1. How many gang members are there in the US?
-1 million
2. In how many states is MS13 active?
-42
3. Summarize gang activity in Omaha, Nashville, and Maryland.
Omaha-last of 24 ms 13 were arrested with federal arms charges and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Nashville-during the last two years 14 ms 13 members pleaded guilty on charges ranging from murder to obstruction justice.
Maryland-federal authorites said that since 2005 they have apprehanded 42 ms13 members and over half were charged with racketeering conspiracy in which means the members were involved in robberies and beatings.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Mara Salvatrucha Background Information
1. In 1-2 sentences, describe the origins/history of Mara Salvatrucha.
-originated in Los Angeles, set up in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants in the city's Pico-Union neighborhood who immigrated to the United States after the Central American civil wars of the 1980s.
2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara
Salvatrucha?
-It makes the whole gang wide spread to different parts of the world where the ms13 members would recruit members and make their gang more populated and wide spread.
3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect?
-On July 13, 2003, Brenda Paz, a 17-year-old female, former MS member turned informant was found stabbed on the banks of the Shenandoah River in Virginia. Paz was killed for informing the FBI about Mara Salvatrucha's criminal activities. Two of her former friends were later convicted of the murder
-On May 13, 2006, Ernesto "Smokey" Miranda, an ex-high ranking soldier and one of the founders of Mara Salvatrucha, was murdered at his home in El Salvador a few hours after declining to attend a party for a gang member who had just been released from prison. He had begun studying law and working to keep children out of gangs.
-originated in Los Angeles, set up in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants in the city's Pico-Union neighborhood who immigrated to the United States after the Central American civil wars of the 1980s.
2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara
Salvatrucha?
-It makes the whole gang wide spread to different parts of the world where the ms13 members would recruit members and make their gang more populated and wide spread.
3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect?
-On July 13, 2003, Brenda Paz, a 17-year-old female, former MS member turned informant was found stabbed on the banks of the Shenandoah River in Virginia. Paz was killed for informing the FBI about Mara Salvatrucha's criminal activities. Two of her former friends were later convicted of the murder
-On May 13, 2006, Ernesto "Smokey" Miranda, an ex-high ranking soldier and one of the founders of Mara Salvatrucha, was murdered at his home in El Salvador a few hours after declining to attend a party for a gang member who had just been released from prison. He had begun studying law and working to keep children out of gangs.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Catadores
Suelem -She had lived in the Jardim Gramacho for 6 years. She worked there because she rather do that than be a prostitute or a drug dealer to get money.
-After the film she stopped working at Gramacho when she met someone and married him. She later had another boy and bought a house and never plans to return to Gramacho
-She left Gramacho and set up a food shop to sell in her neighborhood and met a 20 year man that she was with a while. But she later went back to Gramacho because she likes it there and everyone enjoys her there.
Magna
-She worked at the dump because her husbang had lost his job and thought it was an alright plan to go to Gramacho and work there to make money. And even though in the bus people may say something bad about her smell, she would tell them she is proud of the smell because she worked hard and thats all that matters.
-After the Film she did not go back to Gramacho and instead got a job and a pharamacy. She then divorced her husband and bought a house for her and her 11 year old son. Because of the film she then became best of friends with Isis.
-After the film she stopped working at Gramacho when she met someone and married him. She later had another boy and bought a house and never plans to return to Gramacho
Irma
-She was the cook in Gramacho.-She left Gramacho and set up a food shop to sell in her neighborhood and met a 20 year man that she was with a while. But she later went back to Gramacho because she likes it there and everyone enjoys her there.
Magna
-She worked at the dump because her husbang had lost his job and thought it was an alright plan to go to Gramacho and work there to make money. And even though in the bus people may say something bad about her smell, she would tell them she is proud of the smell because she worked hard and thats all that matters.
-After the Film she did not go back to Gramacho and instead got a job and a pharamacy. She then divorced her husband and bought a house for her and her 11 year old son. Because of the film she then became best of friends with Isis.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Quarter Grade Review
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-100%
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-0
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-I dont need to make up any assignment
-100%
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-0
*** Make up one blog assignments RIGHT NOW. Write in your blog post which assignment you're making up so I know to grade it.
-I dont need to make up any assignment
Monday, September 12, 2011
Why I recycle!
1. How much trash does one American produce each year?
-195 million tons
2. There are many reasons to reduce, reuse, and recycle. These reasons are:
**Saving Space
**Saving Natural Resources
**Saving Energy
**Reducing Pollution
Explain how the three R's help with each of these reasons in at least one sentence.
3. What does it mean to reduce? Explain in at least one sentence.
to cut down on the garbage or waste that we produce in the first place
4. What does it mean to reuse? Explain in at least one sentence.
to find ways that either you or someone else can use your unwanted items over again.
5. What does it mean to recycle? Explain in at least one sentence.
when you put discarded items through a process so they can be used again.
6. List one fact about each of the following:
**Garbage-In 1997, they produced 220 million tons of waste.
**Paper-they get rid of what would equal 500,000 trees every single week.
**Landfils-the amount of landfills in the U.S. is dropping
**Recycling-People have been using and recycling glass for almost 3,000 years
**Energy-Recycling can save energy.
-195 million tons
2. There are many reasons to reduce, reuse, and recycle. These reasons are:
**Saving Space
**Saving Natural Resources
**Saving Energy
**Reducing Pollution
Explain how the three R's help with each of these reasons in at least one sentence.
3. What does it mean to reduce? Explain in at least one sentence.
to cut down on the garbage or waste that we produce in the first place
4. What does it mean to reuse? Explain in at least one sentence.
to find ways that either you or someone else can use your unwanted items over again.
5. What does it mean to recycle? Explain in at least one sentence.
when you put discarded items through a process so they can be used again.
6. List one fact about each of the following:
**Garbage-In 1997, they produced 220 million tons of waste.
**Paper-they get rid of what would equal 500,000 trees every single week.
**Landfils-the amount of landfills in the U.S. is dropping
**Recycling-People have been using and recycling glass for almost 3,000 years
**Energy-Recycling can save energy.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Landfills
1. How much waste does one person make a day?
-4.6 pounds
2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
-32.5 percent
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
-251 million tons
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
-Dumps are an open hole in the ground where trash is buried and that has various animals that are swarming around. While Landfills are carefully designed structure built into or on top of the ground in which trash is isolated from the surrounding environment is accomplished with a bottom liner and daily covering of soil.
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
-I really have no clue..... to me its better if there isn't any water near a landfill. It probably makes the trash decompose faster or easier.
6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
-There has to be much more extra land surrounding the actual land fill for the the support areas. This is for runoff collection ponds, leachate collection ponds, drop-off stations, areas for borrowing soil and 50- to 100-foot buffer areas
7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
-I think potential problems we may encounter is that we have too much trash and no way to decompose it or the wastes go into our waters and kills many animals which is return kills of the human race because we have no animals to eat or that our cities will become filled with wastes because we produce so much wastes that there isn't enough landfills to put them in and the world becomes an unsanitary place which causes many diseases and kills many people.
-4.6 pounds
2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
-32.5 percent
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
-251 million tons
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
-Dumps are an open hole in the ground where trash is buried and that has various animals that are swarming around. While Landfills are carefully designed structure built into or on top of the ground in which trash is isolated from the surrounding environment is accomplished with a bottom liner and daily covering of soil.
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
-I really have no clue..... to me its better if there isn't any water near a landfill. It probably makes the trash decompose faster or easier.
6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
-There has to be much more extra land surrounding the actual land fill for the the support areas. This is for runoff collection ponds, leachate collection ponds, drop-off stations, areas for borrowing soil and 50- to 100-foot buffer areas
7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
-I think potential problems we may encounter is that we have too much trash and no way to decompose it or the wastes go into our waters and kills many animals which is return kills of the human race because we have no animals to eat or that our cities will become filled with wastes because we produce so much wastes that there isn't enough landfills to put them in and the world becomes an unsanitary place which causes many diseases and kills many people.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Jardim Gramacho
1. What is Jardim Gramacho? Where is it located?
Jardim Gramacho is a landfill. It is located at Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas.
2. What are catadores? What has their contribution to Jardim Gramacho been?
The catadores are anarchic community of scavengers during the economic crises of the 70’s and 80’s. Their contribution to Jardim Gramacho has been removing 200 tons of recyclable materials each day.
3. How many catadores live in Jardim Gramacho?
13,000
4. How has the catadores job been formalized by the government? When does it end? What effect could this have?
The catadores job had been formalized by the government by establishing the job and rehabilitating the landfill. It will end in 2012.It would put many people out of work and homes.
Jardim Gramacho is a landfill. It is located at Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas.
2. What are catadores? What has their contribution to Jardim Gramacho been?
The catadores are anarchic community of scavengers during the economic crises of the 70’s and 80’s. Their contribution to Jardim Gramacho has been removing 200 tons of recyclable materials each day.
3. How many catadores live in Jardim Gramacho?
13,000
4. How has the catadores job been formalized by the government? When does it end? What effect could this have?
The catadores job had been formalized by the government by establishing the job and rehabilitating the landfill. It will end in 2012.It would put many people out of work and homes.
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