in the gang have spread out into at least forty-two states. The ethnicity of the gang mostly consist of Salvadorians, Hondurans, Guatemalans, Mexicans and other Central and South American Immigrants. Much of their criminal activity involves drug distribution, murder, prostitution, rape, kidnapping, robbery, car jacking, and home invasion. Once a member is brought in to the gang, they are in
When analyzed extensivley works of art can be used to reflect different time periods of history. Some works of art that represent the image of the American West in different periods of time are: Thomas Cole’s View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly referred to as The Oxbow (Painting, 1836), John Gast’s American Progress (Painting, 1872), and Dorothea Lange’s The Road West, New Mexico (Photograph, 1938). Each of these images capture the progress of the settlers
A gang is “any durable, street-oriented youth group whose involvement in illegal activity is part of its group identity,” (Agnew & Brezina, 2014). A group who has existed for months, spends much of their time in any public place, and participates in illegal activity may be classified as a street gang. It is very common for gangs to be made up of or include juveniles. Juveniles who join gangs have a variety of reasons to do so. The influence of a friend is a major reason as to why juveniles join
West Side Story as a Teen Film The highly-acclaimed film West Side Story (Wise & Robbins dir.1961; henceforth WSS) is perhaps most strongly associated with the musical genre—not unreasonably. Based on its theatrical predecessor with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents, WSS won ten Academy Awards including Best Picture, and ranks second on the American Film Institute’s list of Greatest Movie Musicals. However, the film is also a strong example of