Country Essays

In the book American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Ellis describes Jefferson using achievements that symbolize the visions and intellectual spark that led to the founding of the greatest nation in the world. The book highlights the critical points in Jefferson’s career which include the penning down of the …

The residents of Koreatown experienced large amounts of hostility and resistance from the city after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots. The riots had thousands of people rioting on the streets of Los Angeles for six days, resulting in over 1 billion dollars in …

The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture that were promoted by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, the goal of these case study homes was to design and build economical and effective model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused …

The following 4 days on a Friday verdicts came 13 years to the day after a Los Angeles jury acquitted Simpson of killing his ex- wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, was thrilled with the result. O.J. Simpson faces spending the rest of …

The defeat of the open shop lobby was the catalyst to the union upsurged in Los Angeles during in the mid-to-late 1930’s. It opened the opportunity for a plethora of specific and general forms of labor organizations to directly appeal and apply to various groups. The unique ability for the …

To expand the cricket culture in the United States, the best host cities for a national cricket tour would be in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, and New York City. Finding the proper host cities will increase network buzz and target the proper areas. The reasons these three cities have been chosen …

Downtown is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles in the central LA region of Los Angeles County. It contains Bunker Hill, Civic Center, fashion district, industrial district, jewelry district, Little Tokyo, Old Bank District and skid row. In the last 10 years, downtown has been facing a construction …

This essay examines the contribution of California High-Speed Rail to city sustainability on its planned route and provides a potential solution for the embarrassing funding situation of the rail. The California High-Speed Rail is a high-speed train under construction in California that is expected to connect Union station and San …

An issue that I find interesting and significant to understanding California as a place is congestion. As painful as it is for Californian’s residents to admit traffic, rules over the lives of everyone who lives in the state. Especial those of who live in densely populated cities like San Francisco …

There has been a rapid growth on the risks for contracting HIV for women in minority groups. Although many studies on HIV risks and prevention focuses on African American and Latina women, there are very few studies on HIV risks and preventions focusing on Asians. However, the risks of HIV …