Essays on San Fernando

Directors Else & Harrar (1997) paint a negative image of water engineer Mulholland in their movie Cadillac Desert: Mulholland's Dream. The film signals it will show both sides of the debate on the controversial figure, with the constant appearance of Catherine Mulholland, granddaughter of the engineer and his biographer. However, she is the only one who is supportive of Mulholland; all of the other testimonials, as well as the narrator, paint the engineer in undesirable colors. For example, the film introduces the choice of San Fernando Valley as the route of the aqueduct as a shady real estate deal, sponsored ...

Salvador Dali – a man worth remembering

Salvador Dali – a man worth remembering On one sunny mayday in a little town in Catalonia, a man was born who would eventually change the direction of art and reinvent the nature of “enfant terrible”. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí y de Púbol was the first child after the deceased older brother; this is probably why his parents had high hopes for him. This is probably why he behaved the way he did. As a child, young Salvador was arrogant, uncontrollable and difficult, but at the same time had makings of ...

The LA River starts in the San Fernando Valley and flows through Simi Hills, Santa Susana Mountains, Los Angeles County, Canoga Park and ends up in Long Beach. Although these areas are in relatively close proximity to each other, they are not similar in appearance, race, class, urban form, transformation, reinvention and the American future. An issue which is perhaps overlooked is the fact that transport completely changed the face of urbanization in the United states and this is what really brought about the population explosion in the West. The growth of railroads and the expansion of industrialization ...