The city was founded in 1781 by Felipe do Neve, a Spanish governor. The small pueblo, whose original title was “The Town of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula,” consisted of 44 settlers of mixed cultural backgrounds. Control of Los Angeles would shift hands quite often. It remained under Spanish rule until 1821, when it became a part of Mexico following the Mexican secession from Spain. The Mexican hold over the California region was brief, as it came under the control of the United States in 1848 at the end of the Mexican-American War.
Kayla Pasake HL English Mr. Hall 8 February 2013 Word Count: 1,002 Clybourne Park Essay The Broadway play “Clybourne Park” is based off the movie and play “The Raisin in the Sun”. It is written by Bruce Norris and was honored with many awards including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play. Bruce Norris wrote the play by having it pick up right where “The Raisin in the Sun” left off. By doing this, Bruce Norris picks up where the drama was and shows the racial tensions in the 1950’s and 1960’s up until present day. To create this, writer Bruce Norris created a play with only two acts.
In 1989 Mountain Gravel and Construction Company (Mountain Gravel) was awarded a $1 million prime contract from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to build highways in southwestern Colorado. In turn, Mountain Gravel requested bids
Windshield Survey Grandview Neighborhood of Glendale, CA Boundaries: Glendale is a suburb of Los Angeles, California. It is made up of approximately 40 neighborhoods. It is bordered by other cities to the northwest, the east and the south. At the southwest border is Griffith Park (more details below). Along the north border and here and there along the borders between these cities are several mountains.
The City of Myra The City of Myra is the ancient Greek capital of the Lycian Union, which was a geopolitical region in Southern Turkey during ancient times. The land above and around Myra is inhabited today, but is known as the city of Demre. Records of the inhabitation of Myra date back to 168 B.C. It is located on the South Western Coast of Turkey, on the river “Myros”. After 800 years as an important pilgrimage site, as well as a Christian and Lycian Capital, the City of Myra was buried under 18 feet of mud from the Myros River.
Boomtown by the Bay Jake Bush San Francisco State University Before the population explosion occurred to put San Francisco on the map, the Bay Area was made up of seven hundred whites, with half of that number being American, and a handful of Indians, African Americans and Hawaiians; around one hundred and fifty. The city itself had a total of two hundred buildings which included sheds, tents, and boarded outhouses. “There was simply a straggling line of tents, slab shanties and adobe huts stretching along the Beach of Yerba Buena Cove, a horseshoe-shaped indentation in the western shore of the Bay of San Francisco, which has long since been filled in and built upon.” (Asbury 3) After the discovery of gold by Captain John Sutter, the
Griffith Observatory is in Los Angeles, California, United States. Sitting on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in L.A.'s Griffith Park, it commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin, including downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. The observatory is a popular tourist attraction with an extensive array of space and science-related displays. View from a trail in Griffith Park from the south, looking north. 3,015 acres (12.20 km2) of land surrounding the observatory was donated to the City of Los Angeles by Colonel Griffith J. Griffith on December 16, 1896.
Decolonization Decolonization began in the 19th century (in Latin America) and is not yet finished. But most of the countries became politically independent after World War II. The right of self-determination of the peoples was decided in the UN Charter of 1945 and within only two decades the whole system of colonialism collapsed. In 1955 there was a conference in Bandoeng, Indonesia, in which 29 former African and Asian colonies decided not to take part in the East-West-Conflict. The consequences of colonialism were enormous.
Xunantunich is a Classical period ceremonial site, and is thought to have been inhabited from around 300-900 AD. Sometime in 900 AD, the site was abandoned, most likely because of an earthquake. Xunantunich was the first site in Belize to be open to the public when a road and a ferry were built in 1954 to cross the Mopan River, which is located about a mile west of the Xunantunich site. When the site was opened, a small museum was built to house the original friezes located on the walls of the 130 foot El Castillo, the largest pyramid in the plaza at Xunantunich and the second largest pyramid in Mayan history-second only to the Caana pyramid at Caracol. The two friezes were taken from the original walls of the pyramid and replicas were cast and
Student: Loginova Tatyana Group: IYA12-01B (A) The description of the Ennis House The Ennis House is one of the most famous buildings in Los Angeles. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Mabel and Charles Ennis in 1923. The house is situated on a hill and this fact adds greatness to its view. The building consists of several concrete blogs. Its design is based on ancient Mayan temples.