Gang Statistics

1) As of 2009, approximately how many active gang members are there in the US?
- 1 million
2) What percentage of gang members are under the age of 18?
Consider - why do you think this number is so high?
- 40 percent
3) Out of the boys who have been in juvenille hall, what is the ratio of them that have some type of gang affiliation?
- 9 out of 10
4) When female gang members are arrested, what are their crimes usually for?
- drug use, larceny, petty theft, status offenses or domestic issues
5) What percentage of female gang members have been sexually abused?
- 70 percent

It’s a dead end in MS-13

* Beginning of article
- This article talks these gang members from MS-13 doing there job in the gang.
* One way ride
- This article talks about how once your in the gang you die either in the gang or trying to get out.
* Life is cheap
- This artilce talks about how people will get shot for no reason.
* A deadly dis
- This article talks about how it is a gamble being in MS-13.
* No way out
- This article talks about how once your in the gang you can't get out you live and die for MS-13.

Mara Salvatrucha Background Information

1. In 1-2 sentences, describe the origins/history of Mara Salvatrucha.
-They were originally founded in Los Angeles CA, they were then organized in El Salvador.
They are a gang that want Revenge from life and kill people brutally beating them.
2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara Salvatrucha?
-The people or Members that got arrested and deported then recruit and make a bigger piece of that gang.
People that have been deported also get mad and they release a rage together that runs the streets filled with blood and dead bodies.
3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect
-The girl who they mentioned was killed because she ionformed the FBI about some of the Activivities that they did as a Gang.

Burgeoning gangs behind up to 80% of crime

1. How many gang members are there in the US?
- 1 million people
2. In how many states is MS13 active?
- 42 states
3. Summarize gang activity in Omaha, Nashville, and Maryland.
- There were 13 poeple who got caught for a murder and they all pleaded gilty but they flead to maryland before the got caught.

Catadores

Valter,Tia"O. and Zumbi
I have learned that they had to live in a landfill because they dont have money. They would work and earn 20 a week just to pick recyclibles. They would eat the food that would be thrown away by other people. Tia"o is still working in the landfill. Also Zumbi works with Tia"o but also as a Co-op.

Mid-Quarter Grade Review

What is your percentage?
5/75 I have an F.
How many assignments are you missing?
All of them because she didnt have my url for this.

Why I recycle!

How much trash does one American produce each year?
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 redice it means that you cut down on the garbage or sometimes waste the the we reproduce it.
4. What does it mean to reuse? Explain in at least one sentence.
Reuse is to help with the gargabe problem and to find ways that either you.
5. What does it mean to recycle? Explain in at least one sentence.
Recycle is when you recycle your bottles and they can use it again, like you return something old and they created into a something new.
6. List one fact about each of the following:
**Garbage-throw away 65 million plastic and metal
**Paper- with the paper they create the newspapers,people to use paper they cut 850 millions tress per year.
**Landfils-can reduce, reuse and recycle instead of throwing away so much trash.
**Recycling-people has use the recycle for allmost 3,000 years.
**Energy-the recycle can save the energy

Problems with Landfills

1) What are bottom liners?
-it creates a bathtub in the bottom ground

2) Explain, IN YOUR OWN WORDS (the answers are right there and obvious so you have to be able to put your answers in your own words), the problems with the following types of bottom liners:
a) Clay- it is often factured but then it starts to crack easy
b) Plastic-household chemicals go through the the plastic but then it makes the plastic soft after a while it starts to crack
c) Composite- It starts to leak after a while.

3) What is a leachate collection system? Explain one problems with this system.
-This is a thing that keeps all the water that gets contaminated by the trash.

4) What is a cover? Explain one problem with using a cover.
-it is something like an umbrella to keep water out of landfills

5) Considering that Americans produce almost 5 pounds a day (as an individual), what do you think are some alternatives to landfills?
-they should just burn the trash

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%
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
-55%
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
•Dump - an open hole in the ground where trash is buried and that has various animals swarming around.
•Landfill - carefully designed structure built into or on top of the ground in which trash is isolated from the surrounding environment . This isolation is accomplished with a bottom liner and daily covering of soil.
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
-You do not want excess water from the landfill draining on to neighboring property or vice versa
6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
-Sanitary reasons so for it doent damage the earth.
7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
-I think that there will be more pollution and the dumps and landfills would take up alot of space.