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Raghav Ruia Professor Thomas Gustafson AMST 301 January 30 th , 2023 Paragraph Responses (1/30) Perspectives on Los Angeles: A Chronology of Verbal Images of the City. 1873-1946 “one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with a climate unsurpassed in its healthfulness and salubrity.” The book examines the various literary representations of Los Angeles throughout its history, from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. The authors pay close attention to how Los Angeles has been portrayed in literature, stories, and popular culture. The book looks at how opinions of the city have evolved over time and how these changes have been represented in the literature. This quotation serves as an illustration of how the city was perceived in the early 19th century, when the city was viewed as a haven of health, beauty, and prosperity. But by the middle of the 20th century, the city had a considerably worse reputation. In a 1946 newspaper story, Los Angeles was referred to as "a city of smog and sin." This quotation exemplifies how perceptions of the city had altered throughout the 20th century as it began to be linked with squalor, crime, and poverty. Excerpt from PBS Documentary on the LA Aqueduct and “Chinatown (1974) “Either you control the water, or the water controls you.” This passage from the PBS documentary on the LA Aqueduct and "Chinatown," which was released in 1974, alludes to the well-known Roman Polanski film. In this neo-noir thriller, Jack Nicholson plays a private investigator who is looking into a plot involving Los Angeles' water supply. The quotation comes from a moment in which Noah Cross (John Huston), the father of Evelyn Mulwray, discusses the significance of water to her. In this quotation, the significance of water to the movie's plot and the power dynamics  are both well-expressed. In the movie, Cross and a few other wealthy people work to monopolize and profit from Los Angeles' water supply while keeping the public in the dark about their activities. The quotation highlights the strength of water, emphasizing both its usefulness and its potential for use as an instrument of control. Given that Cross is the one attempting to control the water supply, it also demonstrates the extent of his involvement in the conspiracy and his level of influence.
Question of the Day Reading the play was considerably less absorbing than seeing the Twilight movie.  The film was able to bring the characters and their relationships to life on the big screen, giving audiences a more realistic and captivating experience with the narrative. The use of music and graphics to create a more immersive experience allowed the film to capture the mood of the story in a way that reading the play was unable to.
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