This is where some of the city's immigrant population lives in one of Long Beach's most densely populated and lowest income neighborhoods.
Computers attach little importance to such things.
What these eighth-graders have learned is that if you tap computer keys with a certain expertise, if you can make the images dance and put together graphics, text and editorial content just so, the world will come knocking at your door. And they pushed their way in. Using a Macintosh computer, Trinh was working online, putting the finishing touches on a Web home page for King Financial Investments Co. of Gardena. In September, Trinh and other students in the class mailed fliers to local businesses, offering to develop free Web pages for them as part of a class project. They got enough responses to make the program a success.