Essays Tagged: "Los Angeles Times"
Athletes and Domestic Abuse
it. When he pleaded no contest five months later, there was a small brief in the second page of The Los Angeles Times' Metro Section (Cart). In the last three years alone the list of the accused inclu ... raged to act aggressive and dominant. Where men when asked, 'what are they going to do?' after they lost a game reply, 'I'm going home to beat my wife (all-star, Charles Barkley).' Unfortunately this ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
AIDS
threatening illness may feel that their lives reeling out of control-spinning faster and faster as loss surmounts loss, panic overtakes reason, chaos defeats order' (Reed, Brian. HIV, AIDS and the La ... have contracted HIV is brighter. Each year more studies have been made and each time a little step closer to a cure. Although there is still not a cure and we may still be far from finding one, I thin ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
This a cause and effect essay on Global Warming.
r having to pay the price for the consequences of their actions. It is interesting to note that The Los Angeles Times reports that modern industrial chiefs are beginning to "squeal like pigs" (Times A ... mess that one hundred years of industrialization has inflicted on the environment.An article in the Los Angeles Times dated 10/22/97 and titled "Clinton Backs Broad Plan to Fight Global Warming" state ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Robert Mondavi and the Wine Industry
e separated from his brother, with whom he had run a winery until then. Only three years later, the Los Angeles Times named Mondavi's Cabernet Sauvignon 1969 as the best wine produced in California.Th ... Robert Mondavi as a person known by wine drinkers.We don't think that Mondavi should change his philosophy and enter the New World of winemakers - quite the contrary - Mondavi should show and market ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Childhood Obesity: A Nationwide Crisis
dily since the 1960's but has become especially prevalent in today's society. As we are told in the Los Angeles Times, the number of obese children has in fact doubles in the last 25 years (Nation). I ... mber of obese children in poor families as there are in rich families, as a study publicized in the Los Angeles Times concluded (McNulty). Therefore, the solution to this problem lies within the obese ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Fast And The Furious In Perspective
e action scenes clearly outweighed any dialogue that was placed. The movie, based in the streets of Los Angeles, was not an effective choice for a plot. Along with the Los Angeles Times and Roger Eber ... eral slow patches and an ending that manages to leave characters and relationships hanging without closure, The Fast and the Furious offers mindless summer movie fun for 105 minutes. If anything, the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Food Sites on the Net: Useful Information, Easy Advertising Dollars, or Both?
re people are turning to their computers for healthy alternatives to traditional meals as they pay closer attention to exactly what they eat. Examining popular food web pages such as FoodNetwork.com, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Donald barthelme
s nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982. Barthelme also had the privilege of being widely regarded ... televisions that they have. They are completely cut off from the rest of the world and seem to have lost sight of reality.Chablis the second story I read is about a guy whose wife wants a dog. His wif ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Civil Rights
Civil Rights News Entry #2 The Los Angeles Times Outrage Over Bodies Bridges Racial Divide By: Ralph Frammolino and Edith Stanley ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
TV Vulgarity
some shows as Full House, Family Matters, and Boy Meets World. In the April 14, 2000 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Brian Lowry wrote that "'TGIF' [is] the victim of shifting viewing patterns and a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
American Son A Love between a mother and her
cr;s feeling even though it is not intentionally meant to hurt the person. Jonathan Kirsch from the Los Angeles Times writes about the American son, ¡°At every moment, at every level, Tomas ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
The Three Strikes Law is Lost in a Dessert The
The Three Strikes Law is Lost in a Dessert The 'three strikes' law has proven to be inadequate. It requires a huge am ... fetime. The annual cost of housing 29,000 non-violent second- or third-strikers is $632 million." ( Los Angeles Times ). While, one third of the prisoners jammed into prison are those who are sentenci ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Helping Others in My Community
omeland. Since Chincese newspapers are unavailable here, I translate relevant news stories from the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.I also conduct an informal class in American cultu ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Media Reaction Paper
mortgage lenders filing bankruptcy, companies who have been around for over 100 year, permanently closing their doors. While journalists strive to be objective, some provide us with information that ... firmative action to the financial sector." (Coulter, 2008) Ms. Coulter says her proof came from the Los Angeles Times, where Ron Brownstein mentioned that "black and Latino homeownership surged to the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Effects of the Death Penalty
ars or even decades of costs associated with room and board, and medical expenses. According to The Los Angeles Times, It can cost more than $30,000 a year to keep someone in prison, compared the cost ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Asian Stereotypes
lings were expressed, especially on the West Coast, through headlines such as "The 'Yellow Peril'" (Los Angeles Times, 1886). In 1924, the Immigration Act was passed, limiting the number of Asians all ... people are described as being extremely wise with long beards, the image drawn from the Chinese philosopher Confucius. East Asian food is stereotyped as well, the most well-known Chinese food among W ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Vandalay Industries Competitive Analysis
nd laptop computers is Dell, a company which represents 32% of the market. Hewlett-Packard follows closely behind Dell with 25%. As of mid-2008, Apple and Acer vied for third place with 8.1% and 8.5% ... me more of an issue. However, Apple does not produce PC-compatible computers and although Apple is close to representing a third of the market share in desktop and laptop computers, Apple computers ar ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
George W. Bush the Worst President in History
g of the United States, but his errors were mostly of a passive nature. Joel Stein, a writer of the Los Angeles Times states President Bush has pushed the United States in exactly the wrong dire ... the very people he so very often showed he cared less about. Christopher Farrell, a writer for the Los Angeles Times wrote, Like the war that came to define it, Bush's presidency conceivably co ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Working Toward a Civil America (Civil Rights Movement)
attention, the public had minimal support for the civil rights bill (Harris). In 1964; however, the Los Angeles Times reported "Despite mounting concern over a Northern white 'backlash' on civil right ... 77087137).Harris, Louis (1964, April 27). HARRIS SURVEY: Public Opinion High for Civil Rights Bill. Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File), 5. Retrieved December 3, 2009, from ProQuest Historical Newsp ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
presidential debate
ican may influence what they write and how they interpreted the debate to be. Mark Barabak from the Los Angeles Times wrote what he thought about the debate and from the results I got from analyzing t ... from the beginning of his presidency. He would also question Romney about which loopholes he would close to help cut the deficit but mostly was not as sharp or prepared for the debate as usual.The wor ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians