...honorable in showing how families survived with love and tenacity and dignity."—Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon Southland brings us a fascinating story of race, love, murder and history, against the backdrop of an ever-changing Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four African-American boys were killed in the store Frank owned during the Watts Riots of 1965. Along with James Lanier, a cousin of one of the victims, Jackie tries to piece together the story of the boys’ deaths. In the process, she unearths the long-held secrets of her family’s history. Southland depicts a young woman in the process of learning that her own history has bestowed upon her a deep obligation to be engaged in the larger world. And in Frank Sakai and his African-American friends, it presents characters who find significant common ground in their struggles, but who also engage each other across grounds—historical and cultural—that are still very much in dispute. Moving in and out of the past—from the internment camps of World War II, to the barley fields of the Crenshaw District in the 1930s, to the streets of Watts in the 1960s, to the night spots and garment factories of the 1990s—Southland weaves a tale of Los Angeles in all of its faces and forms. Nina Revoyr is the author of The Necessary Hunger ("Irresistible...
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...Alexis Fenster 27 October 2015 Efficiency Essay: Southland In 1942, the American fear of the unknown ripped thousands of Japanese-Americans living in the United States from their homes and into internment camps. After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans became fearful that the Japanese people living in their country participated in the attack and were planning more from “the inside.” It was only once they were needed during the war that the men were allowed out of the camps to fight as American soldiers. Revoyr writes, “Frank and his friends were such great American soldiers, ironically, because they were Japanese- because of their sense of duty, and integrity, and faith in each other” (116). The fact that any Japanese man would fight for the United States against Japan after having their families and themselves treated as livestock, proves that these people were true Americans. Frank and his friends might have been Japanese by heritage but their loyalty was to the United States and they thought of themselves as Americans. This commitment came from their Japanese heritage which puts a strong emphasis on the duty people have to protect their country, so much so that people who did not fight with America were shunned by other Japanese-Americans (116). The Japanese are not the only people who have wrongly been punished in consequence of American’s fear, the Muslim community has been looked down on and feared ever since 9/11. Similar to the American reaction to Pearl...
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...Brittney Chung Professor Lee Hist 41 24 March 2014 Marvels and Monsters I loved the “Comic Book” themed exhibit, Marvels & Monsters: The Unmasking Asian Images of U.S. comics. It was such a cool and fun exhibit to visit! I felt like I was walking into a life size comic book with huge blow-‐ups of superheroes followed by a brief humor with text in caption. From today’s generation, creators: William Wu and Jeff Yang combined archives of comics that served as racial propaganda during World War II. The exhibit opens with a large billboard with Marvels and Monsters written all over it. As you walk into the exhibition, each character is lit up by light bulbs hanging from the ceiling and followed by a description below. With unique character names like: Guru, Brain, Temptress, Manipulator, Alien, Kamikaze, Brute, and Lotus Blossom go...
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...Nina Revoyr’s second novel, Southland (348 pages, Akashic Books, $15.95), is narrated by Jackie Ishida, a lesbian law student, who has grown up in suburban Los Angeles and is pulled into the past when her beloved Japanese grandfather dies. After his death, she talks to her aunt, and she discovers that her grandfather had bequeathed his corner market in the Crenshaw District—long since sold and even boarded up—to a certain black kid who has worked with him. When Jackie starts to explore this history—her aunt has asked her to find the kid, Curtis Martindale--she finds herself more and more intrigued. Why did old Frank Sakai leave the store, or the $38,000 in proceeds from selling it, to this young African American? As she begins her exploration, Jackie meets Lanier, a young black man who works in a social service center in the neighborhood of the store. Lanier does wonderful things for the kids in the neighborhood, and he knows some of the history that Jackie is pursuing. She very quickly learns that Curtis is one of four black kids who were left to die in the store’s freezer during the turbulence of the Watts Riots in 1965. Needless to say, this complicates matters considerably. Lanier thinks he knows the perpetrator, a bigoted Irish cop who seemed to have it out for all the black kids in the neighborhood. When they talk to an African American policeman in hopes to find out more about the case, they find that the doors of inquiry are slammed in their faces. That doesn’t...
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...Form Analysis Of A Work Before 1800 Emma Sandberg 2/5/15 Luca Giordano's Birth of the Virgin Luca Giordano was one of the most prominent painters of his time in Italy. He lived from about 1632-1705 and composed work in his later life that was ahead of his time, and anticipated the later style of Rococo. Giordano's work "Birth of the Virgin" was one of his most revered works. Using oil on canvas, Giordano experimented with the use of light and layers of perspective in this work, showing two tiers of the biblical scene that are connected in some respects, yet separate in their actual realms, to evoke a powerful yet peaceful mood just after the birth of the Virgin Mary. The overall experience of seeing this work in person is captivating because of the multiple dimensions and complexity of the image. The scene of the painting is set just after the birth of the virgin Mary, and she is shown being cared for by a group of attendants, with her father looking on close by, and her mother resting off to the side. The lines in the painting contribute to its complexity in that there is a horizontal line organization that separates the top tier (the heavenly realm) from the bottom tier (the earthly realm) of the painting. This horizontal line shows a difference between the realms, but the two worlds are also connected by the lines in the painting, especially in an emotional sense. This effect is achieved by the dramatic diagonal coming down from the heavenly realm straight down...
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...The 1971 season was a year of major change for the Southland Conference. For the first time in history, the league expanded, adding Southwestern Louisiana and Louisiana Tech. Also, two holdover teams, Arkansas State and Texas-Arlington, featured new head coaches. Southwestern Louisiana and Louisiana Tech both departed the Gulf States Conference. USL was coming off a league title in 1970, while Louisiana Tech struggled through a 2-8 season a year after winning the Gulf States crown during quarterback Terry Bradshaw’s senior season. On the coaching front, Bennie Ellender left Arkansas State for Tulane, his alma mater. Ellender was replaced by Bill Davidson, Arkansas State’s offensive coordinator and a former Indians player. After Texas-Arlington’s...
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...The three Asian American women I have chosen from the novel to discuss are Jackie Ishida, Lois Sakai and Rebecca Nakanishi. Jackie Ishida is one of the main characters in the “Southland”. She is Frank Sakai’s granddaughter and a lesbian law student at UCLA. Those characteristics are three things that are challenges in the legal community….Asian female law student who is a lesbian. Jackie is given the task by her Aunt Lois of finding answers to questions about her grandfather’s will. Jackie reluctantly sets out to find out why he has left his grocery store to Curtis Martindale and why he leaves $38,000 in cash. Jackie breaks away from concentrating full-time on law school and embarks on this mission. All she has to go on are Frank’s old pictures and his box of documents. As she reminisces about him, she remembers being close to him when she was young. She spent a lot of time with him because her parents were too busy with their lives to care for her. Her mother was in medical school and father was a doctor. Jackie admits to losing touch with him even though he tried to be a part of her life. As she begins her journey to find out who Curtis Martindale was, she is led to his cousin, James Lanier. He is an African American social worker who was still very connected to the Crenshaw neighborhood. He did not know Frank very well, but he was willing to help her because he needed answers about Curtis, too. He eventually he becomes a mentor to her...
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...Revoyr’s Southland Nina Revoyr’s novel, Southland, provides a glimpse into the injustice, scandal, and struggle in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the 1990s due to its racial composition. The novel contains a unique cast of characters who, although often times interact with conflict, are forced to live side-by-side one another in their separate attempts to attain the American Dream. Southland takes its readers on a journey through a history full of trials and tribulations, with Los Angeles as its stage; throughout this story, the reader begins to understand that there was much more to this place than what was originally promised by the boosters. Revoyr makes it clear that Los Angeles, or Angeles Mesa to be more precise, during the time of the boosters, was not solely a place where one could find utopia, or sunshine – but also a place that was plagued with dystopia, or noir. Southland proves to be a story that illustrates how ethnic, racial, and gender differences can play a major role in one’s actions, behaviors, and perceptions of others. This novel uncovers the fact that Los Angeles was a socially stratified city, which was full of inhabitants who were governed according to their differences. Whether one was white, black, or Asian during the 1940s-1960s (especially in Angeles Mesa, as relevant to Southland) determined how others perceived and treated them. In a cyclic rotation, most of the time it also prompted the ways in which that person treated others. In Southland, one...
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...Southland, Chapter 27 & 28 Biographic Information: An English novelist born in Japan (1969- ), Nina Reyovr had been an Edgar Award finalist, and the winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. She writes about racial justice of the past & present in the bestselling novel, Southland. Summary: [CH.27]: This is a story about an African American named Victor Conway, who lived in Watts or previously known as Mudtown, a small country village. The story takes place after the Japanese internment in 1942. After experiencing tribulations that came with racism in 1943, he left to Little Tokyo. He returned to Watts to reminisce what he had lost in a ghost town. The story starts out with Victor being newly married late of 1942 to Janie. He worked at a shipyard like most black men in the neighborhood. As though struggling through life with a dead end job and making ends meet with graveyard shifts was not bad enough, he was also under the oppression of white men. White people would constantly glare at him with discontent. He had to endure insults and the pestering of white people. In a community, where associating with blacks was considered more than a taboo, but a travesty; a white woman would try to seduce him, disregarding his marital status. He desperately tries to avoid her attempts because white men were breathing down his neck with fiery eyes. Her attempt to try to befriend Victor resulted in the white community’s punishment towards his love one. His wife...
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...A Change Management Plan for Southland College of Kabankalan City, Incorporated Submitted By: Group I Rafael Vicente B. Paredes Juan Antonio Z. Villaluz Macy Katrina C. Zayco Submitted to: Engr. Gerald Louis Poblador, MBA In partial fulfillment of the course requirements for MBA 203-A Organizational Development INTRODUCTION/OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY Southland College is a for-profit family-owned Corporation that was established in 2009 by the founder (Dr. Anecito D. Villaluz, Jr., CPA) together with 39 Faculty and Staff Members. At its inception, it was owned and operated by Dr. Villaluz and his wife, Mrs. Annette Zayco-Villaluz. In May 2009, Southland College received approval from CHED’s RQUAT team to be able to operate. Subsequently, its formal launching commenced on May 13, 2009. Southland College was granted a permit to operate by the City of Kabankalan in time for the start of A.Y. 2009 – 2010. By July 2009, it had already been officially recognized as a HEI (Higher Education Institution) by CHED. Picture 1.1 (Mayor Pedro P. Zayco giving his Congratulatory Remarks) The first building that was earmarked for the use of the school was the administrative building beside the Villaluz couple’s residence. It consisted of 4 classrooms, 2 multi-functional offices, 3 bathrooms, and 1 kitchen. Interestingly, this building now serves as the preschool students’ campus. Other buildings were also rented out as follows: a) the Quest School for Welders (owned...
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...a hour, but Japan can produce 5 unit clock radios in one hour, meanwhile France only can produce 3 unit clock radios in one hour. That means France have an absolute advantage in production of wine compare with Japan. So, France should specialize in production of wine and buy clock radios from Japan. Japan should specialize in production of clock radios and buy wine from france. Comparative advantage From economic perception, comparative advantage is refer to the ability to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than another party. According to Ricardo, theory comparative encourage a country to specialize on the product that can produce in the most efficient ways. For example, Northland and Southland have produce food and clothes. If Northland and Southland have allocated 100 unit of resources to produce food, the output that...
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...KELOMPOK MANAJEMEN KEUANGAN “Southland Corporation: From Profitability to Financial Distress to Profitability” Dosen : Dr. Mudjilah Rahayu [pic] OLEH ALFIAN RIZKI P 041414353001 GRACE RUTH 041414353002 INTAN ZAKIYATUL M 041414353013 NINDIA EKA SAVITRI S 041414353015 KARNOVA A BASTARI 041414353023 PROGRAM STUDI MAGISTER MANAJEMEN FAKULTAS EKONOMI DAN BISNIS UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA SURABAYA 2015 BAB I PENDAHULUAN 1.1 LATAR BELAKANG Southland Corp selama dua puluh empat tahun memecahkan rekor dengan pendapatan yang tinggi. Deviden mereka meningkat selama sebelas tahun berturut-turut. Perusahan tumbuh dengan stabil dan terus-menerus. Ini adalah deskripsi dari Southland Corp pada tahun 1985. Kedengarannya tidak seperti perusahaan yang mengalami bangkrut. Namun ini adalah deskripsi dari Southland Corp yang akan-segera-bangkrut, pemilik lebih dari 8.000 7-Eleven dan toko-toko lain, seperti Citgo Petroleum Corp., Chief Auto Parts, produk susu, dan pengolahan makanan dan distribusi operasi. Southland reorganisasi pengajuan kebangkrutan pada tahun 1991 setelah bertahun-tahun laba negatif dari tahun 1987 dan seterusnya. Masalah keuangan perusahaan adalah kombinasi terlalu banyak utang pada tingkat bunga yang tinggi dan arus kas berkurang. Southland mencoba untuk tetap bertahan melalui penambahan modal dari Ito-Yokado, Ltd, Pemilik 7-Eleven Jepang, Ltd, dan melalui negosiasi dengan kreditur. Masalah Southland dimulai awal tahun 1987...
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...Wireless Technology Solutions and Automation For Southland Pharmaceuticals, LLC. Wireless Technology and Automation Wireless technologies are not the same radio-frequency devices that were implemented in the 1980s for inventory management. Today, various wireless products are available. Companies are applying these products in innovative ways and, in some cases, achieving large cost savings. Most recently, manufacturers have successfully applied wireless process transmitters and wireless instrumentation to controls and distributed control systems (DCS) solutions that address validation and safety concerns. Often, paper-based validation protocols may be adulterated with chemicals and process materials when initiated and completed near process equipment. In some cases, portions of the paper protocol are lost or destroyed, and the protocol must be executed again. But paperless engineering protocols can be initiated at the point of validation. In a paperless approach, the protocols are initiated electronically to capture the execution data and signatures at the point of validation. Rugged wireless terminals manage the electronic protocol. Power, M. (n.d.). Automation is the result of industrialization, driven by the need to increase productivity, to achieve consistent quality products, and to remove mundane, repetitive, strenuous, hazardous and heavy work from workers. Early attempts at automation took the form of mere mechanical machines, to electro-mechanical devices...
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...高 ac 顿 ca 财 .g 经 ao A du CC n. A cn Professional Accountant Paper P1 Professional Level – Essentials Module Monday 10 December 2007 Time allowed Reading and planning: Writing: 15 minutes 3 hours This paper is divided into two sections: Section A – This ONE question is compulsory and MUST be attempted Section B – TWO questions ONLY to be attempted Do NOT open this paper until instructed by the supervisor. During reading and planning time only the question paper may be annotated. You must NOT write in your answer booklet until instructed by the supervisor. This question paper must not be removed from the examination hall. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Section A – This ONE question is compulsory and MUST be attempted The board of Worldwide Minerals (WM) was meeting for the last monthly meeting before the publication of the yearend results. There were two points of discussion on the agenda. First was the discussion of the year-end results; second was the crucial latest minerals reserves report. WM is a large listed multinational company that deals with natural minerals that are extracted from the ground, processed and sold to a wide range of industrial and construction companies. In order to maintain a consistent supply of minerals into its principal markets, an essential part of WM’s business strategy is the seeking out of new sources and the measurement of known reserves. Investment analysts have often...
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...Japan, Taiwan 7-Eleven has one of the highest density of 8.5 km² a store in the world after Macau, Hong Kong and Singapore. History of 7-Eleven 7-Eleven convenience store concept is a pioneer in 1927 in the company office Southland Dallas, Texas. In addition to selling blocks of ice to refrigerate food, also offering milk, bread and eggs. This new business idea turned out to be create satisfied customers thereby increasing sales and is the world's first convenience store. These outlets are not initially open for 24 hours instead of 7 am to 11 pm and then it was that later inspired the name 7-Eleven (from seven to eleven), the first 7-Eleven stores are open 24 hours and then opened in 1962 in the city Austin, Texas. Since then the 7-Eleven operates on a 24-hour official formally followed with the opening of its new store in Las Vegas, Fort Worth and Dallas in the United States in 1963. In 1980, Southland Corporation experiencing financial difficulties and eventually sell its ice-processing division. Then finally rescued by ItoYokado which is one of the largest franchise holder of 7-Eleven. Finally Soutland Corporation can be detached from bankruptcy and successfully through the crisis of the fall of the stock market in 1987. Then in 1991, the Southland Corporation 7-Eleven has sold most of his shares to the company's Japanese supermarket chain, ItoYokado....
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